Did Jesus exist?

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I don't care about other historical figures, I haven't studied them.

I don't consider an account to be very reliable when it has made up elements in it. I think this is a pretty sensible attitude. I'm not saying nothing else in it happened, just that I'm certainly not going to take their word for it. I would hope other historical figures have more behind them than just stories like these. If they don't, well, I wouldn't believe they necessarily existed either.

If the default historical position is to believe everything you read unless it can be proved wrong, then history is a bit bollocks.

I think I'll leave this now, I've said everything I can usefully say.