Lately I’ve heard people attacking the veracity of the fairy tale book with statements like “Jesus wasn’t real” or it was a psy op operation by the Romans that got out of control. And I hate talking about reddit but it’s basically the atheism mods policy over there that Jesus wasn’t real.

I usually rely on the Wikipedia as my litmus test through life, which shouldn’t work in theory but is great in practice:

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

Virtually all scholars agree that a Jewish man called Jesus of Nazareth did exist in Palestine in the 1st century CE. The contrary perspective, that Jesus was mythical, is regarded as a fringe theory.

Edit: My suggestion to any who would like to see my opinion changed (see above quote) is to get on the Wikipedia and work towards changing the page. My upvote goes to Flying Squid for reminding us “does not matter at all because that’s not who Christians worship”

Edit 2: practicality changed to practice

  • Nougat@kbin.social
    282·
    1 year ago

    There’s two things:

    • A real person named Yeshua, that we know almost nothing about
    • A mythical character named Jesus, who may be loosely based on Yeshua

    When the question “Did Jesus exist?” is asked, the subtext usually conflates the two, with the answer about there being a real Yeshua being used as proof that the mythical character Jesus was or was not real. But they’re different.

    Abraham Lincoln existed. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter didn’t.