JESUS <3

[Homeless Nutter]

The Jesus described in the Bible didn't exist because the Jesus described in the Bible performed miracles. So I voted, no he wasn't real.

I am not even entirely sure whether he himself existed but from what I know about Mithras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSm7YPMQOSo - he may have been a folk legend that was based on someone else in history who perhaps did exist.

Well - the Mithras story is not really as clear-cut as QI presented it. That particular view seems to have been popularized by that "Zeitgeist" movie some 10 years ago, which was basically a load of ideologically motivated crap. 

While the name of Mithras was most likely taken from Persian mythology, the cult of Mithras, that was a contemporary of early Christianity - had little to do with the original Persian myths, which in turn don't really resemble the Christian ones. Therefore it's not clear who influenced whom.

Of course - cults and sects were common in Middle East 2000 years ago and Christians have had a lot of time and opportunity to slaughter the majority of competing cults as well as destroy whatever evidence there might have been of their having been plagiarised.

Still - the Mithras example is not particularly convincing.