Where did the Jesus myth come from?

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There's plenty of evidence for the historicity of Jesus.
There's plenty of evidence that people actually believed they had seen miracles.

The atheist can argue those people were mistaken in what they saw but not... that there was nothing to see.

As a fundamentalist of the US kind, you obviously don't accept the claims of RC miracles such as the sightings of the Virgin Mary. But if you check the newspapers a long time ago, there were reportedly tens of thousands of RCs who claim to have seen the sighting of Mary in Fatima, Portugal just as the three young village kids said they would.

Superstitious people will claim to have seen all kinds of rubbish. What happened 2000 years ago is worse. There were more superstitious people in those days. From the report of St Matthew's gospel, they even claimed that upon Jesus' death, MANY people were raised from the dead and they went to town and were seen by a huge number of people. But nobody believes that sort of rubbish these days. Even the fundiest fundamentalist from the Cathedral of St Fundy of Fundyland can't possibly believe that part of St Matthew was true and actually happened.