RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
September 3, 2012 at 8:26 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2012 at 8:27 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(September 3, 2012 at 8:21 pm)Lion IRC Wrote:(September 3, 2012 at 4:16 pm)Atom Wrote: ...In Epistles X.96 Pliny the Younger, Roman governor in Bithynia AD112 wrote to Emperor Trajan to seek advice as to how to treat the christians. He was concerned that they chose death rather than bow to a statue of the emperor or "curse CHRIST, which a genuine CHRISTian cannot be induced to do." Text at: http://www.ancient-literature.com/rome_p...e_X96.html
Why would a subordinate of Trajan foolishly write a letter to him, (admitting dereliction of his duty,) advising that there was a problem he couldnt handle, caused by a bunch of people martyring themselves, for a story they knew was a lie, about a Man who never existed?
*facepalm* It wouldn't have mattered whether or not Jesus really existed when handling a problem concerning his followers decades after the time he supposedly existed. It would have been irrelevant .
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).