Disney Duster wrote:
You only recently formed this answer with how we discussed the beginning of Christianity earlier, and you had to use the word luck, and we all know you can call things that seem to be miracles luck. Anyway, no, it could very well be that people believed in it more. No one actually knows what happened back then, and even historians say how Christianity came to be is rather foggy.
However, Historians and archeologist have been able to piece in together various clue, artifacts, etc with help of technology. It's no different how police and forensic are able to piece clues and evidences together to figure out the crime. And even if some of it is estimated guess, it is a lot more validate than so call words written to you in a book filled with numerous contradictions.
Disney Duster wrote:Also, historians have said that Jesus was not just some prophet, he was called the "King of the Jews"
that was written in the bible. give me link or source where historians say that from any other evidences?
Disney Duster wrote:and was seen as a threat to Roman authority and, well, it was he that was crucified and not other prophets.
No, it was the religious High Jewish priests who saw Jesus as a threat to their religion. The Romans didn't give a fuck about Jesus' activities. It wasn't until many of the Jewish high priests whine and complained to Pontius Pilate and demand his execution. Pilate was actually rather reluctant to do it before given in.
This goes back to what goliath and others have been saying, Religion (especially the ones of Europe and middle east- the Abraham religions) was use as a mean to keep society together and control the people within them and that if something comes up that challenge or "threaten" their religion, it is a sign of usurping of their power. The Jews did, the christian did it, the Muslim did, and so forth. The religions that show barely using religion as a manipulation tool and actually use as a religion are many of the east Asian countries.
Disney Duster wrote:Then, his followers were very devout, and spread their religion to many others, despite being killed for it, which is how it was seen as a threat to Roman rule (they didn't obey Roman laws of allowing other gods or worshiping the rulers).
The Roman were smart in that in order to keep a vast empire, accepting foreign religions was something they encourage and accepted. When the Roman took over Palestinian, the Jews were very stubborn and arrogant and did not want to accept their god to Romans or accept other gods to theirs. Because of this, this cause loose tension and could cause something. The roman knew that monotheistic god would be troublesome issue to deal with as it could cause problems to that policy on foreign religion i mention earlier.
Unlike the 3 Abraham religions, east asian countries were smart, like the Romans did, and accepted various religions as well, and even better in that they were actually about to blend/adapt many of those religions together drawing out similarities and such. In Japan, Shintoism and Buddhism work well with one another despite it's differences. Same with China with it's various Chinese origin religions, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, etc.
This is why I like the Asian religions a fuck lot more than the others.