(January 28, 2016 at 10:56 am)dyresand Wrote:(January 28, 2016 at 9:19 am)Jehanne Wrote: I think that he was a religious loon, a total nut-job. But, yes, the "Jesus didn't exist" meme, IMHO, needs to be expunged from the atheistic consciousness.
There is no historical fact that a guy named jesus lived and the damning fact of the matter is no one has the birth date of the guy
no has evidence of mary.
Tacitus was a careful Roman historian. Considering the synoptic sources, Q, the Gospel of John, the writings of Paul and the other New Testament authors (most of whom are unknown), it is an extraordinary "leap of faith" to say that there was not a certain personage, an epileptic preacher with delusions of grandeur, Jesus of Nazareth.
