Benjamindavidsteele — I partially agree. My take on it is that Christianity was the culmination of an unfolding that had been emerging across Greek, Hebrew, and earlier traditions. It’s genius was to discern those elements in the inner life of human beings. I’ve written at book length about it in fact — https://www.markvernon.com/books/a-secret-history-of-christianity.

It’s a complicated story and very much the background to my piece here.