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Old 06-26-2008, 11:57 AM   #1
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legendary British king who appears in a cycle of medieval romances (known as the matter of Britain) as the sovereign of a knightly fellowship of the Round Table. It is not certain how or where (in Wales or in those parts of northern Britain inhabited by Brythonic-speaking Celts) these legends originated or whether the figure Arthur was based on a historical person. See also Arthurian legend.
Assumptions that a historical Arthur led Welsh resistance to the West Saxon advance from the middle Thames are based on a conflation of two early writers, the religious polemicist Gildas and the historian Nennius, and on the Annales Cambriae of the late 10th century. The 9th-century Historia Brittonum, traditionally attributed to Nennius, records 12 battles fought by Arthur against the Saxons, culminating in a victory at Mons Badonicus. The Arthurian section of this work, however, is from an undetermined source, possibly a poetic text.
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Because there's better evidence for Jesus being a real person.
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because people's souls and salvation are not based on Arthur's existence.

fear of obilivion makes people strange sometimes.
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In what way is Jesus not treated much the same as Arthur? Don't most people assume that there was probably a historical core to the Arthurian legends?
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because people's souls and salvation are not based on Arthur's existence.
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"Here lies Arthur, the once and future king."
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In what way is Jesus not treated much the same as Arthur? Don't most people assume that there was probably a historical core to the Arthurian legends?

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Read the quote above carefully - it is openly acknowledged Arthur might not have existed - that is not the case with Jesus.

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It is not certain how or where (in Wales or in those parts of northern Britain inhabited by Brythonic-speaking Celts) these legends originated or whether the figure Arthur was based on a historical person.
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In what way is Jesus not treated much the same as Arthur? Don't most people assume that there was probably a historical core to the Arthurian legends?
Βased on my limited experience with the Arthurian legend, it's actually more contentious than the Christ legend.
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because people's souls and salvation are not based on Arthur's existence.

fear of obilivion makes people strange sometimes.
Oh yes, because atheists certainly base their academic positions of the existence of Jesus on whether or not they will go to hell.
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In what way is Jesus not treated much the same as Arthur? Don't most people assume that there was probably a historical core to the Arthurian legends?
Βased on my limited experience with the Arthurian legend, it's actually more contentious than the Christ legend.

It might be interesting to check their relative contentiousness carefully. For example, why is not the phrase "cycle of romances" used about the gospels?
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Why isn't Jesus treated in an equivalent manner?
Know anyone that was burned for heresy for suggesting that Camelot was/wasn't real?
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