The Roman Jesus Hoax
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From Joe King: Christ, will they ever stop picking on the guy?
Scholar Claims Jesus Was a Roman Hoax
by Benjamin Radford
news.discover.com
October 11, 2013
A historical scholar claims to have found evidence proving that the story of Jesus as described in the New Testament is a fiction, and that historical claims about Jesus were actually created by Roman aristocrats to control the poor.
According to a news story in The Independent:
“Joseph Atwill, who is the author of a book entitled “˜Caesar”™s Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus”™, asserts that Christianity did not begin as a religion, but was actually a sophisticated government propaganda exercise used to pacify the subjects of the Roman Empire.”
Atwill”™s take on Jesus is of course not new. In 1844 Karl Marx famously declared religion as the opiate of the masses. History is filled with skeptics, freethinkers, atheists, agnostics and other doubters who have questioned religious doctrine and dogma. (more…)
