I've been dragged to church a few times recently, it appears that pastors seem to be getting more paranoid. They also seem to be getting their propaganda from the same place. I've heard this argument brought up a couple of times now. So I looked it up. I couldn't find any "evidence" for any of the legends of the epistles deaths/murders. Real evidence please?
Actually, any real evidence of Jesus would be good too (Josephus does not count)also re-written a million times. The historicity of Jesus amounts to a big fat zero. Josephus is the only scrap of "historical evidence" for Christianity. The Josephus writting is discounted because, it is hearsay, it was written over 2 generations after the supposed death of Jesus, it has no original copy, and the re-written copy is over 300 yeas older, it was re-written by Christian appologist (why?), at it's best it only suggests that Christians exist at about 120AD (big deal).
The epistles deaths are just legends. There are no immediate and relevant historical accounts. This is a silly argument from christian leaders.
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I've been dragged to church a few times recently, it appears that pastors seem to be getting more paranoid. They also seem to be getting their propaganda from the same place. I've heard this argument brought up a couple of times now. So I looked it up. I couldn't find any "evidence" for any of the legends of the epistles deaths/murders. Real evidence please? Actually, any real evidence of Jesus would be good too (Josephus does not count)also re-written a million times. The historicity of Jesus amounts to a big fat zero. Josephus is the only scrap of "historical evidence" for Christianity. The Josephus writting is discounted because, it is hearsay, it was written over 2 generations after the supposed death of Jesus, it has no original copy, and the re-written copy is over 300 yeas older, it was re-written by Christian appologist (why?), at it's best it only suggests that Christians exist at about 120AD (big deal). The epistles deaths are just legends. There are no immediate and relevant historical accounts. This is a silly argument from christian leaders.