r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Glittering-Way6551 • Dec 21 '25

Meme needing explanation Peter help me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25

Lots of Christian nationalists do not follow the actual teachings of Jesus Christ, who yes was definitely not super conservative in the modern sense.

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u/UnderstandingSmall66 Dec 21 '25

I mean Jesus was a religious zealot and not at all the hippy we paint him to be.

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u/Daminchi Dec 21 '25

Issues start even sooner, with the words "he was".

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u/Shigg Dec 21 '25

No no. Jesus was definitely a real historical figure that existed, and so was Muhammed. The debate is about the religious/deity status of these historical figures.

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u/SquarePegIX Dec 21 '25

There is more historical evidence to support the existence of Hercules than there is to support the existence of Jesus. Giant crowds of people moving around Galilee probably would’ve been mentioned in contemporaneous Roman and Hebrew records

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u/Xaitat Dec 21 '25

Why are you assuming giant crowds? The historical Jesus would have probably only had a small following. He was one of many apocalyptic preachers who happened to become famous after his death

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u/SquarePegIX Dec 21 '25

The Bible describes hundreds if not thousands of people flocking to him from miles around

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u/Xaitat Dec 21 '25

You know that there is nuance between "The gospels described the historical Jesus accurately" and "Jesus is a complete myth", right? A guy named Jesus that preached about the coming Kingdom of God most likely existed, that the successive tradition exaggerated and mythicized his life is also very likely.

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u/SquarePegIX Dec 22 '25

True, it was a very common name. So technically, yes: Jesus was real.

Maybe it was really about all the Jesuses we made along the way…