Why I can't take the Gospels seriously.

[arewethereyet]

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When you say "Christians" that is also misleading. If Christians want to claim "Jesus was a Jew", then one can only rightfully claim that there was a Jew who simply started a new splinter sect of Hebrews which eventually became Christianity.

The more I think about all the world's religions, regardless of labels, the more I study them, I always find overlap in claims and motifs to surrounding and prior religions. 

Why is it both Buddhism, and Hinduism share motifs of Dharma, and reincarnation? For the same reason Christians attach the NT to the OT.

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Religion is no different than Coke vs Pepsi, Ford Vs Chevy. 

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Even the Rasta religion can be traced back to African/Catholic/Jewish traditions.

And as far as the Polytheistic transformation in Rome to Christian monotheism, that was not a divine cause. It was merely political expediency. Any Christian today that wants to argue Jesus was the hero for Rome and Europe because Roman polytheism fell and was replaced by Roman Catholicism, fail to realize that Rome's polytheistic brutality to dissent, was simply replaced by Catholic brutality after polytheism fell. Even today, I find it ironic that the Vatican still uses the Obelisk Caligula stole from Egypt as its symbol of peace in St Peter's Square.

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I don't think religion is caffeinated or carbonated.