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Dnr manlet chud owns uJesus never existed.
The real founder of Christianity is Paul who was an Hellenized Jew from Tarsus (modern southern Turkey). Paul's teachings were adopted from the start by mixed groups of Hellenized Jews and Monotheistic Greeks (Hypsistarians). None of them lived in Judea. Christianity was a radical reform movement which built on some traditional elements of Judaism but transformed it into a personal salvation mental discipline akin to Yoga/Buddhism (these faiths were heavily represented in Alexandria and Antioch, which were the cities were Christianity initially took off). Jesus was invented after the Jewish Roman war of 66-70 AD to embody Paul's teachings and make them less abstract. It was easy to make up stories like this at the time because they circulated among people who had never set foot in Judea which, by the way, had been totally devastated by the war. As a result, there were very few people alive who remembered what Judea had been like before the war and could thus have contradicted the Jesus story.
Reading (real) history books is quite a good way to not be fooled by bullshit. You should try that one day ...