Why be good?

[Jenny A]

You guys are aware that Tim O'Neill, an atheist member of this forum and historian by training (Master's) has written extensively against the Jesus Mythers, like Richard Carrier and David Fitzgerald, right?

And that Bart Ehrman also agrees that Jesus was a real person?

But hey, if you feel that it would be beneficial to examine each and every one of the gods to determine whether one or more of them have some legitimate claims, even that has to be better than simply denying that no God exists at all simply because these have been discarded. Folks who HAVE undertaken such studies have come to the conclusions that Jesus, a a claimant, is in a class all His own.

You so realize what limited claims they do make right?  Jesus was a man, he preached, he was crucified (though probably not for blasphemy).  That's not remotely useful to proving that Jesus was divine or resurrected, or even a messiah.  Or that virtually all historians (not theologeans) admit that the NT is far, far from historically accurate?  Right?