The story of Jesus was made up by the Roman Empire

[Elok]

I'm particularly bemused as to how supposed similarities between the gospels and the works of Josephus means "the Romans did it!". Josephus wasn't Roman. He was a Jew.

So Jewish work compared to Jewish work = Romans! How does that work? Strange little man.

I also like how they managed to whip up a totally counterfeit version of a foreign religion, got it to actually take hold, and then immediately said, "eh, **** it," destroyed the Temple and ended the revolt problem for good.

[Sava]

Bull**** religions aren't hard to create. Look at the Mormons.

[Nikolai]

That's not what I asked.

Jesus as a historical person is well documented, not only from the biblical sources(which are much, much closer to the time they portrait and much, much more documented in numbers than any other source material from the classical age), but also in Roman and Jewish sources. There are many books on the matter, a quick google search gave me this result, where an historian and professor in religous studies(which by own admission is not a believer btw) goes through the evidence: http://www.npr.org/2012/04/01/149462...makes-his-case

[Sava]

Jesus as a historical person is well documented, not only from the biblical sources(which are much, much closer to the time they portrait and much, much more documented in numbers than any other source material from the classical age), but also in Roman and Jewish sources. There are many books on the matter, a quick google search gave me this result, where an historian and professor in religous studies(which by own admission is not a believer btw) goes through the evidence: http://www.npr.org/2012/04/01/149462...makes-his-case

Uhmmm... did you read the NPR article?

Here is the guy's "proof" of Jesus:

In his book, Ehrman marshals all of the evidence proving the existence of Jesus, including the writings of the apostle Paul.

"Paul knew Jesus' brother, James, and he knew his closest disciple, Peter, and he tells us that he did," Ehrman says. "If Jesus didn't exist, you would think his brother would know about it, so I think Paul is probably pretty good evidence that Jesus at least existed," he says.

That's pretty weak. It's hearsay.

The top commenter says it all:

My friend's brother exploded after drinking diet coke and eating mentos. You can believe me because I'm close to my friend and if I were making up the story, wouldn't I have made my brother's friend cooler?

[Alexander's Horse]

"Roman nobles cooperating" lol

[Elok]

Bull**** religions aren't hard to create. Look at the Mormons.

We're pretty confident, at this point, that Joseph Smith existed.

[Aeson]

PRWeb.com is the only source of information you will ever need. Imaging a site where anyone can post anything about their ideas, and for a relatively low fee, have it spread across the internet in countless spammy PR directories!

[DaShi]

religion has been used to enslave the ignorant masses since the beginning of religions.

[Berzerker]

the apparent acceptance of slavery by Jesus and his religion has been a problem for me

[regexcellent]

In the opening of the wikipedia article (which is featured): "virtually all modern scholars agree that a historical Jesus existed"

[Felch]

As Sava points out in the OP - it's a historical troll.

You gotta love how people still can't help themselves.

Records from that era are spotty at best

[Az]

"Roman nobles cooperating" lol

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[Hauldren Collider]

"Roman nobles cooperating" lol

QFT

[giblets]

I have read previously that there is lots of archaeological and historical evidence for the existence of Jesus.

What archaeological evidence? Have archaeologists stumbled upon some of his carpentry or something?

[regexcellent]

Maybe someone else's carpentry

Spoiler:

the cross