Shit. What The Hell. Jesus Never Existed

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Hello Ken

I think it's fairly significant that his name certainly wasn't Jesus, so there was no Jesus of Nazareth. This makes Jesus fictional instantly and we're already just looking for inspirations for his character.

I'm starting to think "Jesus of Nazareth" is about as poorly defined as "God", it means pretty much what anyone wants it to mean and so it's not a very meaningful general question. Was there some numb nuts who went around preaching and got executed for causing problems? Sure, hundreds of them probably.

Some people certainly seem to have an emotionally charged connection to this "Jesus" figure being somehow real (among atheists I mean) which I can't quite understand. To me it's an interesting historical point and nothing more. The evidence is so sparse and so poor that we have just about fuck all idea as far as I'm concerned.