I'm not a mythicist, of course. The notion, I think, of a desert-preaching apocalypticist who claimed that a divine being from Heaven would descend to the Flat Earth to deliver the Jews from the Romans would have been a popular message with the ignorant, illiterate masses but would have been ignored by the literate, Greek-educated elite, which is why they viewed Jesus as being just another corner-preaching crank who was not worth mentioning, even after things boiled over to where the Romans decided to put an end to things.
What followed, of course, was not on anyone's radar, Jesus included (while he was alive), the seeds of a world religion having been planted by a series of unfortunate events.
What followed, of course, was not on anyone's radar, Jesus included (while he was alive), the seeds of a world religion having been planted by a series of unfortunate events.
