Why be good?

[abaris]

So we agree that people thought there had been such a Peter, over a hundred years before any of that was written...
How come there's no other record of him at Rome... say... by some roman contemporary record-keeper?

If you leave the realm of unicorns and fairies and try your luck with the real world back then, there's something fishy (pun intended) about the Peter story right from the beginning. He's described as a fisherman in the bible. And given the time and the region, fisherman back then meant rowing some smallish boat and just catching enough to scrape by.

And now this man is supposed to have inspired the whole of the old world? I would be highly surprised if someone like that could even read, let alone speak in Latin or Greek. And how on earth did someone like that become a Roman citizen, since this is also coverd in the account of his demise. You didn't automatically become a Roman citizen just by dwelling in some far away province. It was an honor to be named one, handed out for 25 years of military service, just to give one example.

And now, if someone barges in claiming the holy spirit being behind all of this, I'm barfing all over my keyboard.