Sourcing the Legend

The Syncretic Heritage of Christianity

Forget the fairy story. Many currents fed the Jesus myth, like streams and tributaries joining to form a major river. As Christianity cut its way through the centuries it became a very murky and dangerous torrent, sweeping away civilizations and all who stood in its way.

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31.08.06 

 

 

Christianity – the ultimate product of religious syncretism in the ancient world.

 

 

 

 

 


Pagan and Jewish motifs share the roof decor of this tomb (Rome).
 

 

Melange: From Mixed Parentage

How the Godman is Made and Remade


The light of science, the cauldron of superstition.
 

 

"Pick'n'Mix" in the Ancient World

Welcome to Alexandria, the Cooking Pot of Religion

Jesus who?
 

Witness to Jesus? Philo of Alexandria

Right time, right place – yet Philo says not a word about Jesus, Christianity nor any of the events described in the New Testament.


Osiris – core of a godhead with 3 parts.
 

 

Egyptian Roots – Relics, demonology, miracles

The religion of the Pharaohs, recast in Christian form

Seneca – epiphets of wisdom
 

Witness to Jesus? Seneca and the Stoics

The ancient world was not on hold, waiting for a Christian godman to teach it ethics and morality.


Horus becomes a Christ on horseback.
 


The Fabric of Catholicism – The Show Must Go On

Regurgitated fables, reused symbols, recycled sacred space – That's show business!


Buddha shares homespun wisdom with his disciples.

 

Silk and Spice – The Buddhist Influence in Christian Origins

Opportunity, motive, method and scripture itself provide evidence of a profound and detailed Buddhist influence in Christianity's origins.


Retribution for enemies of the faith.
 

 

The Angry Jew Revealing Truth Behind 'Revelation'

Infusing the faith with the intolerance of divine certainty.


Have I got a story for you ...
 
What DID the Early Christians Believe? – PART 1

Bizarre – The Assortment of Early Christian Belief


Secrets
 
What DID the Early Christians Believe? – PART 2

'Mystics of Knowledge' – The Nice Gnostics


Painful sacrifice
 
What DID the Early Christians Believe? – PART 3

Making an Apology


Priestly perks for the orthodox
 
What DID the Early Christians Believe? – PART 4

The Invention of Orthodoxy

Mithraic saviour sheds blood.
 

MithraismDress Rehearsal for Christianity

The first ‘universal religion’ of the Greco-Roman world anticipated Christianity in almost all major respects.


Christian cross hacked into pagan megalith (Ireland).

 

A Lengthening Shadow – The Christianizing of Ireland

When a primitive Christianity extended its grasp beyond the limits of the Roman Empire it compromised with, adapted and absorbed any number of earlier pagan traditions.

 

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