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The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified ...
Richard Cevantis Carrier (born December 1, 1969) is an American ancient historian. [2] He is a long-time contributor to skeptical websites, including The Secular Web and Freethought Blogs.
1875: The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors ; I desire to impress upon the minds of my clerical brethren the important fact, that the gospel histories of Christ were written by men who had formerly been Jews (see Acts xxi. 20), and probably possessing the strong proclivity to imitate and borrow which their bible shows was characteristic of that nation ; and being written many years after ...
The validity of the claims in the book have been greatly criticized by Christ myth proponents including Richard Carrier, and are largely dismissed by biblical scholars. [ 306 ] Starting in the 1870s, English poet and author Gerald Massey became interested in Egyptology and reportedly taught himself Egyptian hieroglyphics at the British Museum ...
Richard Carlile (1790–1843) – English journalist, radical and secularist. [11] Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) – English socialist poet, philosopher and anthologist. [12] Richard Carrier (born 1969) – American historian, author, and atheist activist. [13] Paul-Louis Couchoud (1879–1959) – French philosopher. [14]
Richard Carrier has proposed the fringe idea that the reference is a Christian interpolation, and that Tacitus intended to refer to "Chrestians" as a separate religious group unaffiliated with Christianity. [67] [68] However, the majority view is that the terms "Chrestians" and "Christians" are the same group. [69]
A video shared on X claims to show the USS Abraham Lincoln on fire after a Houthi attack. Verdict: False The video is likely from 2020 and shows the USS Bonhomme Richard on fire in San Diego. Fact ...
The Messiah in Judaism means anointed one; it included Jewish priests, prophets and kings such as David and Cyrus the Great. [1] Later, especially after the failure of the Hasmonean Kingdom (37 BCE) and the Jewish–Roman wars (66–135 CE), the figure of the Jewish Messiah was one who would deliver the Jews from oppression and usher in an Olam HaBa ("world to come"), the Messianic Age.