re: easter/crucifixion -myth,magic,- 4 snuff
Perhaps you could post something that can 'find' Nazereth as stated it was not around BC & therefore part of a made up story. I suppose you think Bushby & his references made up the story of how 53 gods were sacrificed into the one -Jesus Christ.
....and indeed enjoy the holyday along with a couple of easter eggs.
8. "Faith is that quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue. " ["The Omnibus Boners"].
No Bushby in that lot below.
from
http://christianism.com/articles/article1.html
A few references from my researches, which reflect my discoveries.
Subjects and results:
Bible (Old Testament. New Testament.) (was)is Fiction ("historical Fiction", etc.). Jesus (was)is a Fictional character (not "historical"). Paul (was)is a Fictional character. Etc.
Some principal foci in this presentation:
Fiction in Antiquity. Forgery ("plagiarism", etc.). Lies (lying, etc.). Etc.
1."1. Universalists believe in a god which I do not; but believe that their god...is nothing more than a chimera of their own imagination. 2. Universalists believe in Christ, which I do not; but believe that the whole story concerning him is as much a fable and fiction as that of the god Prometheus....3. Universalists believe in miracles, which I do not; but believe that every pretension to them is to be attributed to mere trick and imposture. 4. Universalists believe in the resurrection of the dead, immortality and eternal life, which I do not; but believe that all life is material, that death is an eternal extinction of life.8"
[Abner Kneeland 1774 - 1844].
2.'"Did you go yourself and examine this, or how do you know?"'
[Socrates 469 - 399 B.C.E.].
3."The history of the world is the history of fanaticism. "
4."Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment, says Seneca".
[Seneca the Younger 4 B.C.E.? - 65 C.E.].
5."the faithful gain prestige through managing to believe even more ridiculous things than their rivals succeed in believing. "
6."The sky hung low in the ancient world. Supernatural beings thronged the earth, crowding themselves uncomfortably into the society of mortals....Divinities were abundant and supernaturalism was rampant over the whole territory".
7. "The force of human imagination has not decayed since the first two centuries [and earlier]....In short, the whole mass of Jewish, Greek, Roman spiritual lore, the writings of Haggadists, of logographers, of poets, of calendarists and hagiographers down to the tellers of folk-tales by the winter fireside, form one vast monument of the powers of human imagination and belief....Images, fancies, teem like the products of a tropical clime in the literature of antiquity; they are brilliant, awful, inspiring. "
