re: How Christianity started vs other religions

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the perversion of Jesus' confession, "I and the father are One" That is false teaching, of which there is no basis

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perversion? link?

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the early followers were scared of being crucified for the same crime. Heresy. Claiming to be god

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nope. they were afraid because they were jesus' followers and the leaders wanted to stamp out the movement. it's like you haven't even read acts 4-6

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failed to be open to the big truth

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which is?

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condemned him for something he didn't say

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but he did say it. it's there in quotes. repeated by the patristics. not refuted by any literature from antiquity that i am aware of

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You think Jesus was a separate thing. Son of God but a guy

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yes. have you ever seen the scutum fidei? do you know what the hypostatic union is?

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he was one with the All and not apart in any way

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negative ghostrider. that's modalism. totally false. just ask t.d. jakes who was converted from it by jack graham

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And so are we all

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link?

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Only Southern Baptists worship the one true God

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Spoken like a true southern Baptist... smh. I'm agnostic and am fine with Christian's but you southern baptists are something special and not in a good way.

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Islam was started by a warlord

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Muhammad didn't start Islam. It had been around for a long long time.

I remember reading Hitchen's years ago, his conclusion was that Arabs were feeling left out.

They weren't Jews, they weren't Christians and they had no religion.

He contends that the religion was fabricated by Muhammad or his followers and that it was borrowed from other religious texts, and the hadith was taken from common maxims and sayings which developed throughout Arabia and Persia at the time.

As far as Mormonism, I think South Park covered that pretty succintly.

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The other proof to me is that all his disciples died horrific deaths for their faith in him. If they heard him speak and believed, and watched him die, but never actually saw him come back like he said, why would they become martyrs for something they knew to be fake? It might make sense for 1 or 2 of them to keep up the story but all of them?

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I have seem some Christ Myth theorists contend that the 12 Apostles were also mythological, but that makes the whole Christ Myth Theory even shakier. Once you say the Apostles were also myths, then you also have to assume that the hundreds of students of the Apostles who were dispersed over thousands of miles, and spoke several different languages, organized the early church crafted the new testament, and disseminated consistent teachings without any real means to communicate with one another.