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Equally, it does not mean that Christian beliefs cause more distortion than other ideological beliefs. This emerged with particular clarity in engaging with the opinion that Jesus did not exist. This view is demonstrably false. It is fuelled by a regrettable form of atheist prejudice, which holds all the main primary sources, and Christian people, in contempt. This is not merely worse than the American Jesus Seminar, it is no better than Christian fundamentalism. It simply has different prejudic
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― Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of his Life and Teaching
― Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of his Life and Teaching
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For centuries after obtaining power during the reign of Constantine, Christians went on a censorship rampage that led to the virtual illiteracy of the ancient Western world and ensured that their secret would be hidden from the masses. The scholars of other schools/sects evidently did not easily give up their arguments against the historicizing of a very ancient mythological creature. We have lost the exact arguments of these learned dissenters because Christians destroyed any traces of their wo
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― The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ
― The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ