/lit/ - Literature

>basically began a counter-judaism mystery cult that sought liberation from the material world
>influenced heavily by the Essenes and Zoroastrians
>teachings so anti-judaic that he was put to death
>within a single generation his teachings were subverted by the pharisee Saul who re-judaized Jesus' inherently anti-judaic teachings thereby neutralizing its radical and liberating nature
>subsequent sects that held to a more original and authentic form of Jesus' teachings were wiped out by the Saul-ites who propped up this re-judaized version of Christianity as the only legitimate one
>what the world knows today as Christianity is really the re-judaized corruption of it by Saul
did I get that right?

this is going from what i remember from my discussion with a pretty hardcore professor who specializes in philosophy of religion. He seemed to advocate a return to Zoroastrianism synthesized with a gnostic-Christianized German Idealism, btw.