Where did the Jesus myth come from?

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I'll have to think about what you are saying. I'm thinking there's some equivocation in our terms. Regardless it applies in this case.

Then I'll give you a hard example.

Fundies claim that "David" conquered a vast empire in the 10th century. Leaving aside the fact that none of the people conquered seem to know anything about it, archaeologists have dug down to bedrock in Jerusalem and failed to find any evidence of a grand city. What they have found is consistent with a miserable little village. Further, surveys of Judah have shown that the entire was a poverty-stricken region of 15-20,000 nomadic herders with just a handful of miniscule settlements. What they have not found is any evidence of a society which could conceivably "conquer" a large empire. They lacked the resources in men and materiel.

There is thus a complete absence of evidence for any "Davidic Empire." I submit this is evidence that such an empire was a later concoction of writers seeking to give the country a glorious history.

The reason that it is not considered definitive is that in archaeology it is always possible that the next shovel in the ground will find missing evidence.

It seems unlikely, though.

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Pad, someone should tell that jerkoff that his hand fits around his dick, too.