JESUS CHRIST: Myth or Historical Person?

[Justtristo]

ALTER2EGO -to- JUSTTRISTO:
Not only was Christianity a new religion, its founder, Jesus Christ was poor and therefore not paid too much attention by people of privilege. In addition, Jesus Christ was executed three years after he began his ministry. Add to that the fact that his followers were routinely persecuted, flogged, and imprisoned, and you have a climate of fear surrounding Christianity. Now, which contemporary writer in his right mind would have stuck his neck out in a situation like that?

I might add that not only was Christianity not a well-known religion at the time, it was confined to a fairly small location--besides being unpopular. Contemporary writers ran the risk of being persecuted if they had written anything to bring attention to this new religion. If you wish, I can give you a scriptural example of the risk involved in drawing attention to Christianity back then.


I will reply to the other part of your post later.

I bet you don't know how credulous people were back in the first centuries of the common era in that part of the world. Richard Carrier really sums up the mindset of the populace in this article below.

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/r...kooks.html

Also I cannot see how people who especially were opposed to "The Way" fail to mention about the events described in the Gospels. Considering some of the stuff in it, like a 3 hour eclipse, a earthquake in Jerusalem with the undead coming out of their tombs and the temple curtain tearing in two. I cannot believe Josephus let alone Roman writers such as Pliny the Elder who wrote about all sorts of things, not writing about this.

I challenge you to listen to a talk by Richard Carrier talk about how all this never happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX4LvKvIWJw