(January 28, 2014 at 4:59 pm)1tasolo Wrote: If we have a starting point that Jesus was just a man, had a small cult and followers, got killed by someone or the goverment, why would the stories develop and grow so much?
How did it get so big?
He was practically invisible to the surrounding historians etc
I just can't understand how it became one of the largest religions in the world?
Any rational explanations why it turned out the way it did?
How did it get so big? How did Pepsi Get so big? How did the NFL get so big? How did the Koch Brothers get so rich? Marketing, nothing more. If Christianity had not been concocted or marketed, some other religion would have. Also consider that Islam is much bigger in membership than Christianity.
The motif of "chosen people" and "we need a hero" was in both polytheism and monotheism back then. Christianity simply out competed the surrounding religions at the time. But it did not take over the world otherwise other religions would not exist today.