I think the mythicists are wrong (especially Richard Carrier who is a stupid asshole), I think there was probably a guy called Jesus who had followers, but we really don’t have much, if any, real evidence to back that up.

We have the Bible and 10 non Biblical mentions of Jesus. Unfortunately, every single one of the non-biblical writings are just describing Christians. They’re like “Christians are people who believe in a guy named Jesus who was killed by Romans.” While they prove that Christians existed when they were written, none of them lend any evidence to the existence of Jesus.

One of the most widely accepted arguments for believing he was real is that the Bible makes up a ridiculous census story that forces his parents to go to Bethlehem in order to fulfill the (misinterpreted) prophesy that the messiah would be born there. The argument is that he must have been real and born elsewhere for them to make up this dumb story.

And it’s about a completely different woman than Mary anyway. The prophet says “Look, the woman is pregnant, it will be a boy named Emmanuel and before he is a few years old this war will be over” and some idiot was like “This is definitely talking about Jesus”