On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 07:27:39 -0500 John Newman <jnn@synfin.org> wrote:
I find it fascinating that so many otherwise sensible atheists still think there was a historical Jesus....
Another fine example of group thinking I guess.
We know there was no Jewish exodus from archaeological records, there was in fact no united kingdom of Israel in the 10th century BC anything like the bible purports. It's all Jewish propaganda after the fact.
Horrible blasphemy =P
I don't know why the life of Jesus is taken any more seriously.
Funny, I was just going over this site the last week or so. It's got a lot of interesting stuff...
Tes. There's a (long) tradition of authors correctly regarding the jesus story as a syncretic myth at best. There was a guy called Robert Taylor who was an anglican minister turned free thinker. He was jaliled twice for 'blasphemy' in victorian england. No doubt the brits have always been the champions of truth and human rights. https://archive.org/details/diegesisbeingad00taylgoog "The Diegesis: Being a Discovery of the Origin, Evidences, and Early History of Christianity ... "
also fairly widely disparaged in certain "academic" blogs in really pretentious terms. Probably speaks more to the quality of the site than anything else.
Indeed.
John
November 06, 2016
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