It is my belief that if you can prove that Jesus is not a historical person, you pretty well have the fundamentalist/literalist carnalizing, fetishizing, feverish Christians by the
... you get the picture. 
Like countless scholars who have made this quest before us, we have found that looking for a historical Jesus is futile. It is astonishing that we have no substantial evidence for the historical existence of a man who is said to have been the one and only incarnation of God throughout all history. But the fact is we do not. So, what have we got?
- > A few mentions of "Christians" and followers of someone called Crestus among all the extensive histories of the Romans
> Some fake passages in Josephus among all the substantial histories of the Jews
> A handful of passages from among the vast literature of the Talmud, which tell us that a man called Yeshu existed and had five disciples called "Mattai, Nakkia, Netzer, Buni, and Toadah"
> Four anonymous gospels that do not even agree on the facts of Jesus' birth and death
> A gospel attributed to Mark written somewhere between 70 and 135 CE, which is not even meant to be an eyewitness account and certainly isn't from its ignorance of Palestinian geography and the fact that it misquotes Hebrew scripture
> Gospels attributed to Matthew and Luke, which are independently based on Mark and give entirely contradictory genealogies
> A gospel attributed to John, which was written some time after the other three and certainly not by the disciple John
> The names of 12 disciples for whom there is no historical evidence
> The Acts of the Apostles, which reads like a fantasy novel, misquotes the Hebrew Old Testament, contradicts Paul's letters, and was not written until the second half of the second century
> A selection of forged letters attributed to Peter, James, John, and Paul
> A few genuine letters by Paul, which do not speak of a historical Jesus at all, but only of a mystical dying and resurrecting Christ
> A lot of evidence which suggests that the New Testament is not a history of actual events, but a history of the evolution of Christian mythology
Maybe (if we realy want to believe it), something of this could (perhaps) be evidence of a historical Jesus. This cannot be ruled out. But the evidence that suggests that Jesus is a mythical figure is so compelling that we will need something far more substantial than any of this to undermine it.
- Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy from The Jesus Mysteries
Question for debate: Is Jesus a historical person or is he a mythical figure of a dying and resurrecting godman like Dionysus, Osiris/Horus, Attis, Serapis, Tammuz, Krishna, Prometheus, Mithra, etc.?
