R. G. Price - On the Mythic Jesus

[SleepingDemon]

It is always amusing how fervently christians will argue historical accuracy in regards to a history that does not follow history. Is it simple coincidence that a man so vital to the human race seems to be little more than a combination of mythologies rolled into one? Demigods were a popular concept, in fact almost every mythological hero in antiquity was the son of one deity or another. Greek mythology has a lot written concerning Hera's jealousy concerning Zeus' many affairs and subsequent offspring with mortals. Christian mythology itself fancies the idea with both Jesus and the nephilim in the old testament. Christian's version of history has themselves being a scourge of the Roman empire, but actual history shows them as being little more than small cults until Constantine legalized christianity. Furthermore, Rome's adoption of christianity as it's state religion later on, and the subsequent rewriting of its history, combined with the early church's widespread practice of book burning more than sufficiently explains the discrepancy between biblical history and actual history. Christianity itself was manufactured over the course of centuries during 1000 and some odd years of Roman rule of Europe.

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Jesus as a purely mythological figure isn't that much of a stretch when you compare him to someone like Cleopatra, who was purposefully removed from history by her brother, yet we have more evidence supporting Cleopatra's existence than that of Jesus. And Min, you are my Jesus.