Uhh... I think you may be misunderstanding me? I'm not saying that a messianic revolutionary by the name of Jesus never existed. I'm saying that the writings a

Uhh... I think you may be misunderstanding me? I'm not saying that a messianic revolutionary by the name of Jesus never existed. I'm saying that the writings about him were not written with historical accuracy in mind (that was not their purpose). There will be bits of historical accuracy contained within due to proximity to the actual events, but largely the real person Jesus has been lost to the fictional person Jesus (but oh how cool it would have been to interview him right before his execution!) Since most of the original sources used to build the gospels are gone, it's difficult to say what is what, or what the motivations of the original sources were. But one cannot take the corroboration of texts written 30-40 years apart as an indication of accuracy. When similar liberties are taken about the JFK assassination, we certainly cry foul!