• rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    https://www.history.com/news/was-jesus-real-historical-evidence

    Tl;dr: No.

    My opinion: It’s a nice story. And with stories the most important thing is what it teaches us or makes us feel. Not that it’s true. Maybe they took inspiration from several preaching hippies who lived back then and made one story out of that. Exaggerated everything and made stuff up. Probably all of it because the bible was’t even written close to his supposed lifetime. It’d be like you now writing a story about a dude who died in 1870. Without any previous records to get information from. [Edit: The first things have probably been written down like 40-50 years after his death.]

    And I mean if Jesus existed, he would certainly disapprove of what people do (and did) in his name.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I don’t know that the History Channel is a good representation of academic consensus. It should basically never be relied upon.