JG, since it's never verifiably occured in recorded history, it's hard to say. If this statement seems odd, do a simple search to see what type of historical records you can find of Christ outside the ones found in the bible. Seems strange that an individual so great and miraculous by biblical accounts seems to have had no impact historically, nor are historians even convinced he ever lived at all in that time. As Lewis Carols Alice was quoted to have said "Curiouser and curiouser."

Would I follow them? Only if I believed in the same things they did. This is afterall the most relevant in my thoughts in what I pursue anyway. Never been much for the follower/sheep mentality or mindset

BTW, like woberto mentioned, check out Zeitgeist, though I can't say I agree with everything in it there sure is a lot of interesing ideas presented within that gives one pause for thought along those lines. And, thinking is a seemingly lost art these days, but a very good thing and something the world as a whole would greatly benefit from if more of it were done, especially in a less than linear fashion