Christianity WAS considered a cult, especially by Jews. The Romans also thought the same.
The article did not say it was a cult, but that it was thought to be one.
Yes, and thank you!
The Romans thought that the Christians were atheists because they didn’t believe Caesar was a god.....almost like today where “god” is oneself....
Most of the Jews thought that Christianity was a vile group of people who followed a false dead prophet.
Coming back from the dead(with no human help) has a way of dispelling those notions... You don’t get a cult with someone who has come back from the dead in a human physical body. You get a new paradigm of the existence of the world and ones own life.
People who don’t believe life can come from dead things need to recheck the modern theories of abiogenesis.