(November 24, 2014 at 7:18 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: Bullshit. Tacitus said that "Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at that hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilate."
Do you see what he said? He said that "Christus suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilate"[size=large]
He is not stating this as if it was just a freakin' belief held by the Christians, he is saying it as if it actually happened, because it did.
And his source was what? Tacitus wasn't born until decades after the event in question - he couldn't have had personal knowledge of the events. So how did he know?