Yes, i mixed it up and corrected it, thank you.

Also it wasn’t renamed Palestine until more than a century after his death

We most definitely have enough sources about Christianity existing pre 12th century that this claim can be easily refuted. Even the most simple ones like having christian catacombs around Rome dating to the second century.

This has got to be the dumbest thing I’ve read on this site to date.

I don’t mean OP’s comment, which is funny as hell. I mean the linked article. You’ve gotta love it when someone makes an argument that disregards what is written in the Bible and then uses what’s written in the Bible as a justification for their argument. It’s either one or the other. Stick to historical records only, or embrace, at the very minimum, that the entire Bible book that is being referenced is a reliable record. If one cherry picks “Well that part must be true, but that over there is irrelevant”, the entire argument falls apart.

Let’s step back a minute. Assuming Jesus was a real person or based on a real person, what does proven history say? The oldest extant fragment of the “New Testament” is Papyrus 52, and dates to around 125 CE. Fragment 66 contains most of the “Gospel of John”, and dates to around 200 CE. Even if one were to disregard Papyrus 52 for not haven’t enough material to count, Papyrus 66 places the historical Jesus, at the latest, prior to 200 CE. Add to that that Flavious Josephus wrote of a “James, the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ” and we have a stronger argument that the historical Jesus likely lived in the first or second century CE. Most likely first century.

Now, if one is going to argue their point based on “the star” that led the wise men to the baby Jesus is a historical event, then they must also acknowledge that Jesus is recorded in the gospels entering the temple courtyard multiple times, and spoken of as being “at the temple”. The temple was destroyed, and the Roman army looted the temple late in the first century. That is a historical fact. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

The entire premise of your linked article is flawed, based on conflicting justifications.

I thought you were serious until I read more of your comments.

This is the funniest article I may have ever read, and I will now pretend that it is gospel and lie to my religious family saying all of this as truth.

You should be ashamed, giving me a reason to stupify my christofascist family further.

The Mithras cult did not have any particular attachment to trees, you are probably confusing it with Saturnalia. But even then people did not bring a single solitary tree in, Saturnalia was celebrated by decorating rooms with many evergreen plants and branches as was common in a lot of winter solstice celebrations. The act of bringing in a single evergreen tree and decorating it came much much later, medieval times.

Same with the Easter bunny.

The Mithras cult gets far too much credit for these things. We know very little about them. Almost everything you’ve heard about them was made up.

The modern Christmas tree tradition goes back a few hundred years to central Europe.

I thought it was the Norse thing. But that might have been the stockings

This is why you should put Christmas lights on a palm tree.

Ancient civilizations celebrated the human body. We are ashamed of it.
Oh, what we have lost.

Jesus was a political radical from West Asia (Middle East)