I find your argument shallow and pedantic . <| sep |> ive met like thousands of sikhs in my life like 99 % of them are amazing <| sep |> Reading Josephus , it could not be more clear that the primary passage mentioning Jesus as a religious figure is a completely farcical fabrication . Not only is it absurdly lofty , we are to believe that Josephus was simultaneously amazed at the arrival of the Messiah and uninterested enough to write only a single paragraph on the subjectAbout this time there lived Jesus , a wise man , if indeed one ought to call him a man . For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly . He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks . He was the Messiah . And when , upon the accusation of the principal men among us , Pilate had condemned him to a cross , those who had first come to love him did not cease . He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life , for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him . And the tribe of the Christians , so called after him , has still to this day not disappeared . If you ' re attempting to use the word interpolated as a form of the root completely fabricated bullshit , you ' ve described the paragraph well . Otherwise , you ' re just trying to polish a giant turd .