Your passion for your faith must be clouding your ability to communicate. Again, I'm talking about the existence of the founder. Not miracles, not their religion or anything else. The basics of the founder's existence.
Just as one guy made up Dianetics
Again, I'm talking about... Please focus.
My "faith" in what?
Your faith that holds that this person did not exist against common sense and the scholarship of history.
Faith in seeing a serious lack of evidence and thus not coming to a firm conclusion?
Faith in holding to what you wish to be true to support your other beliefs, or you think needs to be true to support your other beliefs.
That's just good science.
No, those who study the subject objectively practice the science of their field. You disagree with their conclusions and postulate a wild conspiratorial ex nihilo theory not held by any reputable historian. It can only be faith, your desire that it be so, that moves you so strongly.
You've spent a great deal of effort here avoiding a very simple historical event. One that need not harm the rest of your views about Christianity. Yet you have fought for it tenaciously.
You don't have the same faith as Christians, but you have the same degree of faith as the strongest Christian.
> Again, I'm talking about... Please focus.
You're missing the point. Did Jesus write the Gospels? I know few who claims such. The gospels were written *by* others *about* Jesus. In that sense, Xenu and Moroni are the founders of their religions in the same way that Jesus was. But if you see Hubbard and Smith as the founders of their religions... then the authors of the Gospels were the founders of Christianity... not Jesus. Without those authors, Christianity was just another flash in the pan messiah cult.
> Your faith that holds that this person did not exist
Where did I say he didn't? I simply question it, and point out the obvious possibility that he didn't.