• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    It’s pretty well-established within the field of history that there was a Jewish mendicant preacher named Jesus of Nazareth who got baptised by John and nailed to a cross by order of Pilates. That’s just as well (or badly) attested as anything else about notable people in Galilee at the time.

    It’s the rest that ranges from unattested to either allegorical or certainly made up.

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      2 hours ago

      Hmm, I was under the impression that there isn’t much written about him until long after his death - but maybe I did let that one skepticon video influence me too much lol