The Pagan Christ (2007)

There are 2.1 billion Christians on the planet – roughly one third of the entire human population. At the heart of their religion is the New Testament and the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. To Christianity, the written word is the glue that binds the faith of its followers.

So, what if it could be proven that Jesus never existed? What if there was evidence that every word of the New Testament – the cornerstone of Christianity – is based on myth and metaphor?

Based on Tom Harpur’s national bestseller, The Pagan Christ examines these very questions. During his research, Harpur discovered that the New Testament is wholly based on Egyptian mythology, that Jesus Christ never lived, and that – indeed – the text was always meant to be read allegorically. It was the founders of the Church who duped the world into taking a literal approach to the scriptures. And, according to Harpur, this was their fatal error – and the very reason Christianity is struggling today.

Related to: The God Who Wasn't There


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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! - The Bible: Fact or Fiction?

Penn & Teller show the inaccuracies and impossibilities of the Bible and tell that why is that a work of fiction in this very funny episode, although the humor comes from the nature of the subject!

Also one of the guests is Michael Shermer.

Related to: Penn & Teller: Bullshit! - Creationism


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Who Wrote the Bible?

Religion is in the center of world politics today. The Bible has been used as an imperialistic power to justify their politics for centuries. However most of the people believe that the Bible is really the words of God. Theologian Dr. Robert Beckford seeks the answers and makes voyage to Jerusalem, Turkey, Rome and the US to find out the origins of the Testaments.




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Marjoe (1972)

GOD IS MONEY

Marjoe, also Christopher Hitchens mentions the movie and him inGod is not Great, is a story of a child preacher and ordained minister whose parents make a large of sums money benefiting from his success. In this documentary he confesses how he manipulated and deceived the people just using his--earthly-- talent and most importantly shows behind the curtains and how people are easily deceived by faith healers.

Also watch: Jesus Camp (2006)




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The Bible Unmasked - Joseph Lewis

From the author of The Tyranny of God

"This book is dedicated in all seriousness to rabbis, priests and ministers, in the hope that it may bring them to realize the fraud they are perpetrating by preaching the Bible as the Word of God, and as a moral and intellectual guide for the human race." Joseph Lewis.

Joseph Lewis, founder of the Freethought Press Association, criticizes and reveals the truth behind the Bible according to the verses and passages in this enlightening work.

Related to: Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism


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The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God? - Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy

The authors postulate that Christianity as we know it, regardless of the teachings of its founder, ultimately distilled and usurped the greatest wisdom inherent in pagan traditions. Specifically, they charge that Christianity looted the traditions of the Osiris/Dionysus cults--borrowing, synthesizing and domesticating what was most sacred to Greco-Roman civilization. Freke and Gandy assert that Christian history is "nothing less than the greatest cover-up of all time. Publishers Weekly

Related to: The Pagan Christ


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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why - Bart D. Ehrman (Audiobook + E-book)

When world-class Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact the had upon the Bible we use today. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible. From the back cover

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Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible - Bart D. Ehrman (Audiobook + E-book)

Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman’s New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches—and it’s not what most people think. Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed. Amazon

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The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? - Earl Doherty

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I was warned that the book that I posted here is the novel version. If you have the same book as the title suggests, send it to my email or I'll delete the post.

"The most compelling argument ever published in support of the theory that Jesus never existed as an historical person." Frank Zindler, American Atheist Magazine

A new presentation of the argument that no historical Jesus existed. A full and comprehensive survey of the question through an examination of the early Christian record, canonical and non-canonical, from Q to the Gospels, from the earliest Pauline epistles to the second century apologists, along with Jewish, Gnostic, and Greco-Roman documents of the time. The philosophy of the era, its religious expression in the pagan mystery cults, fascinating glimpses into the historical background of the period, an in-depth consideration of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, are only some of the additional topics covered in the book. A richly-detailed, highly lucid and entertaining account of how Christianity began without an historical Jesus of Nazareth, who came to life only on the pages of the Gospels. The book has been styled for the general reader, though the scholarly community will find it of value as well. Amazon


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The Born Again Skeptic's Guide To The Bible - Ruth Hurmence Green

Suppose you had never heard of Christianity, and that next Sunday morning a stranger standing in a pulpit told you about a book whose authors could not be authenticated and whose contents, written hundreds of years ago, included blood-curdling legends of slaughter and intrigue and fables about unnatural happenings such as virgin births, devils that inhabit human bodies and talk, people rising from the dead and ascending live into the clouds, and suns that stand still. Suppose he then asked you to believe that uneducated man described in that book was a god who could get you into an eternal fantasy-place called Heaven, when you die. Would you, as an intelligent rational person, even bother to read such nonsense, let alone pattern your entire life upon it? From the book


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Evolution and Religious Creation Myths: How Scientists Respond - Paul F. Lurquin, Linda Stone

Evolution and Religious Creation Myths seeks to educate and arm the public on the differences between myth and science, fiction and theory. The book begins with a whirlwind tour of creation stories from several religions. The authors then explore how certain forms of religious fundamentalism clash with the science of evolution. They review how creationists and intelligent design proponents misuse and misrepresent scientific terminology and conclusions to further their own agendas. How do scientists respond to this threat? Modern science, which includes a level of indeterminacy, or chance, cannot support the premise that a supernatural designer engineered nature for a particular purpose in a deterministic fashion. This holds true for the creation of the universe, the appearance of the first biological molecules, chemical evolution, and the evolution of life forms through mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift. Instead, human biological and cultural evolution is described within a genetic framework. Scientists use a barrage of genetic tests and DNA phylogenies to support the scientific basis for evolution. For anyone who has ever needed to argue why evolution and creationism are not both valid theories that deserve equal attention, this book clearly defines the difference between theory and myth. Scientists, teachers, and defenders of the truth should read this book in preparation for when they are called upon to respond. Amazon


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The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (Short Circuits) - Slavoj Zizek, John Milbank

In this corner, philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who represents the critical-materialist stance against religion's illusions; in the other corner, ''radical orthodox'' theologian John Milbank, an influential and provocative thinker who argues that theology is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics, and ethics can stand. In The Monstrosity of Christ, Zizek and Milbank go head to head for three rounds, employing an impressive arsenal of moves to advance their positions and press their respective advantages. By the closing bell, they have proven themselves worthy adversaries--and have also shown that faith and reason are not simply and intractably opposed.

Zizek has long been interested in the emancipatory potential offered by Christian theology. And Milbank, seeing global capitalism as the new century's greatest ethical challenge, has pushed his own ontology in more political and materialist directions. Their debate in The Monstrosity of Christ concerns nothing less than the future of religion, secularity, and political hope in light of a monsterful event—God becoming human. For the first time since Zizek's turn toward theology, we have a true debate between an atheist and a theologian about the very meaning of theology, Christ, the Church, the Holy Ghost, universality, and the foundations of logic. The result goes far beyond the popularized atheist/theist point/counterpoint of recent books by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and others.

Zizek begins, and Milbank answers, countering dialectics with ''paradox''. The debate centers on the nature of and relation between paradox and parallax, between analogy and dialectics, between transcendent glory and liberation. Amazon

Also read: The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity - Slavoj Zizek


However, things get even more complicated: God’s essential goodness itself is held against him. When Sunday [a novel character who represents God, he is good and evil at the same time - BW], asked who he really is, answers that he is the God of Sabbath, of peace, one of the enraged detectives reproaches him: “it is exactly that that I cannot forgive you. I know you are contentment, optimism, what do they call the thing, an ultimate reconciliation. Well, I am not reconciled. If you were the man in the dark room, why were you also Sunday, an offense to the sunlight? If you were from the first our father and our friend, why were you also our greatest enemy? We wept, we fled in terror; the iron entered into our souls—and you are the peace of God! Oh, I can forgive God His anger, though it destroyed nations; but I cannot forgive Him His peace.”

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Hegel is talking about something much more radical: the “unity of opposites” means that, in a self-reflexive short circuit, God falls into his own creation; that, like the proverbial snake, he in a way swallows / eats himself by his own tail. In short, the “unity of opposites” does not mean that God plays with himself the game of (self- )alienation, allowing evil opposition in order to overcome it and thus assert his moral strength, etc.; it means that “God” is a mask (a travesty) of “Devil,” that the difference between Good and Evil is internal to Evil.


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The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits) - Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Zizek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In The Puppet and the Dwarf he offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's spirituality--New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism--and then tries to redeem the "materialist" kernel of Christianity. His reading of Christianity is explicitly political, discerning in the Pauline community of believers the first version of a revolutionary collective. Since today even advocates of Enlightenment like Jurgen Habermas acknowledge that a religious vision is needed to ground our ethical and political stance in a "postsecular" age, this book--with a stance that is clearly materialist and at the same time indebted to the core of the Christian legacy--is certain to stir controversy.Amazon

Also read: The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? - Slavoj Zizek


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