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These statements about Christianity simply are not true. The death and resurrection story from the very beginning was shared on the basis of fact. Note Luke's Gospel's opening statements:

1 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, 2 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, 3 it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.

Luke makes it clear to Theophilus that the things believed by the Christians were based on eye witness accounts. In his gospel record he provides the chronology of the events tracing the timelines with both the Jewish religious calendar and significant events in the Roman Empire with the intent to show the certainty of the record. This time frame of Christ has been validated by both Suetonius and and Tacitus the Roman historians as Jesus having been crucified under Pontius Pilate.

Suetonius--Since the Jews constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome.

Tacitus--But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations of the gods, did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order. Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular.

Pliny--They asserted, however, that the sum and substance of their fault or error had been that they were accustomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn and sing responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god, and to bind themselves by oath, not to some crime, but not to commit fraud, theft, or adultery, not falsify their trust, nor to refuse to return a trust when called upon to do so.