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

  • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    Yes, there probably are real people on which the story is based. No, the stories involving to him are not actually true. c.f.: King Arthur

    Virtually all scholars agree that a Jewish man called Jesus of Nazareth did exist in Palestine in the 1st century CE.

    Jesus’s name was not actually Jesus; it was probably closer to Yeshua. “Jesus” comes to us via transliteration from Aramaic to Greek to Latin.

    • HubertManne@kbin.social
      31·
      1 year ago

      I am definite that folks with the name yeshua existed around that time. Many jesus’s nowadays to. That im certain. biblical jesus. not so much.