- 21 Feb 2012 04:50
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Potemkin wrote:We live in a society whose moral values have been shaped by Christianity, the religion founded by Jesus, so it's hardly surprising that we would perceive him to be a 'good person', by which we simply mean that his moral values largely coincide with our own.moralities common to societies long before christianity came along.
The Romans certainly didn't regard him as a 'good person', but as a deranged troublemaker.contemporary Romans made no mention of him he was a non event, the first mention of a "Jesus" doesn't appear until the 2nd century ad