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The bar I try to set is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this source honestly just not seem up to snuff to me.
The historicity of Jesus has been confirmed by sources independent of the bible, including 1st century Roman historian Tacitus, and 1st century Jewish historian Josephus, giving independent confirmation that Jesus was a real person who was executed on Pontius Pilate. The weight of evidence comes down on the side of Jesus being a real person, a Jewish radical teacher, and any attempt to claim he is a myth requires extraordinary evidence, serious scholarship, and the consensus of trained and educated religious scholars.
The Josephus Testimonium: Let’s Just Admit It’s Fake Already
https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/7437
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
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