Quote:Mark was written about the year 70, that's about 40 years after Jesus was crucified.
Dating based on the so-called "little apocalypse."
Quote:According to the narrative of the synoptic Gospels, an anonymous disciple remarks on the greatness of Herod's Temple,[7] a building thought to have been some 10 stories high and likely to have been adorned with gold, silver, and other precious items. Jesus responds that not one of those stones would remain intact in the building, and the whole thing would be reduced to rubble.
This did happen, in 135 when Hadrian's builders leveled the site and rebuilt it as the Roman city of Aelia Capitolina. The mid second century makes much more sense for all this xtian bullshit than the first.
In 70 the city was burned and remained an eye-sore, except for the camp of the Xth Legion, until Hadrian decided to rebuild it. To this day, Israeli archaeologists are 30 feet below street level digging around in ruins from the first century. Clearly, the claim of the gospel writer...whoever the fuck it was...was more clearly met in the mid 2d century than the first.
But jesus freaks are so desperate for proof that their bullshit is true that they ignore reality whenever confronted by it.
