Who is the real Jesus Christ?

The fundamentalist "Christian" view of who the Jesus Christ they purport to worship was is rather badly skewed by the fact that there is no documentaion of who Christ was that is contempory with his life. There was apparently a man, Jesus, and there is clearly a massive myth of "Jesus the Christ." How do we separate the two and does that separation actually add to the the worship of "Jesus the Christ?" In short, who was the historial Jesus?

Good qustion, and really hard to answer with any degree of certainty. From Jesus: The Man, The Myth
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The pursuit of this “de-mythologized” Jesus is known in academic circles as the “quest for the historical Jesus.”

The quest for the historical Jesus was born out of Enlightenment sensibilities and freedoms that liberated the Bible from the Church and made it available to nonreligious bodies for interpretation and study. Scientific inquiry knew no limits, and quickly the miraculous and mythical elements of the Christian texts came under strict scrutiny.

The "Quest for the historical Jesus" within Christianity is the absolute opposite of Fundamentalist Christianity.

Fundamentalist Christianity takes the historial Bible as the absolute word of God and purports to give us the so-called word of God from that Bible. The quest for the historical Jesus uses modern post Enlightment methods of historical inquiry and attempt to separate what the historial Jesus actually taught and what the early Christians added to the canon of the Bible added to and used to modifiy his teachings. Truthdig provides a brief description of the modern research into the New Testament of the Bible.

One result of this historial inquiry has been the development of the reactionary "Christian Fundamentalism" beginning in the late 19th century.
The following is from the Truthdig article:

Fundamentalism has a voracious evangelical appetite. It is not enough that its adherents be convinced themselves that they are correct; they must convince the world to believe the same way as they do. Not only must they convince the world, they must transform the world, and those that oppose their transformation are no less than evil incarnate because they are opposing the true will of God (as it has been revealed to fundamentalists). Traditional, liberal and even progressive elements in the religion don’t even have an oar in the water when it comes to resisting the overwhelming current that is fundamentalism. This is true in Islam as well as in Christianity.