Religion: The Birth of Jesus

[Paladin D]

[url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6653824/site/newsweek/"]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6653824/site/newsweek/[/url]

Though there is relief at the end of page 1:

[i] NEWSWEEK Poll found that 84 percent of American adults consider themselves Christians, and 82 percent see Jesus as God or the son of God. Seventy-nine percent say they believe in the virgin birth, and 67 percent think the Christmas story—from the angels' appearance to the Star of Bethlehem—is historically accurate.[/i]

[Paladin D]

... and at the end of page 7:

[i]A man with no human father, a king who died a criminal's death, a God who assures us of everlasting life in a world to come while the world he made is consumed by war and strife: Christianity is a religion of perplexing contradictions.[/i]

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Paladin D' date='Dec 6 2004, 12:23 PM'] ... and at the end of page 7:

[i]A man with no human father, a king who died a criminal's death, a God who assures us of everlasting life in a world to come while the world he made is consumed by war and strife: Christianity is a religion of perplexing contradictions.[/i]

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What's that verse about things being a stumbling block for unbelievers and contradictory to the faithless...?

Those aren't contradictions at all...