[fwdude]

How can the Old Testament be "Christianity" when it predates Christ by thousands of years? I'm pretty sure that Jesus's message is in the other half of the Bible.

Um, Jesus is THE GOD of the Bible, both Testaments.

[Steve_Seattle]

"How can the Old Testament be "Christianity" . . . "

Marcion revisited. The left repeatedly shows a complete lack of understanding of Christianity. Jesus was a Jew, and his thinking - and the thinking of his earliest disciples, those who wrote the books of the New Testament - was grounded in the Old Testament, the law and the prophets, both of which he explicitly defended.