Posted: Feb 16, 2016 6:37 am
tanya wrote:
First, what crap. Obviously the mythical, antihistorical nature of JC is not in any way similar to the lives of Plato, Alexander of Macedonia, or Augustus Caesar. All of them are attested to, in non-religious, utterly sectarian, i.e. objective, rather than subjective, texts and trinkets, of the era in which they lived. Alexander has entire cities named after him, not to mention, monuments, coins, and statues.
Second, The MAIN source of the life of Jesus, is not coming from any of the parties you have referenced, but rather from the gospels. Use the gospels if you seek to learn about the nature and identity of JC.
I get your point. The Gospels are essentially hagiographies, like Parson Weems's biography of George Washington. Or like what the Rastafarians came to believe about Haile Selassie.
I've seen some people claim that if we used the methods of Jesus mythicists, we'd be unable to learn about *anyone* about when JC allegedly lived.
Richard Carrier mentions some people who likely did not resemble the more detailed descriptions of them, if they existed at all: Aesop of the fables, Ned Ludd of the anti-Industrial-Revolution movement, and John Frum and Tom Navy of the Melanesian cargo cults. I'd add Arthur Pendragon, a.k.a. King Arthur.