Was Jesus even born?

[longship]

21. Well, the evidence for his existence is a bit slim.

There's virtually none outside the gospel narratives, which themselves are rife with historic inaccuracies and anachronisms. (E.G., Nazareth did not exist as a town when Jesus was allegedly born. Nobody would ever have taken a tax census as reported in the birth narrative in Luke -- it's madness to believe it did. Did the witnesses at the tomb say anything? Mark says no, others, yes. Etc., etc., etc.) Much of the Jesus narrative has precedent in earlier legend and myth. This latter fact is most damning to Jesus' existence in history.

One cannot prove a negative. If there any kind of convincing evidence that Jesus existed, I would have to change my opinion on this, and I would do so gladly. But that would not argue for any claim for him to be any semblance of a god or sonogagod, which is another matter altogether.

Of course, I reject the latter on the general principle that it also has all the elements of myth (which nobody can credibly deny).