(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?
Right place, right time. One could say much the same of Mohammed.
Of course, there's more to it than that. Christianity and Islam are prosyletizing religions, most religions are regional and don't give brownie points for most infidels converted. Religions are in competition for your worship dollar, and the ones who work the hardest at recruiting get to be the biggest.
