Quote:It doesn't matter if Socrates or Jesus existed.
Actually it does. As H. L. Mencken observed....
Quote:There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus rose from the dead or he didn’t. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if he did not, then it is sheer nonsense.
So, whether or not Socrates was a creation of Plato's does not matter but this jesus shit is something very different.