The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #159570   Message #3782148
Posted By: Steve Shaw
29-Mar-16 - 08:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: An Easter Question
Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
I wouldn't dream of trying to disprove Jesus. There's not enough to go on whatever one's preference. But an assumption that he did exist, and that the stories about him are true enough to build a whole religion around, has been an assumption too far for two thousand years. You may also need to explain away the serious discrepancies about him in the gospels that were arbitrarily selected to be the ones to go into the New Testament, and why the other gospels have been kept under wraps. I wouldn't mind betting that the average Catholic hasn't even heard of them. Finally, how odd that you know about all those two-a-penny insurgents, yet there is no contemporary Roman account of the most important one. Just a couple of doubtful references by Josephus and one by Tacitus, writing decades after Jesus's supposed death. Hmm, that's something in common with those gospel writers' efforts, come to think of it. Talk about a house built on sand..