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  • Link

    He come to town

    Come to save

    The princess Zelda

    Ganon took her away, now the children don’t play

    But they will, when Link saves the day

    HALLELUJAH

    Now Link

    Fill up your hearts

    So you can shoot

    Your sword with power

    And when you’re feeling all down, the fairy will come around

    So you’ll be brave, and not a sissy coward

    Now Link

    Has saved the day

    Put Ganon is his grave

    So now Zelda is free, and now a hero shall be

    Link

    I think your name shall go down into history!










  • No we don’t have any historical sources or archeological evidence. But why would we expect to have them? He was just an average, albeit radical, Jewish preacher who got himself in trouble with the authorities and only much later did he become significant.

    I look at it using Occam’s Razor: is it more likely that early Christian writers mythologized a real person after the fact, or that they made one up whole cloth? I go with the former.

    And why not? We know for a fact that singular people have started all kinds of movements and religions throughout history. And when you strip away the fantastical elements of the story, it’s really not unbelievable. A preacher is teaching radical things, enough that he gets in trouble with Jewish and/or Roman authorities and is eventually executed for it. His followers take his message, filter it, and spread it, and it catches on.

    For what it’s worth I’m an atheist as well.


  • To your first point, no one is free of bias, but it’s not the Middle Ages dude. People are free to not be Christian or to criticize or contradict Christianity, and they do all the time. Even non-Christian historians agree that Jesus likely existed.

    Between the canonical and apocryphal gospels there are a good amount of people who wrote about Jesus for decades after his death. In my personal opinion as an armchair historian it just seems more likely that early Christian writers, intentionally or not, mythologized a real person that people already knew existed rather than invented one whole cloth.