I think Lemmy has a problem with history in general, since most people on here have degrees/training in STEM. I see a lot of inaccurate “pop history” shared on here, and a lack of understanding of historiography/how historians analyze primary sources.
The rejection of Jesus’s historicity seems to be accepting C S Lewis’s argument - that if he existed, he was a “lunatic, liar, or lord,” instead of realizing that there was nothing unusual about a messianic Jewish troublemaker in Judea during the early Roman Empire.
I need you to stop patronizing people. I am well aware of how history works. People in STEM are capable of understanding other things. Wild, I know.
Historians do not agree on this, no matter how much you pretend that it’s a fact.
Who? Give me some historians that disagree. The free one I’ll give you is Robert Price, who will even admit that the mainstream historical consensus disagrees with him.
Yeah, people in STEM are capable of understanding other things, just like people in the humanities are capable of understanding other things. But if one’s background is in Asian history, and they start to claim that the mainstream academic consensus on general relativity is wrong, they’re going to need to provide some serious justification.
Have you read a text from before 1400?
You can’t make that shit up lmao