A great read!

"Here are 5 historical truths that suggest Jesus never existed"

Teasers:

2. The earliest New Testament writers seem ignorant of the details of Jesus’ life, which become more crystalized in later texts.

3. Modern scholars who claim to have uncovered the real historical Jesus depict wildly different persons.

"For [author] David Fitzgerald, these issues and more lead to a conclusion that he finds inescapable:"

"Jesus appears to be an effect, not a cause, of Christianity. Paul and the rest of the first generation of Christians searched the Septuagint translation of Hebrew scriptures to create a Mystery Faith for the Jews, complete with pagan rituals like a Lord’s Supper, Gnostic terms in his letters, and a personal savior god to rival those in their neighbors’ longstanding Egyptian, Persian, Hellenistic and Roman traditions."

[alternet.org]