There are mountains of valid reasons for avoiding Christianity as a faith system, but I do contend that Christ is uniquely physical in the world religion arena in a way that really only small cults mirror. The small idiosyncrasies like time-traveling Christ and actual witchcraft implicitly encouraged are fascinating.
@socialskeleton He was in the right place at the right time to get a lot of different people writing about him from their own points of view and seeing what they were familiar with. Jewish disciples saw a Jewish reformer. Paul saw a God for the Greeks. And when Christians organized they were largely organized by women, unique in the first century in Palestine, and this more than any other reason is why we know the name Jesus today. Some of the men joined, but virtually every woman joined.
@socialskeleton Paul was completely unfamiliar with Jewish law so his take on Jesus was honestly bizzare, but it fit in with the greater helenized world at the time, and his misinterpretation was also misinterpreted by Europeans who brought Arthurian legend into it somehow.
That time is actually very interesting for Judaism. There was a lot of upheaval in the religion before the fall of the second temple- and there were many, many sects as you might call them. Josephus (Who is an unreliable narrator, but he's what we got) talks about three, Sadduees, Pharisees, and the Essenes. Throw into that the rebellious factions (Including early Christians) and the Sicarii? It was a very chaotic time. Later, Christ would be called a messiah by one group of Jewish people who splintered off of what would eventually become the more modern version of Judaism.
