Rewriting the bible

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I'm surprised to hear that Bart apparently thinks otherwise, I'll have to dig into that.

There may well have been a raving rabbi called Jesus walking the desert.

Point is, that even if he existed, christian writers have attributed him with all kinds of myths existing a long time before he supposedly went on his suicide mission.

For sure, I'm not saying there wasn't some guy called Jesus. It was a common name I believe. Maybe at some point there was one guy who said a bunch of stuff which caught on, who knows. That's about as far as my belief in it goes.

I read somewhere that Jesus had a brother (in fact other siblings too) and Jesus' story and his brothers got mixed up, and they got kind of combined into one character, which is where the Jesus Christ comes from. It explains why sometimes he's talking about killing with swords, and other times drivelling on about peace. Really can't remember where I heard that, but it sure was interesting.

I came up with my own theory before hearing this, about Jesus having a twin brother, who showed up after the execution, hence "resurrected". This was before I came to the realization that the whole Jesus thing is made up, not just that part. I had for a long time assumed there must have actually been a Jesus, obviously a much watered-down and non amazing version of the claims made. Amazing even as a life long atheist I got conned into that one.