JESUS CHRIST: Myth or Historical Person?

[Thor]

Not only was Christianity a new religion, its founder, Jesus Christ was poor and therefore not paid too much attention by people of privilege.

If people of privilege didn't pay him any attention, why was he executed?

In addition, Jesus Christ was executed three years after he began his ministry. Add to that the fact that his followers were routinely persecuted, flogged, and imprisoned, and you have a climate of fear surrounding Christianity. Now, which contemporary writer in his right mind would have stuck his neck out in a situation like that?

Why wouldn't any contemporary historian make mention of a man who was going around walking on water, raising the dead and healing the sick with a touch of his hand? What? These events were so ordinary as to not be worth recording? And why wouldn't anybody write about an event as incredible as a man rising from the dead and people emerging from graves and walking around town? This makes sense to you?

I might add that not only was Christianity not a well-known religion at the time, it was confined to a fairly small location--besides being unpopular.

Oh, I love this kind of crap. If Jesus was truly divine, why would he confine himself to only one small area? Why wouldn't he travel throughout Europe, Scandanavia, Asia, the Pacific Islands, Australia, the Americas, etc, etc...? Why wouldn't he want his message to be heard everywhere? Why wouldn't he want everyone to know who he is?

Contemporary writers ran the risk of being persecuted if they had written anything to bring attention to this new religion.

Oh, bullshit. A contemporary writer couldn't record the activities of this man without being persecuted? What a load of crap. Perhaps such a person would be persecuted if his writings endorsed the religion. But to be persecuted merely for recording actual events? If anything, the authorities would WANT the story of Jesus's torment to be disseminated. This is what happens when you go against the authorities! But it's nowhere in any historical writings or documents. Keep rationalizing. It'll get you far.