Credible/Honest Apologetics?

[Pat Mustard]

In other words, it's prima facie incoherent.  And that's how it stays unless you go with the copout that "It's a mystery."  Yeah.  Tell me again about how Christianity restores intelligibility to the universe.

Jesus of Nazareth was a nut, whom the literate Romans crucified without so much as a historical footnote, and the hundreds of thousands of individuals who could have mentioned his existence didn't, because, he was not worth mentioning -- they all knew a religious loon when they saw one.

Instead, it was due to the influence of a bunch of illiterate, lowerclass peasants, all of whom believed in a flat Earth, and one apocalyptic literate psychotic individual, Paul, who sowed the foundations of what would later become a world religion.

But, yet, here we are discussing it!

Jesus was never crucified. If there was a preacher named Yeshua bar Yosef in Iudaea around the start of the Principate and if he were killed by authorities it would be the jewish religious authorities either stoning or lynching him. A crucifiction would never have happened unless the life of Yeshua was much different than that portrayed for Jesus in the bible.