re: #58 freetoken

This is related, btw, to one of my complaints against so many mythicists - they seem to ignore 1st century history in Palestine and how much has been learnt about the people and that era.

Trying to make Jesus only a Hellenic (or Mithraic) myth, no matter how Hellenized the NT or even Palestine itself was in the 1st century, is to totally gloss over what really happened and what was really important at that time in that area.

I always thought the death of Jesus was more of a political execution than a religious one and the response to create a new religion was also political. Much like Martin Luther and his split from Rome.