Is Christmas fake news?

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32. Intense study? On the contrary, most historians go along to get along

on the Jesus question as it has nothing to do with their personal field of interest. The only historians doing intense study of Jesus are the ones with an agenda to show how the gospel story is true, not whether it is true.

The facts remain that the only source we have for the existence of a corporeal Jesus are the tales told in the gospels, none of which are contemporaneous to Jesus supposed life. Matthew and Luke are based on Mark, which is not a history but a religious allegory. Luke states at the beginning of his gospel that his is not an eyewitness account.

Paul's epistles were written before the gospels and make no reference to any of Jesus' life events. In fact, Paul's Jesus is an entirely spiritual being who never was corporeal.

Those who claim Jesus existed and who seek to place him among other historical figures actually do a disservice to religious belief in general by removing him from the continuum of myth - which man has long availed himself to explain that which at the time was inexplicable - and fixing him in a time and place. All that does is diminish any impact the Jesus myth might have outside of the narrow confines of a person-based cult.