Quote:The current line of thought, bending both ways, is that Jesus would most likely be a composite character.
It's still special pleading. Xtians would be the first ones to denounce Zeus, Osiris, Quetzlcoatl, Odin, Marduk, Shiva, etc as made up shit. But THEIR boy? No that has to be real. These attempts to define him down into something believable are an attempt to reconcile two contradictory positions.