Quote:Insisting that there wasn't a Jesus in any shape or form is an optional point of view where atheists are concerned.
Don't put words in my mouth. On other threads hereabout I have opined that there could well have been 100 jesus bar josephs walking around loose in first century Palestine. The names were that common. So what?
Forgive me for shouting but THERE IS NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER for any lesser jesus. The only evidence are the rather silly gospel stories but they do not speak of these lesser jesuses. This is exactly the problem with every attempt to find "the historical" jesus. They don't like the miracles so they write them out of the story. But there is no evidence at all for any other jesus. And the one that the gospels talk about is flat-out fucking ridiculous.