Historian explains why Jesus ''mythers'' aren't taken seriously by most Historians

[TheMessiah]

I'll let Min handle the tacitus and jospehus bits, if he can muster up the patience to do it for the hundredth time.  I'm glad that you and I agree that your comments are not the mythicist argument.  Seems a little perplexing now, though, since neither you nor mythicists argue that point....it was introduced, by you...because?  Hmn, let's check the tape.

I don't know about your comparison, but if it is anything like the irrational garbage that other mythicists here espouse, you might want to re-consider how similar the two are. It's a circular argument to say, "Jesus probably didn't exist because the texts about him are corrupt and include embellishment; therefore Jesus probably didn't exist."

lol...shameless.  If I hadn't already upvoted you I would.  

when mythicists use the same texts to argue for their case... well, except the ones that clearly require a historical Jesus,

and which ones.....if you would be so kind, are the ones which clearly require a historical jesus?

"The bible says so" isn't so great for historicity...it's perfectly fine for observing....what the bible says, which is the subject of the mythicist position.  The mythicist position doesn;t argue in the manner that you're claiming.  That the bible says something..to a mythicist, is just the acknowledgement of whats contained in the narrative, not it's historicity.   Perhaps you'll appreciate the difference...and come to understand why you're still pitching straw?

Did you not want an opportunity to respond to what a mythicist position actually argued?  No objections to the quoted statement in my last response?   If you'd rather to continue airing your misapprehensions that's cool too.  I just figured I'd give you the opportunity.

By handle; you mean a person who isn't a historian nor a scholar tell historians/scholars why their analysis is wrong because they have an ideological axe to grind --- I think it's the historians who have painfully had to do this hundreds of times towards people who are almost never scholars nor have a hard grasp on how to analyse ancient evidence.