Comments by "" (@A86) on "Was Jesus Real? Was He the Son of God?" video.

  1. It's an interesting debate, but Mythicists should realize they're an extreme minority position even among nonreligious and atheist scholars. Mythicism (the belief that Jesus is 100% made up) is viewed among Historians the same way Climatologists view Climate Change Denial and the same way Biologists view Evolution Denial. I think Mythicism is ideologically motivated (by fear that Jesus existing AT ALL could lend credence to Theism or hurt the case for Atheism) because there is technically more evidence for the Historical Jesus than there is for Caligula's existence. There are no contemporary documents abiy t Caligula until 80 years after he was assassinated. That'd be like historians just now writing about WWII after all these years. The earliest documents about Jesus are 20-40 years after his execution. If you'll be a Mythicist about Jesus, why not be one about Cleopatra and Caligula as well? No evidence that he performed miracles, but I think the Mythicist position is weak and it's an extreme minority position among scholars for that very reason. It's weak and the logic behind it could be applied to many ancient and medieval persons almost universally accepted as real (whether or not everything they purportedly did is true). I don't think there's some vast Christian conspiracy among Historians to suppress the truth and the nonreligious and atheist scholars are all secret Christians who are in on the scam.
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  2. The same exact argument can be made about Caligula.
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  3. Because he was a simple itinerant Rabbi. He wasn't anywhere near as revered in his lifetime as after. Take that into account. The same argument could be made about Caligula. No mentions of him until 80 years after he was supposedly killed.
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  4. So in other words, you're saying there's a vast Christian conspiracy among historians that for some reason even nonreligious and atheist scholars (who make up a huge percentage of historical scholars and Biblical anthropologists) are in on? You sound like a Climate Change denier. They also claim Climatologists just accept Climate Change because it's supposedly not allowed to be challenged. There's no conspiracy. Mythicism is rejected by the Historian community for the same reason the Climatology community rejects Climate Change Denial: they both don't stand up well to critical analysis. Be an atheist if you want, but don't hinge your atheism on denying a near-universally accepted person. You shouldn't need for Jesus not to exist in order for atheism to be true.
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  5. The majority of nonreligious and atheist scholars today also believe he existed as a historical person. Are they all secret Christians?
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