I suspect the great core of Christianity, though, wouldn't be distinctively Christian. The movement borrowed from too many other Mediterranean and Hellenistic philosophies and traditions. The unique aspects of Christianity, rather, were the bad parts.

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/the-age-old-catholic-mastery-of-disneyfication-827cbe256780?sk=d95fe9aeb67f3c606187d0d48e3a1436

https://medium.com/@benjamincain8/christianitys-betrayal-of-the-axial-age-37a55ddfc172?source=friends_link&sk=882cb3dba529e2be8ca3d8b913596d56

https://medium.com/interfaith-now/the-mythic-core-of-the-christian-narrative-ab42c8622608?sk=c6d1a6a41fcb20029cf734880d9115a8