My Atheism is not based just upon the lack of proof for a god but on the logical reasoning behind how religious dogma arises.
Jesus could easily have been one man or a number of different legends rolled into one. In his time and place the jews considered themselves to be a conquered people and were looking for someone to lead them in their rise against the Romans. It is known from other texts that there were others but this man was quite probably the most popular.
His stand against the orthodox jewish establishment and the Roman would have allowed the people to believe almost anything about him. Later on the Roman empire and then European kings saw how they could easily use this to keep the populations happy and in line.
Argue all you want about proof but with a little logical thinking it is easy to see why such fairy stories have sprung up and then been enforced. As this is now the 21st century I think we should start to leave this behind. I doubt the existense of god for the same reasons that I doubt the existense of santa claus.
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