RELIGION POLL #2: Did Jesus exist?

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Eh, I think he did.
But you know how it goes,
"History became legend. Legend became myth." - LOTR
Been plenty of people history, but we can't always see them clearly, like statues in the rain, their refined features blur.
Yet are famed enough, that reproductions abound, and what they may have been, 'is.
Or is what exists an idealization?
I think it's too bad when I glance at some older philosophies whether ancient China, or ancient Greece.
Philosopher we only know the nubs and gists of their ways.
"Do you know how many sages have been drowned under the waves of past eras?
Do you know that sagely words were spoken, but history was written?" - Ravages of Time

Still, some histories and words seem reasonably enough preserved.
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“Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles