RE: Why did pagans not take any notice of Jesus?
February 24, 2019 at 9:33 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2019 at 9:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
All well and good, but nothing in there about why christianity wasn't ""noticed" earlier. That question carries some assumption that a kernel of the christian narrative is true. If there were miracles falling out of every hat and the whole ane was abuzz with jesus and his wonderful travelling disciples..yeah, someone might have noticed.
In fact people did notice, centuries later when some version of any of the above was true. In the time frame the christians allege, in their own self serving and heavily retconned history, there was nothing like that to notice. By the time there actually were "travelling disciples" spreading the newly formed christian faith by recounting stories about miracles, pagans immediately discarded them as derivative superstition. Even the christians knew their shit was manufactured. Iraneus, Tertullian, and Justin Martyr all opined on diobolic mimicry.
The notion that demons, knowing what was to come (this is rich, because they butchered the OT "prophecy" themselves) established a plethora of religions to mimic and thus discredit the future christ. In reality, rather than the "historical documents" of the NT and whatever it's curators chose to preserve, it appears that the worlds first reaction to christianity was the appropriate one. Bunch of superstitious nutballs out in the sticks, doing silly shit. Now pay your taxes.
In fact people did notice, centuries later when some version of any of the above was true. In the time frame the christians allege, in their own self serving and heavily retconned history, there was nothing like that to notice. By the time there actually were "travelling disciples" spreading the newly formed christian faith by recounting stories about miracles, pagans immediately discarded them as derivative superstition. Even the christians knew their shit was manufactured. Iraneus, Tertullian, and Justin Martyr all opined on diobolic mimicry.
The notion that demons, knowing what was to come (this is rich, because they butchered the OT "prophecy" themselves) established a plethora of religions to mimic and thus discredit the future christ. In reality, rather than the "historical documents" of the NT and whatever it's curators chose to preserve, it appears that the worlds first reaction to christianity was the appropriate one. Bunch of superstitious nutballs out in the sticks, doing silly shit. Now pay your taxes.
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