Discussion: Mayor Defends City’s 'Jesus' Sign: 'You Can’t Pin One Religion On Jesus'

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Except for maybe, I don’t know, the religion that bears his name??

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“You can’t pin one religion on Jesus.” I have a feeling that Jesus, were he alive today, would be making a similar argument–specifically to distance himself from fools like this guy.

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Also too, Texas is mopping up in the race to the bottom today! Your move, Florida et al.

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Paintball gun would take care of that.

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I should read my Bible more because I missed the passage where Jesus urged his followers to yammer about him all day long like a pack of idiots until everyone’s ready to go crazy of boredom and frustration with them. He was a pretty articulate guy and you’d think he’d have made some mention of his wish that they do that.

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““What violation is it for someone to welcome you into a town,” Rogers told the station. “If you don’t believe that Jesus existed, then he would be fiction. If he’s fiction, and you want to remove his name from everything then you need to remove every fiction name that there is across the country.””

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John 11:35 - Jesus derped derpt.

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This seems like a job for the Satanists.

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This guy used to play dodge ball in school didn’t he? He’s obviously applied the lessons he learned on the dodge ball court to politics.

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A Texas mayor last week defended a city sign that reads “JESUS WELCOMES YOU TO HAWKINS,” saying there wasn’t anything wrong with it because “you can’t pin one religion on Jesus,”

Say WHAT now???

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Idiot. (Yeah, I know…, Texas) I think almost everyone believes that the historical figure, Jesus of Nazareth, existed. It is his divinity that is disputed. How is that basic idea not obvious, even to people of faith?

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As a retired judicial officer, I know Jesus could never have been in Hawkins… I know this on account of all the jailed criminal defendants who have come before me seeking a reduced sentence because they say “I have found the Lord Jesus in jail.” So many have told me this that I am convinced He is not in Hawkins. He is in all the jails.

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Funny, I had always thought Jesus put the Christ in Christian, but I was raised Catholic, so what do I know.

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I feel a law suit coming on! Go FFRF!

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They misspelled it. It should read

Hey, Seuss welcomes you to Hawkins. (The Dr. that is)

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But Hawkins puts the “H.” in “Jesus H. Christ.”

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“If you don’t believe that Jesus existed, then he would be fiction. If he’s fiction, and you want to remove his name from everything…"

If? Has it been proven and settled he existed? It would seem those retelling his story were at minimum deluded, considering they allege he died, oxygen was deprived to his brain and body organs for days, and then came back to life. Donald Trump himself is incapable of such whoppers.
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"MOHAMMED welcomes you to Hawkins’. How would he like that sign? If he would object to that sign, then perhaps he could comprehend how some might object to ‘JESUS’. Or not.

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We don’t know if he was articulate or not (if he existed). Everything purported to come from him was written down years–from 20 to 90+ years–after the event. Plenty of time to make him sound articulate–or really to have him say whatever you want him to say. Who’s going to know the difference?