On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 08:24:53 -0500 John Newman <jnn@synfin.org> wrote:
I don't get James Donald's email, so I can only reply indirectly: show me the evidence. There is contemporary evidence of the existence of Pontius Pilate... There is *no contemporary* evidence for Jesus. Even if you consider Josephus a contemporary, which he isn't, it is widely accepted that the few lines "he scribbled" on Jesus are a much later interpolation, a forgery done by some devout who was embarrassed at the paucity of evidence for the messiah. As for Tacitus - he was writing at an even later date, circa 120 CE, and if the brief passage in which he mentions Christus is not a forgery, its simply the case of him repeating propaganda he had heard from early Christians themselves.
Besides, christ, from greek khristós, was a 'title' given to religious lunatic scamers, witch-doctors who exorcised pigs and the like. There's been a lot of 'christs' and some of them may have ended up crucified. So scammers making up a New And Improved(tm) religious scam can certainly add that sort of detail to the story to 'prove' that it's really real.
And thats it! I won't bother to mention the gospels themselves, which are hilariously contradictory, all written far too late, and obviously a bunch of religious propaganda filled with mystical nonsense.
Also, it's funny hearing someone like James Donald opine on fact. This is not a man to be trusted on anything factual. James Donald knows fuck all about fact from fiction, and gleefully picks and chooses which is which, to suit his own fucked up and disgusting ideology.
https://blog.jim.com tells you all you need to know about James Donald.
blog.jim.com : endless source of hilarious self-parody +)
Cheers John