[ExI] The existence of Jesus (Was: Political Origins of Life)

[Kryonica]

The existence of one Joshua of Nazareth is mentioned by people who had no interest in promoting the Christian religion, see Bart Ehrman on Jesus Apocalyptic prophet, like f i Flavius Josephus.  Moreover it is pretty hard to construct such a set of myths and beliefs about someone totally invented and have his contemporaries believe in it..  Such idolatry generally begins with a charismatic guy who dies, and then people begin to tell stories about him.
On 6 Feb 2012, at 18:17, Giovanni Santostasi wrote:

> I'm convinced Jesus is a myth. One of the best scholars to have
> discussed this in depth is Robert Price, Deconstructing Jesus. See
> also the documentary the God that was not there.
> Giovanni
> 
> 
> On 2/6/12, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6 February 2012 14:39, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> "Jesus may not have actually said that" sounds very like "King Arthur may
>>> not have actually lived at Camelot" to me.  Am I in a minority?
>>> 
>> 
>> Someone called Arthur or Arcturus or something like that probably lived one
>> time or another, and if and when we decide to identify him as *the*
>> historical Arthur behind the legend, it probably becomes a sensible
>> questione.
>> 
>> The same goes for a Joshua from Nazareth who was involved in some religious
>> turmoil at the beginning of our era. Only, it becomes quite arbitrary to
>> decide which Mr. Jones working in the banking sector in Manhattan during
>> the eighties we are referring to... :-)
>> 
>> --
>> Stefano Vaj
>> 
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