Frank wrote on May 25
th, 2024 at 9:06pm:
UnSubRocky wrote on May 25
th, 2024 at 8:28am:
Jesus Christ did NOT exist. There has been no verifiable evidence to show that there was a person who did all that was written in the Bible about Jesus.
The stories about Jesus are very particular, story-like. They are nothing like mythological fables at all. Too specific to be mere fabulations.
Also remember that his followers were severely persecuted for 300 years - you dont invent something and then get maryred for it, knowing that it was a mere invention. Nobody would die for Grimm's Fairy Tales or for the truth of Achilles, or even Plato or Aristotle.
You can say that Jesus was nothing special, although that would be pretty stupid considering his evident impact and effect on the world, but to say that he didn't even exist yet had a greater impact than anyone else is just idiotic in the extreme.
Frank, there are people out there that would be part of a mass suicide cult, when a comet passes closely by the Earth. There are those who would accept money from terrorist organisations, go out and snort cocaine, and then board planes to crash into various buildings to inflict mass casualties. There are those people that blamed minorities for the failure of an earlier war, and would send those minorities to be slaves in concentration camps as a way to appease a majority of people.
There are all kinds of examples out there of people following bullshit examples of superstition and wildly inaccurate supposition that leads them to committing crazy things. I dare say that a few Christians, who have been around for generations, hundreds of years before Constantine made Christianity an official religion, would have had an impact on creating Christianity from scratch on a made up story about some narcissistic woodworker. The thing is, Christianity did not take off until after the founding of the Americas. Ask the average European, they are not very religious. Aske the average American, they are very religious.
You can imagine that there is an argument that the Americans descended from the first pilgrims were only there because their ancestors were kicked out of Europe for being too religious. Europeans did not generally believe that a Jewish person was endowed with supernatural abilities. And it is commonsense that if you have these supernatural abilities, then it would be difficult to get executed so easily.