Atheist Memes

No one besides fundies believes in the census nonsense.

the fact that they’re sticking it there is because they had to deal with Jesus being an actual guy from Nazareth

So it doesn't show up until Mark. No other documents mention it, includinf ones that talk about James who presumably would have been from there as well. We also know that no documents within a century of Jesus even mention that village existing. Josphius mentions ten villages around it without mentioning it. Archeological evidence isnt great there could have been a single barn there in 0 AD or not. Now we know that Mark made mistakes about the geography of the area. We also know that his grasp of Aramaic was pretty poor. It is very possible that he might have just misunderstood. He could have heard Nazar (sorta wandering Jewish monks) and with an old map screwed up.

In any case even if the oral tradition really did hold that this village (again it might not have existed) somehow was the place Jesus was from that doesn't prove the oral tradition was correct.

As for the other gospels mentioning it well they all copied off Mark so that is to be expected. Pseudohistory has no correction method. Once a mistake is made it just replicates.

They really, really want to attach him to King David by having him be born in Bethlehem, and him coming from Nazareth gets in the way of that.

Yeah but noticed Paul didn't do that since he was Jewish. The King David line was scattered to the wind, his descendents could be born anywhere. It took people who only spoke Greek and didn't understand the history of the region to work hard to make Jesus from Bethlehem.

So this is my point. We know the Gospels are full of lies. Why are you convinced that there is a kernel of truth behind them?