>>16525043Why not, Germans for example have 2000 thousand years of Christian history, there is no other religion that is more deeply rooted in our history and visiting the old town of any German town will show it to you. But just because something is deeply rooted in your culture, does not mean that it is good or true, we believe in Christianity for more reasons than the long history or the various old buildings.
That the context of the Christian religion would be some specific people in the ancient world would make sense considering the context that ancient people lived in. An universal cult like the one of the Church was simply not possible in the pre-christian era. It was through the Roman Empire, the vessel of the Christian religion, that it was made possible.
I would say that all the Christian traditions are originally christian, and where they take inspiration from other traditions they still entirely exist within a Christian context.
You say Christianity is a tool of the masses, but I don't follow that. First of all any religion can be used by the state to legitimse its own rule, I do not see how Christianity is different in that way than the ancient roman religion or islam or buddhism or confucianism. Secondly Christianity can easily exist and spread outside of places where Christianity is the state religion. Who would be the one controlling the masses there? The bishops that would face even persecution over it? The state that persecutes the believers? Who is the controller here?
