To Critics of Mythicists Regarding An Historical Jesus: You Are Wrong.

"As a scientist, I’ll say that I don’t regard the evidence that Jesus was a real person as particularly strong—certainly not strong enough to draw nearly all biblical scholars to that view. It’s almost as if adopting mythicism brands you as an overly strident atheist, one lacking “respect” for religion. There’s an onus against mythicism that can’t be explained by the strength of evidence against that view."

If you are a science-based thinker, you cannot accept an historical Jesus.