Richard Carrier - The Hero Savior Analogy

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Of course Jesus, as written, did not exist. All that remains is to try and see what the stories might have been based on in reality.

People existed back then of whom hundreds could probably fit an extremely vague summary of the story, minus the obvious fiction. It's not really anything impressive. "Guy goes around claiming to be the son of god. Fools a few people with some tricks. Gets a bit of a following. Makes himself enough of an annoyance to get executed."