Quote:It is the only serious explanation for the explosion of the church right around that time with hundreds claiming to have seen him.
Actually, a much better explanation is that the savior myth (which was rampant in Palestine at the time) was exacerbated by a rather unwelcome Roman occupation (to put it mildly). And the claims of 'hundreds of people' wasn't written down for close on a century after the supposed event.
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