Creating Christ [Podcast]

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Is this Christ Myth theory or something deeper?

[–]Adrift 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's definitely Christ Myth theory stuff. Robert Price is one of the 2 or 3 historians in the world right now with semi-relevant credentials who's still pushing this idea. The vast majority of historians who study the period, both conservative and critical, have found the theory absurd, and, really, psuedohistory at this point.

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It does seem absurd, with the historicity of Jesus being well established and all. I've checked out their arguments but they seemed like a lot of cherry picking and weren't very compelling. Like multiple cultures reporting flood events is somehow a debunking for them, when at the same time science is proving that a lot of these floods did happen.

It was cool to learn a bit about other Jesus-like figures though. Someone has to keep the atheists turned off I guess.