Was Christianity new?  Was Christianity unique?  Why talk about the Pagan Heroes?

Like Christians today, Pagans believed in more than one kind of supernatural being.  For pagans, besides the supreme Gods like Zeus, Jupiter, Serapis and Sol Invictus, and the Sons of God Dionysus, Osiris, Mithras, etc., the ancients believed regular people were sometimes elevated to special personal divinity -- particularly for good works during their normal lives.  The Greeks and Romans called these divinities "heroes."  Hercules was a hero.

Christianity didn't borrow the idea -- "saints are not "minor divinities" and where Pikachu gets such nonsense is probably answered from a pharmacy. If there is any analogue it is to Jewish reverence of heroes like Moses and Elijah.

When Pikachu gets around to doing this page, hell will probably freeze over.