Did Jesus Exist? by Bart Ehrman

It's in practice that matters
​ That depends on the context, if he was demanding it from the Turin Shroud then maybe it would be reasonable.Not that it would prove anything - except that it's the DNA of a man. I'm not sure what the DNA of a God would look like.
​ What's wrong with demanding evidence of Jesus' existence? It's how we decide whether things exist or not. The fact that it's missing or very weak is unfortunate for your case but there it is.The fact that we might expect there to be little to no evidence given the circumstances isn't our problem. Without the evidence, how can we know?
​ We'd like to see much better evidence than there is in order to conclude 'yes probably', otherwise, well y'know...Wouldn't it be nice to see a record of the crucifixion that I'm sure some bureaucrat would have made? How about some writings from the man himself? Or even some contemporaneous writing from his followers who had actually met him? Or just a few notes from a historian of the time following a guy who was making a bit of a disturbance in the Temple, speaking on mounds and drawing crowds that was so annoying to the authorities that they killed him. We can speculate forever, but if it ever existed we don't have it so we're left with a guess.Just to be clear, my position isn't that there is absolutely nothing, I just think that what we do have is far too weak to be useful.

Um, who cares exactly?I mean those that believe in the miraculous Christ do so without a shred of evidence and those that don't are able to say 'forget evidence for the miraculous Christ you haven't got any, you can't even provide halfway-decent evidence that the guy even existed at all'.All those pious theologians over all those years dedicating their lives trying to show that a fictitious character in a 2,000 year old myth existed - all have failed. You'd think they'd take up train spotting or something equally useless.