the christ cult began as a mystery cult. an attempted synthesis of hellenism and judaism with customary drug use (communion) to experience "jesus christ". jesus was a midrashic construct invented by the neoplatonist jew philo of alexandria who wrote a tale identifying the jew mashiach as the platonic logos, a celestial christ who was crucified by satan on the moon in order to trick him and be a perfect sacrifice to free mankind . no one ever met jesus in the flesh. iirc philo also did the usual jewish trick of claiming that plato was inspired by the mythical psychopath moses.
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