Why Christianity?

[Randy Carson]

Absolutely nothing.   

Ok, then there were millions of gods before Jesus that resurrected just like he did.

So everything you have been saying on this thread is not discounted and we can all move on, right?

I'd like to be really clear on this point: scholars who have studied these so-called "dying and rising gods" of the Middle East find no basis for the claim that the disciples drew upon any of these mythologies as the basis for a copy-cat tale about Jesus.

The evidence points in the opposite direction - members of these pagan cults saw the success of Christianity in the first and second centuries, and they copied Jesus.