I second the question about the relevance to 'Mort'
When Death's janitor (cant remember his name), the guy who was formerly a powerful wizard, reappears in the place they placed a statue of his, and when he is taken back into Death's domain, they decide to put up an "uber-luxurious" statue of him again, and maintain it clean and shiny.
All I'm going to comment on the jesus-talk in this thread is that someone had to start that religion. Name might not necessarily have been Jesus, but there had to have been someone.
Saying Jesus never existed is a bit like saying nobody invented the plough.
Yeah, that´s pretty much my take. I think the point is more the lack of historicity of the gospels than asserting that there was no jewish carpenter called Jesus in Jerusalem in the first three to four decades of the first century.
You're telling me that Jesus was born in 0AD, died in 33AD and started preaching in 50AD?
Nitpick: there was no such year as 0AD. The first year of the first century is 1AD.
Jesus did exist
Don't forget how people like to make shit up when telling stories.
I cant load the video because I am on a very poor connection, but, I have to ask: what sources does it use to ascertain Jesus's historicity?
And on a different line, the very moment I saw this phrase in print:
Jesus would be a good example, except there's severe doubts as to whether he existed at all. Roman court records fail to mention him, which is a pretty severe strike against.
, I had no doubts that this had a pretty good chance to degenerate into a religious flamewar.