I doubt this "logic" will lure xians away towards Atheism.....it is enabling the fiction believed to be historical.....always demand evidence square one....religions and alleged gawds are 7 thousand years old for square one with the first shaman to brain wash women for rape and boys to die in raiding parties.....belief about Vatican lies 12 centuries ago is being stuck in a toilet full of turds

Jeeeesus

Romans copied Greek gawds and the alleged Mithra gawd.....there was no rabbi jesus nasoret nor any crucifixion 29 ce.....real King Herod died 4 bce making the fake backdated calendar just another stupid Vatican invention 800 years later

All religions are myths.

I suppose my Jewish upbringing may be behind some bias, but in any case I think the New Testament is extremely over-rated and not a good selling point for Christ. I sometimes (or often?) run into atheists who will put forth some variant of:

"Well, yes, obviously, there is no more god than there is a flying spaghetti monster to worship, but the moral teachings of the old [and/or new] testament should still be assumed as obviously the very definition of good."  

To which I say:

 "This is pernicious, harmful, unexamined and unsupported sacred cow nonsense."

I sometimes also say that the best thing about Judaism is that it's not Christianity (which isn't saying much for Judaism, if that really is the best thing about it).

None of this is to say that the originator of this thread is claiming moral excellence in the NT. Maybe they are just trying to look at the narrower question of what sells in certain time periods, which I guess has some validity on its own. It wouldn't have sold with me, but that is not a meaningful measure of aggregated demand estimates.

I think an event n bigger threat to his credibility is the complete absence of any evidence that he ever existed.

Food for thought. It would be one reason the Sanhedrin wanted him dead. Although, I don't know why they couldn't have had him stoned instead of crawling to Pilot.

I would not classify this as the most significant factor in casting doubt on the credibility of the Jesus mythos.

This entire series is worth watching. Lots of great points.

People were confused when he was killed so they had to tell a different story. The earthly Messiah would now have to take on some heavenly mission in order for it to all make any sense. The problem was that it made no sense.

If you're a non believer , why do you care . What difference does it make ?

Tempest in a teapot

Gibberish = gibberish whether capitalized or not = geebush jeehobah yhwh ghostholes....just another alleged gawd .....nothing there to prEy to

Pinnochio is the same kind of fiction magic as the alleged baby gawd birthed by an alleged vaginal virgin in a dirty donkey stable....never happened and just another cruel insane story to brainwash people with