On being repudiated, I decided against that for Napoleon and Hitler, despite their being defeated. Napoleon's followers helped him get into power a second time after his first defeat, and Hitler's followers only deserted him as they saw Germany getting conquered. Some of them considered who they might want to surrender to, and others stayed loyal to the bitter end.
An interesting feature about these comparisons is what Jesus Christ has in common with mythical people and not with historical people, at least as a general rule.
Like someone trying to kill him when he was a baby. That is a common part of legendary people's biographies, but it is rare in biographies of well-documented people. In fact, with well-documented people, there is no hint at all that they were coming, let alone someone trying to kill them in their infancy because of it. We don't see:
An interesting feature about these comparisons is what Jesus Christ has in common with mythical people and not with historical people, at least as a general rule.
Like someone trying to kill him when he was a baby. That is a common part of legendary people's biographies, but it is rare in biographies of well-documented people. In fact, with well-documented people, there is no hint at all that they were coming, let alone someone trying to kill them in their infancy because of it. We don't see:
- Psychiatrists vs. baby L. Ron Hubbard
- A cabal of rabbis, Jewish bankers, and Jewish revolutionaries vs. baby Adolf Hitler
- Slaveowners vs. baby Abraham Lincoln
- Fundamentalists vs. baby Charles Darwin
- Oil-company executives vs. baby Muammar Khadafy
- ...
