re: Does anyone actually believe this

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Via wiki's page on the historicity of Jesus. You can check out the sources, there is universal agreement among secular historians that Jesus existed.

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You're right, universal expert agreement has always been respected.

Genro, I seem remember you in a discussion about climate change. Am I remembering correctly?

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Y'all spent 10 pages debating something that's not up for debate. If I got on here and said the ocean wasn't salty, would you argue this long? Or would you just accept that I'm a stubborn ignoramus/troll and move on?

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There's a growing group of critics that are starting to come out right now -- Richard Carrier is usually the flag bearer for the contemporary movement and has just produced a peer reviewed, cited book on the evidence for Jesus or lack thereof.

He recently demolished Ehrman, and is gaining steam as we speak.

If you're going to cite experts, you had better prepare to bring up their works.