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Shaun McGonigal's avatar

I know this is a short post, and you make reference to the fact that the Testimonium Flavianum needs posts unto itself, but I feel like the fact that this section is highly doubted to have been written by Josephus may be understated here.

I don't especially care if Jesus existed, as it doesn't really affect me personally (lifetime atheist). And it's true that I used to be fairly close to some of the mythicists (Richard Carrier in particular). I guess y comment is just to highlight that what is considered by some to be the strongest evidence may not have been written by the author at all. My guess is someone like Jesus likely existed. Whether he was actually called anything like 'Jesus' (maybe Yeshua) or 'Christ' seems iffy to me, but like I said it doesn't really matter much to me because either way I don't think he, or anyone else, is god.

Have a nice day.

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