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[Anomalocaris]

Thanks for the answers, everyone.

I am curious about something. Do yall have any theories as to who actually began spreading the Christian faith, if not Jesus? And do you believe this happened 2000 years ago?

Basic Christian beliefs have their primary roots in Zoroastrianism, with dollops from Judaism and Hinduism and several other ancient religions.  It's primarily a derivative of Zoroastrianism.

What happened was in a polyglot society of low education, high wish thinking, and many, many cults offering different expedient but imaginary ways out of the disappointments of the real world, those cults which were able to be the most unscrupulous in offering the most extravagant promises to the gullible, and were the most ruthless in taking things that worked for other cults and making them serve its own aggrandizement,  would likely get the furthest.   Eventually there would be but a few.  Then for both luck and ruthlessness, only one would remain standing.   Then that cult would be free to claim to be the source all things good and wonderful,  and burn all those who begs to disagree.   When that has happened, Christianity as we know it, was born.

Islam followed much the same path, but did it much more quickly.   Subsequently Islam had the bad luck of running into the Mongols.  Otherwise I suspect Christianity would be but a minor harassed sect within a Islamic world today.