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29 Jul 2024 14:13:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Don't mess with Internet comments  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 10 Jan 2012 09:02:25
Message: <4f0c44f1$1@news.povray.org>
Le 2012-01-10 06:19, Invisible a écrit :
> On 10/01/2012 10:59 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>> Le 10/01/2012 11:10, Invisible a écrit :
>>> I didn't say Jesus was real. I said he might be real. Some limited
>>> evidence suggests he was real.
>>>
>>> ...or the entire thing might be a forgery from start to finish.
>>> Interesting that there's only one version of that forgery, but it's not
>>> completely implausible. I doubt we'll ever know one way or the other.
>>
>>
>> From the Roman documentation, at least the crucifixion did happened.
>> It was a seditious Jewish man named Jesus
>
> I also gather that "Jesus" was a fairly common name too. Like, if I sat
> down today and wrote a book about "John Smith", in 2,000 years' time
> historians are going to have one *hell* of a time figuring out whether I
> based it on a real person or not...
>

I read somewhere (assign a random value of factuality to that statement) 
that Jesus (or Yeshua) may have been a title or nickname, rather than 
his real name.


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