In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus

[Alan V]

"God is love" isn't that hard to understand emotionally, even if it makes no real sense rationally.

Is that what you guys are calling propaganda? There has to be room here for people to hold beliefs that are different than yours without perceiving it as manipulation or coercion.

I came up with an example of something which might be understandable to a three-year-old.  Santa Claus as a training-God also comes to mind.

The point isn't so much the degree of inaccuracy involved in "God is love" as the end point, which is a whole picture made up of little more than mutually-supporting assumptions, a complete worldview without much to support it otherwise by any modern standards.  Christians pull people in a little at a time, starting with social or emotional appeals.

To say "God is love" is like saying "God created you," when love is a human emotion and your parents created you.  All those little inaccuracies add up to where some people credit God with all that is good in the world, and do not, in fact, give credit where credit is due -- to humans.  Christians slowly replace real human relationships with a "relationship with God," even while professing to love their neighbors and enemies from their assumed superior position. They then think spreading Christianity is an expression of that love, so it really is circular.

Atheists typically oppose theistic beliefs for what we think are good reasons, not the least of which is prejudice against atheists. You shouldn't be surprised.