What were Jesus and early Christians like?

[Clueless Morgan]

I'm interested in how this "historical Jesus" is more of a real person than the "historical Harry Potter" would be, if it was based on a boy called Harry, who had a brother, said a couple of the things Harry said, and went to school.

Stop talking nonsense, Rob. Everyone knows that Harry had a cousin, not a brother.

And are you seriously trying to say that the Battle of Hogwarts wasn't a real historical event?

---

:p

---

Having never been religious, it is really hard for me to try and get into the mindset of what it must be like to be a (religious) theist. To think that there's all this magic stuff going on everywhere, all these weird characters having cosmic battles, and that there is a god actually interacting with us. To me it sounds kind of like living in a cartoon that has been superimposed on reality.

---

I agree, though. I've never been religious in any meaningful sense and have always had a working understanding of the difference between fantasy and reality. The only times I got tripped up were with phenomena that I didn't have preexisting knowledge of but which were initially presented to me as real (psychics, ghosts, aliens, etc.). I learned about God and Jesus at the exact same time and in the exact same way that I learned about genies and little mermaids and pumpkins that turn into stage coaches so I understood that it was all made up.

---

Sorry to derail. Back to your regularly scheduled thread posts...