Yep the completely made up story was not made up to coincide with the pagan holidays. Yep got it
You know Jesus wasn’t even considered the son of god till long after he was gone.
The earliest writing about Jesus (1 Thessalonians) refers to Jesus as God’s son and it was only written 20 years after Jesus was crucified. That’s not “long after” in terms of ancient writings, legends typically take longer than living memory to develop.
Also Christianity was persecuted by pagans and was very anti pagan. If the early Christians, presuming some financial motivation, wanted to create a cult and had no issue pandering to Paganism, why not make it polytheistic? Why not worship the emperor of Rome? To compare your argument to swiss cheese would be too charitable.
Yep the completely made up story was not made up to coincide with the pagan holidays. Yep got it You know Jesus wasn’t even considered the son of god till long after he was gone.
The earliest writing about Jesus (1 Thessalonians) refers to Jesus as God’s son and it was only written 20 years after Jesus was crucified. That’s not “long after” in terms of ancient writings, legends typically take longer than living memory to develop.
Also Christianity was persecuted by pagans and was very anti pagan. If the early Christians, presuming some financial motivation, wanted to create a cult and had no issue pandering to Paganism, why not make it polytheistic? Why not worship the emperor of Rome? To compare your argument to swiss cheese would be too charitable.