There was no Jesus

[Voltaire2]

18. The Roman Empire was generally tolerant

of all religions. There were fairly brief periods of Christian persecution, but mostly not during the formative years of the religion.

Most of the text destruction was done by christians after the Roman Empire adopted one faction in the theological civil war between christians that spanned the 3rd and 4th centuries. The ‘canonical gospels’ of the victorious faction, the official religion of the empire by the late 300s, survived, the rest generally didn’t.

Some of the non-canonical gospels have been recovered, they don’t change anything. None of them are contemporaneous, just like the official texts.