In an earlier post, I argued that the historicity of Jesus was doubtful. Some religion scholars questioned one of my sources. Now, recent scholarship comes as close as possible to settling the issue.
You have to have an awful amount of “faith” to believe some god sent his kid to earth to live 30 years then die for a long weekend for your sins to some backwoods spot where apparently nobody could read or write one single word about you until 5 decades afterwards. Especially when so many other cultures at the time were more populous and kept written historical records on the daily.
When I was a kid the more amazing the story the less able I was to verify it. It was always “this guy I know, his brother’s girlfriend sister neighbor did X”
The Jesus was real crowd just happens to put him in the most backward province most backward area, that had an estimated literacy rate of under 1%. Even historians that believe Nazareth existed as a population center in the first century put the number of people there at about 450 and they can’t even find a single temple. Let alone an entire center of learning for Jesus to argue with.
When I was young I was in a foster home that forced me to go to church. I read the entire bible several times over (And a couple different versions) and the more I read, the less it made any sense. So I started asking questions, and the answers were always the generic bullshit ones like “god works in mysterious ways” etc. Conveniently the only real proof you’ll ever get is after you’re dead. Then, it dawned on me, the entire concept of a god isn’t much more than Santa Claus for adults. The only “mystery” is how people can follow something so blindly in hopes they’re not getting scammed.
You have to have an awful amount of “faith” to believe some god sent his kid to earth to live 30 years then die for a long weekend for your sins to some backwoods spot where apparently nobody could read or write one single word about you until 5 decades afterwards. Especially when so many other cultures at the time were more populous and kept written historical records on the daily.
When I was a kid the more amazing the story the less able I was to verify it. It was always “this guy I know, his brother’s girlfriend sister neighbor did X”
The Jesus was real crowd just happens to put him in the most backward province most backward area, that had an estimated literacy rate of under 1%. Even historians that believe Nazareth existed as a population center in the first century put the number of people there at about 450 and they can’t even find a single temple. Let alone an entire center of learning for Jesus to argue with.
When I was young I was in a foster home that forced me to go to church. I read the entire bible several times over (And a couple different versions) and the more I read, the less it made any sense. So I started asking questions, and the answers were always the generic bullshit ones like “god works in mysterious ways” etc. Conveniently the only real proof you’ll ever get is after you’re dead. Then, it dawned on me, the entire concept of a god isn’t much more than Santa Claus for adults. The only “mystery” is how people can follow something so blindly in hopes they’re not getting scammed.