Ancient 'Jesus midwife' tomb to be excavated by archaeologists Associated Press

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. There's literally no reliable evidence that the Bible's Jesus of Nazareth was anything but

a fictional character.

Interestingly, there are tons of writings (and even court documents) dated to the time and place he supposed lived that have been discovered and documented by scholars over the centuries.

Yet, there's literally not one contemporaneous account of his existence (i.e. written by someone who knew or saw him in real life) in all of those writings. And this guy was going around healing lepers and turning water into wine and walking on water, which really would've been pretty notable news at the time. I'd imagine there were no David Copperfield's, or Criss Angels at that time.

I'd also mention that the early Catholic Church spent CENTURIES looking for such writings that would confirm some verifiable fact of his life, and of any possession that could be confirmed to have belonged to him. They found nothing concrete whatsoever.

Jesus ... by normal academic standards on subjects of this kind, should be judged as almost certainly a fictional character (or at least, very largely fictional), and that's leaving aside the 'miraculous' shit he's claimed to have done (which he didn't because they're impossible). Just his existence period is unverifiable at best.

Sorry to rain on the Xmas parade and all ...