Christianity is a blend, or FUSION, of Judaism - which was a blend of Egyptian, Semitic, and other ancient Near East forms of worship and belief systems - overlayed with a more modern Roman political & imperial system.
Joseph Atwill and other independent scholars on the origins of Christianity come up with an even more stunning conclusion than the above video explaining how the Jesus story FITS IN PERFECTLY with the ASTRONOMICAL ARCHETYPES of a "DYING SUN" "RESURRECTING FROM THE DEAD" every winter solstice as it "travels through the 12 houses" or signs of the Zodiac....
...Joseph Atwill and his team of scholars go even further, not only comparing the broad-brush turning points of the life of Christ as ALMOST A PERFECT MATCH with the previous Jewish story of the life of Joseph....
...but in the final acts of his life, the Jesus story ALMOST PERFECTLY MATCHES the trials and campaigns of FUTURE ROMAN EMPEROR Tiberius - who as the son of his father, the previous emperor,
was officially recognized as the ROMAN STATE RELIGIOUS CULT as "the son of god" - and whose victory over the Jews was viewed as SAVING the Roman empire from certain destruction (it would go on to survive another 400 years) - and thus Tiberius and his father were seen as MESSIAH, or SAVIOR of the people and state figures, before they were eclipsed by later Roman dynasties.
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