draw a little too much attention to himself. Atheist here, but I expect I'd find there was a real, historical Jesus. Maybe I don't frequent enough religious discussions, but there seems to be a dearth of threads concerning whether there was a real Buddha, a real Mohammed, a real Zoroaster, and so on. It's always JC who seems to get singled out for not having really existed. There have been enough charismatic individual who founded religious movements in historical, even modern, times that I would expect to find a real Jesus. Supernatural powers? No, I don't think he had any. Nor do I think that Christianity as we have it today necessarily carries much of whatever message he preached. But, yeah, I think there was a Jesus. Maybe 2000 years from now there'll be a message board where people will debate whether or not there really was an L. Ron Hubbard or whether or not he was made up by 22nd century new age gurus as an amalgamation of 20th and 21st century teachers. Josephus describes a number of would be Messiahs who got themselves killed by the Romans. The passage where he appears to be describing Jesus is believed by practically all historians to be heavily forged, but many argue that it still has an authentic core. A 2nd Century Roman historian named Tacitus also says that the Christian religion (which he calls an "evil") was named after someone called "Christus" who was put to death by Pilate. Tacitus