Atheist activist and blogger PZ Myers has been on a journey regarding the likely existence of a historical Jesus and has been pretty honest about its stages. Like many anti-theistic polemicists, biology professor and atheist blogger PZ Myers has had an ambivalent attitude to the issue of the existence of a historical Jesus. I don’t like these people, making my opinion of their ideas suspect, but also…why do such unpleasant, unsavory characters gravitate towards Jesus Mythicism? I discuss this false dichotomy elsewhere (see “Jesus Mythicism 8: Jesus, History and Miracles“), and it represents a historiographical naïveté, given that history is all about nuance and degrees of likelihood. So Myers has considered the theory, listened to both sides, thought about the motivations involved and made his assessment: a historical Jesus most likely existed.