McGrath takes issue with my noting that the sources for Jesus tend to be biased and problematic, claiming that the existence of Socrates and Confucius are generally not disputed. These cases are not equivalent, with the state of the evidence being quite different, and all of the earliest sources concerning Jesus portraying him as a supernatural being. One thing I didn’t mention in the article that I explained at length in the book (as such, I urge McGrath and anyone else to read the book that my article was a mere summary of) is that Jesus is portrayed in a way that is consistent with non-existent characters, which certainly does not help the historicity thesis.