• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Corroborating records are

    And there’s not enough to prove that Jesus Christ existed…

    There’s a Jesus that got crucified, but no mention about him being able to perform miracles

    Like a third of the bible

    I don’t think any of it was written till decades after he supposedly died tho…

    Like, there’s lots of information about Bilbo Baggins in Lotr, that doesn’t mean it was written in the third age of Middle Earth homie.

    There are plenty of historical figures who we mostly agree existed despite having approximately the same amount of proof as for Jesus.

    Name one and I’ll disporve it.

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      3 months ago

      Like, there’s lots of information about Bilbo Baggins in Lotr, that doesn’t mean it was written in the third age of Middle Earth homie

      The conceit of the LOTR appendices is that Lord of the Rings, as published in English, is really just the Red Book that Bilbo writes at the end. Dr. Tolkien merely found the manuscript somewhere and has graciously translated it from Third Age common language into English for the benefit of us modern people.

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      Like, there’s lots of information about Bilbo Baggins in Lotr, that doesn’t mean it was written in the third age of Middle Earth homie

      The conceit of the LOTR appendices is that Lord of the Rings, as published in English, is really just the Red Book that Bilbo writes at the end. Dr. Tolkien merely found the manuscript somewhere and has graciously translated it from Third Age common language into English for the benefit of us modern people.