For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus

[Confused Ape]

Crosses? I'm sure the vatican has tons! During the middle ages, none believers were making and selling the stuff like it was going out of style. But carbon dating really is a drag.

They might have started back in the early 4th century when Constantine's mother was given the job of finding holy relics. I wonder who sold her buckets of earth.

Relic Discoveries

Sozomen and Theodoret claim that Helena also found the nails of the crucifixion.

Helena left Jerusalem and the eastern provinces in 327 to return to Rome, bringing with her large parts of the True Cross and other relics,

Tradition says that the site of the Vatican Gardens was spread with earth brought from Golgotha by Helena

According to one tradition, Helena acquired the Holy Tunic on her trip to Jerusalem and sent it to Trier.

and pieces of the rope with which Jesus was tied on the Cross.

This argument has been going on for 2000 years.

I find it interesting seeing various ideas of how Christianity got started without a real man behind the myths and legends, though. My favourite is Allegro's Sacred Mushroom Theory.

Allegro argued that Jesus never existed and was a mythological creation of early Christians under the influence of psychoactive mushroom extracts such as psylocibin.[1]