The Absurdity of Christ

Featured image: the earliest rendition of the Crucifixion, a mocking graffito proclaiming of a fellow servant, "Alexamenos Worships His God," c. 200

Early Christians could have claimed Jesus was a prophet like Jeremiah or Isaac. They could have called him a great teacher like Pythagoras or Plato. Late Antiquity had no shortage of holy men or deep thinker…