Some people refer to Atwill's theory as a "Fringe Theory" which is defined as an idea or viewpoint that fundamentally differs from the accepted scholarship of the time within that field. But this theory fails on so many levels, of which perhaps the most important one is that Alwill is no religious scholar at all. This is nothing but a wild fantasy from a deluded man without any historical evidence. Secondly; apart from raising a theory based on historical misrepresentation, he bases his entire theory on a toxic mix of conjecture, hyperbole and vivid imagination. Even 2nd year history students at university are able to pick his reasoning to pieces.

It is certainly a provocative "theory" (if you stretch the definition of the word) but in relation to REAL historic theory and the research that has been done (by real scholars) on both the historic Jesus as well as the religious origin of Christianity, Atwill's theory squarely land in the same category as Big Foot, The Loch Ness Monster and little green aliens from Mars - and to give Atwill or his theory any more credence than that would be ludicrous.

It is far too easy today for anyone to publish a "documentary" on any topic they want; no matter how biased the issue or how unscientific the approach or the analysis is. Some of these pseudo-science documentaries should come with sanity warning labels.

If you hear crosstians telling you what you have to believe or you'll go to eternal punishment in hellfire sanctioned by The One Holy Loving God and you think you smell a rat gnawing at your God-Given Grace, even your Soul, you'll appreciate the gospel-fictions approach joseph atwill uses to deconstruct the rat-reeking stories crosstians have long used to shut the doors to the Kingdom of Heaven before you.

if you think that The One And Only Unborn Unnamed Unknown And Unknowable God Who Lives In Your Heart would never judge you based on that blasphemous idolatrous book because it would so clearly be unjust, you'll appreciate the freedom of thought exhibited in this documentary, necessary to evade the detestable human beast, (who wants to cage your soul by framing you with guilt for crimes you never committed and trumping up false charges against you, then offering you a plea bargain but only if you'll partake in, perpetuate and compound the abomination of a human sacrifice by eating human flesh and drinking human blood) and you'll appreciate the opportunity to shut that vicious old accuser up and down by using the logical arguments you'll find in this documentary.

if not, enjoy your li(v)es in slavery to a brutal dictatorship of propaganda who cares neither for God nor man because you won't like this documentary, but you would rather stay comfortable in your addiction to blasphemy and idolatry, an easy way to a false God.

This is total contrived and nonsense. Regardless of whether you are an atheist or a Christian and irrespective of whether you believe in his divinity or not, the historical Jesus is so well documented away from any Roman sources in so many different triangulations that to make this statement that Jesus is not a historical figure but rather a creation of the Romans is ridiculous.