Celsus

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Understandable..we rarely take notice of the specifics of whatever it is the local vagrant is yelling to the clouds about.

But the trouble with the Jesus narrative is that Jesus was more than just 'the local vagrant'.  The story would have us believe that both Herod Antipas (who was an historic figure) and Pilate the Prefect (who probably was as well) were involved, however peripherally, in the death of Jesus.  It is telling that there are no contemporary accounts from or about Pilate and Herod that mention the Jesus figure.  It seems hard to swallow that NO ONE alive and writing at the time would have mentioned, even in passing, that the ruler of Galilee and the military 'governor' of Judea managed to get themselves muddled up in the sideshow trial and execution of a wandering fanatical rabbi.

Boru