(February 11, 2013 at 12:04 pm)Zone Wrote: It spread to the Greek speaking gentiles because of St Pauls missionary work. Originally it was just a heretical sect of Judiasm, which St Paul was involved with perrsecuting until he had his visionary experience.
There's no concrete evidence that St Paul actually existed but it's difficult to see how Christianity would have spread without someone like him telling the Greek speaking gentiles.
How did this heretical sect of Judaism start when it did, though, if there was nobody who could have qualified as being an historical Jesus?
(February 11, 2013 at 12:04 pm)Drich Wrote:(February 11, 2013 at 11:22 am)catfish Wrote: Imma gunna pull the Richard Dawkins card and suggest that aliens seeded the start of Christianity...
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If you think about it the God of the bible falls under the catagory of an 'alien' or transdeminsional being.
I don't think Richard Dawkins would suggest that the God of the Bible was the alien being who started Christianity.
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?