(March 16, 2022 at 9:56 pm)Jehanne Wrote: The amount of false videos and information coming out of Ukraine is astonishing:
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Make no mistake about it, the war was an absolutely unnecessary tragedy and Putin is morally responsible for all of the carnage. But, that's not my point here. Rather, given all of the misinformation and disinformation coming out of Ukraine in the past several weeks, can the Gospels, written 35 to 65 years after Jesus' execution have any historical credibility to them? After all, if individuals can promulgate disinformation in our Day even with the myriad of fact checkers (who often go disbelieved anyways), could a tiny handful of individuals have created the stories, myths and legends surrounding Jesus that would go on to evolve and morph into a major world religion?
Of course the Gospels have no historic reliability. They weren't written as history, but as hagiography. It's not unheard of to install myths into an historic setting. Simply because the Jesus narrative is placed in historical places (Judea), that no more makes it historical than the Kalevala because it takes place in recognizable Finland.
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