(July 15, 2015 at 8:16 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I'm not convinced that he was an actual person.
Also, the propagation of and population of cults is not anything particularly difficult or surprising.
The point is that a real person is not necessary for a cult to arise. The jesus freaks would be the first to scream bloody murder if someone suggested there was a historical Apollo or Adonis and they would be right. Those gods are just as much bullshit as Jesus. But xtians are never far from special pleading. Their god boy is always different.