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In reply to the discussion: "America won't vote for a Socialist Jew" [View all]JonLP24
(29,979 posts)yellow triangle shows up when I have a post open too long plus I thought everything locked up but realized when I rebooted (twice) that it didn't lock up but the left click quit working when I hit it on the mouse keys (I had an issue before with it quitting on me)
This is the Wiki link on the Tacitus reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ
There were others, one in particular I was looking for but couldn't remember who or where as far as terms to search but remember a woman associated with monarchy or powerful family somewhere 100s AD
I also spare what else I posted plus I'm having copy and paste issues due to being limited to the mouse key for the left key but as far as the bible and a lot of the claims I find to be unreliable account of what actually took place considering there are historical events they got wrong or exaggerated so the Osiris stuff, virgin birth and a lot of the mythical stuff I don't buy. Scholars generally find the Book of Mark to be the most reliable because he wasn't a known insider like the Peter, Paul, or John that would be targets to make up stuff under his name but it has a "strange" ending. The main thing was he didn't make attempts to cover embarrassments. Especially the "Its not right to take food from the children toss it to the dogs" with children being the people of Israel and dogs gentiles where the woman replies "even dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs". I only read bits and pieces of the bible but from what I understand, under the context of everyone being very religious themselves, didn't include much of the divinity stuff but was the earliest accounts where the same accounts were later downplayed or whitewashed --- scholars find Revelations to be the most unreliable and if I remember correctly it almost wasn't added to the bible plus it is the latest one (with more of the incentive to make up stuff on their hero)