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    If a Historian were to write a book about Churchill today

    There’s very throughout recordings of Churchill and his life already, even from the time he actually lived.

    Also what’s so exceptional about the mere existence and death of some random itinerant preacher that would require a particularly high standard of evidence?

    The entire religion formed around his person? His “wonders”? If there’s such a big fuss being made about his life, then surely you’d have records of said life from when he was still alive, not very long after his death.

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        WTF do supposed wonders have to do with whether he lived or not?

        Simple. If someone today would walk on water or turn water into wine, then it would be talked about everywhere, but not ages after their death. No idea why you find this so hard to comprehend.

        Or is the existence of Stalin suddenly up in the air because Tankies form a religion around the guy?

        No? There’s literally records of him existing, including video evidence. Stop being willfully obtuse. This is just bad faith bullshit arguing and you know it.

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            And people who don’t do it and thus aren’t talked about that often therefore don’t exist?

            It means that the Jesus person that the bible talks about and that formed this entire global religion didn’t exist, which in turn invalidates the entire Christian religion (although you can apply most of the same logic to other religions too, of course).

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                You’re talking about some dude with that name that lived at the time, I’m talking about the Jesus in the bible that ended up forming this religion. If you talk about something else, then please don’t derail the topic. Thank you.