RE: The Jesus story has details that is most definitely made up i just realized!!!
September 10, 2019 at 5:57 pm
(September 9, 2019 at 7:52 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: I admit that as a nonbeliever, I don't need Jesus to be a myth. If it turns out the mythicists are wrong, and one day some good evidence for a real Jesus gets uncovered, it's not as if Christianity will suddenly start making sense. But in all honesty I can't see any indication that there was some historical person behind the Jesus myth aside from Jesus ben-Ananias and few other characters whose life histories were borrowed to make Jesus's.
Agree. I have no objection to jebus being an actual historical person, or possibly an amalgam of the many wandering apocalyptic rabbis in the levant at that time. It's just kind of mundane.
If I claim that there are wandering street preachers on the streets of any city preaching the imminent end of the world, nobody would argue that. Why is 30-33 CE any different? Sure, there is not much evidence to work from, but it hardly counts as an extraordinary claim, does it? Such apocalyptic preachers have existed for as long as we have records. It is hardly a surprise that some existed in the levant at a time of foment and turmoil, is it?
Eleazar ben Yair, for example. That's pretty heavily documented.
For me, there is no reason that jebus the bastard is impossible in the levant at the time. It was "de riguer" for the region and time. Hell, even jesus is a common frakking first name even today. What are the chances of lots of blokes being named jesus in the 2,000 years ago levant? 100%.
People should pay far more attention to the subtext of "The Life of Brian".
