Christianity

Hello there, I got thinking the other day by a comment about Christianity and the people who have founded it. Before revealing the comment, I should offer some background on the conversation that was taking place at the time. I was discussing a religion I believe was Mormanism. The main topic of discussion was something along the lines of "How can a group of people place trust in a religious leader that claims to have had a vision alone and written a religious book about this vision? " To me I would have just assumed the man got high in his attic and came out of it with a new religious book he wrote while in a drugged-up stupor. Who can prove the man had a vision? Who can back up this "religious book" he claims is "from God"?
The comment that got me thinking, however, was "How is Mormanism any different than Christianity?" Aren't there dozens of books in the Bible that were written by men who claim to have had visions or were inspired by God? Moses claims to have gone up into a mountainside alone and seen a burning bush. John saw the vision of Revelation alone. Paul had the vision of seeing God on the Roadside that no one else could see. How do we know he didn't fake being blind? Who can back up any of Daniel's visions? How do we know the tempting of Jesus happened when only Jesus was there to experience it?
I think there is a lot more faith involved with Christianity than we are aware of. We can very rarely back up a lot of what Christianity is founded on and yet we accept it without question. I just think there are a lot more similarities between Christianity and other religions than we tend to recognize. It's also easier to relate to people from other religions when you can understand the similarities of your religion and theirs.
Another amusing thought occurred to me when listening to a Derek Webb song. The lyrics to the one song were ".....that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican" I found this amusing because most Jesus films portray Jesus as this white dude with long hair and a beard, but most likely he looked more like Osama Bin Laden.
This probably isn't a thought that most Americans would be happy to think about right now, but it's probably the truth nonetheless.