Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
The reason why people are Christian or Muslim or Catholic or whatever is almost exclusively just an accident of birth and geography

Born in the texas bible belt of Christian republican parents who force you to go to church ........you certainly are unlikely to be a Muslim or a Catholic

Born in a Kibbutz to strict Jewish settlers who are exiles from Belgium ? You are going to be Jewish

Either way , religion rarely comes from self discovery , it comes from the environment of family , parents , school , friends etc

It's a complete cult , all of it
Yes, Saul (Paul) assumed the people of THE WAY (an early name for followers of Christ before they were first known as Christians in Antioch) were just a cult, however those who had found the real Jesus were then proven to be anything but a cult.
Today some 2000 years later, genuine Christians continue to prove the reality of the Risen Christ on a daily basis.
If you seriously investigate this yourself then you will find the result is the same.