@kjw47,
Jesus is as real as Sponge Bob. Sponge Bob didn't start any religion and neither did Jesus. To be sure a religious cult sprung up but then religious cult spring up all the time and most are based on the Christian book. Jim Jones and the branch Davidians come to mind.
Do you really think your path to heaven is paved with all the dead bodies killed and tortured in the name of Christ? The Christian cult was always a human sacrifice cult. When Mosses felt God needed was unhappy, he did the usual thing he sacrificed two of his best men. Do you know how ignorant somebody has to be to believe in human sacrifice or any religious cult that does?