The problem with the “Jesus” is not if a person by that name existed or not. The problem is that when I say “Jesus” everybody should be coerced to refer to Jesus of the Bible writers, not Jesus Veracruz who was found dead in a trunk of a car (Damn those Mexican drug cartels).

Another thing you’re coerced is to think that the Bible was always a single book and has actually a “time line”. If the Old Testament has still a debatable time-line events, the New Testament (even written more recently than the Old Testament) is an amalgam of disparate events forced to a time-line. You are forced to believe that initially there was a Guy who walked together with some 12 other guys and the Guy made some miracles and said something smart. Then some witnesses went running in the four cardinal points and talked and talked and talked until after 60 years later from presupposed events, some writers in these four cardinal points put down whatever they heard. And boy and behold, these writers didn’t write only whatever they heard, but more …because when you hear somebody talking about some guy making miracles you get “holy inspired”.

The “holy” writings did not stop; some writers copied “the original testimonies” as if they were taken from the mouth of the Guy. When copied, the new manuscripts had a lot of “holy amalgam” of interpretations, religious practices, translations, plagiarism from other contemporary cultures… all that because… well, people need to believe in something. You have to have a divine empowering, something more powerful than old religions. So, here came, after more than 300 years after the “Jesus” event, an emperor who used Christian a sect belief to empower his government.

The emperor was Constantine the first. He helped Christianism to become a state religion, and when you have a government to tell you in what to believe… then you better believe that the Jesus of newly released edition of the Bible (gathered from a stack of thousands of “holy” booklets and approved by a high “holy” council) existed and has a dynasty.

All in all, some other Christian sects did not believe that Constantine holy council was Christian enough so there were some other booklets thrown out and others added… this apocryphal brouhaha and all that…until nowadays when I’d like to have my own cherry picked Bible where only Charismas music, lights, shopping, gifts is the real, one and only Jesus. Yes, “Jesus Saves”, but I like to spend a lot on Christmas… especially my wife.