Well, "put down another"? You are doing it in your last sentence also. Hahaha. But hey, I'm an adult, I can take a hit. No problem.

The only contemporary record of Jesus / Joshua, which is by Josephus the historian, is problematic too. For a big-ass miracle, Jesus warranted very little in Josephus' writings. Historians have a good argument that those passages were inserted long after Josephus died to give Jesus more legitimacy. Outside of Josephus, there is no historial record in that period. But there was a big-ass truckload of myth-making. Myth-making led to the religion.

I prefer Peter and those who were more traditional. Paul was a Roman who infused the fledging religion with Roman bureaucracy and administration, which brought good and bad. In effect turning the religion into the very thing many early leaders fought against. The Roman Empire, reborn. Of the heretics who did not follow this new empire, many were not allowed to live.

The Bible you read, it's an approved collection by a committee of religious bureaucrats, who conveniently deleted a whole lot of other books because they did not complement their Roman Empire style of empire-building.

Jesus' long hair? That's a later Roman style, historically inaccurate.

And so on and on and on.

What I have just wrote is a search for the truth too. Two can play the game.