Contents
1. Christianity Without Jesus?
Piety and Dreams Sire a Godman • Growing the dream • Composite
Hero • The God Who Never Was • Glory – The
Greatest Man Who Never Lived.
2. What DID the Early Christians Believe?
Bizarre Beginnings – The Assortment of Early Christian
Belief • Nice Gnostics – Christian 'Mystics of
Knowledge' • Making an Apology • Orthodoxy and
the Early Church. 3. The Syncretic Heritage of Christianity
Conjuring up Catholicism – Religious Fusion in Egypt • Silk
and Spice – The Buddhist Influence in Christian Origins • Dress
Rehearsal for Christianity – Mithraism • The Church
of the Shadows – Waiting in the Wings. 4. Just Who Were the Jews?
Genesis – First invent your Jew, then invent your Christ • Out
of Egypt? Palpable Nonsense • Imperial Israel? King
David, The Boy Wonder • King Solomon? The Emperor with
No Clothes • On the Margins of a Real Empire – Israelites
and Assyrians • Babylon – Nurturing the Jewish
Priesthood. 5. Christianity's Fabrication Factory
The Ever-Changing Word of God • "Mark" • "Brother
James" • The Mythical "Virgin Mary" • The
Mythical "St Peter" • "John" • "Luke" • "Matthew". 6. Jesus - The Imaginary Friend
A Surfeit of Jesuses! – But No "Jesus of Nazareth" • Nazareth – The
Town that Theology Built • The "12 Apostles" • Would
they lie? – Copy and Glorify! • Non-Christian
Testimony? • Jesus Christ – Paragon of Virtue? 7. Rome and the Jews
World Culture Confounds the Jews • Militant Tendencies • The
Apostle Paul • 'Wars & Rumours of Wars' • The
Piety and Vengeance of Hadrian • Rabbinic Judaism Inc. 8.
Heart of Darkness
Constantine – Pagan Thug Makes
Christian Emperor • Into the Darkness • Christianity's "civil
war" – The Struggle for Power • Pope Damasus – The
gangster who hired a pimp to rewrite the Bible! • Theodosius – Murdering
the Competition • The Closing Mind – Death of
Tolerance • Christianizing of the Heathen • Sin. 9. The World that was Lost
Christianity Wrecks Civilization • Dwarfs on the Bones
of Giants • Twilight of Ancient Medicine • Gathering
Darkness • Lost World 10. Truth and Consequence
Love Your Neighbour? • Demolishing the Jesus Myth – a
history.
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