Josephus and other contemporaries on Jesus

[Pat Mustard]

There is no contemporary evidence that any of your horseshit is true.  Since it is YOUR HORSESHIT you bear the burden of proof.  Feel free to call us if you find something, in the meanwhile go blow your apologetics out your ass.

Once again we see RR expounding the Great Xtian Paradox:  "Jesus was so fucking dangerous and important that the authorities had no choice but to break every rule in their own fucking book to deal with him while, AT THE VERY SAME TIME, he was so fucking insignificant that no one in the first century wrote a fucking word about him.

Make up your fucking minds, assholes.

Jesus' sentencing has always been unique. But this is the first place I'm hearing an argument that a Roman prefect would not do what Pilate is depicted doing in the Gospel accounts. Can you elaborate on this a bit?

It's simple really. It would be very unusual for a Roman official to so visibly step on the toes of local officials in a client state of the empire, especially when (if you accept the bible account) Jesus was one of the jewish preachers least likely to upset the Roman applecart in the area.

One thing Rome very successfully did was to allow their subjects at the periphery have a sense of independence and self-determination, when all it was was an illusion.