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[=Zhavric;495692]This tells me that you're not in touch with what was going on in Judea in the seventh decade of the first century or Jewish history/folklore.

I know about the diaspora.

Into this mix of desperation comes a story of a messiah. God sent his only son (who bears a STRIKING resemblence to all the rabble rousing rabbis who opposed the Romans decades ago) who was killed by the Romans/corrupt Jewish authority. He did rock-star-like magic tricks and was allegedly going to show up again any second to put the smack down on the Romans. Add into this a healthy dose of guilt and you have the beginnings of the Christ myth.

The only thing wrong with your fairytale, is that Christs apostles were preaching about Jesus's word long before this happened, Paul was converted to Christianity around 35 AD.

Nope. You're wrong. The church has no motivation to hold onto these. If they existed and they portrayed Jesus positively, we'd have seen them. If they exist and portrayed him negatively, they'd have destroyed them. Do you have any evidence to support your assertion?

Have you seen the Da Vinci code? I believe the Catholic Church tailored Christs life to suit their purposes, and your right they may have destroyed any other records, I think Mary Magdalene was his girl, and being a prostitute that Christ in his decent nature loved as a person and rescued, she was dissociated from him later on by writers, not wanting Christs name smeared, I think this is at the heart of the cover up.

Again, this tells me you haven't studied up on your world history.

I have read up on a lot of world history, I haven't spent years pouring over it in universitys for exams and in seminars like you may have.

We owe the world wide empire on Constantine's and Rome's bloodthirsty greed for world domination. The great irony of Christianity is that this religion of "love and brotherhood" was spread by force throughout Europe and the rest of the world. The rise of Christianity in Rome has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus and everything to do with the greed of Rome for world domination.

Yes it was spread this way, but I guess that was just part of Gods plan to begin with, have a brutal hard conquering empire first well placed around where Christ was born, thus Christianity later has a ready made network of roads and conquered territorys to spread their faith by.
The message of Christ although spread forcibly, and not always the case, wouldn't have stuck so well, if its basic nature and message of hope, forgiveness and love had not appealed to the average person, which it did, and still does.

Imagine for a moment that it wasn't Christianity that rose to prominence in ancient times, but was instead Scientology. Do you think that Scientologists today would talk about L. Ron Hubbard's little quote about starting religions for money? Do you think the Scientologists would record history as it happened or put their own spin on it? Do you really think Christianity was any different?

Your just using conjecture, I doubt if Scientology went world wide over the next few century's, that a huge cover up would take place to alter it as something else.