Mythicism, since you obviously know as little about it as everything else in your life, goes back to the mid 18th - or - to put it another way - to shortly after scumbags like you lost the ability to burn people at the stake for disputing your holy horseshit.
This is not "news" to the rest of us and xtian fools who want to bury their heads in the sand can pretend it is a modern phenomena all they want. You are wrong about everything else. Why not this?
Quote:Although many people may not be aware of the long-term and voluminous studies involved in what is called "mythicism," the questioning of the Bible as representing mythology goes back several centuries. Much of the major work in this field has occurred in Europe, especially in France and Germany. In France, at the end of the 18th century appeared the multi-volume work of Professor Charles François Dupuis (1742-1809), who put together a massive amount of evidence showing that many of the ancient gods and goddesses were solar in nature and that biblical characters such as Jesus shared numerous aspects in common with these deities. Dupuis was followed by Count Volney (1757-1820), both of whom tutored French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who himself is reported as having stated that it was a "big question" whether or not Jesus Christ really existed.
Dr. David Friedrich Strauss
In the 19th century, these French scholars were followed by Dr. F.C. Baur of the Tübingen School in Germany, along with his pupil Dr. David F. Strauss, who was attacked and lost his occupation for writing a "Life of Jesus" asserting that much of the gospel story was mythical. Strauss practically defined "mythicism" for a time, but was followed famously by Dr. Bruno Bauer (1809-1882), who likewise cast doubt on the Bible as "history."
This is not "news" to the rest of us and xtian fools who want to bury their heads in the sand can pretend it is a modern phenomena all they want. You are wrong about everything else. Why not this?
