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Creating Christ
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RE: Creating Christ
September 19, 2022 at 12:47 pm (This post was last modified: September 19, 2022 at 12:48 pm by Jehanne.)
(September 19, 2022 at 10:54 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:
(September 18, 2022 at 11:13 am)JML Wrote: Any thoughts on this book?

Book Review
Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity
by James S Valliant & Warren Fahy 2018
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Welcome, JML. Not sure of the scholarship on this. Has any empire created a new religion out of nearly whole cloth to insert into a population they want to pacify? The Romans were pretty advanced, but this seems unlikely on the face of it, and unlikely that there would be no record of it.

The Romans were pagans, and they had no qualms about adding the Christian god(s) to their existing Pantheon of gods. It was the claim by some Christians that their religion was the "One True Faith" that started to rub the Romans in the wrong way.
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Creating Christ - by JML - September 18, 2022 at 11:13 am
RE: Creating Christ - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 18, 2022 at 11:58 am
RE: Creating Christ - by Fake Messiah - September 18, 2022 at 12:16 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by AFTT47 - September 18, 2022 at 2:51 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Simon Moon - September 29, 2022 at 1:01 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Jehanne - September 18, 2022 at 12:37 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Angrboda - September 18, 2022 at 1:58 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Jehanne - September 18, 2022 at 2:21 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 18, 2022 at 2:42 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Ranjr - September 18, 2022 at 3:03 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 18, 2022 at 3:51 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Silver - September 18, 2022 at 7:43 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Gwaithmir - September 19, 2022 at 9:05 am
RE: Creating Christ - by Ranjr - September 19, 2022 at 8:59 am
RE: Creating Christ - by Jehanne - September 19, 2022 at 10:09 am
RE: Creating Christ - by arewethereyet - September 19, 2022 at 10:14 am
RE: Creating Christ - by Ranjr - September 19, 2022 at 10:19 am
RE: Creating Christ - by h4ym4n - September 19, 2022 at 3:33 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Mister Agenda - September 19, 2022 at 10:54 am
RE: Creating Christ - by Jehanne - September 19, 2022 at 12:47 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 19, 2022 at 12:59 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Fake Messiah - September 19, 2022 at 2:13 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Angrboda - September 19, 2022 at 12:55 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by The Grand Nudger - September 29, 2022 at 4:02 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Jehanne - September 29, 2022 at 7:29 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Fake Messiah - September 29, 2022 at 8:39 pm
RE: Creating Christ - by Jehanne - September 29, 2022 at 9:40 pm

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