<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I'm kind of agnostic on this issue (of Jesus as a once existing real person, though one without any miraculous powers), but I lean toward there being no single individual -- that the Jesus stories, even the ones in the Gospels, are more likely amalgams of many traditions. I feel the same might be true for some other religious figures.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Regards,</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Dan</span></div><br></div></body></html>