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The pagan Christ : is blind faith killing Christianity?

Tom Harpur
Long before the advent of Christ, the Egyptians and other ancient societies believed in the coming of a messiah, in a Madonna and her child, a virgin birth and the incarnation of the spirit made flesh. Civilisations as diverse as the Persians and the Aztecs shared the same religious doctrine as Christian churches today, long before the testaments were purportedly recorded as 'history'
Print Book, English, 2004
Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, N.S.W., 2004
[xi], 244 pages ; 23 cm
9781741145960, 1741145961
224458318
Author's NoteAcknowledgements1 Discovery: A Bible Story I'd Never Heard Before2 Setting the Stage: Myths Aren't Fairy Tales3 Christianity before Christianity: Where It All Began4 The Greatest Cover-up of All Time: How a Spiritual Christianity Became a Literalist Christianism5 It Was All Written Before - In Egypt6 Convincing the Sceptics7 The Bible - History or Myth?: The End of Fundamentalism8 Seeing the Gospels With New Eyes: Sublime Myth Is Not Biography9 Was There a Jesus of History?10 The Only Way Ahead: Cosmic ChristianityEpilogue