General Discussion

You do realize the majority of scholars think that passage in Antiquities was forged centuries later by overzealous monks. That's been the majority opinion for decades, yet that tired old dog eared "card" keeps being played. After all, what do experts know.

Tacitus thought Christianity was a pernicious superstition. I agree, but that's hardly a ringing endorsement of one of various Jewish sects and hundreds of cults circulating in the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries. That in no way shape or form proves anything about an historical Jesus.

The lack of evidence would lead a rational person to conclude he's a 1st century version of Paul Bunion. After all, it was "common knowledge" that Davy Crockett could ride a lightening bolt .... during his lifetime no less! I kind of doubt it. Like walking on water perhaps? Hell, Crockett could leap the Mississippi! Of course, Crockett existed. We have evidence of that. Paul Bunion and Jesus? Not so much. My point being, the supposed exploits of even real people can get out of hand sometimes. So perhaps Brian was the real Jesus, but a very naughty boy nonetheless.

You do realize the Trojan War was a fiction made up by Homer. Historical Troy, or what some archaeologists think may have been A Troy, was sacked several times, but Homer's story was historical fiction at best as there's zero archeological evidence of anything happening there on the scale Homer wrote about. We do have lots of confirming evidence that Homer existed, but the Iliad and Odyssey are a mix of myth and legend, no different than Sisyphus and his boulder or Prometheus being chained to a rock and eagles eating his liver every day for eternity. Kind of like the son of god. One of many son's of god if you're keeping track of them as they go by.