>>24651944
You’re right but it feels like it’s on accident as your argument is in bad faith; youre just butthurt because you love Rabbi Yeshua so much.
>>24654475
He’s got some residual evangelicalism in him. Competitive, has appointed himself official opinion-shaper and setter of the boundaries of acceptable discourse, etc. He won’t tell anyone what he really thinks and wants to shepherd them. Whether he is motivated ultimately by a good faith strategy or a desire to remain employed and sell books, who knows.
>>24666568
The magical universalist pacifist rabbi deity didnt exist because the nationalist insurgent one actually did. The Bible’s Jesus is, at least at its origins, propaganda to cover for Jewish nationalist messianic violence, if he were one recognizable figure or not.
Mythicists, despite being a bunch of lefties whom one might think would be eager to criticize Jewish nationalism in our current climate, are too afraid of the political implications to do so. And then you remember most of them were spawned in the New Atheisn of Hitchens and Harris and it isn’t as puzzling.
