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He still believes in God, but Fr Peter Kennedy does not believe in Jesus, rather considering him to be a fable.
Kennedy, dismissed from his Queensland parish for unorthodoxy such as allowing women to preach and blessing same-sex marriages, hasn’t entirely given up on God, although he does not believe He intervenes in the lives of people.
“It’s true I’ve given up on that sort of a God, that sort of a ‘being’ that sits up there in heaven somewhere and intervenes in human affairs,” he told AAP on Wednesday.
“If you believe in a God that intervenes into human history why didn’t God intervene in the massacre in Norway? Whatever God is, God is not that sort of God, obviously.
“That’s what I’m trying to say.”
Calling Jesus a fable or metaphor, Kennedy said “there is no corroborating evidence for the existence of a person called Jesus,” he said.
“The Gospels must not ever be taken literally. Scripture scholars tell us that.”
“There’s been ‘dying, rising God-men’ around for centuries before Christianity. All Christianity did was to take on those pagan, then Jewish, mysteries.
“He’s a parable, he’s a metaphor in a sense.”
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- SMH
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