We live in the first age in the history of the world…

…where blithering historically illiterate people can reject the historical existence Jesus Christ and be widely hailed a bold iconoclastic geniuses by lots of other blithering historically illiterate people.

Instead of, you know, being jeered off the stage as blithering historically illiterate people.

But then again, 1 in 4 Americans don’t know the earth orbits the sun.  However, we do hasve awesome self-esteem and feel really *good* about our ignorance.

For further reading, see Against Hannibal, a little primer on how to read ancient historical sources like a complete dumbbell.