Atheism is unreasonable

[abaris]

The Resurrection of Jesus is doubted, and the mere existence of Jesus is sometimes doubted...

Two fundamentaly different issues. The resurrection of Jesus is a miracle, the mere existence of Jesus is just a person existing at a given time in history.

On the second issue the jury is still out. His existence has neither been proven nor disproven. For the first issue you need faith in miracles to even consider the possibility.

I wonder how much you actually know about the general times and believes when the gospels were written. First, a resurrected god wasn't that special in regional believes. Osiris for example was virtually put together again by his wife Isis after he had been ripped apart by his brother Seth. Dyonisos ripped apart by Hera and rebuilt by Zeus. The Sumerian god Tammuz was no different: he ended up in the kingdom of the dead. Inanna supposedly relented, and went to rescue Tammuz and turn him into a god. She did this not just once but many times. Each year Tammuz dies and the world (at least in the Near East) is hit by droughts and extreme heat, and when the rains come and the crops begin to grow, it is a sign that Tammuz has once again been resurrected.

In general terms it was a time of miracles. Authors, even calling themselves hostorians, reported om miraculous events as if they were something naturally occuring. The term history itself had a very different connotation than it has nowadays. It was used to idealise situations, people, events or even some perceived golden age.

Last but not least and that's the point where every christian believing in the trinity loses me. Jesus, as defined by the concept, was god walking the earth. So he sacrificed himself to himself and of course he resurrected himself because he was god almighty. By the christian definition laid down in the late 4th century, we're not talking about some politheistic character, who's actually been a seperate god, but about one single spirit. The father, the son and the divine spirit.