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Originally Posted by Humerox
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True.
personally I could care less...but it stands to reason there was probably someone at the core of the legend...there generally is.
oral tradition took care of the rest.
semantics, has put the wrong side of the fence, lol. I believe in "Jesus" as much as I do in St. George's dragon, which was probably originally some exotic tradesman's pet Gila. while a Gila (or Komodo -whatever) more than likely existed -probably making old George piss his drawers -legend made it a dragon.
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Your logic completely escapes me. Are you saying that you believe there must be some real historical figure on whom legends are built? So you believe in Adam, the Buddha, Noah, Jonah, Gilgamesh, Marduk, Odin, Quetzalcoatl, Paul Bunyan and Tinkerbell?
Do you realize that there is actual evidence of the existence of Nikolaos of Myra? That's right, Santa Claus is more real than Jesus or Muhammad. St. Nick was a short man with a broken nose and his remains are buried at Buri, Italy. This minor bishop lived less than 250 years after Jesus and 300 years before Muhammad, yet somehow we know where he lived, where he died, where he was buried, how his tomb was moved and where he is now. Yet, somehow, the records, remains and relics of the founders of Christianity and Islam were somehow lost or misplaced or destroyed or something and no one thought to write anything about them down until a hundred years after they lived.
They could have at least made up good stories about what happened to the physical evidence. Satan or Caesar or something. Lazy.