The Catholic Encyclopedia defines Freethinkers as "those who, abandoning the religious truths and moral dictates of the Christian Revelation, and accepting no dogmatic teaching on the ground of authority, base their beliefs on the unfettered findings of reason alone." So, Freethinkers are those who seek the truth about religion, rather than relying on dogmatic teaching.
On this definition, not all Freethinkers belive that Jesus was a myth. Many believe that he was a real person who lived in the first century CE, although he was not divine and may not even have intended to start a religious movement.
There is strong evidence that the biblical Joshua son of Nun, was originally a solar deity. In Egyptian mythology, Nun was the primordal Egyptian god and father of the Egyptian sun god, Ra; Joshua could command the sun and moon to stand still until the battle was finished (Joshua 10:12); and so on. There is also potentially a thread of Joshua as solar deity through The Bible from the time of the Exodus right up until post-Exilic times. The name Jesus is a modified Greek translation for Joshua (Hebrew: Yeshua, a late form of Yehoshua). Thus, it is possible to speculate that the worship of Jesus had its antecedents in solar worship.
Michael Grant (The Emperor Constantine) says that, at the time of Constantine, Jesus was often called Sol Justitiaeand depicted by statues resumbling the young Apollo or Sol (Sun gods). Clement of Alexandria wrote of Jesus driving his chariot across the heavens like the sun god. Even naming the Christian holy day, Sunday, and commemorating the birth of Jesus on December 25th, appear to associate Jesus with the sun god.
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Because there is not a single shred of reliable historical evidence to suggest that Jesus ever existed, and the stories told about him are remarkably similar to those told about other Messiahs and sun-gods around (and before) that time.
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