Dr. O' Nothing wrote:
Hey man, you don't have buy all the ressurection, holy spirit shit. I don't. But the dude Jesus was a real dude, not some supernatural being. This is just historical fact .
Jesus's existence has not been historically established. No contemporary documentation of the event, no archaeological proof, nothing certain exists today to attest to the truth of a real presence.
No tomb, no shroud, no archives, except for a sepulcher invented in 325 by Saint Helena, mother of Constantine.
Most existing documents are skillfully executed forgeries. Burned libraries,accidental fires, Christian persecutions..the media revolution that replaced papyrus with parchment and presented the copyists, sectarian zealots of Christ, with a choice between the documents to be saved and those to be cast into outer darkness.
Then there were the liberties taken by monks who established editions by ancient authors to which they added what they considered to be missing.
The Christian archives are the result of ideological fabrication.
When an anonymous monk recopied the Antiquities of the Jewish historian Josephus (arrested and turned into a double agent, a collaborator with Roman power), when that monk had before him the Annals of Tacitus or Suetonius's Lives of Twelve Caesars (and was astonished to find no mention of the story he believed in), he added a passage in his own hand and in all good faith, without shame and without a second thought, without wondering whether he was doing wrong or committing a forgery. He could do it the more easily because in those days one did not approach a book with the eye of a modern reader, concerned with the truth and respectful of the authenticity of the text and the author's rights Even today we read these writers of antiquity in manuscripts copied several centuries after they were written, and contemporaneous with Christian copyists who redeemed their contents by arranging them to swim with the flow of history.