Ever since I shucked the shackles of religion and became an atheist (I never truly believed, really) through critical thinking and a scientific mind, I suspected that someone may have existed at the time, perhaps a con artist, or some cult figure (really, a form of con artist), or perhaps someone who did genuine good in a non supernatural way, anything that might have started the religion that we know of as Christianity today. This man certainly wasn't supernatural or the son of god, or did miracles, that's all a lie as there's no evidence at all to back up these claims. Remember, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, so radio silence of such major events can be taken as proof that they didn't happen.
More lately, I've seen articles and videos claiming that Jesus never even existed at all by going over many, many records that were made at the time by people proven to have existed that don't even mention him. For example, there's no record written at the time of Pontius Pilate having crucified anyone like him at all. You'd think a major event like that would go in his log book, wouldn't you?
Christians like to bring up the accounts of Flavius Josephus and Tacitus as proof of accounts written at the time, however, that doesn't stand up. This supposed Jesus died in AD 33 (the calendar started with him after all) while Josephus was born in AD 37 and Tacitus in AD 56, clearly after Jesus had died so couldn't possibly have writen their accounts during the time of Jesus, now could they? Oh dear, that's awkward, isn't it? There goes your evidence.
The video also explains how the four gospels were written decades later by anonymous writers writing in Greek with the earliest being about 40 years who lived in another country and had never even met this supposed Jesus character, their writings having been informed by apparent word of mouth and unreliable written accounts. These gospels then contradict each other in many critical ways that shows them to be completely unreliable accounts of this supposed Jesus, destroying their credibility. There's no way that any modern account of someone who died 40+ years ago written in this way would be taken seriously, yet Christians study these gospels and take them as the literal, inerrant truth and allow themselves to be controlled by this religion, priests and preachers, especially those big scam churches in America. Ridiculous.
This video explains all this and more. I don't expect religious people to be moved at all by what they hear in this video (it's really just a voiceover with zooming pictures, so you can hide the video part completely if you want) as facts are irrelevant to them. However, anyone who's not sure, or is an atheist who just wants to know more about this subject will learn a lot from this video and can look things up in more detail later. The best part of all this, is that everything explained in this video can be fact checked and proven to be correct if one is willing to put in the legwork. Put in the legwork with the bible and you end up with a similar account to what's in this video as it will show it up to be the extensive bunch of lies and myths that it is.
After watching this video, I now doubt very much that someone actually existed at the time, perhaps maybe, at most, in a low key way that didn't get into the history books of the time. Maybe it's just possible, but without a time machine to go take a look and film it all on your hidden camera (and hope that the locals don't spot you...) it's impossible to completely know, but the evidence is clearly seriously stacked against such a person having even existed, so I'm inclined to also say that Jesus never existed, in any form.
Finally, while the religious will always hide behind the mantra that one can't prove a negative (hence what they believe in is true) and in pure mathematical terms it's true that one can't prove a negative, in the real world, a lot of contrary evidence makes it vanishingly unlikely, so much so that this negative has effectively been proved. As that's the best defence that the religious have for their beliefs, it's not much at all, is it? Nothing at all, in fact. Note how I say the religious rather than Christians? That's because all religions are founded on the idea of a supernatural being with zero evidence to support this claim, so this applies to all of them.
More lately, I've seen articles and videos claiming that Jesus never even existed at all by going over many, many records that were made at the time by people proven to have existed that don't even mention him. For example, there's no record written at the time of Pontius Pilate having crucified anyone like him at all. You'd think a major event like that would go in his log book, wouldn't you?
Christians like to bring up the accounts of Flavius Josephus and Tacitus as proof of accounts written at the time, however, that doesn't stand up. This supposed Jesus died in AD 33 (the calendar started with him after all) while Josephus was born in AD 37 and Tacitus in AD 56, clearly after Jesus had died so couldn't possibly have writen their accounts during the time of Jesus, now could they? Oh dear, that's awkward, isn't it? There goes your evidence.
The video also explains how the four gospels were written decades later by anonymous writers writing in Greek with the earliest being about 40 years who lived in another country and had never even met this supposed Jesus character, their writings having been informed by apparent word of mouth and unreliable written accounts. These gospels then contradict each other in many critical ways that shows them to be completely unreliable accounts of this supposed Jesus, destroying their credibility. There's no way that any modern account of someone who died 40+ years ago written in this way would be taken seriously, yet Christians study these gospels and take them as the literal, inerrant truth and allow themselves to be controlled by this religion, priests and preachers, especially those big scam churches in America. Ridiculous.
This video explains all this and more. I don't expect religious people to be moved at all by what they hear in this video (it's really just a voiceover with zooming pictures, so you can hide the video part completely if you want) as facts are irrelevant to them. However, anyone who's not sure, or is an atheist who just wants to know more about this subject will learn a lot from this video and can look things up in more detail later. The best part of all this, is that everything explained in this video can be fact checked and proven to be correct if one is willing to put in the legwork. Put in the legwork with the bible and you end up with a similar account to what's in this video as it will show it up to be the extensive bunch of lies and myths that it is.
After watching this video, I now doubt very much that someone actually existed at the time, perhaps maybe, at most, in a low key way that didn't get into the history books of the time. Maybe it's just possible, but without a time machine to go take a look and film it all on your hidden camera (and hope that the locals don't spot you...) it's impossible to completely know, but the evidence is clearly seriously stacked against such a person having even existed, so I'm inclined to also say that Jesus never existed, in any form.
Finally, while the religious will always hide behind the mantra that one can't prove a negative (hence what they believe in is true) and in pure mathematical terms it's true that one can't prove a negative, in the real world, a lot of contrary evidence makes it vanishingly unlikely, so much so that this negative has effectively been proved. As that's the best defence that the religious have for their beliefs, it's not much at all, is it? Nothing at all, in fact. Note how I say the religious rather than Christians? That's because all religions are founded on the idea of a supernatural being with zero evidence to support this claim, so this applies to all of them.
