(February 6, 2016 at 6:13 pm)NaughtyButNice Wrote: The truth is no one really knows if he existed or not. Like Dorothy in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Jesus could have been the name of someone the writers knew and they used it because it sounded good and/or was a tribute to that person.
A compelling case has been made that the Wizard of Oz was a very clever satire. The NT doesn't even have that going for it.