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Originally Posted by troutman
None of those accounts were contemporaneous to the life of Jesus, and are poor evidence. I think Textcritic would say there is other circumstantial evidence that is better, and leads some to conclude that the existence of a historical Jesus (although not certain) is very probable?
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Yeah, this is right. The mythic Jesus is a very difficult idea to reconcile with cultural, historical evidence from Graeco-Roman Palestine. Almost certainly not the Christ-figure of the New Testament, but most plausibly an apocalyptic Jewish prophet who challenged both the Roman imperial authorities and Jewish religious institutions.
In any event, it is a red herring attempting to make this false equivalency between offending Christians by the usage of "Jesus Christ" as an expletive, and making frequent use of the word n*****. There is just no comparison.