Jesus freaks like to pretend this is all brand new but, as happens so often to them, reality bites them on the ass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_myth...Beginnings
Curiously, these two were post-revolutionary writers...in other words after the church...that most criminal of human inventions...had lost its power to silence critics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_myth...Beginnings
Quote:Towards the end of the 18th century, the beginnings of the formal denial of the existence of Jesus began with the works of Constantin-Volney and Charles Dupuis in France.
Curiously, these two were post-revolutionary writers...in other words after the church...that most criminal of human inventions...had lost its power to silence critics.