Ten Beautiful Lies About Jesus

I came across an early version of David Fitzgerald's Ten Beautiful Lies About Jesus and have been slowly reading it these past few days. I'm now more than ever convinced Jesus never existed. Before I thought he might simply have been an apocalyptic preacher who roamed the Galilee preaching the coming of god who would cast the Romans out of Jerusalem and establish his kingdom on Earth and was executed by the Romans for stirring the masses against them but now I think he was just the result of the imagination of spiritual people in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd centuries before Christianity became the state religion and gained power, convened the Council of Nicea, which decided what would go into the Bible, and went downhill from there. My favorite bit concerns Joseph of Arimathea. Biblical scholars have never discovered exactly where Arimathea was. A writer named Richard Carrier claims Arimathea is an Aramaic pun: ari- (best) mathai- (disciple) -a (town/place) so in effect Joseph came from Bestdiscipleville.