rlogan

Jesus is a myth.

It was important to attach some prehistory to Christianity to imbue it with some kind of "legitimacy".

It was a poor job cribbing together unrelated garbage here and there along with ignoring some of the most vital elements of the Jewish Messiah - but we're dealing with a religion that was for the most part not marketed to pious Jews. So who cares.

A modern parallel would be the the Nation of Islam, which bore no resemblance to Islam and is not properly viewed as a branching off from Islam. It was a white con man marketing it to poor, uneducated blacks.

He clearly isn't, and that is one of the lessons to learn - how people can be brainwashed into accepting a premise that is utterly false.

Malcom X went to Mecca, interacted with bona-fide members of the faith, and broke with Elijah Mohammed when he saw what a fraud he was.

So Elijah Mohammed did the Christian thing - had him assassinated.

This question again buys into church propaganda, and when you strip away the piffle about the "new covenant" then you are left with a God that is pretty stupid and arbitrary.

How they managed to fabricate this history and consolidate power over different "Christ" cults is a fascinating pursuit.

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