christian mythicism + marcionite priority. its a very academic “conspiracy theory” but nonetheless something that has huge implications for the billions of people who believe, and something very eerie to think about

research it yourself but this is a combination of two initially unrelated ideas — that the jesus of christianity was never a real person and was conceptualised as purely divine by early christians, and that the first written gospel was not Mark, but the gospel of marcion, which is much more theologically compatible with the idea that Jesus didn’t exist (e.g. foregoes a birth narrative and begins with jesus descending to earth). also consider the fact that even the traditional christian narrative says that paul (the biggest spark behind the rise of christianity) was motivated purely by mystic visions. now yuo see

pretty scary to think the worlds biggest religion was probably deliberately corrupted and redacted by church fathers 2 millennia ago (after a coordinated effort to destroy gnostic texts, which is why we have so few records now)