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No, there is none what so ever. All so called "evidence" that the Christians point to when this comes up has been fabricated by Christians hundreds of years after the supposed life of Jesus Christ. They obviously realized how embarrassing it was to believe in someone that there was no proof of existence of. The Romans, Jews as well as other peoples at the time were all very good at documenting what was happening in their world so there would have been a mention of him had he been real. This is why mentions of Christ has later been incorporated into old texts by people as "evidence". Josephus texts are among the most famous for being falsification by later Christians and he was also an obvious choice since he lived in Jerusalem decades after the supposed death of Christ. He was there and he would have heard of Christ, yet he never mentioned him.
There is an interesting passage in the Talmud, IMO, about the execution of Yeshu. (Talmud Sanhedrin 43a) Yeshu = Jesus, and it was a common and popular name back then so there are several Yeshu in the Talmud.
"It is taught: On the eve of Passover they hung Yeshu and the crier went forth for forty days beforehand declaring that "Yeshu is going to be stoned for practising witchcraft, for enticing and leading Israel astray. Anyone who knows something to clear him should come forth and exonerate him." But no one had anything exonerating for him and they hung him on the eve of Passover."
This takes place about a century before the biblical new testament Christ comes into existence and there are more examples of "trouble makers" that are executed. This is proof of the fact that there were many Messiah, Kings of Jews and so on that were "leading Israel astray" and it also gives reason to think that Jesus Christ is not one person who lived at a specific time in history but a combination of many men that lived over a longer amount of time.
Jesus Christ in the new testament is a very political figure that was used by Paul and others for their own political agendas. This is why Paul, a man that never met Christ in person (since it was impossible, obviously) is the one who decides what Christianity is all about rather than the close relatives and friends of Christ. There would simply be too many "christs", "messiahs" as well as families and followers. Paul removed them all to "clean up the act" and make the story more credible and easier to sell during his political campaign.
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* This is the correct category for all religious mythology.
* The Shroud of Turin is an old forgery. It's a very old forgery and is interesting as such, but it's still a forgery.
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* The so called "family grave of Jesus", The Talpiot Tomb, can't be connected to the Jesus Christ of the biblical new testament. To assume that it is the tomb of Jesus Christ you also have to assume that his fathers name was Jose, that he was married (had children) and that he did not get resurrected and go to heaven. It's absurd to be willing to believe in such a thing and still say that the bible is true, word by word. [url]
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* The Christians and Muslims of this world, those who believe in Jesus, makes up about 54% not 90%.