Holy Grail has been found

Red Nissan wrote: »

For the most part in Jerusalem at the time period, crusifiction was merely being tied to a tree and guarded until mid afternoon.

Wut? I'd love to see a respectable link that backs that up.

The Bible and the later Quran stories are based on several different people who lived spanning some 300 years and collected into one character, that one character did not exist.

Whatever about the fanciful miracles and all that, we don't have to look to Josephus as do have the letters of Paul for example where he discusses theology with men who actually knew this character when he was alive. So it's a fairly solid history for a minor character of that time. Someone with his name was an itinerant Jewish preacher who gathered enough followers for it to spread and a fair smattering of luck made it grow in the wider Greek and Roman world.

The Quran stories pretty much repeat the general gist of the narrative, removing the crucifixion at the end. Interestingly, though more would be absolutely sure Mohammed was an historical character, we actually have far less of a paper trail, or indeed human connection to him. Which is odder, because he's described as a martial and political figure as well as a religious one who battled with various tribes and butted up against the Byzantines, yet their records remain strangely silent on the matter. Mecca supposedly the biggest trading town in the region doesn't figure on any maps of the time either(and it's far off the trade routes).

Later the idea of Christ the God On Earth was coined as a political weapon against the Great Roman Empire and was ultimately instrumental in its downfall.

If anything christianity was used as a political weapon by the Roman elite for the Roman empire. As for playing a part in it's downfall, one could argue it kept it going for longer. Indeed the Eastern Roman empire lasted as the Byzantines until the 15th century. Actually one could argue that Roman Christianity reigned as a secondary European empire until the Reformation.