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It was my understanding that there was evidence outside of the "New Testament" that Jesus was a real person. The Roman historian Flavius Josephus mentions him for instance. It's always been my, admittedly unlearned opinion, that Jesus was just an eccentric Jewish preacher who started a cult around 2000 years ago. A cult that, because of the many contingencies of history like, Emperor Constantine the 1st converting to Christianity for instance, grew into the absurd religion that we see today.
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