He has presented his birth certificate and he has been found to be bona fide. You need to get your information from a real news medium (like BBC, perhaps) not from the privately owned, ideologically driven fox guys.

Roman history and contemporary writings are clear, it was a stake. The bible is not. The bible is a nice book, but it was put together by 3rd century clerics with an agenda. The cross was already a sacred pagan object easily accepted by many groups. Read the original scriptures and decide for yourself. Much of religion has become politicized faith. We are smarter than that. Question: Did Jesus need to be devine to be relevant?