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Summary: Strong yet entertaining
Review: This book is a good read that keeps you well entertained yet gives many sources to reveiw the Christ Myth. This book may be a tear jerker for those who are still hypnotized by the bed time story of the bible. This work must be read with an open mind for true understanding. For those who critize this book negatively I say that they fail to recognize the facts that Acharya brings to the table. Such as the Jesus story is nothing new to any mythological character known to the history of mans religions. The point at hand is that if Jesus did exist there would be no reason to discuss the validaty of his existence. I applaud Acharya on her overveiw of the many scholars who have researched the christ myth. I believe that this book is an excellent overveiw of materials that can be found to destroy the jesus myth.
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Summary: CHRISTIANITY LIVES
Review: The thesis of this book is to prove that the story of CHRIST in the gospels is a fictional story put together from sun, moon, astrological and pagan savior-god myths. Furthermore, this is supposed to be a "Conspiracy" (including the Emperor Constantine) to consolidate the Roman Empire's control of its eclectic populace. Archarya is not a newcomer in this theory, since a book by Abelard Reuchiln, "THE TRUE AUTHORSHIP OF THE NEW TESTAMENT," accuses the Piso family of Rome of doing the same thing.Archarya tries to make her book look like a piece of "free thought" literature by denying belief in a certain supernatural being or beings. However, she remains biased when it comes to this standpoint, because she believes in astrology and pagan Earth-Goddess worship. Furthermore, there is the accuracy of the gospel accounts that is debated. Just because they are so unfeasable a story does not mean that intelligent people don't believe them literaly. I recently saw an introduction to a discovery channel program about Jesus and it began by announcing that "the Crucifixion is one of the most well-documented events in the ancient world. It is mentioned nearly eighty times in the New Testament and in the writings of Josephus." Archarya says these references were false or forged. But who is right and who is wrong? Thousands of years of traditional Christian scholarship, Archarya S, or the Discovery Channel? Lastly this book poses a New Age conspiracy theory and belief that Christianity, the gospel story and the Bible are weapons used by the "Establishment," to be the "opiate of the people."
This is not the case. True Christianity is rarely if ever pro-Establishment. Currently the Establishment is leading the Jihad, Crusade, Holy War of Sanctification or whatever you want to call it against Christian belief and practice. Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, Ss. Peter and Paul, and all the Old Testament Prophets raged and fumed against the Establishment and its lusts, inhumanities, opressions, thefts, immoralities, and deception.
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Summary: A Good Read
Review: I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in examining the Christ Myth theory. It's a literal cyclopaedia on the subject.
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Summary: Not Well Done
Review: Here is a condensed version of this over-long book:
"There was no Jesus. So-and-so said there couldn't have been. Anyone who says there was a Jesus is lying."
This book comes across as more of a term paper than a scholarly work. Her many assertions are not supported by her own text, and her tedious, extensive quotes seem to be inserted as padding rather than to reinforce her thesis, which is itself badly stated. The chapter headings don't seem to relate to their content.
I wouldn't recommnend this book to anyone who is seeking answers, only to those who want to hear their own preconceptions repeated to them.
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Summary: Can't top Acharya's The Christ Conspiracy for mass reprisal.
Review: Acharya S shows us astrotheology and introduces her readers to mythological concepts such as the solar myths, or solar mythos, where the sun is central and the 12, 30 degree houses, surround it as it passes through the heavens as its helpers, or on earth, disciples (see Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper for the four groupings of three, 12 houses and 4 seasons, 3 months each, and Jesus in the middle like the Sun being surrounded by God's zodiac, the so-called biblical Mazzeroth) of She shows us the root of many religious concepts, namely what would become Christianity, and the how the terms such as sun and son are connected and represented by the phallic, or fire, as is the obelisk (sun god) of Egypt and its corollary in Washington DC (freemason design of the fire in the middle of the Pyramid). (Also note Sun/moon, male/female, yin/yang spirit/matter, order/chaos, heaven/earth god/devil, sin/righteousness...the list is endless). The ancient worldview hasn't completely vanished and it is the view that modern religions such as Christianity birthed from and still has its vestigial traits. Rise and shine! (Resurrection and sun comparison, for instance). The east being female, or the virgin mother. The very word east relating to the word Estrogen, the female hormone. King of glory? The son came walking on the sea? The Sun does so too, and at the time of day said of the son. Find out why this co-relation exists by actually reading Acharya's book, for those of you who insist on being all-knowledgeable without it. The Second Coming of Christ. Hmm. Toughie. If you check out this book, it will prove to you beyond a doubt that the sun sets in the west, the traditional land of death, and rises anew in the morning east, land of birth, as a newborn, reborn, rejuvenated and RESURECTED Sun/son every day. The root is there. Sure as day is to light, and night is to darkness. The prince of peace returns to bring light, growth, and peace of mind from the dark underworld of his death the very eve before. The prince of darkness? Set. Sun set. Satan, death, west etc. ALL FROM THE ORIGINAL EGYPTIAN MYTHOS. Set kills this sun (connecting mortality, evil and death and desert, the land of Set) as it gets weaker, the sky shows those who watch the sun on its descent into the earth (they believed the earth flat and it went to its death, in the underworld, only to be born anew, reborn anew as another sun...out of the decay of death comes the fertility of life, and age old wisdom was easily seen in Egypt's Nile river agriculture. Much is also said of other contributions from differing cultures around the ancient world, but you have to get the book to find out more for I am at an end. One more thing Acharya S covers that might be of interest before closing is the trinity concept stemming from Egyptian thought as well. The new born sun, morning, God the most high, Noon, and the Holy Spirit, setting, or dying, sun that is still immortal and eternal. God looks down on the initiate from his highest throne, or power, in this case the highest power of the sun being 12 o'clock high (at the Summer Solstice), or in the case of the child Jesus, 12 years old in the Temple of the Most High, same as older stories. The Sun on his day, eternally risen and represented as such on Sunday. What goes around, comes around. Acharya S also covers how the Gospel story really is just man, or early priestcraft, trying to bring the heavens, i.e. sun and all it represents, down to earth, incarnate with man and for man. All its powers as a demigod complete with pagan halo (originated in Paganism as it is the corona of the sun, or halo, often seen in the sky around a holy figures head...wonder why the shining glow is behind the head of Jesus in art?) which symbolizes the strength of the Sun, like Hercules to men. The sun heals, Sunshine, as is said of the Son of dogmatic faith. Acharya S then shows us the origins of the term holy, as it is related to Helios for sun, and she show us that the term bible comes from an ancient city called Byblos, meaning book, as it had a great library and temple. The term then of Helio Byblia means simply Sun Book. The fact remains that the only evidence that can be shown to prove the existence of Jesus (the ossuary has already been debunked by Dr. Michael Shermer) is nothing but the word of the Church and its writings as found in the canonized version of the gospels. There is no archeological record for a town of Nazareth at the time of the alleged Jesus. Now we know the manger of the nativity is debunked for the dirty countryside cave dwellings of sheepherders. No contemporary historian of the day mentions Jesus Christ or his deeds and history is silent, as it should be when dealing with legend, on his historicity. There were many historians that wrote extensively during this period of history, and not one jot or tittle of written testament or proof besides the propaganda and conspiratorial documents supplied by the early Orthodox movement. Traditions such as Orphism, Gnosticism and others had an already pre-existent Christ of Spirit known to them before the plagiarism of the early Orthodoxy, much like the Christ spoke of by the apostle Paul. Proof of Jesus? Think again. That is why faith is a key word in the Christian religion, because faith is blind.
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Summary: By far, the best...
Review: This is the most comprehensive, comprehendable, and well thought through book on the subject of religious refutation. Although quite long, it is an easy read. The author outlines the why, how, where, when and the so what of christianity's complex and obviously astronomical religions. I was shocked to read some of the conclusions that this book puts out, but they make so much sense after the author elucidates. When I purchased this book, I also bought 3 other books....The Fabrication of the Christ Myth, and The Jesus Mysteries. I am returning them because such a book could not explain any more of what Christianity is all about. This book is, by far, the best book to read in the area.
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Summary: 0 Stars -- Laughably bad!
Review: One could easily dismiss this book for its bottomlessly awful prose alone, yet there are myriad other reasons, too. The writer Acharya S (if that really is your name) has obviously been wounded by the Christian religion and has a real bone to pick--no attempt is made to even hide this bias--but the laughable assertions and absurd premises put forth wouldn't last two minutes with even the most incompetent Christian apologist. Please, if you're going try and topple a giant, don't go after him with a pea shooter.
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Summary: Not the book it could be
Review: Let me first state I am an atheist. I happen to agree with the author and her dim view of christianity. But to fellow atheists or others who might be seeking truth, look elsewhere. The book starts well enough with an examination of the historicity of Jesus Christ. The following chapters dealing with symbolic ties to prior mythology and the zodiac are reasonably well done if, sometimes, inaccurately portrayed. However, the book then deteriorates into what can only be described as fantasy. The final chapters are more opinion than a well supported factual examination. Overall there is entirely too much reliance on and quotation from books whose authors share the same opinion. This is not scholarship. It is reiteration. I have seen this book praised for the scholarship and documentation. It is exactly those areas in which this book is not nearly adequate or reliable. For those who seek a more authoritative examination of the historicity of Jesus "Jesus-A life" by A.N. Wilson might be a place to start. As to the depravity of the church (at least in the middle ages) an excellent and interesting history which touches on this is William Manchester's "A World Lit Only By Fire."
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Summary: How Acharya S Destroyed the Tyrant
Review: I cannot describe my gratitude to Acharya S for her enlightening gift to humankind. The Christ Conspiracy is a boundary breaking bulldozer of scholarly research, a vehicle of illumination, an escape from the fraudulent, mind encapsulating superstitious memes of the past. The Christ Conspiracy smashes down the suffocating walls of Christianity to liberate the brain within, to free humankind's struggling reason from the skeletal grasp of dark age ignorance,to fish the drowning light of liberty from the caliginous shadowy depths of priestridden deception, to topple the high towers of cathedral spires upon which martyrs of freethought have hung skewered far too long.
The Christ Conpiracy exposes a world long burdened with priestcraft to a burning light that strikes to the very depths of humanity's soul, burning away hypocrisy and historical fraudulence, harmful superstition and empty prayers. Exposes unspoken atrocities done in the name of salvation and love, unclothes the darkness of this world with stripping truth and cleans the air of deceitful flatulence spoken from the eternally decadent thrones of greed and mendacity.
This book will leave you a changed human being, aware of a higher purpose in life, aware that there is only pursuit of truth and the shattering of illusions.
A belief that cannot stand up to criticism is not a belief worth having.
And Acharya S shows why some beliefs should never have been born from the minds of humankind. How some beliefs have been born to enslave humankind for the benefit of the elite.
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Summary: important, but not the WHOLE story
Review: i first reviewed this book nearly 3 years ago shortly after its first publication. i have an autographed copy which i will always treasure. being a lifetime "truth seeker", much can happen in 3 years and my view of this book has shifted some. i still agree with the wondrous ms S that most scriptural tales of all spiritual traditions are not literal truth as physical "in-time" history. unfortunately, she fails to point out the value of these teaching myths is that they are really meant to be learning stories for the masses and whether literally true in all detail is not the point or the reason these myths were first written and told. books such as the bible, torah, koran, vedas, etc are gateways or atleast starting points for the sincere seeker of Truth. these tales can take us on our first baby steps toward finding the better higher aspect of ourselves hidden deep in the heart and in the unconcious of every person. make no mistake, my dear friend, such transcendental light and seeing is possible for any and all souls lucky enough to be alive as a human being. but please don't take my word for it, you can check it out and experience a higher kind of knowing for yourself. if this challenge should appeal to you [and i testify it is well worth any effort you make], check out the written works of those who have overcome all doubt and have, yes, seen the Light....
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