The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past… - William Saroyan

Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs is better men.
(Something About a Soldier (1940))

Jesus never said anything about absurdity, and he never indicated for one flash of time that he was aware of the preposterousness of his theory about himself. And he didn't even try to make the theory understandable in terms of the reality and experience of the rest of us. For if everybody else is also not what Jesus said he was, what good is what he said?

if a man is an honest idiot. i can love him. but i cannot love a dishonest genius