So when I look up Jesus. Why are historians saying this guy is a historical character when there are contradictions saying “no archaeological evidence”?
But then they go on to say “Well, he could have existed…”
But that doesn’t make sense at all. In fact that’s bullshit. If Jesus was a peasant and made no impact, then how does that explain how a fictional character came to be loved by a whole fucking religion of people?
Are we just taking turns pissing in the stew here?
There is no definitive physical or archaeological evidence of the existence of Jesus. “There’s nothing conclusive, nor would I expect there to be,” Mykytiuk says. “Peasants don’t normally leave an archaeological trail.”
“The reality is that we don’t have archaeological records for virtually anyone who lived in Jesus’s time and place,” says University of North Carolina religious studies professor Bart D. Ehrman, author of Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth. “The lack of evidence does not mean a person at the time didn’t exist. It means that she or he, like 99.99% of the rest of the world at the time, made no impact on the archaeological record.”
What the fuck? A fictional character doesn’t leave evidence but magically shits a religion into existence before he dies and all of his followers just claims he exists?
If Jesus was so fucking well known. Someone somewhere would have made sure, beyond a doubt, would have kept evidence. Where is the evidence and where the historical documentation at?
Richard the Lionheart was a king and there’s volumes of evidence on him. He died…what? A thousand years ago? His loyal subjects even took his heart and stuck it in a box.
How do scholars accept that Jesus was real? What? Are they fucking Christians trying to lie him into existence?
Sure. I find tons of Christian sources “claiming” that he was real. As usual I don’t buy into bullshit. Why don’t I buy it? Because they’re not giving fucking evidence. I need more than “I think”. Just more fucking excuses and arguing that he was real.
I’m just not seeing it. That shit rag of a Bible claims he did all these miracles and had fancy shmancy magic to make everyone’s problems go away. And OH! He came back from the dead and ran off to la la land. I’m sorry. A guy with that kind of power, theoretically. Couldn’t just vanish without a trace. Unless he magically removed ALLLLLL the evidence needed to prove his existence so he could fuck with people and say “have faith!”
A guy like him who is supposedly alive according to Christians, and is supposed to be apart of an all powerful creator deity. There would have to be evidence. It’s not like this guy kept a low profile.
Because that’s just fucking stupid.
The question of the historicity of Jesus is part of the study of the historical Jesus as undertaken in the quest for the historical Jesus and the scholarly reconstructions of the life of Jesus.[1][2][3] Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that Jesus was a historical figure,[note 1][note 2][4][5][6][7] although a number of the events mentioned in the gospels (most notably his miracles and resurrection) are interpreted in various non-literal ways and are a subject of debate.[8][9][10] Standard historical criteria have aided in evaluating the historicity of the gospel narratives,[11][12] and only two key events are subject to “almost universal assent”, namely that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and crucified by order of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate.
Historicity of Jesus - Wikipedia