RE: JESUS CHRIST: Myth or Historical Person?
May 15, 2012 at 8:48 am
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2012 at 8:49 am by Cyberman.)
A2E and any other TF defenders:
Is your Jesus a terrible misfortune? Josephus thought so, at least if you take the TF at face value and uncritically. Chapter 3 of his Antiquities XVIII opens with the policies of Pilate in his attempts to Romanise Jerusalem, with much bloodshed during a massacre at the aqueduct he provided with temple funds. Then we have 'his' fanwank about JC and the "ten-thousand other wonderful things concerning him" that make him "the Christ" - a peculiar thing in itself for a lifelong orthodox Jew to say. Immediately after, in the very next line, we get: "And about the same time another terrible misfortune confounded the Jews ..."
It's like the "under God" insertion in the US Pledge of Allegiance. It's in the way; it doesn't fit. Remove the obviously ill-fitting phrases and now the narrative, like that Pledge, suddenly makes sense.
Is your Jesus a terrible misfortune? Josephus thought so, at least if you take the TF at face value and uncritically. Chapter 3 of his Antiquities XVIII opens with the policies of Pilate in his attempts to Romanise Jerusalem, with much bloodshed during a massacre at the aqueduct he provided with temple funds. Then we have 'his' fanwank about JC and the "ten-thousand other wonderful things concerning him" that make him "the Christ" - a peculiar thing in itself for a lifelong orthodox Jew to say. Immediately after, in the very next line, we get: "And about the same time another terrible misfortune confounded the Jews ..."
It's like the "under God" insertion in the US Pledge of Allegiance. It's in the way; it doesn't fit. Remove the obviously ill-fitting phrases and now the narrative, like that Pledge, suddenly makes sense.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
