Carrier advocates the crank notion that [[Jesus]] never existed and is merely a myth which is a baseless, extreme minority position among historians and contrary to abundant 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 crank notion that [[Jesus]] never existed and is merely a myth which is a baseless, extreme minority position among historians and contrary to abundant 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. |