Did Jesus exist?

[GrandizerII]

I believe so myself. Here's a great resource besides the bible. Interesting that many christians don't even look at this:

http://www.near-death.com/science/research/jesus.html

I think that he was a religious loon, a total nut-job.  But, yes, the "Jesus didn't exist" meme, IMHO, needs to be expunged from the atheistic consciousness.

It's ok to consider Jesus may not have existed, but to date, it hasn't been established that mythicism is a better position than Jesus historicism. There is not yet a good Jesus mythicist theory, whether we're talking about Doherty's theory or the theory of amalgamation or Acharya's copycat theory or some other variation.

Also, some thing to always keep in mind, the real evidence for Jesus' historicism is in the context surrounding the New Testament, not the books themselves.