RE: The First Century Void
August 8, 2017 at 8:32 am
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2017 at 8:33 am by Dropship.)
(June 10, 2017 at 6:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote: ..One of Richard Carrier's most compelling arguments, the utter failure of any first century Greco-Roman writer to mention anything about xtianity..
Huh? Paul wrote big chunks of the New T and he was a Roman citizen (with joint Jewish citizenship)..
Anyway think POLITICS..
When Christianity began snowballing in popularity after Jesus's execution, the snooty priests 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!
We'll try to airbrush him out of history and crack down on christians, then people will soon forget all about him"