Konformist Book Club: Piso Christ

http://pisochristthebook.webs.com/

Introduction to the book 'Piso Christ', by Roman Piso

Hello, and welcome to this website. This site is here to help you to familiarize yourself with the book 'Piso Christ'. We will be giving you some background here and other information regarding the book 'Piso Christ'. Our goal is to help everyone gain a working knowledge of the true nature of the history of the time in which Christianity was created and eliminate any doubt that anyone has about the truth about Christianity.

The book 'Piso Christ' was many years in the making and there have been several people who have helped to make it possible. We hope that you will find this website to be a valuable resource and that you will want to share this information with others. Thank you. Our kindest regards, Roman Piso & Jay Gallus

What Piso Christ is About...

Jay Gallus and I realized that we had to get this information out there so that everyone would finally have access to this information. To understand the whole scope of what happened in the creation of Christianity one must first have a good understanding of the people involved in it, the true context of the time and place, what the motivating factors were, and a great deal more. We are used to seeing programs on TV which tell us about astounding feats from ancient times such as inventions and pyramids, incredible mathematic understanding, astronomy and so forth. But on those programs we are told that this was the work of aliens or of some lost civilization, giving the impression that these things were not accomplished by ordinary human beings. To think that is to not know what was really going on in ancient times.

It is true that many things were known, discovered, and used in ancient times which would seem to us to have been produced before their time. However, when you realize that in the ancient world, there were basically two sets of people, royals and non-royals, you begin to also understand that royals had vested interests to protect and that they, by necessity, devised methods and means by which to retain their status. One of the first things they learned was that they had to preserve knowledge only for themselves. This is because they realized that knowledge is power. So, while all royals enjoyed the best possible education and learned about all the things which had been known, discovered and invented, by the same token, they were doing what they could to keep that information from the general public or non-royals. But even this was not enough. It was not enough to keep the common people uninformed, but they had to make certain that they could not think and reason properly either. And so, they began a process of dumbing-down the masses to insure that they would be ignorant and superstitious.

For thousands of years, among these royals, psychopaths were born. And from within, with all the knowledge and power that royals controlled, these psychopaths carved out the world as they would have it be. They created religion. And perhaps the greatest psychopath of all, Arrius Calpurnius Piso, designed and created Christianity. He was a very ruthless, mean and vindictive person, but he never let anything get the best of him, he was always on top of everything. He was always several steps ahead of anyone else. The book 'Piso Christ' gives some important information about Arrius Calpurnius Piso and his family, and how it was that they had created Christianity. Arrius Piso played the part of Jesus in the New Testament as a way of mocking the person who he felt was his worst enemy; Jesus, son of Gamaliel I. Jesus, the son of Gamaliel I was a High Priest of the Pharisees. He was going to succeed his father as leader of the Pharisees and in a sense, become a real-life messiah. Not one who worked miracles or who claimed the be the son of God, but one who would help institute a profound change in the world. Arrius Piso feared that Nero would leave the Roman Empire in the hands of Jesus. Arrius Piso managed to kill both Nero and Jesus. He probably killed Gamaliel I also.

As most people who know their first century history already know, Nero was killed in 68 CE. Gamaliel I had died in 63 CE, and his son Jesus was slain in Jerusalem in 63 CE. What would have changed had these men lived and were successful with what they planned to do? We may never know completely, but because of all of my research into this, I have some idea. Firstly, the Pharisees were highly ethical and intelligent. You may say that they were not so much religious as they were humanist. They were perhaps the world's first real and true secular humanists. Yes, they pretended to be religious on the surface, but it is my opinion that they had to create that facade in order to survive in that time and place. The true force and thrust of their thoughts were humanist and ethical, not religious.

So what were the Jews (meaning Pharisees and their allies) fighting for? They were against slavery. And so, that is one thing that they would have changed. They knew that it was not right to use and treat other people as anything less than what they are; human beings. They taught this in their ethical teachings. So, they sought an end to slavery throughout the Roman Empire. They helped the slaves throughout the Roman Empire to escape and revolt. They were against torture and inequality, and sought to put an end to that as well. And finally, another way that they would have changed the world is to do away with kings and other rulers who assumed their positions simply through royal birth. They would have given the world the means to thrive and to learn by giving democratically elected representatives a chance at positions which were formally only held by royals. And, of course, all of the accumulated knowledge, wisdom, inventions and the books containing all of that information would have been available to everyone and not only reserved for royalty. All people would have been able to have the best education possible and know about all the things which were done before, all things which had been invented, devised and used. What a different world it would have been.

But Arrius Piso was a psychopath and did not want this to happen. So, he set about to make a plan which would insure that it would not happen. And a large part of that plan included creating a new religion which would prevent people from thinking outside of the little box that he would trap their minds within. Most people today still do not truly understand just what a psychopath is or what they are capable of doing. Many people only have the idea that they are people like serial killers who usually get tripped up, caught and put in prison. This is far from the truth. There are different levels of psychopaths. Some kill people directly and do it themselves. Others do it in other, different ways, sometimes by having others do it for them. And still others, just destroy lives and kill people slowly over the course of time by torturing them to death; sometimes by using marriage in order to do it. Arrius Piso was a most horrid psychopath. And like many psychopaths, he was a megalomaniac and could not help bragging about the things he did and got away with. That is how we are able to piece together the puzzle (the "mystery of the gospels") that he left us about how and why he created Christianity.

The book 'Piso Christ' covers many of the most important things that people should know about all of this. The reader of Piso Christ will learn a great deal about the Piso family and their relatives. They will read about the power play that was going on at the time and which was the reason that Arrius Piso had to create a new religion as a means of controlling and manipulating the minds of the masses. He devised it to be exactly as he needed it to be for his purpose. For instance, he instituted the use of a confessional so that the leaders of the Church could act as informants and give him and his family information on who, when and where their might be a revolt or counter attack in the war that was going on then. It is a completely awful thing once it is exposed to the light of day. And absolutely essential that each and every human being know about. The complexion of Christianity, once the truth is known, changes to the exact opposite of what believers have thought it to be - the world's greatest horror.

What would a ardent Christian believer think if they were to learn that the very person that they looked upon as their savior was actually a psychopathic murderer who upheld slavery, torture, murder and genocide? And so, by the invention of their religion kept the world from progressing and thriving as it should have? Many would resist the thought. But what if it were simply undeniable? Eventually, even if some believers would never consider this to be the case, many would indeed realize that this is actually the truth. And upon learning the truth, would have to agree, as we do, that the "truth shall make you free." I don't just want people to learn about this, I want them to do their own research. I want them to inform others of it. Again, I think of this as essential information which every person should have and know about. It took me many years of study to reach the level of expertise in all of this to confidently state all that I do in the book Piso Christ. The book Piso Christ is only one book of many that I have written on the subject of ancient history. With the help of people like you, we will finally be able to educate the world to this terrible tragedy and reveal Christianity (and religion in general) for what it really is. Let me both congratulate you and thank you for having read this and for reading the book Piso Christ. Please remember to post links on your site/s to let others know about this and tell friends and family what you have learned about Arrius Piso and Christianity.

Best regards, Roman Piso & Jay Gallus

POSTSCRIPT (by Roman Piso)

Why do I think of Christianity as the horrible thing that I do? Because I can't help but think what a wonderfully beautiful world we could have been born into today had it not been for Arrius Piso and Christianity. The progress that it took the world 2,000 years to achieve would have been attained back then. I think of all of the generations of people whose lives were basically wasted believing whole-heartedly in lies while being kept in complete ignorance of all of this. I think of all of the lives, energy, money and resources wasted. I think of all of the people who read the bible and took it literally, who, like non-thinking zombie-like drones "went forth and multiplied" causing the population explosion that we are experiencing today. I think of all of the non-renewable natural resources which were used up, used unwisely and unnecessarily, simply because there are too many people with too little knowledge and wisdom. I think that it is a fantastically horrible thing that religion and Christianity particularly, has done to the world. It is absolutely essential that people wake up to this now; or we may never be able to undo the damage. Of all the years, lives and contributions lost to humanity because of this, we owe it to ourselves to make certain that a) this is learned and understood by all, and b) that we do our best to make up for all that was lost. Think of all the Popes who took, tortured and destroyed lives, of all the wars fought over the issue of religion, of all the division between human beings caused by it and things resulting from it. The world never had to be this way. It was made this way on purpose, by one single psychopath and those who helped him those many years ago.

I ask that you please share this information with those you know. If you are a member of a club or organization, you can print this out and bring it with you to show those who may likewise be concerned.

Half of New Testament forged, Bible scholar says

John Blake, CNN
May 13th, 2011
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/13/half-of-new-testament-forged-bible-scholar-says

(CNN) - A frail man sits in chains inside a dank, cold prison cell. He has escaped death before but now realizes that his execution is drawing near.

“I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come,” the man –the Apostle Paul - says in the Bible's 2 Timothy. “I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.”

The passage is one of the most dramatic scenes in the New Testament. Paul, the most prolific New Testament author, is saying goodbye from a Roman prison cell before being beheaded. His goodbye veers from loneliness to defiance and, finally, to joy.

There’s one just one problem - Paul didn’t write those words. In fact, virtually half the New Testament was written by impostors taking on the names of apostles like Paul. At least according to Bart D. Ehrman, a renowned biblical scholar, who makes the charges in his new book “Forged.”

“There were a lot of people in the ancient world who thought that lying could serve a greater good,” says Ehrman, an expert on ancient biblical manuscripts.In “Forged,” Ehrman claims that:

* At least 11 of the 27 New Testament books are forgeries.

* The New Testament books attributed to Jesus’ disciples could not have been written by them because they were illiterate.

* Many of the New Testament’s forgeries were manufactured by early Christian leaders trying to settle theological feuds.

Were Jesus’ disciples ‘illiterate peasants?'

Ehrman’s book, like many of his previous ones, is already generating backlash. Ben Witherington, a New Testament scholar, has written a lengthy online critique of “Forged.”

Witherington calls Ehrman’s book “Gullible Travels, for it reveals over and over again the willingness of people to believe even outrageous things.”

All of the New Testament books, with the exception of 2 Peter, can be traced back to a very small group of literate Christians, some of whom were eyewitnesses to the lives of Jesus and Paul, Witherington says.

“Forged” also underestimates the considerable role scribes played in transcribing documents during the earliest days of Christianity, Witherington says.

Even if Paul didn’t write the second book of Timothy, he would have dictated it to a scribe for posterity, he says.

“When you have a trusted colleague or co-worker who knows the mind of Paul, there was no problem in antiquity with that trusted co-worker hearing Paul’s last testimony in prison,” he says. “This is not forgery. This is the last will and testament of someone who is dying.”

Ehrman doesn’t confine his critique to Paul’s letters. He challenges the authenticity of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and John. He says that none were written by Jesus' disciplies, citing two reasons.

He says none of the earliest gospels revealed the names of its authors, and that their current names were later added by scribes.

Ehrman also says that two of Jesus’ original disciples, John and Peter, could not have written the books attributed to them in the New Testament because they were illiterate.

“According to Acts 4:13, both Peter and his companion John, also a fisherman, were agrammatoi, a Greek word that literally means ‘unlettered,’ that is, ‘illiterate,’ ’’ he writes.

Will the real Paul stand up?

Ehrman reserves most of his scrutiny for the writings of Paul, which make up the bulk of the New Testament. He says that only about half of the New Testament letters attributed to Paul – 7 of 13 - were actually written by him.

Paul's remaining books are forgeries, Ehrman says. His proof: inconsistencies in the language, choice of words and blatant contradiction in doctrine.

For example, Ehrman says the book of Ephesians doesn’t conform to Paul’s distinctive Greek writing style. He says Paul wrote in short, pointed sentences while Ephesians is full of long Greek sentences (the opening sentence of thanksgiving in Ephesians unfurls a sentence that winds through 12 verses, he says).

“There’s nothing wrong with extremely long sentences in Greek; it just isn’t the way Paul wrote. It’s like Mark Twain and William Faulkner; they both wrote correctly, but you would never mistake the one for the other,” Ehrman writes.

The scholar also points to a famous passage in 1 Corinthians in which Paul is recorded as saying that women should be “silent” in churches and that “if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home.”

Only three chapters earlier, in the same book, Paul is urging women who pray and prophesy in church to cover their heads with veils, Ehrman says: “If they were allowed to speak in chapter 11, how could they be told not to speak in chapter 14?”

Why people forged

Forgers often did their work because they were trying to settle early church disputes, Ehrman says. The early church was embroiled in conflict - people argued over the treatment of women, leadership and relations between masters and slaves, he says.

“There was competition among different groups of Christians about what to believe and each of these groups wanted to have authority to back up their views,” he says. “If you were a nobody, you wouldn’t sign your own name to your treatise. You would sign Peter or John.”

So people claiming to be Peter and John - and all sorts of people who claimed to know Jesus - went into publishing overdrive. Ehrman estimates that there were about 100 forgeries created in the name of Jesus’ inner-circle during the first four centuries of the church.

Witherington concedes that fabrications and forgeries floated around the earliest Christian communities.

But he doesn’t accept the notion that Peter, for example, could not have been literate because he was a fisherman.

“Fisherman had to do business. Guess what? That involves writing, contracts and signed documents,” he said in an interview.

Witherington says people will gravitate toward Ehrman’s work because the media loves sensationalism.

“We live in a Jesus-haunted culture that’s biblically illiterate,” he says. “Almost anything can pass for historical information… A book liked ‘Forged’ can unsettle people who have no third or fourth opinions to draw upon.”

Ehrman, of course, has another point of view.

“Forged” will help people accept something that it took him a long time to accept, says the author, a former fundamentalist who is now an agnostic.

The New Testament wasn’t written by the finger of God, he says – it has human fingerprints all over its pages.

“I’m not saying people should throw it out or it’s not theologically fruitful,” Ehrman says. “I’m saying that by realizing it contains so many forgeries, it shows that it’s a very human book, down to the fact that some authors lied about who they were.”

Jefferson Bible at Smithsonian in November

From the WSJ:

Last November, in response to protest, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery removed a video installation depicting ants crawling over a small crucifix. This coming November, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will exhibit a cut-and-paste Bible of a mere 86 pages. Were it the work of David Wojnarowicz (the artist behind the crucifix video) or Andres Serrano (of "Piss Christ" fame), this Bible would doubtless stir up a hornet's nest. But in fact, it was created by Thomas Jefferson.

During the election of 1800, Jefferson was denounced as a "howling atheist" and "a confirmed infidel" known for "vilifying the divine word, and preaching insurrection against God." But the Virginian also revered Jesus as "the first of human Sages" and was, according to one biographer, "the most self-consciously theological of all American presidents."

The book that the Smithsonian is preparing to put on display is actually one of two Jefferson Bibles. Jefferson produced the first over the course of a few days in 1804. Not long after completing the Louisiana Purchase, he sat down in the White House with two Bibles and one razor, intent on dividing the true words of Jesus from those put into his mouth by "the corruptions of schismatising followers."

The result was "The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth": a severely abridged text (now lost) that, like the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, consisted entirely of Jesus' sayings. In this "precious morsel of ethics," as Jefferson put it, Jesus prayed to God and affirmed the afterlife, but he was not born in a manger and did not die to atone for anyone's sins.

In 1820, after retiring from public life, Jefferson produced a second scripture by subtraction—the book that is now being restored in D.C. In "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth," he again sought to excise passages "of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, or superstitions, fanaticisms, and fabrications." This time, however, he arranged his material chronologically rather than topically, and he included both the sayings and actions of Jesus. He also included passages in English, French, Latin and Greek.

To readers familiar with the New Testament, this Jefferson Bible, as it is popularly called, begins and ends abruptly. Rather than opening, as does the Gospel of John, in the beginning with the Word, Jefferson raises his curtain on a political and economic drama: Caesar's decree that all the world should be taxed. His story concludes with this hybrid verse: "There laid they Jesus, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed." Between these points, there are no angels, no wise men, and not a hint of the resurrection...

Thomas Jefferson's Cut-and-Paste Bible
STEPHEN PROTHERO
MARCH 25, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704425804576220612714039084.html

The Largest Last Supper

http://www.mindlesseating.org/lastsupper

The Largest Last Supper

ITHACA, NY: Were the twelve apostles guilty of overeating at the Last Supper? Two brothers—an eating behavior expert and a religious studies scholar—are publishing findings that might make you think twice at your Easter dinner.

Brian and Craig Wansink teamed up to analyze the amount of food depicted in 52 of the best-known paintings of the Last Supper (Phaidon Press 2000). After indexing the sizes of the foods by the sizes of the average disciple’s head, they found that portion size, plate size, and bread size increased dramatically over the last one thousand years. Overall, the main courses depicted in the paintings grew by 69%, plate size by 66%, and bread size by 23%.

The study’s findings are published in the April 2010 issue of the International Journal of Obesity.

“I think people assume that increased serving sizes, or ‘portion distortion,’ is a recent phenomenon,” said Brian Wansink, professor and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. “But this research indicates that it’s a general trend for at least the last millennium.” As food's become more and more available for less and less money, portion sizes have gotten bigger. Cheap, available food is probably something we should celebrate.

“As the most famously depicted dinner of all time, the Last Supper is ideally suited for review,” said Craig Wansink, professor of religious studies at Virginia Wesleyan College.

“The method we used created a natural crossroads between our two divergent fields and a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with my brother,” he added.

Portion size and spatial relationships are familiar topics in Brian Wansink’s work in food and eating behavior. In his book Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, he explores the hidden cues that determine what, when, and how much we eat.

Craig Wansink specializes in New Testament studies and is the author of Chained in Christ: The Experience and Rhetoric of Paul’s Imprisonments.

For more information, contact Craig Wansink at cwansink@vwc.edu 757-412-7467 or the Cornell Food and Brand Lab at foodandbrandlab@cornell.edu.

Dead Sea Scrolls prove Bible unoriginal

http://freethoughtnation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=280:dead-sea-scrolls-prove-bible-unoriginal

Dead Sea Scrolls prove Bible unoriginal
Sunday, 24 January 2010
Acharya S

"They speak of a Teacher of Righteousness and a pierced messiah, of cleansing through water and a battle of light against darkness.

"But anyone looking to the Dead Sea Scrolls in search of proof, say, that Jesus of Nazareth was the messiah presaged by the prophets, or that John the Baptist lived among the scroll's authors, will be disappointed."

News items are circulating about how "hints" and "insights" contained in the famous Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in caves near the ancient site of Qumran can be found in the Bible. In other words, certain ideas in the scrolls also appear in the New Testament, meaning, of course, that the impression of Christianity as a "divine revelation" appearing whole cloth miraculously from the very finger of God is clearly erroneous.

Few scholars today claim that any of the Dead Sea Scrolls ("DSS") date to the time after Christianity was allegedly founded by a "historical" Jesus in the first century of the common era. Indeed, it is agreed that most of the scrolls pre-date the turn of the era and that none of them show any knowledge of Jesus Christ or Christianity.

In my book The Christ Conspiracy, I demonstrate that Christianity is an amalgam of the many religions, sects, cults and brotherhood traditions of the Mediterranean and beyond. One of the major influences on Christianity is that of Jews, obviously, including those mentioned in the New Testament, i.e., the Pharisees and Sadducees. Ancient Jewish historian Josephus also mentions the sect of the Essenes, who are traditionally associated with Qumran, in a "by default" argument. However, scholar Solomon Schecter - who discovered a scroll at Cairo that was later found at Qumran - points to a heretical sect of Sadducees or Zadokites, as they are called in both the Bible and DSS. In The Christ Conspiracy, I discuss this Zadokite origin of the DSS and this group's obvious influence on the New Testament.

What this rumination all means, of course, is that Christianity is, as I contend in my books, largely unoriginal, representing not fresh and new "divine revelation" but, again, the amalgamation of not only the ideas of the Zadokite authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls but also influences from the Essenes, Jews, Samaritans and many others.

Hints of the Scrolls in Bible

To understand how the Dead Sea Scrolls influenced early Christianity, just turn to the New Testament.

Take, for example, the Great Isaiah Scroll, a facsimile of which is on display as part of the Milwaukee Public Museum's Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. Written around 125 B.C. and the only scroll to emerge virtually intact from the caves at Qumran, its messianic message is quoted in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, John and Luke, the earliest of which wasn't written until around A.D. 65.

The scrolls' so-called "Son of God" text reads much like the story of the Annunciation in the Gospel of Luke. And the Scrolls' "Blessing of the Wise" echoes the beatitudes of Matthew's Sermon on the Mount....

This early dating of the gospels, it should be noted, is based only on the a priori assumption that the story they relate is at least partially true in recounting a "historical" Jesus who truly walked the earth at the time he is claimed in the gospels themselves. There is no external evidence whatsoever for the existence of any canonical gospel at this early a date. In fact, the canonical gospels as we have them do not show up clearly in the historical record until the end of the second century.

Moreover, the Sermon on the Mount - supposedly the original monologue straight out of the mouth of the Son of God Himself - can be shown to be a series of Old Testament scriptures strung together, along with, apparently, such texts from Qumran. No "historical" founder was necessary at all to speak these words, as they are a rehash of extant sayings. (Even in this patent literary device the gospels cannot agree, as Luke 6:17-49 depicts the Sermon as having taken place on a plain.)

It is easy to see why the Catholic Church would blanche upon the discovery of these scrolls, as it could be - and has been - argued that these texts erode the very foundation of Christianity. It appears that this news, however, when released slowly has little affect on the mind-numbing programming that accompanies Christian faith.

The bottom line is that the existence of the Old Testament and the intertestamental literature such as the Dead Sea Scrolls shows how Christianity is a cut-and-paste job - a fact I also reveal in The Christ Conspiracy, in a chapter called "The Making of a Myth," which contains a discussion of some of the texts obviously used in the creation of the new faith. These influential texts evidently included some of the original Dead Sea Scrolls, serving not as "prophecy," "prefiguring" or "presaging" but as blueprints of pre-existing, older concepts cobbled together in the New Testament.

The Case Against 'Jesus'

Christians' worst nightmare is materializing: The book that proves 'Jesus' never existed, and 'Christian' religion in all of its versions is a 1900-year-old fraud on humanity, is being readied for print.

Preparing a Fourth (Revised and Illustrated) Edition of my e-book The Case Against 'Jesus' for publication as a printed book has occupied so much of my time that I have not been able to produce issues of my newsletter lately. I hope to resume the newsletter next week.

Maybe print publication will help overcome the resistance to the book. If so and I can break through the blacklisting via some brave mass media person willing to discuss the book, and public attention results, "Christian" religion is on its way to the trash heap. The book PROVES that there never was any "Jesus Christ," there never were any apostles, there never were any "Christians," and the entire New Testament is fiction. The evidence I have provided is massive and irrefutable. Belief in "Jesus" and the purported events described in the New Testament does not survive this book.

The "Christian" prayer these days is: "Please God, don't let Burton Wolfe's book get out" - because if it does, the party is over for "Christianity."

I cannot tell you when the printed version of the book will appear, but my guess is that it will not happen until sometime next year. Meanwhile, you can read it as an e-book. For information on how to order the book, go to the web site of the online division of Wild West Publishing House. Click on the following URL to get there: http://ebooks.wildwestpublishing.com.

Sample comments on The Case Against 'Jesus'

"A brilliant case. Your work is first rate." - Gore Vidal

"I agree with you one hundred percent that the biblical Jesus is a total fabrication. I had always thought so as a hunch after some casual investigation, but you make the case beyond possible doubt." - Ralph Anspach, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, San Francisco State University

"Yours is the first statement, since Albert Schweitzer's at the beginning of the 20th Century, that Christianity will have to surrender the historicity of Jesus." - Professor G.A. Wells, Birbeck College, University of London. (Wells is one of the foremost biblical scholars in the world and the author of such classic works on Jesus as Did Jesus Exist?.)

"You may not call yourself a scholar, but you certainly have done a great deal of honest scholarly research...It often takes so-called 'amateurs' such as yourself to get us so-called 'scholars' to see that the Emperor has no clothes!...You have many excellent scholars who support you in your view that no Talmudic reference to Jesus is trustworthy...Why would a Jew admit that Jesus even lived?...I believe that you are to be commended for stressing the importance of the issue of whether Jesus ever lived, inasmuch as the existence of Jesus is the sine qua non for Christianity..." - Louis H. Feldman, Professor of Classics, Yeshiva University, New York. (Feldman is one of the foremost translators of the works of the First-Century historian Flavius Josephus.)

"Thank you so much for your book. It's having a stupendous effect in the free-thinking community of individuals not gullible enough to swallow the tall-tales the Catholic religion concocted to assert domination over governments and society. I hope sincerely that some day your book will be published and reach thousands who have digested the fantasy of a mythic Jesus and a supernatural god." - Leland W. Ruble, Editor-publisher of the journal Perceptive Freethought.

"Our acqusitions committee has found your work most engaging. Its lively and provocative approach should entice readers to rethink traditional positions regarding the status of Jesus and the origins of Christianity. It is our fervent hope that you will continue your research and complete your manuscript on this fascinating topic." - Steven L. Mitchell, Editor-in-Chief, Prometheus Books.

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