Was the "real Jesus" a capitalist?

[Jnew28]

Please read: http://stupidpartymathvmyth.com/1/post/2015/05/will-the-real-jesus-please-stand-up-exit-faux-christians.html

"Jesus was a far better person than Stupidparty gives him credit for. One also has to wonder how the male dominated Stupidparty disciples who clearly have un-Christ like views, will get their respective camels to enter the proverbial eye of the needle.
PictureJesus was not a fan of Asset Strippers"

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Um

http://www.jesuspuzzle.humanists.net/jhcjp.htm

[longship]

3. Earl Doherty!

There's also Robert M. Price, another Christ myth advocate, and an advocate of Earl Doherty.

Granted, he's a Republican, but his Bible Geek podcast is quite astounding. I confess that I am a bit addicted to it.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. I read the Jesus Puzzle a while ago. It definitely made me think.

[longship]

2. Who says Jesus was real?

I mean other than the folks whose religion says he was real. (Not a very good, or credible, source.)

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Exactly.

"Biblical historians" will agree he was real, but they have sort of a vested interest in the historical veracity of the bible, by definition.

At the very least the total lack of corroborating contemporary accounts - except Josephus, a passage widely discredited and considered forged after the fact- ought to make people at least question what is taken by many as a sort of "well, of course" proposition.

[Wounded Bear]

6. I always figured he was a kind of amalgam...

There were many preachers and prophets running around Palestine at the time. What we think of as Jesus was, in my mind a construct made by combining numerous stories from the era.

There's no need for a "real" Jesus. Myths are myths because they touch people on a deep level, not because they are historically accurate.

[longship]

12. Robert M. Price is one of the folks who advocates Christ myth theory.

And he states that no, he is not sure, however states what you posted in support of his position.

[MosheFeingold]

10. The dispute is not about being "real"

There are a plethora of sources about a certain Nazarine preaching, getting crowds worked up, and getting executed, including non-Christian sources (most notably the Talmud).

The rub is on the claim he was the Mosiach.

Upon that point, reasonable minds differ.

[TampaAnimusVortex]

7. Jesus was an anarchist

Do you really think a supposed divine being (not that I believe that) would support specific states or parties? Ugh...

This article makes it very clear from "his own words".

http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/jesus-anarchist/

[Recursion]

8. Capitalism as a concept was about 1600 years in the future at that point

Whatever his economic views were, they'd be largely unrecognizable in modern terms.

[Igel]

11. A lot of people have a pokégod.

A little pocket god that has buttons.

You push one, it says, "You're a good person."

You push another, "Your views are exactly mine, so you're always right."

A third gives you, "Everybody should think like you, you're so awesome!"

At least some are honest and don't need the mechanized prop telling them good or right or awesome they are.

[Iggo]

9. Was the "real Gandalf" a druid?