• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Your claim was that most of classical history has a similar lack of evidence to the lack of evidence for Jesus. Which I showed by example is decidedly false, and now you agree that Cleopatra from before Jesus in about the same area, has lots of evidence because she was significant! So we can probably agree that significant events of the time actually generally have reliable historical evidence. So basically your claim now is that Jesus wasn’t really significant!!

    Jesus was not a big name during his lifetime,

    So at what point was it decided he performed miracles and was the son of god?
    Or was that not enough to be a big name? But none the less, he was the founder of the biggest religion of all time!
    The more logical reason he wasn’t a big name at the time and place of the stories about him, is that he actually never existed.

    Of course there’s a lot of information about Cleopatra, she was married to the Consul of the Roman Empire and was the ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt.

    Of course there’s a lot of information about Jesus Christ, he performed miracles and was the son of god.
    What I was saying was that if Jesus Christ had just 1% of the evidence Cleopatra has, there would be no doubt.

    The constant special pleading about Christianity is mind boggling, always with the double standards!!

    I’m not saying that there is a lot of data but that there is some.

    Oh for Christ sake no there isn’t, rumors and hear say is not data, that’s little more than noise. The whole point I made is the lack of reliable data, of which there is none.
    People keep claiming here that there is, but nobody can show anything, because there isn’t.

    I don’t believe he had any powers or was in any way magical godly

    Then it isn’t really Jesus Christ is it? Yes there were probably a few hundred people in the area named Jesus, but NONE of them were Jesus Christ. I also know a taxi driver called Jesus, that friggin not evidence of a Jesus Christ. That you don’t believe he had magic abilities, only proves you are not entirely delusional, but you still believe without evidence what’s akin to Harry Potter once walked the train stations of England, based on a bunch of children coming straight from a Harry Potter movie saying so.