Carrier advocates the notion that [[Jesus]] likely never existed which is an extreme minority position among historians and contrary to the historical evidence pointing to Jesus being a historical figure (The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'', a parcel of the [[propaganda]] of the atheistic, [[communism|communist]] [[Soviet Union]], is the only encyclopedia to ever advocate the Christ myth. | Carrier advocates the notion that [[Jesus]] likely never existed which is an extreme minority position among historians and contrary to the historical evidence pointing to Jesus being a historical figure (The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'', a parcel of the [[propaganda]] of the atheistic, [[communism|communist]] [[Soviet Union]], is the only encyclopedia to ever advocate the Christ myth. |