The "H." Stands for "Hoax"

Jesus Christ never existed. So says Stanford University scholar Richard Carrier, who supports his claim by pointing out that JC scores fictionally high on the exist-o-meter:

According to Carrier, Jesus shares many of the following mythic traits, including a virgin birth and divine lineage. An attempt is made to kill him when he is a baby. He is spirited away from those plotting his murder. He is reared in a foreign country. He is crowned king. He reigns over a period of peace. He prescribes laws. He then loses favor with the gods or his subjects. He meets with a mysterious death. He dies at the top of a hill. His body turns up missing.

Jesus scores higher on this scale than almost all other heroes, including Hercules and Romulus, Carrier said. Only Oedipus scores higher.

I'm admittedly a willing skeptic here, and I also deeply abhor religion. And though nothing Carrier claims proves Jesus didn't exist -- as nothing can prove such a negative -- it seems more plausible to me that he never existed than that he, say, walked on water.