pocaracas Wrote: I'm now reading Bart Ehrman's "Lost Christianities", as advised by Minimalist, on some thread some time ago.
It's quite curious how many texts from the 2nd ~4th centuries exist concerning a fellow called Jesus, who had a few disciples and said a bunch of stuff...
It's frustrating how many of those texts never made it to our days.
It's interesting to note how much of what was written as coming from Jesus himself was... made up. It does lead one to wonder how much of the canonical texts was made up.
I just read this morning a part about the allegedly first written canonical gospels mention nothing about the death and resurrection of this very important figure... and this figure's most important accomplishment... It took Paul's contemporaries to write about that... odd that.
I enjoyed Lost Christianities a lot. Probably more than some of Ehrmans other books.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
