(May 8, 2016 at 1:23 am)Irrational Wrote:(May 8, 2016 at 1:17 am)Minimalist Wrote: Occam's Razor has a better answer. Whoever the fuck wrote "Luke" copied from "Matty" and "Mark."
Then why the fuck did he not copy the nativity story from Matthew or even acknowledge it?
Because he wrote his own...for a different audience. A Greco-Roman audience who didn't give a flying fuck about Herod or Moses but who might relate to real Roman figures like Augustus and Sulpicius Quirinius.
The most important thing you can do to begin to understand this shit is to utterly dismiss the fiction that the church has put out.