RE: Freeing guilty criminals at Passover?
August 7, 2020 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2020 at 1:09 pm by GrandizerII.)
(August 7, 2020 at 11:17 am)Brian37 Wrote:(August 6, 2020 at 11:24 pm)Ranjr Wrote: The Jews killed Jesus, not the Romans. That's why.
Um no. It is certainly what right wing assholes today claim, but that is not what real history is.
The claims of Romans killing Jesus is after the fact mythology. Jesus never existed. He was a manufactured character after the fact. Nero is most likely responsible for the eventual popularity of Christianity. Back then Christians were an tiny religion and unknown, but when Rome burned down under Nero, Nero looked for a scapegoat.
Jews didn't rat out a fictional character named Jesus. Humans simply marketed what they did, and certain mythologies won out over time through marketing.
It's called facetiousness, Brian. I don't think Ranjr meant it is a historical fact that the Jews killed Jesus.
At least that's how I interpreted the statement. Perhaps not.
Anyhow, I don't like these confident claims like "Jesus never existed". We don't really know. And scholars who study the NT for a living mostly reckon there was some Jesus.
