All this talk about whether Christ would have been a pagan/Buddist/witch/industrial metalhead leads me to the realization of one thing ... CHRIST wasn't even a CHRISTIAN!! He was a Jew! I mean, labels are important to some degree (for personal identity), but some of this has gotten a little out of hand.
As far as atheists and pagans fearing the anticipation of embracing Christianity as a whole if they embrace a little bit of it, I don't understand? What is there to fear? I mean, I can see some hard lining Bible thumpers admonishing the "backsliden" (as they call them) for not accepting Jesus fully with heart, mind, soul, and fingernails. And if that's the case .... who cares?
This "with us or against us" mentality that Churches feed their members make spirituality more reflective of a 5 on 5 pick-up game of basketball than true spritual and self awareness. This sounds like the same nonsense when Churches were telling their congregations in 1850 that slavery was ordained by God. The same nonsense in 1945 when Churches were telling their members that "the United States, with the help of God, gave us the A-bomb so that we could save millions of American lives." And the same Churches that are been telling their members today that the Bible says homosexuality is dirty and unclean.
In which case, we are asking the wrong questions. And one of those questions should be: how do political power mongers use language to control people. And the ironic part is, this rhetoric has been moving people AWAY from Christ's message rather than towards it.