Re: Your thoughts on Jesus
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How can you compare a lunatic on a street corner (who has no followers) with Jesus, who perhaps has more 'followers' than anyone in the history of the world?
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What would the number of followers have to do with the veracity of claims? That's the "the earth is flat because we all believe it" argument. If jesus was 'true' but he had no followers, would that make him 'untrue'. He had very few followers in 50AD, were his claims only 500/2000000 as true then as now? You won't be able to realize this, but to a non-believer there really is no discernible difference. The fact that one 'caught on', as have other past and current claimants, adds or subtracts nothing from the veracity or similarity of their claims.
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What do you mean by 'not even a footnote'.
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A fevered follower of any personality cult finds it inconceivable that such an obviously important person may well have been perceived as just another new-ager activist, and have gone virtually not noted in their time. As it refers to jesus - Brutus attracted much more attention in his time, yet has nothing remotely near the influence of jesus today. If we were living while they were, Brutus would be seen as the important figure both immediately and by historians of that time.
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