AR282, with reference to your paragraph

That a group of royals repackaged Julius Caesar, put the most unethical garbage anyone ever read into his mouth and said, "Here's you god, worship him or else" and people did without question? Now, that I believe quite easily.

I'm curious as to when (on a timeline, and you may use AUC if it doesn't irritate you the way BCE/CE let alone BC/AD must) you think this marketing job by "a group of royals" (whatever that means; what does it mean?) would most plausibly have occurred. Are we talking contemporaneously with Nero, or Nicaea, or when? There's manuscript evidence for some of the New Testament going back into the first half of the first century, and not much later for some of the heterodox (gnostic) literature about him.

What date, for example, do you suggest for the Gospel of Mark?

Or are you of the opinion that Saul of Tarsus was an undercover operative from the Roman MI5 and that it was in his version of Jesus that the royals hid their repackaged Julius?

What do you make of the fishes in the catacombs and all that?

I was going to ask you about Jessica, Jesus' little sister, but if you don't think Jesus ever existed you probably don't think his sister did either.

Haruo