The Jesus Itinerary

[John V]

This is also a leap. Modern Republicans have fanciful memories of Reagan that bear almost no relation to the actual presidency. There are Tea Baggers who think Obama initiated the bank bailouts or who think gas prices were never this high until he came into office. And we live in a modern age were false notions of history are corrected by the simply click of a mouse.

It's telling that you don't speak of simple facts, such as date of death of a ruler or date of a census.

According to the very Bible, there were Christians during the lifetime of John who thought Jesus wasn't a flesh-and-blood person (see 1John 4:1-3 and 2John 1:7). So I place no faith in 70 CE Christians knowing that Herod the Great died in 4 BCE and not 6 CE.

I disagree.