Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There's a simpler explanation than illiteracy.  Jesus is a composite character created by the literate authors who invented his many selves.

Agreed. I’m playing along with the notion that Jesus was an actual person. But even as a composite character, there’s noting in the Gospels or the Epistles to suggest he was illiterate.

Even if there was a living, breathing, pooping flesh-and-blood Jesus, he may very well have been illiterate. But to state it as fact is simply an assertion, nothing more.

Boru