A shitty admin works with a shitty propaganda machine to produce shitty bullshit.
George Washington would be super happy to see what we’ve become. Sorta like how Jesus would be stoked by the Prosperity Gospel.
(Jesus was not a historical figure. He was originally a figure in heaven. Now let me really blow your mind: Washington also wasn’t a historical figure. He was originally the devil in hell! I’m joking of course, shut up, I need gallows humor to not be depressed by this shit. The bit about Jesus was not a joke, however.)
USA! USA! USA!
I mean, we don’t have any particular reason to doubt that a young carpenter from Bethlehem named Yeshua decided one day that he was the son of god and started preaching in the streets and eventualy cobbled together a small following of various misfits. Anything beyond that of course is implausible, to say the least.
Frankly, that much is better attested in the record than most individuals. Yes, with extraordinary claims comes extraordinary scrutiny, but we lose the plot a bit if we hold religious figures to a higher standard for historical verification of their mere existence because their particular creepy cult happened to be the one that had a moment, got entrenched, and inspired millennia of assholes via survivorship bias.
I thought there was some evidence that the story of Jesus may have been written as Roman propaganda.
“Many details of?” Sure, but there are near-contemporary accounts of an itinerant preacher by that name who assembled a following and got himself executed. One of things they don’t mention is that this sort of thing was pretty common, specifically apocalyptic preachers in Judea who were not fans of the existing political status quo. Monty Python’s Life of Brian is more correct in its vibes than one might imagine.