Posted: Feb 25, 2018 8:01 pm
by GrahamH
John Platko wrote:
Of course it's obvious. JC would have been a complete asshole if he meant that you must abandon your family to follow him.


Whether you consider such behaviour the mark of !a complete asshole" is irrelevant. Cult leaders do that sort of thing, say that sort of thing, and their followers still adore them.

http://www.familysurvivaltrust.org/info ... ts_operate


John Platko wrote:We can't know what JC actually had in mind 2000 years ago from the bits of error riduled information we have had passed down to us. We can only take our best guess at it. Give the ideas a go and then see what happens.


But then your have declared your bias:

John Platko wrote:
I prefer to give him the benifit of the doubt.