Shit. What The Hell. Jesus Never Existed

[GrandizerII]

Irrational: I'm saying the fact that something appears real because it has been inconvenient for the authors to include is not enough evidence that it was actually real. Not for me, anyway. If it's enough for you, that's fine The whole point of religious propaganda is to convince people of stuff that isn't true, so I wouldn't be at all surprised at them being sneaky this way. I'm not saying they were, I'm saying it's enough doubt for me to not be easily convinced. I'd rather say I don't know than draw a conclusion I'm not confident about.

By including something that seems a bad choice, it's a fake embarressing detail. If that was their intention, it seems to be working, yeah?

The gospels are a pile of shit.

Does anyone agree with my checklist, by the way?

They didn't introduce the inconvenient parts. Not the authors of Matthew and Luke. What they tried to do is to rectify the inconvenient parts in accordance with the Old Testament passage which they, and their fellow Christians, interpreted as a Messianic prophecy after the fact.

And again, sneaky or not, you don't just complicate things for yourself unnecessarily if you want to convince people. A simple Jesus of Bethlehem would've been more convincing to the audience than the convoluted "Ok, so Jesus may have been from some simple village called Nazareth but he still is the Messiah because ... guess what ... he was somehow born in Bethlehem despite him being known as Jesus of Nazareth!"

Also, you've already made a conclusion about this topic. Your answers to your checklist.