Tag: jesus
Is Jesus’s nativity an Egyptian myth?
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In my first published book, The Christ Conspiracy (1999), I provided an image from the birth cycle of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III (1386/1388-1349-51 BCE), found in the temple of the god Amun at Luxor, Egypt. Like many others before me, including professional Egyptologists, I contended for a possible influence…
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New Kindle French translation of ‘Origins of Christianity’
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I’m delighted to announce that I now have a new French edition of my popular essay “Origins of Christianity and the Search for the Historical Jesus Christ” available via Amazon’s Kindle format! That fact means the ebook Les origines du christianisme et la recherche du Jésus-Christ historique can be downloaded…
Read MoreAre the New Testament gospels history? Where’s the proof?
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Happy Day! A new video clip for your entertainment and edification – enjoy! For more information, see this post: D.M. Murdock/Acharya S on DVD! Go to this link directly to purchase the DVD “Great Minds of Our Time: D.M. Murdock.”
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Solstice Day Song: ‘Long time ago in Egypt…’
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Here’s a little song I put together for this special time of the year! Seasons Greetings and Happy Solstice! Solstice Day Song From the (hypothetical) album: “How the Christians Stole Solstice” 🙂 Lyrics Long time ago in Egypt, So the ancient texts do say, Isis’s boy-child, Horus, Was born on…
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Christmas and the ancient winter festivals of light around the world
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These days many people understand that “Christmas” represents the continuation and remake of the very ancient observation of the winter solstice, the time of year when the sun “dies” and is “reborn” or “resurrected,” as the daylight hours decrease to their shortest point and then begin to increase again. This…
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Atheists to put up ‘Jesus Myth’ billboards in U.S.
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“American Atheists are planning to put up more holiday ‘Myth’ billboards… this year, the group’s planning to erect signs featuring images of Santa, Jesus, Poseidon and the devil next to the message: ’37 Million Americans know MYTHS when they see them.’” Thirty-seven million Americans agree with me? So, why have…
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Our Lord and Savior Quetzalcoatl born of a virgin and crucified!
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One of the gods I highlighted in my book The Christ Conspiracy, and even more so in my book Suns of God, is the Mesoamerican deity Kukulkan or Quetzalcoatl. In Christ Con, I included the fact that mainstream scholarship does not allow for contact between the “Old” and “New” Worlds,…
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Is Jesus obsolete? Christians debate the need for a savior
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There has been much debate of late about whether the biblical Adam and Eve were “real people” or myths. A number of Christian scientists, for example, have conceded that DNA studies cast serious doubt on the biblical account of Adam and Eve, indicating that the story is indeed mythical. Obviously,…
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Adam and Eve a myth?
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The NPR article below explains that Christian scholars are being forced to reconsider the account of Adam and Eve in the Bible, largely because of genetic studies. If Adam is mythical, then the Bible is incorrect and not “inerrant.” Moreover, the New Testament traces Jesus’s family lineage to the (fictional)…
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Who Was Jesus? Revised edition!
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I’m delighted to announce that the new edition of my book Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ is now available! The revision includes a new cover and style changes to the book block, including a new font. I’ve also fixed the few typos and errors, as well as added…
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Does Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians reveal a ‘historical’ Jesus?
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The following represents a question and my (amended) response originally posted as comments on my Amazon review of Earl Doherty’s Jesus: Neither God Nor Man, a book making the case that the letters of St. Paul in the New Testament reveal no knowledge of a “historical” Jesus of Nazareth. The…
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Josephus forgery on Jesus
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Here’s a neat little paragraph succinctly summarizing one of the many problems with the passage in the works of the Jewish historian Josephus used to “prove” the historicity of Jesus Christ, called the “Testimonium Flavianum”: “Its brevity disproves its authenticity. Josephus’ work is voluminous and exhaustive. It comprises 20 books.…
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Archaeologist: American churches astronomically aligned
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One of the more important aspects of my work is to bring to light the ancient religious practice of aligning sacred sites with astronomical events, such as the daily, weekly, monthly and annual movements and phases of the sun, moon and other celestial bodies. This practice dates back thousands of…
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The Apologetics Debate Handbook on Kindle!
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That’s what I’m calling my book Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ: “The Apologetics Debate Handbook,” because that’s what it is. When I first created Who Was Jesus? some years ago, I did it with simplicity in mind, and now I’ve made it even simpler because you can carry…
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Jesus mythicists featured in Greek magazine
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As of December 23, 2010, a Greek magazine, Phainomena, owned by one of Greece’s biggest newspapers, Eleutheros Typos, is running a new article by Minas Papageorgiou about Jesus mythicism that features me, D.M. Murdock, aka Acharya S! An accompanying TV commercial asks, “Who are the people who doubt Jesus’s historicity?”…
Read More The true meaning of Christmas
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As can be seen from the Discovery clip here, the mainstream media and academia are finally catching up with what I’ve been saying for 15 years online and many others for decades and centuries before that. Too bad our educational system doesn’t teach important and interesting facts like these to…
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Is Lazarus a remake of Osiris?
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Is the story about the raising of Lazarus by Jesus in the New Testament Gospel of John a remake of the mythical resurrection of Osiris by Horus in the ancient Egyptian texts? Below is an image of the parts from my book Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection showing a…
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Did Washington and Jefferson believe Jesus was a myth?
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Okay – be prepared to have your socks knocked off! I hope you feel better, smarter and freer after reading this newest article of mine. It’s very long – I trimmed some fat, but I just couldn’t hold back all this juicy mental nutrition! Did Washington and Jefferson Believe Jesus…
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Christ Myth Anthology
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Here’s some info about my latest project, which hopefully will be out sometime in 2011. It’s called The Christ Myth Anthology, and I started working on it last year. I published a tentative cover for it in my “Origins of Christianity” article, which I uploaded a year ago. The Christ…
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The Jesus Myth | Did Christ really exist?
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For your enjoyment and edification, I have created a new article from Barbara G. Walker’s fabulous book Man Made God, which I edited and published. I believe you will really enjoy this fascinating piece, so be sure to check it out! The Jesus Myth by Barbara G. Walker Thanks to…
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Is Christ a clone of Mithra?
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In my book The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold appears a series of lists in a popular chapter called “The Characters.” These lists recite characteristics in common with the Jesus figure of the following gods and godmen: Attis, Buddha, Dionysus, Hercules, Horus, Krishna, Mithra, Prometheus and Zoroaster. One…
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The Gospel Dates | When Were the Gospels Written?
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What are the most accurate dates for the canonical gospels in the New Testament as we have them? Are these texts really the faithful accounts of eyewitnesses written shortly after Jesus’s advent? Or does the evidence point to the gospels as anonymous compositions dating to the late second century? The…
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HORUS IS A SUN GOD!!!
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I wrote that title in all caps, because no matter how many times that fact is repeated, no matter how much evidence is proffered, the mistake, inaccuracy or downright lie is constantly being put forth that Horus was NOT a sun god. This blatant error is made not by professional…
Read MoreA god of life – the SUN!
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Hurrah! Here is a new Pat Condell video in which he discusses the Christ myth and the sun worship of the ancients! Unfortunately, he doesn’t name my book The Christ Conspiracy, which I know he read and which he told me was “excellent.” But he does link to the video…
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