Propaganster wrote:
Every single document making reference to Jesus which would be contemporany to his life would have been destroyed? Every single one? I find that a bit hard to believe. They obviously did not destroy every copy of the apostles, but if they could destroy every contemporany account, it was also surely within their power to do so?  
Or there wasn't much written to begin with. I don't think prohibiting or destroying texts would have been beyond powerful people.

Obviously, going by my theory, there came a point where it was acceptable to write about Jesus, but maybe not much, hence so little. If the absence of contemporary documentation suggests Jesus didn't exist then couldn't it just as easily be asked if Jesus was a fabrication or composite why isn't there contemporary documentation? There are no limitations on what you make up afterall. The absence of anything suggests more to me that writings were destroyed and/or prohibited.