(July 5, 2018 at 10:29 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Help me out here guys. If jesus was not a god (son of god) then why does it really matter if there was a poser(s) or not?
This feels like a bunch of mental masturbation.
I'm inclined to agree. I actually want to buy Richard Carrier's book for the next time I debate my brother. But I can't justify it because if Jesus did exist he certainly didn't have any divine power because there are no gods and no supernatural. I do find it interesting though if he didn't exist, because then how did the myth actually start? But I'm not that interested. When I read about history I want to know about repeating patterns that can inform me about today and where we are going. I want to know about how the world works, not about one off events that happened in the past.
Saying that, I do appreciate that other people are doing the research instead.