The question I wrote: How long can a death cult last if it completely depends on the ridiculous disgusting magical resurrection of a decomposing corpse? This was the best answer:

To be fair, Christians don't realize what their religion looks like to outsiders. As a former Christian I can say I never realized what those rituals and rules added up to, until I stopped believing in them and looked at them objectively. 

An anthropologist, examining Christianity from the outside, would point out its many death-cult elements: 

- Its followers worship a dead and resurrected demigod. 
- The brutal execution of this demigod is considered an act of salvation, as a scapegoat for all sins. 
- Followers ritually eat the flesh and drink the blood of this dead man-god in a weekly ceremony, in which his death is exalted and celebrated. 
- Male priests and female initiates, in the most common sect, are forbidden from having any offspring. The creation of new life is a serious violation of the rules, and a reason for immediate expulsion from the priesthood. 
- The religion's older writings portray their deity as slaughtering millions, ordering genocide and obliterating entire cities. This orgy of death is considered part of a perfect plan. 
- Followers consider death as their ultimate goal, to achieve everlasting bliss. They don't believe this can be achieved while being alive. 

Anyone, from an objective point of view, would consider this a death cult. 

Believers simply do not have an objective point of view. That's why the religion can last for a very long time in spite of all the necrophile elements in its dogmas.

-- Duke Nukem

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