It's not the man who they worship. It's the purported magic tricks.
Hercules did a lot of magic tricks, too.
As Richard Carrier notes:
The process is called euhemerism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euhemerism
Hercules did a lot of magic tricks, too.
As Richard Carrier notes:
Quote:Jesus began life as a celestial being whose suffering, death and resurrection
was known only through revelations (real or pretended) and secret messages
in scripture, and who only later became a mythically historicized person
as a model to follow and hang new dogmas upon.
The process is called euhemerism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euhemerism