Mary's Ten Year Pregnancy

[Fake Messiah]

So even Carrier himself at one point thought the topic of a nonexistent Jesus to be fringe conspiracy theory... I wonder what changed his mind?

That there is no evidence that Jesus existed. The truth is, the arguments of the mythicist camp have never been rebutted – they’ve rarely even been debated.

Here is for instance what Even Philip R. Davies, Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield wrote few years ago:

I don’t think, however, that in another 20 years there will be a consensus that Jesus did not exist, or even possibly didn’t exist, but a recognition that his existence is not entirely certain would nudge Jesus scholarship towards academic respectability. In the first place, what does it mean to affirm that ‘Jesus existed’, anyway, when so many different Jesuses are displayed for us by the ancient sources and modern NT scholars? Logically, some of these Jesuses cannot have existed. So in asserting historicity, it is necessary to define which ones (rabbi, prophet, sage, shaman, revolutionary leader, etc.) are being affirmed—and thus which ones deemed unhistorical.

http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/dav368029.shtml

And don't forget one important thing: so far when it comes to Bible mythicists always turned to be right and I'm talking about Old Testament.