Another reason Buddhism doesn't get a pass.

[Brian37]

How much evidence is there that Buddha was a real person?

Or, I should say, intended to be a real person.

Well most of the Buddhist world will tell you he was a real person. I did run into one article that disputed the time he achieved Nirvana and that article has different sects claiming different times, but what else is new, competing sects just like any other religion.