[Jesus sits on a rock, speaking]
A new command I give you:
Love one another

[an angry character talks back to Jesus]
What if they’re something bad like gay, trans, brown, or communist though?

[Jesus is facepalming on his rock]
I don’t want to be a messiah anymore

https://thebad.website/comic/gospel_of_love

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    technically there is textual evidence

    No those are just stories, and none of the “books” are reliable historical evidence.

    (Now if that evidence is worth a rats ass is another question altogether)

    Exactly, I already mentioned that the bible isn’t a valid source. First because it is written by anonymous authors, second because it isn’t contemporary, thirdly because it’s based on hearsay, and finally because crucial details do not line up among them.

    The books of the Bible is exactly what could be expected to happen when you don’t have copyright. Someone picks up a story, and changes it to be more to his liking.

    • random stranger@dice.camp
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      3 months ago

      @Buffalox this discarding of the Bible as a source always sounds like an agenda in itself. Sure, it’s mythologized, but it’s a corpus of texts written by a multitude of authors corroborating at least some things between them.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I gave the reasons for why the bible is discarded as historical evidence for Jesus.
        The earliest book is written 1 generation after the fact, in an area quite some distance from where the events allegedly took place, by anonymous authors, and with no first party references, and the book contradict each other on key events.

        How is that an agenda? Using it as a source however is clearly an agenda.