Ecclesiastical cons

The then Christian Church was engaged on full-time forgery, in inventing an acceptable deity.
The infamous Josephus 'insertion' blatently attempting to falsify the otherwise total lack of any record of the biblical Jesus.

Italian artists quickly realised the profit to be made by producing visual 'white man' images consistent with Vatican yarns. These are clearly apparent by the 'narrow nose' - the opposite of the Negroid nose.

Remember there were no books available to the people - the vast majority of whom were illiterate in any case.
The pulpit was the main con method and for those who still were uncertain - well the Jesuits and bestial torture culmimating in burning men alive, effectively silenced opposite views.

Remember the Pope - Leo X - who let it slip: it has served us well, this christ myth.

Conmen from top to bottom and their myth still 'serves them well'

Arthur Findlay had it spot on: Christanity - 'the greatest hoax ever perpetrated upon humankind'