Jesus Never Existed Com

[Mudhammam]

The "jews" were small and insignificant, too. Yet we have evidence of them. Avoid the Great Xtian Paradox. "Jesus was so important and so dangerous and had multitudes of followers that they had to break every rule in their book to try and crucify him on passover. But, at the same time he was so insignificant that no one in power took any fucking notice of him at all."

Don't forget that thousands of criminals were crucified. Jesus just happened to have a devoted following whose beliefs proved self-sustaining (exemplified by the martyr complex). I think you run equal risk by pushing the origins of Christianity into the second century. Now the question of what made it so successful becomes more legitimate (versus it remaining a virtually unknown cult for its first 100-150 years).

Also, Jews were far more significant than Christians, though the two groups were largely indistinguishable until perhaps the 60s A.D.