My thoughts on "The Historical Jesus":
1. There is no proof.
2. Christian mythology doesn't count as "proof".
3. The Christians themselves have never told a coherent story in the first place, let alone provided any reason to believe it.
4. The picture gets even murkier when you look at Christian beliefs of the first few centuries.
So either:
1. Jesus was an insignificant rabbi that nobody paid any attention to and who wrote nothing of himself and his own teachings and, against all odds, was deified with fanciful legends, except that nobody could agree on what he said, taught or did, including what are now considered canonical sources, never mind all the myriad "heterodox Christians" who were so divergent as to make modern Christianity vs. Islam look like petty theological hair-splitting, so good luck ever knowing anything about him.
2. He's an urban legend.
1. There is no proof.
2. Christian mythology doesn't count as "proof".
3. The Christians themselves have never told a coherent story in the first place, let alone provided any reason to believe it.
4. The picture gets even murkier when you look at Christian beliefs of the first few centuries.
So either:
1. Jesus was an insignificant rabbi that nobody paid any attention to and who wrote nothing of himself and his own teachings and, against all odds, was deified with fanciful legends, except that nobody could agree on what he said, taught or did, including what are now considered canonical sources, never mind all the myriad "heterodox Christians" who were so divergent as to make modern Christianity vs. Islam look like petty theological hair-splitting, so good luck ever knowing anything about him.
2. He's an urban legend.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
