Patrick S.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger must be up there, too.
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Who is the most famous person in human history?
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Regginator
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lol wtf is this? You may or may not agree with the teachings of Christianity and Islam, but Jesus and Muhammed were real, historical documented people. They existed. Unless you were trolling and somehow I managed to not pick up those signals.
Chuckie
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True, but I never claimed everybody who uses that calendar knows about Jesus I was merely replying to the comment that not everbody uses that calendar while the truth is that (almost) everyone uses it and not only the West.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I wonder how many people actually know that Disney was a person though.
The Salt Life
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Jesus Christ (if he was real, I like to believe he was)
Santa Claus a close second....
But if we need proof of living people
Probably Hitler, don't know where people are getting Julius Ceasar from, do people even talk about him after that one week in junior high and that other week in highschool.
People like to associate Hitler with everything....Everything.
Santa Claus a close second....
But if we need proof of living people
Probably Hitler, don't know where people are getting Julius Ceasar from, do people even talk about him after that one week in junior high and that other week in highschool.
People like to associate Hitler with everything....Everything.
efyu_lemonardo
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karmaforgotme
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This thread is just awful with people who just can't admit Jesus is the most famous person in human history. Someone even try to say there are more followers of Islam than Christianity (you are only about half a billion off). Did he exist? As you state most of the signs point to yes, and at this point it doesn't even really matter. I don't even believe in these religious fairy tales, but people are trying way too hard to deny something that can't really be truly debated.
I'm sure you thought you were really smart saying this too. There's more evidence Jesus existed than there is of you existing.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Kanye West
Count Dookkake
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The title of my thesis.
ricardo_sousa11
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Apart from religious names, i'd say Einstein, Hitler, Mozart, Michael Jackson and thats about it probably.
AuthenticM
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The Salt Life
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Yeah....We all know Bob alright
Crap yeah I forgot, Walt Disney, that's the person I consider most famous. Hitler is more infamous
ClosingADoor
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The average person in Africa is Christian or Muslim, so they'll know why.
Straight Edge
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Yes this. I am not religious and the answer is clearly Jesus Christ. Nearly 1/3 of the planet is Christian and there are billions of people who at least know who he is.
But those who read Coran probably know other characters better than Jesus.
Given the influence that Europe has had for the past 500 years, every corner of the world knows about Jesus regardless of their faith.
Muhammad would be second for similar reasons.
Chuckie
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That doesn't matter though.
Even if they are stanning Muhammad, they still know Jesus. So probably more people know Jesus and therefor he is more 'famous'.
Cindi Mayweather
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Isn't it hilarious how atheists and their science value "evidence" and "rational discourse" but try to convince themselves, against all evidence of pretty much every historian, that Jesus wasn't real? Amazing look at the human mind.
autumnleaf
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I feel like some people think that by accepting there was a man named Jesus who was crucified means accepting everything written in the Bible.
bahamut zero
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Are we really including fictional characters now? x:
SlickShoes
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Why do so many people rank Muhammad above Buddha?
Sometimes I forget they are different persons
Cindi Mayweather
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Mohammad is closer to time than Buddha. For Buddha, the best we have right now are diggings in Nepal from the 6th century that suggest his biography as being real. Personally, I see no reason he wasn't real. Similarly to Jesus, his followers laid things down orally and in a concise manner. For example, Jesus must have said the Lord's Prayer very often and the disciples learned to memorize it. So to, Buddha had many of the same features in the suttas.
One of the most prominent things that show Jesus is real is HOW he is written about the Bible. For example, the disciples write different accounts. John cannot hold back to boast that HE was the first to the tomb and beat Jesus's most loyal disciple Peter to it. This is a massive detail. Why? Because historically, fiction was not written with that kind of detail until at least the 1800's. It's a detail in writing talking specifically of a personal account. This was not done for fictional stories back then. It's in the details that show that Jesus was real.
Islam has more adherents, those adherents are more vocal in their diaspora, and Islam has generally had a larger sphere of influence.
MrS
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JimiNutz
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Easy answer.
Louis CK did a bit on this. The entire world is counting the years since his supposed birth.
And Christmas is a holiday or yet a season.
MJ, Elvis, or other stars and scientists doesn't have that power on this earth to make a season for themselves!
Jesus was real so was Mohammad I'm agnostic born Hindu but I'm not stupid enough to pretend they didn't exist . Santa Claus tho
Edit Julius Caesar is a very western thing the only concept of him the rest of the world
Knows is the word cesearian and even then most don't know it's a reference to him
autumnleaf
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Wait ppl in this thread actually think Jesus didn't exist .... Ridiculous . You may not believe in Christianity but that's some next level fake news
The Albatross
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It's Jesus.
mariachi507
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Check out the thread. It's agreed upon by the majority of historians that Jesus existed. Whether he was in fact the messiah and could perform miracles is a different matter.
I recently got into the history of the bible, more specifically the new testament. It's really fascinating to me.
I don't know much about the Coran, so maybe I'll end up saying something really silly, but is it really enough to have Jesus in the Coran to say he's famous to muslims? I mean, I know Jesus is there and they have a different view of him than christians, but I remember reading some years ago that there were a lot of illiterate muslims so unless Jesus stories are constantly taught to these people, they wouldn't know that his name is in the Coran as they can't read.
I guess sheer amount of followers, christianity has something like 2 billion followers and islam 1.5 billion, while buddhism has maybe 400 million. But this somewhat ignores that buddha is known to a lot of chinese, just like confucius and lao tzu, even if they are not buddhist per se.
MrS
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By your own admission, it's not 100% clear that he did exist. Hence why I agreed with the big homie that mentioning religious figures is daft.
The Albatross
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We factually know that Jesus existed. At least, there is more evidence that Jesus existed than there is of any other contemporary of his age or after his age up until the invention of the printing press, some 1400 years later.
ClosingADoor
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Hari Seldon
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Tsar literally translates to Caesar lol.
But yeah it is definitely Jesus. If not a religious figure then Ghengis before Caesar.
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