What were Jesus and early Christians like?

[Mudhammam]

On the one hand, we must take into the account the vast cultural differences that exist between modern society and the ancients. Then we must try as amateur sociologists to understand what it's like to be inside a cult, and many of us have the advantage of belonging to former churches whether by indoctrination or naivety.

I think when looked at it from that way, while the Christians thought of some really weird shit, they weren't exactly unique, and probably didn't stand out from the others except in the way that it was new and foreign, and to some tastes quite vulgar in its inversion of long standing notions about virtue and vice, justice and nobility.