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  • Only ones who dissapointed me were Star Trek: Voyager actors. Its the only thing I got attached to as a kid.

    Robert Beltran - Commander Chakotay

    Roxann Dawson - B’Elanna Torres

    Both transphobes and trump supporters who won’t shut up about no one wanting to invite them to Star Trek stuff anymore.

    I used to feel bad for Rob because he got such a shit treatment in ST:V in terms of writing and because his character fell victim to Jamake High water’s grifting (look him up if you want to see why 90’s native american characters kinda suck).







  • I’m not saying it’s wrong to have enjoyed it or found it thought-provoking, but it’s definitely not a text that gets mentioned without comment when there’s some pedantic Romaboo dragging his knuckles around the comm. :p

    This is specifically why I like you Pug. I think it’s far too common on the internet for some one to share a fun fact they learned and then get dog piled by people just wanting to be right without respect for that person’s desire to learn.

    That being said, those are all points that seemed important and Aslan did bring up and I latched onto. I as a fresh enjoyer of the field of Christology, couldn’t tell you where the problems are and I’m gonna be annoying and ask for a good intro to why Aslan sucks AKA SoUrCe? but I’m also gonna go looking on jstor and my university library for book reviews after.

    Otherwise, I was going to read Bart Erhman’s “Did Jesus Exist?” book next. Maybe I’ll check for reviews first this time, but what are your suggestions for historical Jesus stuff?


  • It’s… an extremely dubious piece even as speculation.

    I honestly don’t know how any piece on the historical Jesus could be less speculative. It seems we only have one non biblical text that mentions Jesus specifically and its Josefus saying they killed James brother of Jesus sometime before 70 CE. I can’t remember if that was solid evidence for some other reason than timing since both James and Jesus were incredibly common names.

    In my opinion, Aslan did a fine job explaining the tensions and why they were high outside of Jesus’s cult and then extrapolating from there. But this is just my first book on the historical Jesus I’ve ever read and it was recommended by some guy on reddit I guess 4 years ago.

    So please consider any defenses as Luke warm defenses at best. I’m not married to these ideas

    Paul is generally accepted to have died before the First Jewish-Roman War, and the Romans continued to regard Christianity as dangerous and fringe for the next 200 years - including intermittently crucifying Christians for spreading the word of their faith.

    Yes, I was referencing the people who would have followed Paul’s tradition since he is the one who makes claims about a metaphysical kingdom of god in heaven as opposed to the claim that this is about restoring Israel to Jewish rule. The idea was attractive to non-Jews thus facilitating new Roman Christians and it was common practice to attribute writings to a founder of a tradition which is why most of Paul was probably not written by him (?). Same thing as to why all of Socrates was written by Plato.