re: #306 Mattand

I kinda lean towards that myself. It makes more sense that there was this political rebel 2000 or so years ago, and a lot of myth making got tacked on.

“Didja hear about that Jesus guy? He jumped in the river and saved someone from drowning?”

“No, no, I heard he walked on the water to get to him!”

I think someone pointed out to that given the Romans penchant for record-keeping, Jesus would be mentioned somewhere. Hell, Spartacus got a mention. You’d think if the Romans would want to ignore something, it’d be a slave uprising.

That’s all very true. Face it, the Romans were fairly punctilious at recording the news of the day, even if some of it made it into the history books as polemics. Someone like that, in an occupied territory, that would’ve been a big deal. Like you said, Spartacus got a mention. So why doesn’t a guy who’s walking on water, raising the dead, and single-handedly curing every sick person up and down the road to Jerusalem?

Either he never existed, which is one possibility, or he was such a small-fry that the Romans offed him before dinner and had a good chuckle about it over goblets of wine later that evening and then forgot about him, like they would about any petty criminal they’d executed.