The Christ Myth Theory is Bullshit
I can’t stand hearing about this.
It’s almost as bad as creationism (but not quite as bad).
Stop making the problem worse, you sensationalist, teenaged, Internet-based atheists.
You’re never going to convince anyone that you’re right about anything else if you keep throwing Christians bones like this. Read about it. Read the *actual* sources and see whether these “similarities” between Jesus and ancient mythological figures *actually* line up. It’s worse than trying to make Old Testament prophecies line up with modern events–and the teenagers at the Rational Response Squad wonder why more Christians aren’t licking their boots. Just unbelievable. It displays all the exact traits of intellectual dishonesty and stupidity that Christians get accused of themselves. They relish it when you make these kinds of mistakes.
Bill Maher mentioned this idea in Religulous–I hope somebody slapped some sense into him for that. I hope someone canes Brian Flemming and Tom Harpur with scroll rollers. It’s nonsense. You point out that scientists overwhelmingly agree about evolution, and you expect people to take that point seriously (because you’re right; they should). Well, scholars overwhelmingly agree about this. If that doesn’t matter to you, you are no better than a creationist.
Jesus was a man. He was born, he walked around, and he was killed. If Jesus bothers you enough that you need to magick him out of history, you should keep that to yourself. I can just imagine how that looks to Christians. They’ll have a field day with you over that.
