(August 28, 2013 at 6:39 pm)ronedee Wrote:(August 28, 2013 at 6:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: And then the dickhead trots out Tacitus, Pliny, and the forged Josephus.
Good grief, Ronny. You redefine stupid with every breath you take.
You stick with jesus. Its all you can handle. Go pray or light a candle...or buttfuck an altar boy if you like.
I'm going to hold my temper, as I promised the civil atheists here!
But, unless you have credible ways to disprove the evidence sitdown!
I don't give a flying fuck what you do. Just go easy on the altar boys. They've suffered enough from your pervert priests.
BTW, Tactius - probably a much later forgery but irrelevant in this instance - nor Pliny mention anyone named "jesus." They mention christos which, as had been mentioned ad nauseam, only means "the anointed one." Both Pliny and Tacitus were dead by 120 and it seems that the jesus story post dates them.
As for Josephus: Bishop Warburton in the 18th century noted.
Quote: “This [the Josephus] account of Eusebius is a rank forgery, and a very stupid one, too.”