[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Even assuming the passage is totally genuine, two fires had destroyed much in the way of official documents Tacitus had to work with and it is unlikely that he would sift through what he did have to find the record of an obscure crucifixion, which suggests that Tacitus was repeating an urban myth whose source was likely the Christians themselves,[3]:344 especially since Tacitus was writing at a time when at least the three synoptic gospels are thought to already have been in circulation.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tacitus

According to Bart Ehrman, Josephus' passage about Jesus was altered by a Christian scribe, including the reference to Jesus as the Messiah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus

Scholars have differing opinions on the total or partial authenticity of the reference in the passage to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate.[15][30] The general scholarly view is that while the Testimonium Flavianum is most likely not authentic.

Respected Christian scholar R. T. France, for example, does not believe that the Tacitus passage provides sufficient independent testimony for the existence of Jesus [Franc.EvJ, 23] and agrees with G. A. Wells that the citation is of little value

A. The first line of the Tacitus passage says Chrestians, not Christians.

Suetonius says Chrestus was personally starting trouble in Rome during the reign of Claudius.

Suetonius is writing years after Tacitus yet doesn't mention that Chrestus died.

So Chrestus can't be Jesus because it's the wrong decade, wrong continent and missing a death.

B. The second line in Tacitus that mentions Christ and his death was never noticed until after the mid-fourth century. So this second line is fake.

P.S. Even if the second line was somehow authentic, the information would have come from Christians. This would be the equivalent of deriving Abraham's biography by talking to Muslims.

This is why Bart Ehrman specifically dismisses Tacitus and Josephus. As do most other biblical scholars.

In the immortal words of Christopher Hitchens, if this is all you got, you are holding an empty bag.

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He’s still on the hook for the full amount if his appeal fails

You know how long appeals can take right? Considering he can now get someone else to pay the relatively small bond, he'll be dead from old age before he ever has to pay a dime of his own money.

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

most of the content on YouTube, Facebook and Reddit is not generated by the companies themselves

Its their job to block that content before it reaches an audience, but since thats how they make their money, they dont or wont do that. The monetization of evil is the problem, those platforms are the biggest perpetrators.

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

not believing intensifies

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

The very fact that we cant throw these particular bank robbers in prison because they stole so much money that they are now too big to jail, is an indictment of our entire system

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Its not our fault you sucked your own kids into your illegal business trumpy... families that crime together do time together

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

I made a user script that will make a button on each video which jump you to piped, that way you can continue to use YT to manage your subscriptions and see your feed, but you never have to watch to video there

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/477267-youtube-add-watch-on-piped-button-to-each-video

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I made a user script that will make a button on each video which jump you to piped, that way you can continue to use YT to manage your subscriptions and see your feed, but you never have to watch to video there

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/477267-youtube-add-watch-on-piped-button-to-each-video

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Also Canadian here, our insane conservatives would do the exact same thing if we give them power... I suspect we are soon to find out

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Yeah its pretty disturbing that they are even floating this idea, and its all to appease the insane conspiracy freaks

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Apple is a LOT worse than Microsoft these days

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

he already did that, probably at least 1/3rd of the country got fully brainwashed by him lying to them constantly with his insane conspiracy BS, and the only way out of cults as we all know is the all the followers to finally drink the koolaide, which is still coming

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