Why did pagans not take any notice of Jesus?

[Yonadav]

I don't think that it's that weird that no one wrote anything about him that survived to our times. I imagine that he wouldn't have been written about much at all by anyone, if at all during his lifetime. What did he do? He had 12 disciples? That's not remarkable. He performed some miracles? Sure, and maybe thousands of people saw them and were very impressed. But to everyone who didn't see them they just would have been the sorts of stories that they frequently hear of. He was executed? So were a whole lot of other people. So during his life, he just wouldn't have been that big of a deal to write about. Minor scribes could have scribbled things about him sometimes if he was good a drawing crowds. But thousands and thousands of people probably had minor little stories about them scribbled by scribes, and most of those scribblings aren't around today. The chances of anything that was written about him during his lifetime surviving to this day simply aren't good.

The same could easily be said about the posthumous writings of Jesus. So, at best, we have some posthumous hearsay about a man named Jesus.

Not that convincing.

As someone else said, I forget who, we have about as much reason to believe Jesus is real as we do King Arthur.

I don't disagree with that. All I'm saying is that it is not reasonable to expect that there would be writings around about him that were written during his lifetime that would have survived to this day. Some people in this discussion seem to feel that there would be such writings sitting around here and there if he had existed.