re: #165 Killgore Trout

If you trace the folklore the story of JC was was cobbled together from various other religions in the region.

That’s a frequent mythicist assertion, but little evidence seems to exist for it. and what exists shows a possibility of borrowing, not the fact.

The version of the bible we have today was selected to create the desired narrative but there are a lot of gospels that were left out. The story of JC’s death in Islam is from one of the gnostic gospels where JC doesn’t die on the cross but decides to run for it instead.

In Islamic version Jesus is not crucified but his executioners think that he is. Rather he is taken up to heaven. Not sure this is from gnostic gospels and he doesn’t “run” in any case.