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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 22 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Jesus did actually exist. He was like a guy that was really there at some point

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] hector@lemmy.today 6 points 10 hours ago

This was all proven in that documentary we all saw, The Life of Brian.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Not the dude in the Bible, because the things he's supposed to have done are impossible. So probably there was some dude that did or said some things and then got a bunch of folklore attached to him. A certain amount of the jesus story comes from contemporaneous myths - IIRC, a virgin birth was a common one.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

So probably there was some dude that did or said some things and then got a bunch of folklore attached to him.

Yeah. Likely Osiris. Almost all of the Jesus stories are taken from earlier solar deity “myths” and put into 1CE Judea. Like a graduate school production of Richard III in space with cigarettes.

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

~~Judea~~ Palestine

FTFY

[–] philosloppy@lemmy.world -1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

that's certainly a take that most secular scholars of early christianity would disagree with but do you

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

True, true. However scholars of Christianity kind of have a bias there, dunnthey.