{"id":390478,"date":"2018-12-25T15:38:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T14:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-only-man-they-still-hate\/"},"modified":"2018-12-25T15:38:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T14:38:28","slug":"the-only-man-they-still-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-only-man-they-still-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Man They Still Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[Classic: December 2, 1999] \u2013 The world has long since forgiven Julius Caesar. Nobody today finds Socrates or Cicero irritating. Few of us resent Alexander the Great or his tutor, Aristotle.<\/p>\n

No, only one man in the ancient world is still hated after two millennia: Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

This does not in itself prove the divinity of Christ, but it does show that his words and example haven\u2019t dated. They still have an amazing power to provoke hatred as well as adoration.<\/p>\n

Of course the hatred of Christ usually pretends to be directed at side targets: St. Paul, the \u201cinstitutional\u201d Church, or, more vaguely, \u201corganized religion\u201d (as if religion would be all right if only it were a solitary activity). The clich\u00e9 of the Christ-haters, including many \u201cliberal\u201d theologians, is that he was a \u201cgreat moral teacher\u201d who \u201cnever claimed divinity,\u201d but that his \u201csimple message of love\u201d was \u201ccorrupted\u201d by his followers.<\/p>\n

But why would anyone want a man crucified for preaching an innocuous message of benevolence? Jesus was accused of blasphemy for equating himself with the Father: \u201cI and the Father are one.\u201d \u201cNo man comes to the Father but by me.\u201d And if his claim were untrue, the charge of blasphemy would be fully justified.
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People not only saw him after the Resurrection, many of them died under torture to bear witness to him. The martyrs were the principal human \u201cmedia\u201d of Christianity in its infancy, deeply impressing and finally converting others. Christ was \u201crevealed\u201d to the ancient world in the courageous love of his best disciples.<\/p>\n

Other \u201cmedia\u201d included the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[Classic: December 2, 1999] \u2013 The world has long since forgiven Julius Caesar. Nobody today finds Socrates or Cicero irritating. Few of us resent Alexander the Great or his tutor, Aristotle. No, only one man in the ancient world is still hated after two millennia: Jesus Christ. This does not in itself prove the divinity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}