Showing posts with label The God Who Wasn't There. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The God Who Wasn't There. Show all posts

March 4, 2012

The Old And New Testament: What Really Didn't Happen

Good to see that The Bible Unearthed and The God Who Wasn't There are both available in their entirety on Youtube again.

For over 40 years, I assumed there was a historical Jesus and Moses. I'm sure a lot of younger atheists assume the same thing. It took Mel Gibson's Passion to put me on a bit of a detective mission.

It started innocently enough, the fact he portrayed Jesus as a dude with blond wavy hair got me wondering what Jesus really looked like. I started doing Google searches, and I found there is not one shred of contemporary evidence that Jesus ever existed at all.

I then looked into a historical Moses and evidence for the Exodus. Nothing...nada. Both Judaism and Christianity are based on super stars who most likely never existed. Back stories were invented for both religions. I guess they sounded reasonable to oppressed individuals in search of a reason to be here and a reason why things were so bad for them on earth.

Grab some popcorn and start watching: