For anyone who actually read the Bible....

[LeftyMom]

21. Actually you're disproving your own point.

There is excellent corroborating evidence for all three of the figures you mentioned. Contemporaries wrote to them, about them, quoted them. Even though a great deal of Greek writing was lost in the dark ages we know a great deal. The documentary evidence for Jesus, which would have been lovingly preserved if it existed, was all written a generation or more later, and is all sketchy (Josephus) or contradictory and not especially grounded in reality (the gospels.)

The notion that anybody was a particular pain in the ass to the Romans, who wrote EVERYTHING down in official records, gossipy letters, salacious graffiti and everything in between, yet somehow they didn't mention him in any of the copious records of the period is only persuasive if you have absolutely no familiarity with Roman history. They were obsessed with the ongoing problem of pacifying Judea, they wrote about problems there endlessly, the notion that any major figure there was unrecorded while causing enough of a stir to merit execution is preposterous.

We have more records of random army wives on the frontiers of the Empire than we do for Jesus.