Do you think Jesus really existed?

The big Roman historian Tacitus wrote about emperor Nero that decided Christians are to be blamed for the fire that destroyed Rome in A.D. 64:

Nero fastened the guilt … on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of … Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome

Pliny the Younger, Roman governor of Bithynia in Asia Minor:

They were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble to partake of food – but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.

More here: http://www.bethinking.org/jesus/ancient-evidence-for-jesus-from-non-christian-sources

No matter if he truely existed or not, though I think he did, all his life related in the bible is a great story of what we should praise in life. And so are fairytales. The truth contained in stories for kids are bigger than the scientific truths.