Amhairghine
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Remember Kathryn, the whole think is just a story. There is no historical confirmation of any of it. We do know that the writer of this myth, had to be unaware that the Earth is a sphere and seeing nations on the other side was impossible. The gospel writers did not know there was an "other side of the Earth." The god and god man that they invented had to fit their limited knowledge of the world. They also did not know about epilepsy and schizophrenia so they assumed those people were possessed by demons, which were also imaginary beings.
The followers of Jesus were very primitive people only recently out of the Stone Age. They knew much less than the Greeks like Eratosthenes, who by the 3rd Century BCE already knew the Earth was "round" or a sphere and measured its circumference at 25,000 miles. Aristarchus of Samos in 290 BCE knew that the Sun, not Earth was centre of the Solar system. The Greek Pytheas observed ocean tides, in the early third century B.C. This navigator found out that tides were due to the position of the Moon. Ancient Greeks had already postulated that matter was composed of invisibly small parts called Atoms. And others had proposed evolution 2000 years before Darwin did so.
By comparison with the Greeks and Chinese, the Jews were primitive savages whose superstitious world would have been laughed at in the more civilised nations. Jesus merely reflected the ignorance of an ignorant people who were amongst the mose barbaric in the Roman Empire.
Amhairghine
