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Oh, yeah. THAT must be it. NOT.

I used to posit a historical Jesus, whether he was Christ or not, but even that doesn't look too likely any more. The forty year gap between 'resurrection' and the writing of Mark should have been filled with such religious turbulence it would have made the Antioch Evening News. There was just Paul, and his writings suggest he had little to go on besides the Damascus apparition.

I used to posit a historical Jesus, whether he was Christ or not, but even that doesn't look too likely any more. The forty year gap between 'resurrection' and the writing of Mark should have been filled with such religious turbulence it would have made the Antioch Evening News. There was just Paul, and his writings suggest he had little to go on besides the Damascus apparition.

Perhaps you need to do a little more reading. The New Testament would be a good place to start.

The forty year gap between 'resurrection' and the writing of Mark should have been filled with such religious turbulence it would have made the Antioch Evening News.

Ok, here are your headlines:

Jailings of the 'leaders' of the new jewish cult (Christianity)
Leader of new cult is stoned for blasphemy
Uproar on Pentecost
Religious leaders begin to seek out and arrest leaders and members of this new cult
Cult members die refusing to denounce Jesus

I'll let you look up the details both in the Bible and other historical documents.

There were many Jews, as well as men of other tribes and nationalities, who originated religious revival groups, opposed Roman rule, and got crucified or otherwise snuffed for it. That this one crushed worm, this one loser, Jesus, should have been posthumously propped up by charlatans to pass off as their battered 'god' completely defies common sense. Alexander the Grear would have been a far more credible candidate. Or even Jesus' contemporary, Caesar Augustus.

And that the religious humbuggery of this one loser-jew, with its hoaxes, exposes, bank-frauds, imbecilities, morally decayed clergy, persecution, extirpation, internal schism, splintering, feuding, waning in every age, dying out in every age, a passe thing in every age, should last 2000 years and spread to comprise, even now, well over 1 billion people --- this also completely defies common sense.

That some of the best minds in the West in art, music, science, and law ---- Dante, Michelangelo, Bach, Albertus Magnus, Aquinas, Newton, Pasteur, Mendel, Vittoria (but there could never be enough room to list them all)--- were also quite devoted to this hoax is simply astounding.

But no need to wonder.

It's waning; it's dying out; it's a passe thing, I'm sure...

Because, of course, the Roman Network News reported daily on all events of the time, and knowing how ephemeral written records can be, made sure to archive all their reports on acid-free paper with stable inks, then seal them in nitrogen-filled, hermetically sealed containers with a series of clues and instructions on how to retrieve them after the Germanic tribes came along and burned pretty much everything Roman to the ground.