Quote:Am I missing anything?
Yes. The "jesus" who serves as the basis for the religion that has caused all the trouble in the world is a Mythical Character. He was born to a virgin. With a somewhat later sleight of hand he became his own father! He performs miracles. He descends to hell. He comes back from the dead. He flies up to heaven. The world went black when he "died." Zombies came out of their grave and walked around fucking Jerusalem. MYTHICAL, Jim. As in, "Invented." "Made Up." "Total Fucking Bullshit."
When it became safe to do so, Mythicist scholars pointed all that out and with other scientific advances by the late 19th century had the jesus freaks on the run.
At that point, a group of "scholars" ( really theologians and other lying sacks of shit ) decided that they had to salvage something out of the catastrophe that was brewing because they had a lucrative scam going and didn't want to lose it, and started this whole "Quest for the Historical Jesus" shit. So they dumbed jesus down to the point where he was just some asshole who got himself killed and who had followers who made up a lot of silly stories about him. Big fucking hairy deal.
This has nothing to do with the denouncing of the Biblical Jesus ( the one who caused all the problems!) as a myth. He remains a MYTH. Just like Quetzlcoatl and Thor.
Again, when I'm arguing with Free it is about the quality of the alleged evidence he has for making even those minimal claims. He has no primary source evidence. There are no artifacts. What he has is wishful thinking and the later pious bleating of believers who were fucking liars in the first place.
Does it matter? No. That "jesus" he is looking for is just some dumb schmuck. Even Free won't call him the son of god - or god himself after he got his later promotion to the "trinity!"
Robert G. Ingersoll : “No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.”
