RE: The Jesus story has details that is most definitely made up i just realized!!!
September 7, 2019 at 12:57 am
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2019 at 1:21 am by Fake Messiah.)
(September 6, 2019 at 9:40 pm)Jehanne Wrote: No first rate scholar doubts the existence of the historical Jesus.
So Richard Carrier is not first rate scholar? How come? Or Thomas L. Thompson, Edwin Johnson, Arthur Drews, Robert M. Price, Earl Doherty, Michel Onfray, Frank Zindler...
Sure, we could ask "How come all historians are on the side of Jesus mythicism?"
Because Jesus Myth is kryptonite for Christianity. If you’re a believer, you can find ways to twist your faith to make room for evolution; Christians do it all the time, and in increasing numbers these days. But you can’t very well pull off that same trick to accommodate Jesus Myth.
And, that's why in the west there are still many historians officially believing that Jesus was historical person, just like you have plenty of historians in India believing that Krishna was based on a real person. People want to be historians but they don't necessarily want to come in conflict with other people's religions.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
