Let's grant, for the moment, that the TF is only a partial interpolation; that Josephus mentioned the character as a thing believed by xtians, but all the cocksucking was added later.
Why? Why 'sex up' any of it, if there was any contemporary and compelling evidence at all? Why the need to fabricate evidence?
I'll wait.
Why? Why 'sex up' any of it, if there was any contemporary and compelling evidence at all? Why the need to fabricate evidence?
I'll wait.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'