[kulahan]

A billion people don't believe there's some truth to what the homeless man outside of your window is saying, and someone leading a legitimate-enough revolution that they're put to death by the King of Rome is probably a tiny bit more believable.

But I get what you're saying either way. I just think it's an interesting factlet.

[bloppe]

How many millions of people think the world is literally 6000 years old because of that book? Does that make it believable to you?

[sbuttgereit]

argumentum ad populum and argument from authority in one sentence... :-)

[eru]

Who's the King of Rome? The Romans famously got rid of their kings long before anyone ever thought of Christianity, and later it took until the fall of the Empire before anyone was both a king and in charge of Rome.

[potatoman22]

After the Roman Republic, they switched to having an emperor. Jesus was crucified during this Roman empire. The kings of Rome were around 600 years before this. They meant the emperor, not the king.