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Caesar's Messiah: Say publicly Roman Intrigue to Devise Jesus
Caesar's Messiah, a verified life Da Vinci Code, presents picture dramatic gleam controversial learn that say publicly conventional views of Christianly origins may well be foul. Author Carpenter Atwill brews the plead with that interpretation Christian Gospels were in point of fact written embellish the guidance of first-century Roman emperors. The willful of these texts was to dishonourable a joyful Jewish resist to counterpoint the militaristic Jewish put right that confidential just antediluvian defeated encourage the Italian Emperor Christian in 70 A.D.
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Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus
Based on the best-selling religious studies book by Joseph Atwill, this documentary shows that Jesus is not a historical figure, the events of Jesus' life were based on a Roman military camp... Read allBased on the best-selling religious studies book by Joseph Atwill, this documentary shows that Jesus is not a historical figure, the events of Jesus' life were based on a Roman military campaign, his supposed second coming refers to an event that already occurred, and the Gospels... Read allBased on the best-selling religious studies book by Joseph Atwill, this documentary shows that Jesus is not a historical figure, the events of Jesus' life were based on a Roman military campaign, his supposed second coming refers to an event that already occurred, and the Gospels were written by a family of Caesars who left us documents to prove it. Besides Atwill, si... Read all
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A provocative theory. Like many others about The Savior. Seductive, interesting, teribilistic and...superficial. Because it is only another Da Vinci Code. The Christianity, like each religion, is a matter of faith. The faith inspires and gives the truth for each belie
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This one can only be charitably be described as "way out there." It does have the endorsement of a credentialed scholar or two; albeit, those who are also regarded as "out there" by their peers (e.g., Robert Eisenman). This is the sort of thing peer-reviewed periodicals like the Journal of Roman Studies would never print.
So what's the theme? I'll lay it out in three categories, noting Atwill's most notable and signifcant failures in each case:
The Roman Piso theory...
Caesar's Messiah is like this theory in terms of conspiracy-mindedness, viewing Christianity as an invention of the Roman establishment for a purpose. It does exceed the credibility of the Piso theory by a razor-thin margin, inasmuch as it at least uses real people rather than inventing them out of nothing but semantics.
But the virtues over the Piso theory stop there. This time, rather than the non-existent Piso family, it is the Emperor Titus who is said to be the inventor of Christianity. His goal was to create a "peaceful Messiah" figure for those rebellious Jews to follow, as a way of pacifying them; the joke being, that they would actually be worshipping Titus himself, unawares (more on this below).
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