Challenge to atheists: I find your lack of faith disturbing!

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Without the superpowers or divinity, Jesus wouldn't have been Jesus.

I'm not so sure about that. If you stripped away all the supernatural from the story of Jesus you still have some preaching, a weak philosophical base. I'm not saying that it has any validity. I think the miracles are likely added to the story to add validity to what he was saying. Esspecially since he was claiming to be the son of God. Nobody is going to accept that without the claim of miracles. Despite that the Jesus in the gospels did a tremendous amount of preaching that had nothing to do with the supernatural. Adding supernatural elements was frequently done in the past. A good example is the story of Marco Polo, much of which describes supernatural creatures encountered while he was traveling the world. Nobody would seriously say that he didn't travel to Asia or his non-supernatural descriptions didn't happen just because he has embellishments about dragons and whatnot.

If you strip away the supernatural from Jesus you come away with a rather believable person from the 1st century with a rather believable story. I think the phenomenon of Atheists believing Jesus to be entirely mythical rather than a high fictionalized version of a real person has to do with the psychology that people are willing to believe anything negative about the people they already don't like. Like in the original video where the host of the show questions that Paul wrote certain letters.

I need to note that although I think a historical basis for Jesus is likely, I don't find his teachings to be valid, nor do I believe in anything supernatural about him. I actually don't think it really matters. Other than pissing off Christians for no real reason, I'm not sure why any Atheist should actually care.