The Death and Resurrection of Christ?

[Erinome]

1: A charismatic leader calling himself christ was executed by the romans and people made stuff up about him. I'm thinking of a David Koresh type character, (some branch davdians still think that david koresh was the 'lamb of god')

Would it be naive for me to ask why people would make up that Christ rose from the dead and then make that the core of the religion when the original teachings wouldn't have included this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection

This isn't original. It's a powerful element to the myth because it makes it seem more miraculous. Why would people make up anything? They do.

Didn't Paul make up some rather good moral teachings for someone willing to lie about such things?

No, not really. These were moral teachings in the far east for centuries before anyone wrote them down and claimed Jesus said it.

4: God sent himself down to earth to suffer so that he could be sacrificed to himself for a crime he invented, (only joking, this is not really an option)

I would say that's a bit of a crude understanding of it.

Why could he not just forgive? Why did he have to send his son as himself to be sacrificed so that he could forgive people for sins? I'm but a mortal, and all I have to do to forgive people is decide to forgive them.

Yes. In a court that would be called "assuming facts which are not in evidence."

Get you

Ok, got any reason to think Jesus didn't exist?

What reason is there to think that he did? Name one scrap of credible evidence.

I'll wait.

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Christianity is an infection, and must be treated as such. If you don't have a problem with it, you're probably either infected, or just don't give a shit.