Was Jesus a fabrication of the Romans?

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This is an intriguing theory, but I have a couple problems with it:
1) Were the Jews really that much of a threat? I'm no history expert, but I've never heard of overehelming Jewish missionary work. And they were crushed quite easily when they got annoying.

The jews had some major uprisings that had to be brutally suppressed.

Below is a link to the works by Josephus on the jewish war.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2850/2850-h/2850-h.htm

2) Why are there over 40 Gospels? Wouldn't it have been more useful to the Romans to write one version and stick to that?

Good point, if it had had one point of origin it would be consistent and was a mish mash.

3) what about Paul's writings? He was the first writer, but he told almost nothing of the life of Jesus. What purpose would his writings serve (especially since some of them were written in prison)?

This sounds like another Zeitgeist to me. Sounds good, but it just isn't plausible.

I agree seems like bull to me. The main point against it is that it really didn't work at what was supposed to be its main role of making less jewish jews. Hardly any jews actually became christians.