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Realitycheck | Nov 12 2017, 04:57 PM |
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I believe it was in the 1600's academics first started to publicly challenge the myth of jesus. It was a dangerous thing to do in those days. Reverence for the church started to accelerate, I think, in the early 1950's perhaps partly as a repercussion from the war. It really got going in the 1960's as more and more people got better educated and felt freer to speak their minds. Then, archeological science started to reveal how little in the bible bore any relationship to reality or historical fact thus encouraging more and more people to, not only think for themselves, but speak out against the eons old tyranny of religion. As science continues to develop more and better research tools, religious mythology will continue to be eroded. I think the theory of some Galilean Rabbi is more about trying to retain some of the xian myth than anything. It hasn't helped the mythicists that the Qumran Chronicles made absolutely no mention of such a person or any of the hijinks credited to the mythical man. A fact which so irritated the RCC they tried to keep serious (non-catholic) researchers from viewing the scrolls for over 30 years. I fail to see any bad manners in pointing out the emperor has no clothes. I do see making such a statement as an effort, steeped perhaps in political correctness, to stifle the outspoken. Ancient myths can certainly reveal much about our predecessors, that is no reason to cling to them in this modern age. |
Religion in general and xianity in particular, is the worst scourge, the foulest plague to ever beset mankind. | |
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