Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

The Absurdity of Christ

Kenaz Filan
Mar 17, 2020
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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…

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