So since Rome had the coliseum, Romans celebrated the mass slaughter of their political enemies, and the celebration of the mass slaughter of the left's political enemies is on full display in a world that is increasingly dechristianized today... What caused the moral change in western civilization that is now in decline, if Jesus never existed? He was the one who taught to pray for those who persecute you.
Except he didn't exist in your opinion. So who taught western civilization to turn the other cheek, then? 🤔
I feel you. I got a scathing rebuke from one of their mods threatening a permanent ban because I dared submit the meme you're commenting on after a different meme about living in a dystopia I uploaded was rejected before it.
The more cynical take would be that the law was written with the intent of being exploited.
"Oh no! Those pesky hackers made your government id public?! Let us help you Mr. Johnson! ... Oh dear. It would appear you've criticized PM Starmer on discord, Mr Johnson. And since this wasn't information obtained by the government, we've violated no privacy laws in prosecuting you for it. How do you plead?"
Only the self-proclaimed educated think Jesus didn't exist.
Actual historians near unanimously agree that he did.
"... As archaeologist and historian Dr. Byron McCane of the Atlantic University of Florida states, “I do not know, nor have I heard of, any trained historian or archaeologist who has doubts about his existence.”
That said, that’s not to say there aren’t many people out there who don’t agree. For example, a 2015 pole in Britain surveying around 4000 people found that a whopping 40% of them did not believe Jesus ever existed. But going back to historians, Professor emeritus of Jewish studies and Archeology at Duke University, Dr. Eric Meyers, concurs with Dr. McCane, chiming in, “I don’t know any mainstream scholar who doubts the historicity of Jesus. The details have been debated for centuries, but no one who is serious doubts that he’s a historical figure…. Those who deny the existence of Jesus are like the deniers of climate change.”
Holdouts to the idea that Jesus existed like to point out, however, that we don’t have any hard archaeological evidence or writings from Jesus himself, or even surviving contemporary writings from when he supposedly lived corroborating his existence. This is correct. However, if that’s the rubric being used to tell if some historic figure actually existed or not, we’d pretty much have to assert that almost nobody in history ever existed, including some extremely prominent figures absolutely no one, including many of these holdouts, questions lived. As atheist New Testament scholar Dr. Bart Erhman notes, “The reality is that we don’t have archaeological records for virtually anyone who lived in Jesus’s time and place.”
Pertinent to the topic at hand, up until extremely recently in history, there was not much of any contemporary evidence whatsoever that Pontius Pilate existed- the Roman governor of Judaea most remembered today for having Jesus crucified. That all changed in 1961 when a quite literal hard piece of evidence was found. At the site of Caesarea Maritima archeologists discovered a stone totally and in all ways coincidentally called the “Pilate Stone”, dating back to the time Pilate and Jesus were doing their respective dances. (For reference, Pilate was the prefect of Judea from 26-36 AD. And may or may not have been a great dancer.) ..."
