"27, 21 March 2006 (UTC) 

 :Excellent summary, but I would add that I came to my own position precisely by comparing the Gospels to the known history. I found the Gospels to contradict not only known history but each other at every opportunity. And seeing how they've got more myth and allegory than self-described fact, it was but a short hop to conclude that they're exactly what they appear to bethe Christian equivalent to the Egyptian Book of the Dead or any other religion's sacred ""histories.""   

 ::And thus we have the nonexistence hypothesis.  05:"