You're wrong. It wasn't until Paul of Tarsus got his hands on the religion that Christians started proselytising to non-Jews; before that all Christians were Jews... and the religion started in Judaea. I appreciate that we have nothing written down until a couple of decades after Jesus' death (Wikipedia suggests Paul started writing in c. 48-68), but if you consider that the movement was already established then, that means you have to look backward to it starting with just a few people a couple of decades beforehand. And how, do you imagine, people would go about selling the religion if Jesus did not exist? "Jesus is the Lord!" "Cool; where's he speaking?" "Er..."
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Date: 2009-02-12 07:18 pm (UTC)