USA: National Security Strategy, Juan's Wet Dream
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Sun Dec 24 16:50:59 PST 2017
On 12/24/2017 8:50 PM, John Newman wrote:
> I agree, Wikipedia is badly skewed on this, but it seems like they are
> probably just following conventional thought on the issue. Which I feel
> is coming around to be more widely accepted that there was no Jesus
> as described in the gospels that started the early Christian church
This is stupid.
There is plausible historical evidence that Jesus did not rise from the
dead, nor did the sun stand still over one of the Empire's dominions,
but we have ample historical evidence for Jesus the man, who was
crucified by Pontius Pilate, and anyone who denies it is just stupid or
ignorant.
If anything, we have better historical evidence for Jesus the man than
Mohammed the Prophet.
In actual practice, the Church was founded by Paul, who used the
conveniently dead Jesus as basis for what we now know as Christianity.
Lots of aspects of the founding myth of Christianity are improbable, and
either supported only by suspiciously weak evidence, or contradicted by
compellingly strong evidence, but that Jesus lived and was crucified by
Pontius Pilate is undeniable by anyone half way sane.
The Jewish religion was in a holiness spiral which put them on course
for a suicidal confrontation with Rome, therefore one would expect a
prophet to condemn this holiness spiral in exactly the manner that Jesus
is recorded as condemning it. And one would expect a prophet who spoke
the truth on this matter to get crucified. As Jesus the man is recorded
as being crucified. This aspect of the founding myth is inherently
plausible, and is supported by compellingly strong evidence.
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