[SketchySeaBeast]

That's making a lot of assumptions about the nature of historical research. I believe people are mistaking "trying to find other evidence for claims" as being synonymous with "trying to get rid of".

When you put the authors of the bible in their historical context many are removed via proximity or time from the actual events described (for instance, Paul didn't know Jesus before his crucifixion, the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were all written 60-110 years later), and so there's is going to be a search for primary sources that corroborate what was said.

[azimuth11]

Correct. I mistakenly said author, and was referring dalbasal’s comment.

My point was that people (on both sides of this issue) do mistake fact checking with agenda when it comes to religion because of the polarizing nature of the topic.