(February 24, 2019 at 9:33 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: All well and good, but nothing in there about why christianity wasn't ""noticed" earlier. That question carries some assumption that a kernel of the christian narrative is true. If there were miracles falling out of every hat and the whole ane was abuzz with jesus and his wonderful travelling disciples..yeah, someone might have noticed.
In fact people did notice, centuries later when some version of any of the above was true. In the time frame the christians allege, in their own self serving and heavily retconned history, there was nothing like that to notice. By the time there actually were "travelling disciples" spreading the newly formed christian faith by recounting stories about miracles, pagans immediately discarded them as derivative superstition. Even the christians knew their shit was manufactured. Iraneus, Tertullian, and Justin Martyr all opined on diobolic mimicry.
The notion that demons, knowing what was to come (this is rich, because they butchered the OT "prophecy" themselves) established a plethora of religions to mimic and thus discredit the future christ.
This is the point right here.
A legend, myth got started that caused the later movement. The stories/characters were made after the fact and retrofit to sell the narrative.
All religions get manufactured working backwards drawing off prior stories, tweaking or changing details in order to compete and grow. Just like Coke and Pepsi compete, but neither were the first human beverage.
