Quote:Suetonius and Pliny the Younger do mention Jesus
No. Suetonius and Pliny mention "christians" ( or chrestians. in Suetonius' case). None of them ever heard of fucking jesus.
Idiot apologists like Holding - one of the worst of the lot - are doing what apologists always do. Make excuses for the fact that your silly godboy does not appear in history. In no way does it change the fact that writers such as Seneca, Philo, and Pliny the Elder not only never heard of fucking jesus ( in Philo's case, this in spite of writing a letter to Caligula about the activities of Pontius Pilate without ever mentioning that one of his "crimes" was to kill the messiah!) nor in Pliny's case a book which recounted every silly yarn he knew never mentions some jew coming back to life after being fucking crucified!
So, xtian asswipes, you can jump up and down until your knees ache but the fact remains that the dearth of references to your godboy was so complete that later xtian writers felt obliged to forge some in order to have his absence from the record not be so embarrassing.
But then, it takes very little to convince true believers. To quote Caesar: "Men willingly believe what they wish to be true."
