RE: Richard Carrier - The Hero Savior Analogy
October 3, 2016 at 5:29 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2016 at 5:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Yeah, that can;t be too mutch of a stretch as a candidate. The question of a historical jesus is not whether or not a dead jew came back to life. The question for legend would be whethr people -believed- he did, and the question for myth would be why they believed that...if, indeed, it was the stories upon which people believed rather than any event. The mythicist position is the latter. That people believed in a legendary or historical jesus based upon the stories of such, not an event. Stories which were not, it seems, originally about any jesus-the-man..but about a christ.
You, RR, want to argue for the mythical christ, rather than a legendary jesus, or a historical jesus....which is so far beyond the bounds of the discussion that I'm surprised you think it's relevant at all.
You, RR, want to argue for the mythical christ, rather than a legendary jesus, or a historical jesus....which is so far beyond the bounds of the discussion that I'm surprised you think it's relevant at all.
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