(April 2, 2017 at 11:26 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(April 2, 2017 at 10:03 am)Chad32 Wrote: Yeah, you have to cherry pick if you're going to keep your sanity, so why not just cherry pick the nice parts? Granted Jesus wasn't always nice and enlightened, but he said some good things now and then.
Jesus was just a sock puppet for the various people who wrote the NT.
He was a common name slapped to a legend after the fact by the writers. It certainly was based on a splinter sect of Jews, otherwise Christianity wouldn't exist. But the NT was nothing more than competing authors contributing to what they wanted to be a new movement.
The Hebrews were a splinter sect of the old Canaanite polytheism where Yahweh was a lesser deity under the head God "El" as part of a divine family. Christianity got started, not because humans can make babies without a second set of DNA or preform magic tricks or survive having all their blood drained out of their body, suffer rigor mortis, and magically rise from the dead. It got started because of regional politics and a splinter sect of Jews merely getting tired of the old ways.
But yea, "sock puppet" is a good analogy.
