Coincidence or conspiracy?

[DavidL]

7. There's dozens of footnotes and many of them

will lead you to scholarly research.

I've read that one before, can't remember others I got to a few years back, but that one is on the internet.

Actually, several former theologians and divinity experts have become non-Christians as a result of their own scholarly research, indicating that there's a body of material out there which indicates that the successful development of the Christian faith was somewhat an accident of rather fortunate history for Christian believers, a Christian faith based upon previous mythological stories from older, non-Christian "faiths".

A study of history from the alleged time of the birth or crucifiction of a Jesus Christ involves as many twists and turns and fortunate accidents of history as does the history of Homo sapiens themselves, over the previous roughly 200 thousand years. To put it in the most stark of terms, Homo sapiens survived over other sub-species because conditions of climate, geography, interplaying with the Homo sapiens species. Likewise, the survival of Christian beliefs over any other belief systems in modern man, (over Jewish, over Greek, Norse, or Native American or other mythologies, had more to do with accidents of history, ( e.g., Christian settlers in North America had guns and immunity to some diseases, Native Americans, by contrast, had bows and arrows and no such acquired immunities, for example). We might well be praying to a Native American god of thunder as we are praying to the Christian god, father of Jesus, were it not for the confluence of history. Christianity and Judaism and Islam and a few others exist, all as good fortune accidents of history, accidents that enable THEIR system of mythological beliefs to overpower other systems of mythological beliefs that preceded them.