Damned Catholics

[Angrboda]

I care because the historical Jesus is being used as a stalking horse for claims about the miracle man by the same people who are supporting the existence of an actual historical Jesus, and who have a vested interest in promoting the historical Jesus for that very reason.  That conflict of interest pretty thoroughly undermines the credibility of those "scholars."  What were you saying about a weak case?

Wrong, its actually the mythicists like Robert Price that have an agenda and a vested interest in proving that no such person as Jesus existed in history. Price is a member of the Council for Secular Humanism and its Center for Inquiry Institute.

But as Ehrman pointed out in his famous debate with Price 2 years ago, the debate has to be plainly about the historicity of Jesus and put aside all vested interests and political agendas, just look at the evidence - meaning the standard of evidence that is used in and acceptable for historical studies and scholarship.

The existence of an agenda on the part of the Mythicists, even if true, doesn't eliminate the problem of having an agenda among the historical Jesus scholars. This is nothing more than a tu quoque argument, which I'm sure you know is a fallacy.