Quote:Well it's not implausible that there was a cult leader around this time about whom the myths arose.
Implausible? No. But it reeks of special pleading since the jesus freaks will deny with their last breath that there is any historical basis for any other gods created by the human imagination.
Humanity has a track record. It creates gods to serve some purpose or other. With the advent of monotheism it now insists each monotheist now insists that his god is the only god.
And they expect rational people to take them seriously.
