Is Christianity based on older myths?

[pocaracas]

Isn't he cute...?

So wrote a roman, who got the tale from people who had contacted some christians... in Rome!

Still doesn't render Jesus real.

So wrote a historian, and a senator, who opposed Christianity, who was never corrected by any other Roman, just 60-70 years after Christs death. You afraid to follow the evidence? Your idea that he got the 'tale' from some random people and not, for example, historical records, or even eye witnesses given the small time frame, is 100% ungrounded speculation. Why on earth would a Roman senator who opposed Christianity, take a Christians word from anything, above the Roman records, or above Roman eyewitnesses?

Watch this:
The idea that he got the 'tale' from eye witnesses is ungrounded speculation! boooya!!
Especially, given the large time frame (60+ years, you say?) and average life expectancy back then... oh and travel requirements.
I'm not saying no one did travel, but... come on... what are the odds that a person, at least in his teens, would witness the JC events, would live for some 60 years AND travel to Rome to tell the 'tale' to a senator who would then write about it?

You expect too much of people from way back then...
Most wouldn't venture more than 10~20 miles from their homes.
Average life expectancy was about 45.

Also, have you ever played a game we, around my place, call broken telephone? It's very educating about how a message can be degraded along a relatively small chain of transmission, if all the links are human.