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that there is not a single written word attributed to Jesus, and that millions of self-appointed PR people have been speaking for him ever since?

Confucius wrote things.
Gandhi wrote things. A lot of things.
Buddha wrote the Tripitaka, or at least had scribes write it at his direction.
Hammurabi wrote voluminously.

I note that Muhammad didn't write either, but he had scribes that wrote his stuff contemporaneously, so presumably Muhammad was able to verify the scribes were capturing his true thoughts.

And Socrates also apparently didn't write anything for the ages, but Plato did, of course.

None of the "gospels" was written within 40 years of Jesus death, and one of the gospels ( "Mark" ) is attributed to a guy who is believed never to have personally met Jesus at all.

Scholars say that 90% of the people in that era were illiterate. The absence of first-hand writing by Jesus and contemporary writing by others makes a lot more sense if Jesus was, himself, unable to write.