Substantial in size too

Did. Is into it.

They’re running through my head

The fact there’s even any historical references to him is a klaxon for his existence

“He’s real because it was weird that someone made him up” 🙄

I’m from an area of the world that has next to no written records for the entire peoples that lived here throughout several centuries of the early middle ages, and yet it’s not doubted they existed

Yeah, those WILL leave traces beyond the written records. Where’s your archaeological proof of the significant carpenter?

It seems then pretty difficult to doubt the existence of a single man with which there’s so much written from an even earlier period.

Yeah, someone being written about a lot even though they’re not rich DOES prove that they’re real! Case in point:

If Jesus existed in modern times I’m sure there’d be conspiracies that the CIA is trying to wipe out the memory of the slave abolitionist and communist revolutionary

Nah, if he lived in modern day, he’d probably be murdered by the IOF, being a Palestinian from the West Bank.

But because a cult of personality and religion got built around him a bunch of different people that they turned into one like Arwen in the LotR movies

Fixed it for you.

now one of the dominant philosophical and political powers in the world

Bolded the operative words.

The myth have been kept alive not by being true, but by being a tool of domination for those who have and want to maintain power.

Or to quote Eleanor Ferguson, “Christianity didn’t become a world religion because of quality of its teachings, but by the quantity of its violence”

Similarly, the Liberal Zionism-esque “compromise” of Jesus being real but not divine was established not from the preponderance of evidence or even reason, but from being overly trusting of biased authority figures.

Non-Christian sources used to study and establish the historicity of Jesus include the c. first century Jewish historian Josephus

A braggart known to exaggerate and embellish accounts to make himself and the Jewish people look good.

And he wasn’t born until the supposed Jesus had already died, making all the things he “reported” about it as an adult historian decades old hearsay at best.

As for Tacitus, that was one passage in 116 CE, a modern day lifespan after the events described where he gets names and titles wrong and doesn’t reference a source.

Hardly the irrefutable evidence you like to pretend it is.

Jesus, the person, existed as far as academic consensus is concerned.

Yeah, the academic consensus of Christian theologians 🙄

the New Testament has no historical value with respect to Jesus’s existence

Obviously true.

there are no non-Christian references to Jesus from the first century

Or references to him form ANYONE who were alive at the same time he supposedly was, for that matter.

Christianity had pagan or mythical roots

Also factually accurate.

The idea that Jesus was a purely mythical figure has a fringe status in scholarly circles

Because guess what? The people who choose to dedicate their lives to studying theology or first century Palestine history tend to be people who believe in the myths. It’s inherent confirmation bias.

Next you’re going to tell me that it’s an undisputed fact that draconian punishment reduces crime rates, based on the testimony of cops and conservative demagogues 🙄

Correction: if not for the people who INVENTED Jesus.

And also he’s basically the size and shape of a dumpling 😁

I don’t either lol, still sucked too much at it to be able to enjoy it 😁

Same here, with the exact same game. I was able to hate it enough to give up only after wasting a ton of time and frustration 😄

that you can sink tens of thousands of hours into in spite of not enjoying it

Me trying to get the hang of a sportball game meant for people infinitely more familiar with the sport than me

This is architecture manifest!

Genuinely a very painterly image

And I was just kind of pointing, and [Bonner] like, “Don’t you point at me!” And I was like, “Oh, shouldn’t have said that.” And I didn’t say a word. So stupid! Like, that is the stupidest thing I’ve ever done. I’m telling you, everyone’s like, “That is so dumb.” I think it was so dumb. But it was pissing her off, and I couldn’t help myself. I could not. She was losing her shit, and all I was doing was literally pointing.

Top tier mind games 😆

Most importantly yellowjackets, the terrorists of the natural world.

Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog is the first place I look for frozen berry news for sure!

He’s talented.

As long as it contains 0% James Carville by volume

That’s 420° Celsius, right? For that delicious charcoal effect

Please do not the books

Best single purpose website since “is Henry Kissinger dead yet?” 😁