RE: Can you still be an atheist after this?
September 23, 2011 at 9:25 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2011 at 9:44 pm by ElDinero.)
(September 23, 2011 at 6:36 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: I said secular and Christian historians you dingleberry. You’d have a tough time finding one historian who believes Jesus was a myth no matter whether the historian was a Christian, Muslim, Atheist, or whatever. Try to keep up please.
Is that right? Then where do all those 'Jesus is a myth' theories come from? Sports psychologists?
I think one of the most popular theories is that there was a man, or perhaps several men, who said or did SOME of the things described, with the rest tacked on either from pre-existing myths or for dramatic effect, or to retroactively prove the OT correct. This would make him (at least partially) a myth.
Certainly no historian who didn't have a vested interest in the Bible being true has ever suggested there was anything other than circumstantial evidence for things such as the resurrection. And yet historians of all walks have confirmed the existence of figures such as Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Pizarro, Hitler, Tutankhamun and The Incredible Hulk. ISN'T THAT WEIRD?
I'll tell you what I did. I punched into Google 'Jesus was a myth'. From there I got the Wikipedia article 'Jesus myth theory'. From there I got a link to this gentleman, who was the first name among several mentioned:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin-...eb%C5%93uf
You're right Stat, I had a really hard time finding a historian who thought Jesus was a myth. I might need to lie down.