RE: Regarding Jesus
July 8, 2014 at 10:47 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2014 at 10:50 am by Confused Ape.)
(July 8, 2014 at 10:27 am)Rhythm Wrote: Trouble with that, from my POV, is that to even begin down the road of such wonderings you have to favor an incredibly complicated and convoluted scenario over another, simpler and very well evidenced explanation. It's just a story.
What's complicated about it? A grief hallucination starting an urban legend about a messiah doesn't strike me as any odder than people thinking they saw Elvis after he'd died. Also, an urban legend that got passed round and ended up with different versions would explain why the four gospels have so many contradictions. The writers could have just recorded the travellers' tales they happened to hear.
If it's just a story based on nothing how did it get started? Who made it up and why? Another vague possibility is that there was a real person underneath the Paul of Tarsus myth. Maybe he decided to start a new cult because some people do that.
PS: I live in the UK where there are a lot of ghost stories and legends about real people. I suppose that's why I don't think that the idea of a grief hallucination starting an urban legend is complicated.
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?