RE: Christians - What would you do if it were discovered Jesus never existed?
September 6, 2015 at 11:46 am
We can simply never know how much of even the so-called "authentic epistles" has been bastardized by later editors seeking to lessen the obvious difference between paul's "jesus" and the later tale concocted by the gospel bullshitters. But this comment, re-printed by Carrier in On the Historicity..... is instructive.
The one thing I know is that you'll never learn anything by reading that church-invented shit which they put forward as "history." The early origins of xtianity are far more complex than the propaganda which now is trumpeted by theologians.
Quote:As a psychologist once put it (about Paul's letter to fellow congregants in
Rome, whom he had not yet met and thus can't have shared his own stories
with):
Imagine for a moment that one of your friends writes you a twenty-page
letter passionately wanting to share her excitement about a new teacher.
This letter has only one topic, your friend's new teacher. [But] at the end
of her letter, you still do not know one thing about her teacher. Yet, Paul
presents the central figure of his theology this way . . . . It [seems] impossible
to imagine how Paul could avoid telling one story or parable of--or
fail to note one physical trait or personal quality of-Jesus.
Pg. 514
The one thing I know is that you'll never learn anything by reading that church-invented shit which they put forward as "history." The early origins of xtianity are far more complex than the propaganda which now is trumpeted by theologians.
