"you know nothing about Jesus"you know nothing about Jesus------the nuns did not know either. he wasJesus was an anti-establishment Jewish hippy (just like many modern Jewish hippies).
Whereas Jesus was completely respectful to the Romans, particularly their tax collectors and also Pontius Pilate, he was very anti Sanhedrin.
That plus his immense following in Galilee and Judaea is what got him crucified. The Sanhedrin was afraid they were going to lose their jobs.
Jesus loved the poor, was a communist centuries before the Communist Manifesto was written, was itinerant and homeless, practiced medicine without a license, was a wine maker, and loved making speeches at big rallies.
He did however also have a streak of violence in that he chased the temple money changers out two years in a row, overturning their tables and making them scramble for their gold.
So this is what we now call a complex personality.
very typical for his time------a fairly educated person from Galilee----
ardent PHARISEE-----of the school of Hillel The money changers of the
Temple were pro roman-----the pharisees wanted them OUT to the point of hysteria. This fact is EXTENSIVELY documented (maybe not in latin). The socialism you call communism is inherent in jewish economic law. ----all kinds of laws about---passing stuff around and the RIGHTS of the poor to this or that percentage of the harvest------(agricultural economy)
It was just not consistent with Roman forms. Romans were there to get whatever wealth there was to
get----Pharisees were their enemies----including Jesus
It's a fair statement to say we ALL know little about the real Jesus of Nazareth.
Those who wrote about him (many unknown authors) did so decades or centuries after he died.
Those who wrote about him may have had a political agenda, esp those who never met him.
It's fair to say Jesus is a centuries old myth.
Why should that myth matter today?
Same for Moses, Muhammad, and other folklore.
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I do not believe that classical scriptural writings arise out of thin air. They contain a grain of truth. Thus I do believe that a person named YESHUA existed and that he was a leader of sorts------whatever remains that is credible of his history points to him as being a fairly typical, somewhat educated Pharisee of his time.
The aspect of the written history that are consistent with that fact are reasonably
credible
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