The Three-Headed "Jesus" Problem

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Lol good point, my apologies!

Before Randy disappeared into a puff of smoke, he never answered why Bart Ehrman and Tim O'Neill are still atheists even after having a profound understanding of the evidence that we all lack. Unless I missed his answer.

It's because most christians would like it very much if everyone would play along with them when they conflate "Jesus existing" with "Jesus was god," so that they can use evidence of the former as evidence of the latter. You can see it in Randy's absolutely comical minimal facts offering, where "Jesus was crucified," is used as evidence of the resurrection. When there's no evidence of the supernatural claims, you have to pretend that the mundane ones overreach immensely to keep believing in the supernatural claims anyway.