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Tom Holland relates a story of the critical importance of getting ritual absolutely right. If one farted during a meal one would be expected to commit suicide.

Christianity is a fascinating symbiosis of all of these strands, actually very powerful emotionally and intellectually. A relationship with the true god the bride of christ, the lion laying down with the lamb, a new heaven and earth? Not bad deal!

Robin lane Fox has wonderful descriptions of the Spartans going to war, complete with huge wagon trains of animals and birds and many priests to sacrifice them, read their entrails and how the smoke rises to tell the generals what to do and feed the troops - as gods live on sweet smoke dotchaknow Ri...

a symbolization and personification of thoughts Isn't this the classic god bothering question? How do you get the gods to listen to you, help you and save you? From Darius, the simplification of bothering one God rather than many was taking place, and rituals were becoming unified and hierarchical ...

Has anyone collated the possible sources of a composite Jesus of Nazareth? A few - the teacher of righteousness, new Adam, new Elijah , son of man, Angel in the wilderness ....

Does this review misunderstand ellegard?

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Jesus.html?id=E_-hQAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y How might ellegard fit? Jesus: One Hundred Years Before Christ : a Study in Creative Mythology Front Cover Alvar Ellegård Century, 1999 - Bible - 322 pages 0 Reviews The starting point for the book is the following ano...

Do we have a fictional/mythical holy trinity? Peter Paul and Jesus?

Why is this not accepted? It is far superior to the faith based assertions that fly around.

http://www.radikalkritik.de/A_forgotten_chapter.htm Christianity in the Jewish-legalistic atmosphere of Jerusalem unacceptable. In their opinion the source of Christianity has to be looked for in the confluence of ideas of the Gnostic communities of Alexandria and of the Stoics in Rome. There the my...