[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

The impression I got from yours and TS's posts was that Christianity was cooked-up by the Empire from the start. I disagree.
It was only adopted by the Empire after it had grown organically and became impossible to eradicate.

Anyways, what rebellion? Jewish rebellion? You know very well that from the start majority of Jews never accepted Jesus as messiah, they were happy to be rid of him.

No

Just that they promoted it as it was advantageous to them

the jews hankered after a warrior messiah who would return and kill the romans so they wanted to promote Jesus (a jew) as he posed no threat

older jews would probably have had none of it but younger ones may have