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Volunteer your services to make JNE available to the non-English speaking world. century AD the area was a burial ground of rock-cut tombs. With multiple authors behind the original gospel story it is no surprise that the figure of Jesus is a mess of contradictions Mary was not a virgin, that idea was borrowed from pagan goddesses. The pagan world knew all about virgins getting pregnant by randy gods: Still holding to the idea that some sort of holy man lies behind the legend? Better check out As it happens, we have an excellent witness to events in Judaea in the first half of the first century AD: Philo of Alexandria (c. 25 BC-47 There never was just one Christianity. Out of the milieu of religiosity that infected the Roman world, dozens of competing and acquire a human death, a human life and finally a human birth. advocate of love was as*embled to try to unify a fragmented and fractious messianic religious movement. took comfort in noting similarities between their own ideas and pagan myths. The orthodox creed remained unpopular for centuries and persecution of its critics was necessary to impose its will. triumphant in Rome but fatally weakened by its exclusion of women. In Judaea itself, hatred for the Roman conquerors bred a genre of With God's blessing, misogynistic Jewish scribes encoded a raft of se* crimes which sanctified racial ambition. The sacred mission was to wayward faction of heretics known to the world as Christians. There are actually some 200 gospels, epistles and other ancient docu*ents concerning the life of Jesus Christ. Writing such material was a popular literary form, particularly in the 2nd century. The pious fantasies competed with Greek romantic fiction. Political considerations in the late 2nd century led to the selection of just four approved gospels and the rejection of others. After three centuries of wrangling 23 other books were accepted by the Church as divinely inspired. The rest were declared 'pious frauds'. In truth,