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Funny how fast the magats have completely abandoned Rudy now that hes no longer a useful idiot for them.
Funny how fast the magats have completely abandoned Rudy now that hes no longer a useful idiot for them.
After seeing Biden in the last debate, I believe they are right
Yes lets judge a mans entire career based on one off night.
Even assuming the passage is totally genuine, two fires had destroyed much in the way of official documents Tacitus had to work with and it is unlikely that he would sift through what he did have to find the record of an obscure crucifixion, which suggests that Tacitus was repeating an urban myth whose source was likely the Christians themselves,[3]:344 especially since Tacitus was writing at a time when at least the three synoptic gospels are thought to already have been in circulation.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tacitus
According to Bart Ehrman, Josephus’ passage about Jesus was altered by a Christian scribe, including the reference to Jesus as the Messiah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus
Scholars have differing opinions on the total or partial authenticity of the reference in the passage to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate.[15][30] The general scholarly view is that while the Testimonium Flavianum is most likely not authentic.
Respected Christian scholar R. T. France, for example, does not believe that the Tacitus passage provides sufficient independent testimony for the existence of Jesus [Franc.EvJ, 23] and agrees with G. A. Wells that the citation is of little value
A. The first line of the Tacitus passage says Chrestians, not Christians.
Suetonius says Chrestus was personally starting trouble in Rome during the reign of Claudius.
Suetonius is writing years after Tacitus yet doesn’t mention that Chrestus died.
So Chrestus can’t be Jesus because it’s the wrong decade, wrong continent and missing a death.
B. The second line in Tacitus that mentions Christ and his death was never noticed until after the mid-fourth century. So this second line is fake.
P.S. Even if the second line was somehow authentic, the information would have come from Christians. This would be the equivalent of deriving Abraham’s biography by talking to Muslims.
This is why Bart Ehrman specifically dismisses Tacitus and Josephus. As do most other biblical scholars.
In the immortal words of Christopher Hitchens, if this is all you got, you are holding an empty bag.
There are lots of people now today who claim to be god, claim to be jesus, claim to have magic powers. so it would appear this is just normal human behavior and has been for a very long time. But the main reason people continue to believe these ancient holy books and all the stories in them is literally because they are protected from inquiry. So Jeff down the street claims to be jesus? We can go test him and try to falsify his claims. But some guy 2000 years ago, ya its not possible to check that one out. And That is why they persist, its by design.
then that mean 90% of historical figures can’t be proven to have existed
Well for most of those we tend to use independent verification for their existence. And in the case of jesus, we have literally zero Credible examples of independent verification.
Pretty sure Joe Rogan said
ya you lost me at Rogan
Use of modern technology makes it possible to place one stone every 20 seconds, which is triple the rate ancient egypt workers supposedly aceived
Um, maybe Im missing something… you think ancient Egyptians placed one stone every minute? So 60 stones per hour??
David Blaine who almost died…
Yaaaaa I seriously doubt that, his PR team worked overtime to promote that nonsense
in before the right wing loons nominate him for president
best thing the US can do for Mexico is reduce demand
Ya, how? Amuricans luv them some coke!
One caveat here, if people get a vaccine for skin cancer, they’ll inevitably spend way way more time in the sun… this will lead to a rise in other forms of cancer like leukemia
Vaccines represent a prevention, not really a cure. If you prevent something, you never have to cure it.
Couldnt El Nino also be a contributing factor this year?
I wouldnt worry about that, you and I are likely to experience it ourselves
Why is this “innocent” man constantly attacking the children of the court staff? Why the children??? Hes pretty consistent about it too which is also strange and extremely dangerous.
Ive seen this reply from them like 5 times today alone, its spreading
I can post 50 other links if you like, I see no point.
Its literally their go to response for everything now when you mention trump crimes to them
No matter what point you try to make with any magat, they inevitably jump to “but Biden took shower with his daughter!!”, whataboutism at its finest. Problem is, its just another pathetic lie that they all believe without evidence and its time we pushed back on it.
I would just borrow 150 million from a bank based on the verdict, and then tell the bank to send the creditors after Rudy to collect