Didn't Nero launch Christianity?

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Jesus being crucified seems a lot more likely than the sort conspiracy theories you’re trying to sell.

That's why I said embellished. The first preaching of Christianity featured but "Christ crucified" (1 Cor. 2:2) with no historical setting or detail. I Cor. 2:8 has him crucified by the mythic Archons, the archangelic servants of the Gnostic Demiurge.

And then Gospels embellished it into ridiculous trial, torture, makes Jews into Christ killers, supernatural darkness over the scene for three hours.

While Paul himself said there was no supernatural component to it what so ever: "For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles," would seem to envision a conspicuously nonsupernatural crucifixion scene; else why would miracle-hungry Jews be disappointed in the preaching of the cross?

Okay so the early Christians pre gospels, and Paul believed Jesus was crucified, just not in the real world? But some spiritual/supernatural realm? Based on your reading of Paul’s references to Christ?

And later Christians, including the gospel writers didn’t like the idea of this Jesus, so they decided to transform him into a historical person, who was crucified under the rule of Pilate.

And they almost got away with it, if it wasn’t for some pesky atheists on the internet 2000 years later.

Exposing the mother of all conspiracy theories.