thrawnca comments on Mere Messiahs - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 December 2007 12:49AM

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Comment author: thrawnca 27 July 2016 01:14:14AM 1 point [-]

it greatly changes the "facts" in your "case study".

Actually, does it not add another level of putting Jesus on a pedestal above everyone else?

It changes the equation when comparing Jesus to John Perry (indicating that Jesus' suffering was greatly heroic after all), but perhaps intensifies the "Alas, somehow it seems greater for a hero to have steel skin and godlike powers."

(Btw I'm one of the abovementioned Christians. Just thought I'd point out that the article's point is not greatly changed.)