Very wrong  As an atheist I have no conflict  I had assumed for a long time that an historical Jesus was wellestablished  That made no difference to my dismissal of the magical element to the story  On the other side every Xian has their entire lifetime faith invested in the historicity of this one character  Its little wonder that impartiality and rigorous academic method is lacking from theologians After investing some time on the subject it turns out there is no reliable historical evidence for the historicity of Jesus  If there were a grain of truth to his miraculous existence there wouldve been massive contemporary and corroborating evidence  but there isnt  Theres simply testimony from decades later Christian poetry and some heavily interpolated writing  Jesus existence is simply a massive assumption that is perpetuated by Xian apologists