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The central point of mystery religions like the Eleusinian Mysteries is to cultivate the mystical experience. In judeochristian theology, that experience is considered sacrilegious. Some Jews let Jesus have it and became Christians, but nobody else is allowed. And the ones we call Jewish today didn't even let that one guy have it.
The similarities between Christianity and Greco-Roman mysticism are only surface-level and were a marketing ploy to gain followers. In its core, Christianity is still Judaism, just packaged for export. Hence why two thousand years later, Christians are still quoting the Old Testament to justify bigotry, even though they claim to be followers of the guy who said "love each other as I have loved you".
It feels to me like there's an inconsistency between calling Christianity "Judaism for export", and saying that it quotes the Old Testament for the purposes of bigotry. Or maybe it just feels antisemitic, even if not deliberately so. I mean it's not like there isn't bigotry in the New Testament, or radical acceptance in the Old.
But also I don't think you can argue that Christianity is a mere extension of Judaism and at the same time argue that it shouldn't utilize Jewish text.