I’ve been checking out some YouTube material by Richard Carrier, and I’m impressed with him. He’s very knowledgeable and skilled in the theism/atheism debate arena, and gives effective defense of the mythicist position concerning the historicity of Jesus. I don’t have particularly strong feelings on that matter, I’m with George Walsh in regarding the existence of the historical Jesus as probable, but I wouldn’t firmly commit myself. Fact 1: there were itinerant preachers with devoted followin