(February 23, 2013 at 1:19 am)Minimalist Wrote: The fact that the earliest Roman writers knew of xtians but never heard of "jesus" suggests that all the mary/joseph, pilate/nazareth shit...which "Paul" doesn't know about either, was later chrome plated onto the bumper of this bullshit religion.
I don't find it astonishing that pagan Roman writers didn't give details of what they regarded as superstition. The only way that the development of Christian beliefs can be figured out is by studying the early Christian writings which survived. There's no way of knowing what was in the texts which didn't survive unless somebody quoted from them.
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