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Here is a very interesting post from Luke Muehlhauser over at commonsenseatheism.com on the rise of early Christianity.

It is often said by Christians that the rate of growth of the early Christian church defies natural explanation. It is said that the only explanation is that the resurrection of Christ and the miracles that he was said to have performed had to be true and this is why the early church had such unprecedented growth. In the post above, Luke details how the grown of Mormonism and even the growth of non belief in the 20th century have similar or even better rates of growth. The bottom line is that unfortunately rates of growth have nothing whatsoever to do with the truth or falsity of an idea or truth claim. There are plenty of natural reasons why various movements can grow very very quickly so we should not jump to conclusions about the unseen reasons. This also does not mean that Christianity is therefore false. It simply means that Christianity experienced a rapid rate of growth in it’s early years just like other movements have.

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