The last dying words of Christians and atheists

Jason wrote:

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I was talking about people who pretend they know what they are talking about when clearly they do not. Anyone who would say that Jesus did not exist, or even worce that Paul made him up clearly has no idea what he is talking about.(I can most definatly prove this but I shouldn't have to) I dont expect everyone to be an expert on Christian History or a historian but saying that Paul invented Jesus is very very inacurate and it is ridiculous to pretend to know what one is talking about while claiming something so absurd.
As far as the thread being dead, it came up on a google search. It is now alive I guess.

Jason wrote:

" The younger Ananus, who had been appointed to the high priesthood, was rash in his temper and unusually daring. He followed the school of the Sadducees, who are indeed more heartless than any of the other Jews, as I have already explained, when they sit in judgment. Possessed of such a character, Ananus thought that he had a favorable opportunity because Festus was dead and Albinas was still on the way. And so he convened the judges of the Sanhedrin, and brought before them the brother of Jesus, the one called Christ, whose name was James, and certain others, and accusing them of having transgressed the law delivered them up to be stoned. " - Flavius Josephus

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Jason wrote:

"And with regard to the eclipse in the time of Tiberius Caesar, in whose reign Jesus appears to have been crucified, and the great earthquakes which then took place" (Phlegon)
"Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular." - Tacitus