Is Christianity based on older myths?

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I don't know if you genuinely can't understand this point, or are being deliberately difficult because you desperately want to cling to your beliefs.

You seem to think that the initial reporting of events was absolutely especially totally true. The people who saw it not only told the absolute truth, but also understood everything that was happening, including correctly attributing supernatural causations. And that's assuming they didn't just make it up, and why should we assume that? And not just that, but that the reports were passed on entirely accurately.

We wouldn't give anyone even today such credibility, why are you giving it to superstitious warmongers with an agenda? People make stuff up, people get deluded and people make up explanations. So what someone believes happened, and why it happened, is entirely irrelelevant if it cannot be independently demonstrated.

That is, if you care at all about the truth of the claims.

Would you believe people who say they've been abducted by aliens? Even if they really believe what they are saying? They pass a lie detector test?

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You really have to decide if you are argueing for a historical Jesus "the man" or "the God". The level of evidence any honest person would require to establish these two seperate claims would be vastly different.