more alt history - 2k yrs; 1k yrs; schism; fall of Rome; constantinople

[juan]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 07:27:39 -0500
John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:


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> I find it fascinating that so many otherwise
> sensible atheists still think there was a historical Jesus....
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	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 

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> I don't know why the life of Jesus is taken any more seriously.
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> >    http://jesusneverexisted.com/
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> 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.

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