RE: Josephus and other contemporaries on Jesus
July 6, 2018 at 12:21 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2018 at 12:25 pm by Abaddon_ire.)
I find this all fascinating in a "car wreck" sort of way.
Seems to me that there are few possibilities:
A: There was an actual Jesus wandering the Levant
B: There were a bunch of itinerant preachers wandering the Levant who all got munged together.
C: There was no Jesus at all
D: There was a god wandering the Levant performing oddly bovine "miracles"
E: Something else (suggestions welcome)
Regardless, I really don't care. There is insufficient actual evidence to make a determination one way or the other and even if there were, it really doesn't wash. No matter how one spins it, it still does not add up to a divine Jebus in any way.
Why folks on both sides get all bent out of shape over whether a homeless religious wingnut existed or not 2,000 years ago is puzzling to say the least to this atheist. Homeless religious wingnuts exist today, Why can't they exist any other time?
To the true "bleevers" I shrug and say "sure, A religious wingnut may have existed. Not a problem, really"
To the atheists I say "Why should we give a rat's posterior?" . After all, we know religious cranks were ten a penny in the first century Levant. Mandaeanism promoted JtB as the true Messiah, so it ain't like one can pretend that religious cranks did not abound in the region.
Seems to me that there are few possibilities:
A: There was an actual Jesus wandering the Levant
B: There were a bunch of itinerant preachers wandering the Levant who all got munged together.
C: There was no Jesus at all
D: There was a god wandering the Levant performing oddly bovine "miracles"
E: Something else (suggestions welcome)
Regardless, I really don't care. There is insufficient actual evidence to make a determination one way or the other and even if there were, it really doesn't wash. No matter how one spins it, it still does not add up to a divine Jebus in any way.
Why folks on both sides get all bent out of shape over whether a homeless religious wingnut existed or not 2,000 years ago is puzzling to say the least to this atheist. Homeless religious wingnuts exist today, Why can't they exist any other time?
To the true "bleevers" I shrug and say "sure, A religious wingnut may have existed. Not a problem, really"
To the atheists I say "Why should we give a rat's posterior?" . After all, we know religious cranks were ten a penny in the first century Levant. Mandaeanism promoted JtB as the true Messiah, so it ain't like one can pretend that religious cranks did not abound in the region.
