Originally posted by qwerty mob
There never was a Jewish man named "Jesus" in all of the surviving documents, and copies of documents, contemporaneous with "Saul's imaginary superhero."
I love your description of Saul/Paul! By now, you've probably read my previous posts about history's dislike of Saul/Paul by his closest associates. When I read your post, it came to mind that Saul/Paul was probably the first well-published sci-fi writer!
To this day, not one believer has harmonized this glaring problem with the Nazarene/Hebrew names "Yesh, Y'shua, Yeshua, or Yahshua" without resorting to fraud.
It may seem trivial, but similar facts have helped demolish the claims made by the faithful about such writings as those of Josephus. (Someone probably forged the passage about "Christus" attributed to him; an unlikely topic for Josephus, given the surviving body of his other works.)
I read recently that Saul/Paul also wrote in the name of Josephus. Other than this one citation, I don't know if its true, but I am still researching. Also, Paul was attributed to have written Acts, but an Israeli Bible scholar in the Myth of Christianity: Paul's invention of Jesus, by H. Maccoby, states that Acts was written by Saul/Paul's good friend Luke about Saul/Paul. In any event, the more I read and research about Saul/Paul, the more I find to discredit him and his invention of Jesus X and Xianity.
With regard to Western History, the secularized Western Calendar itself was based on the (Pagan) Roman Calendar, ammended by Julius Ceasar in 45 B.C., and used until the Gregorian reform in the 1500's.
Speaking about the calendar... The first calendar was, of course, the Sun and Moon. In a previous post I stated that the sun, moon, planets and stars were the first 'gods' that the early humans worshipped, feared and awed. Sun worship goes back a long, long time. It is no wonder that this worship invented the 'Sun of God.' The moon was the feared dark side. Interestingly, the Aramaic word for moon is 'sin!' That's how the Pagans got a bad rap. They worshipped all nature and the universe, especially the phases of the moon and, therefore, Xians tried to stamp them out (i.e. convert them) by saying moon worship (i.e. sin worship) was evil.
"No God, No Jesus, No Problem."