(July 11, 2017 at 8:48 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:
..If you've got Roman army garrison records of interacting with Jesus, that would be the strongest evidence for his existence ever discovered..
Maybe we should think "politics" and "shredder" to explain the scarcity of official records?
When christianity began snowballing in popularity after Jesus's execution, the Jewish priests and the Romans probably said -
"Oops better not let on it was us who killed him, quick shred all the documents implicating us or we'll have a Jesusgate scandal on our hands. Let's airbrush him out of history and start hassling christians, and people will soon quickly forget about him"