>And you don't just have a select few who wrote about the events of the
>gospels to pass it on, there's also the huge number of Christians that
>popped up about that time. They didn't become Christians by reading the
>gospels, but through other evidence - be it eyewitness (as the book of Acts
>reports) or by the testimony of those who were eyewitnesses. The writings
>were _not_ the primary source to begin the Christian movement.
Ditto with Siddhartha and BUddhism.
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