Was Jesus real? Is the Bible a snuff novel?
I’m fairly certain there is a lot of historical fact in the Bible, but it is twisted with theocratic propaganda that serves an evil and malevolent purpose, so I don’t condone it. People often look at Jesus like some super wise master and the dude just seems to have common sense to me and is able to express it. However, the entire concept of Word made flesh is about Jesus being the story that is being told with the Bible in his singular person.
So, his murder is the actual murder of a real person for a fiction designed to entertain people, just like a snuff film you might see in Cyberpunk 2077, especially because it involved gruesome and sadistic torture. It can be called a fiction story because the propaganda weaves fiction with historical fact and that’s what Jesus died for. He believed, mistakenly, that Judaism was good, when it clearly is not, which is why it ended up the way it did for him.
Do you really think people would have believed the story about Jesus to the degree that they did if he wasn’t a real person and was just some random rumor? It seems more logical to conclude that he was real and very popular among the multitudes of poor and ignored people, than to deny his existence because all evidence supports that he did exist, with none suggesting that he didn’t.
The closest Roman records of his crucifixion are some random administrative letter at the time to the emperor about there being an unusual upsurge of energy around a particular Jew’s death with the Christ moniker being somewhat vague at the time, which it was. That moniker didn’t stick until after the excitement over a messiah caught on in people’s imaginations, giving them hope that they can stand up against the overpowering tyrants and oppressors despite being poor and weak in worldly power. I don’t know the reference off the top of my head, but it probably wouldn’t be too hard to find if you looked for it yourself.
If I recall the tone correctly it’s something like: “This probably isn’t important, but it is unusual enough that I feel I should mention it. There was some Jew we killed… Chris… Crest… Klondike… I don’t know… something like that… and we are getting strange reports about him from all over the place. Probably just Jewish Ju-Ju Voodoo, but I thought I should mention it anyway. Just in case.”
People were probably like… “I remember that guy! He was the one who threw that party on the hill and gave everyone free food! That dude was amazing! He proved that we all have eternal life and our souls go on to a better place after our bodies die? Hell yeah! Sure, sign me up. That’s way better than being miserable in a cold, dark place underground without any booze or women.”
Then Jews being Jews are like: “We can’t let everyone enjoy that. Why? I don’t know. If they could, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy the fact that they can’t enjoy it. So… make sure they know that they have to be crucified first… yeah that ought to keep people out.” Then that twisted, distorted desire of malevolent sadism grew out of control and we have the bloody, destruction and terror of 2,000 years of human foolishness to remember. (They think they are enjoying people’s suffering, but it only makes them bitter and miserable and turns them against eachother).
Example A: Current US government politics. They continue to perpetuate the injustice of purposeful suffering with the apathy of forced inequality, but look at the way they go about their daily lives. They are like rabid dogs tearing at each other’s throats with senseless venom and mindless hate. They don’t accomplish anything with their time. They have no daily bread to enjoy because they do no work and are continually upset about it, which is why they keep trying to take everyone else’s, even though that has never worked in the history of forever. You can’t take that away from someone because it’s not a thing. It’s a metaphor for something evil people reject because… I suppose they think they are better than the highest divine.
Had Jesus not been mistaken, he wouldn’t have thrown his life away for evil. He would have done something good with it instead. His death accomplished nothing. It was pointless because it served evil and only evil. It is what he did with his life that can be salvaged. Dying selflessly for others is a good thing, but Jesus didn’t actually do that. He was delusional in that regard, because his death had no impact on the lives of others aside from causing many more people to be murdered and none saved.