There are half a dozen or so obscure and highly questionable nonbiblical references to Jesus. That's it. There are no roman documents concerning the execution, nothing. For the most important man who ever lived, none of the contemporary historians knew anything about him, in fact, no one mentioned a damn thing about some guy walking around Jerusalem, raising the dead and walking on water for like 40 years after he "died". Your savior never existed. Now, there may have been a carpenters son named Jesus who lived sometime during that time, but if so, his life was so unmemorable that no one thought he was important enough to mention in their journal.
That is, until Constantine made a superhero out of him. Think about it, every aspect from the jesus myth can be traced back to Greek, Egyptian, and other pagan mythologies. The virgin birth, being a demigod, being crucified, gathering a merry band of brothers, the resurrection, the trip to hell. This guy was a carbon copy of at least several other mangods, and with the Christian method of stealing and repackaging pagan holidays, festivals, prayers and rituals, it isn't too far fetched to say that Jesus was a 2nd or 3rd century construct meant to solidify the Roman Empires dominance.
That is, until Constantine made a superhero out of him. Think about it, every aspect from the jesus myth can be traced back to Greek, Egyptian, and other pagan mythologies. The virgin birth, being a demigod, being crucified, gathering a merry band of brothers, the resurrection, the trip to hell. This guy was a carbon copy of at least several other mangods, and with the Christian method of stealing and repackaging pagan holidays, festivals, prayers and rituals, it isn't too far fetched to say that Jesus was a 2nd or 3rd century construct meant to solidify the Roman Empires dominance.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
