RE: Another "I saw Jesus" claim
May 17, 2015 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2015 at 1:59 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote:Or is it the other way around? We never would have heard of Pontius Pilate if it were not for Jesus. Josephus mentions Pilate in connection with Jesus. So does Tacitus.
Idiot. Philo wrote about Pilate without ever mentioning your phony godboy....of course, Philo died c 50 AD which was long before the jesus bullshit was invented. Josephus wrote about Pilate bringing images of the emperor into Jerusalem which supposedly upset the jews. Then he wrote that Pilate built an aqueduct to improve the city water supply and used the temple treasury to do so. (No doubt that pissed off the priests....even today, priests get really upset when their money is threatened!) And then, some later forger, probably Eusebius, invented the 3d paragraph because the lack of historical references to the godboy was too much for that fucking phony to take. And to this day, jackasses like you fall for it!
Plus we have the Pilate inscription and various coins from his administration so, no. Pilate we would know of. Your godboy? Not so much.
And, for the record, even if Tacitus is not a later forgery, he never mentions the word "jesus."
