Did Jesus exist?

[Cephus]

But it still doesn't make the slightest bit of difference if there was a historical Jesus or not.  We all know that J.K. Rowling based Professor Snape on a real teacher she had named John Nettleship.  That doesn't mean that Professor Snape, the guy who swung a wand and cast spells, was real.  Even if there was some itinerant preacher named Jehoshua running around first century Jerusalem, that means fuck all to justifying the Biblical magic man.

Who the fuck cares?

Nestor's position (and mine) is that the Jesus in the Bible is the historical Jesus but with some of his events being exaggerated by the authors (and a few events that didn't happen). Not that the Jesus in the Bible is a myth but based on some anonymous character in history. Again, sort of like Sai Baba, who was obviously a real person, but whose life was made a legend with lots of exaggerations.

It would have to be virtually all of the events grossly exaggerated because all of the supernatural stuff is complete and total bunk.  But still, that means nothing because for theists, it is the supernatural crap that they care about and any real person, however accurately the Bible describes them, is not the Jesus that these people have religious faith in.

So again, it's all a waste of time.  The Jesus of Christianity is not the Jesus of history, no matter what that happens to be.