Misconceptions of Christian theology

[Ryantology]

I can think of no examples of Christianity being introduced peacefully and accepted by non-Christian people of their own will.

That is because you have never read a book about Christian missions in your life. Study the history of Ireland. Or the history of the Roman Empire. How the Christians spread the faith and died as martyrs. Yes, there has been bloodshed.

Except, I have, and I still can't think of a single example of people accepting Christianity without it being forced on them by either their own rulers or outside forces. I'm sure there do exist a handful of obscure examples, but the fact that they are obscure says a lot, doesn't it?

You use the connection between Christianity and Judaism against it. That is completely ridiculous. Judaism prophecies the existence of the Christian faith. Look at Isaiah 53. There is a deep continuity between Christianity and Judaism.

Then, why are there still Jews?

(yes, I know the answer is "christians failed to slaughter them all" but A for effort, wot.)

If there was a car company around for 2000 years, would that attach any credibility to it? Of course it would. Obviously that does not prove that Christianity is true, but it does attach credibility to it.

A car company produces a tangible item. Christianity produces claims which nobody can verify and are at total odds with reality.

Does this mean that Hinduism and Buddhism are more credible?

If the God of the Greeks was the true God, why would that God disappear? Wouldn't the God who created everything preserve himself?

I get the idea that if I asked you why your god has disappeared and refuses to make his presence obvious, you will have no trouble rationalizing it, which I hope you will do with the understanding that any rationalization you can come up with for your psychopath God can easily apply to any other god or gods who don't make appearances. And, of course, that you can no more prove that the Greek gods are false than you can prove that your god is true.

Also, you shortchange the Greeks. They came up with an advanced system of government, the derivative of which is the dominant government type among the most successful and powerful nations in the world. They came up with ideas in medicine, mathematics and philosophy which will define humanity long after Christianity is discarded. Hell, they came up with the basics of the atomic theory, on their own, thousands of years before we had the tools to prove the existence of atoms, yet we still have Christards insisting we teach children in science classrooms that the world is six thousand years old. How many centuries ahead might we be now if Greek scholasticism had dominated Western civilization for as long as Christianity has.

It is not a religion, but I feel a great deal more pride in what my culture has inherited from that amazing culture, than I do of the artifacts from some ignorant shepherds in a cultural backwater of the ancient world. Why did the Greek gods vanish? Because they weren't needed to explain things anymore. And that is why your God will follow them right down the toilet.