> there is also the fact that christianity spread due to a significant number of people at the time who absolutely believed that jesus was a real person. the belief in jesus being a real person is fron at least one century after the start of christianity. when pliny the younger talks about christians at the start of the first century they were a dying sect of judaism that most people had stopped believing in. only after the idea that jesus was real gets widespread is when it gains significant following
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