Intelligent Atheists: Who/What Was Jesus?

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I think the best response is one we've had already: the question is irrelevant. Any link between a real person and the character in the bible is so weak as to be meaningless.

Some maniac wandered about preaching about the end of the world, and finally caused enough of an annoyance that he got executed. So what? Maybe he even blathered about being the son of God. I can do that too.

I feel pretty confident he didn't claim to actually be God though, that's clearly a later invention. But again, even if he did, so what? I can do that too, and indeed have done.