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“It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.”
“However itor the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embracescan lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform e...”
“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. Th...”
“Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the Jesus of the Gospels...God stops being th...”
“Thousands of years before Christianity, secret cults arose which worshipped the sacred mushroomthe Amanita Muscariawhich, for various reasons (including its shape and power as a drug) came to be re...”
“However it—or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces—can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform...”