A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...

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And the evidence for that statement is?

I would not like to derail this thread;

I once thought he was nothing more than a myth before stumbling upon this.

http://www.rationalskepticism.org/christ...-t219.html

One of the users is called Tim O Neill, an Atheist himself who argues that Jesus must have existed due to the political atmosphere/effect he had on the Roman Empire.

Zeus had an amazing effect on the Greeks. Did he exist? It's just special pleading without actual evidence.