The Historical Reliability of the New Testament

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You have far more patience than I do, D-P.  I hope you have all this stuff canned somewhere because he isn't worth writing it out for.

http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/corinth2.html#top

It was not Paul's ethereal Lord Jesus who sourced the ethics or theology of the new revelation. Paul – or whoever wrote in that name – combined elements from Judaism, Gnosticism, and the Mystery religions to produce the winning formula. Paul's simple and beguiling idea regarding the Divine Will gave birth to a monstrous ideology that would guide the Church for a millennium. The worst of villains who "accepted Christ" and submitted to the sacraments of the church, might be raised to life eternal; whereas the noblest of humanitarians, who never "accepted Christ" but devoted his life to his fellow man, was condemned to eternal damnation, the fires of Hell and the vicious spite of Holy Mother Church.