Quote:"Jesus was an amalgam of earlier pagan myths, brought together into a mythic figure of a god-man and saviour of a kind found in many cults of the time.” This is referencing the writings of Acharya S, but I believe they are similar to what is being proposed here.
Why don't you read Carrier's book and put down that quack. She's trumpeting the 1875 work of Kersey Graves. If you keep saddling yourself with that kind of shit you'll never learn anything. BTW, the same goes for turn of the century "archaeologists" who were really just preachers with a bible in one hand and a shovel in the other. They went to the ANE to "prove" the bible and, voila! Every stone they picked up was something that moses had pissed on.
Unlike religion, science progresses. Learn to check sources.
