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Summary: Enlightening and shocking
Review: Acharya S goes to great lengths and research about the Mythical Christ. Fasinating reading, much like a murder-mystery-who-done-it. Chalk full of cross-references and some personal conculsions, it combines fact and separates the fiction. Acharya S has numerous impressive educational degrees and is very good at language. I highly recommend this book. 5 Stars!
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Summary: A decent book, but not the final word on the subject
Review: It has been a year or so since I read The Christ Conspiracy, and I still remember it very well. This book certainly influenced my thinking, or at least suggested more avenues of research to me. Having said that though, it's really only a mediocre book (compared to others on the subject, some of which are shown as recommendations here) and leaves a lot to be desired. While I perfectly accept the book's main point, that the historicity of Christ is questionable (at best), the author often goes on rants and in the process makes some ridiculous leaps of reasoning herself. There is simply too much emphasis placed on grand conspiracies, astrology, and pagan 'mysteries', while at the same time saying far too little about well-documented and readily understood influences on postexilic Judaism and early Christianity, such as Zoroastrianism, which provide many (though probably not all) of the answers that the author is supposedly trying to get at. If this is a subject you're interested in, go ahead and get The Christ Conspiracy... but don't stop there! Read some of the other fine books on the subject. Then, be sure to learn more about the much older, east-meets-west monotheism of Zoroaster, which the Jews came into contact with several hundred years before the time of Christ (coincidentally when much of the OT was actually written!); once you do those things, you'll have a much better feel for the topic than you would ever get from this one book alone.
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Summary: Great book, a little controversial
Review: This book is well written and documented. The author does an great job on defending her point of view. Great book if you are not a fanatic of cristianity which is very strong here in America.
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Summary: A Review of The Christ Conspiracy
Review: ... In this time of potential nuclear holy war and shallow black and white thinking that attempts to define everything as good or evil with no room in between, we need objectivity. This objectivity can be found by understanding how religions evolved. With knowledge, backed by hard evidence, that the beliefs of much of the world are based on mythology no more real than Santa Clause or Paul Bunyon it's easy to see the absurdity of any holy war. And hopefully to find solutions. When I was in college in the 1960's I was told Christianity was invented by the Romans to control the growing catacomb population. Unfortunately evidence for this claim could only be found by pouring through thousands of volumes of the most obscure and boring philosophy known to humankind. But now here it is: Empirical evidence of a pre-fabricated religion complete with proof that Jesus Christ never actually existed. And in plain English! The only downside I see is that like the writings of Galileo and Darwin it may take decades before this information gains popular acceptance. If you think this is only historical trivia, I challenge you to the following experiment. After reading this book take the time to watch a few Sunday morning religious TV shows. Notice how all the traits of stone age tribal religion are still there, including xenophobia, sexism and a "my God can beat up your god mentality. If knowledge is power then this book is one of the most powerful ever written.
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Summary: Jesus the Christ?
Review: Perhaps saying the poor chap never was is going a bit too far, but that the whole image he is regarded in today is shatterd well by the auther, makes up for factual errors. Yes, the whole story is in pagenism, but bhuda and Hindu are way off, other books demonstrate lucidly, the fifiment of imagenation the chap has become enveloped in today. Many Christions including many high up ones who have come to the full realisation of the farce the doctrine of the 'New tetimant' make the mistake of offloading the 'Old Testimant'm this is teerrible and i advise further reading. Everyone today is inferring all sorts of books to everyone else, so perhaps no one will listen wo my book recmendation, but then perhaps just a few will, and for them, this review is worth me writing. ...
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Summary: Mysteries Unveiled
Review: In "The Christ Conspiracy", author Acharya S exposes the simple truths in a plain and simple manner. It is refreshing to see much of the (usually suppressed) evidence presented in the book, on exposing the truths behind the "mysteries", become validated time and time again in the mainstream media through such venues as the recent Discovery Channel program entitled "Monumental Mysteries". In this program, the Discovery Channel announces that controversial new ideas are challenging basic beliefs about biblical history and the ancient world, that the Sphinx may be much older than previously believed, and that David and Solomon may have only existed as mythical characters, not as real people. Acharya has quite successfully challenged these basic beliefs and covers these "controversial new ideas" very much in depth. For a thoroughly documented coverage, the reader can refer to the following pages in her book "The Christ Conspiracy": 86-87, 247, 260-261, wherein she demonstrates that the biblical kings Solomon and David are mythical entities, and not historical people. ... BR>
Her book likewise demonstrates that other biblical characters, including Jesus Christ, are mythical beings. Because of her unveiling of these suppressed truths, i.e., mysteries, the author draws intense fire from those with ulterior motives, who try vehemently to discredit her work in this book. I refer to these attackers as the Apologists. Truth is simple, and any messenger can speak it plainly. The Apologists will have you believe that only they can be responsible for "interpreting the truth" and disseminating it. Quite arrogant. The Apologists' claim of the author being a non-scholar, and therefore not credible, is just total non-sense. For the truth stands on it's own no matter who the messenger happens to be. Aside from that, Acharya S is a scholar in the truest sense, as she so thoroughly documents all of her research, and so wonderfully pulls together the pieces of the puzzle. She does such a great job at it, that she draws this intense fire from the "opposition" only. If you want the plain and simple truth exposed, read Christ Conspiracy, if you want spin and to remain in denial, stay the course directed by the Apologists. Those with an open mind will see the light of her work exposing irrefutable truths, and will come away feeling very enlightened. ...
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Summary: Funny Book
Review: Follow her sources please. How did the comparison with the mystery religions start? Did it start by the Jewish scholars who lived at the same time and would have known about these religions and were themselves trying to discredit Jesus? No, it started with an Islamic writer named Yousuf Saleem Chishti, in his book, What is Christianity? ... Where did he get this information? No one knows, he listed no sources, and none have been found. However that didn't stop a writer in the late 1800s and early 1900s named Gerald Massey from using Chishti as his source for the same information. Who is Acharya using as her source for most of her material? Massey, who used Chishti.
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Summary: The Christ Con Don't Confuse Me with The Facts!
Review: Where do I begin in reviewing The Christ Conspiracy by Acharya S? This book should be sub titled: Don't confuse me with the facts! So I will let the errors of fact in this book speak for themselves. The errors in this book show Acharya's knowledge of biblical Hebrew and Koine Greek are appalling and her sources are often wrong too. Acharya S' work The Christ Conspiracy has been ignored by educators in every college and university worldwide with a department of classics and world religions. She claims university educators are really unable to refute her position that Jesus of Nazareth never walked on this earth and is a myth. Acharya insists the reason her book and her sources are ignored by scholars is because her Aarguments have been too intelligent and knifelike to do away with@ and have Ano doubt [been] fearfully suppressed because they are somewhat irrefutable.@ The Christ Con. p. 21. ... Acharya would have us all believe that prominent scholars within New Testament criticism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, astronomy, history, and Freemasonry are all intellectual lightweights compared to herself and who either cannot appreciate her arguments or suppress them because the truth must not be known. It is crystal clear why scholars have ignored and refused to comment on her position that Jesus Christ of Nazareth is a myth. The reasons for the lack any positive acknowledgments from scholars for this book are many: 1. Almost all of her sources are secondary and are in error concerning facts concerning the Bible, history, world religions and Jesus of Nazareth. 2. A large number of her sources quoted by are not scholars in the subject matter being commented on. 3. She makes wild claims without supporting them; like insisting the Church Fathers never spoke of Pontius Pilate. Pontius Pilate is referred to over 1,000 times in the standard 38 volume set of the Church Fathers. 4. Acharya claims that astrology saturates the Bible such as that the 12 tribes of Israel and the 12 disciples represent the 12 signs of the zodiac is so erroneous that a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago who specializes in ancient practices in astronomy referred to her as nutty. 5. Acharya insists that Krishna represents a dying and rising god prior to Christianity this is an erroneous claim, a Professor of Hindu Studies at Rutgers said that this claim is Aabsolute and complete nonsense, that she doesn't know what she's talking about, and that she should take a religion 101 course before making these kind of claims. 6. Her claim that many similarities exist between Buddha and Jesus elicited a similar response from the Chair of the Department of Religion at Rutgers who specializes in Buddhism: A[The woman you speak of] is totally ignorant of Buddhism. It is very dangerous to spread misinformation like this. . . . Please ask [her] to take a basic course in world religion or Buddhism before uttering another word about things she does not know. 7. Indeed, even an atheist scholar, Bob Price called her book Asophomoric. He also commented that her book is Aa random bag of (mainly recycled) eccentricities, some few of them worth considering, most dangerously shaky, many outright looney. One thing you have to grant Ms. Murdock; she is consistent, said Richard Patterson, specialist in Old Testament studies.
If you enjoy extreme and unsubstantiated views with an attitude, you will like The Christ Conspiracy. If you appreciate anything you can get your hands on that insults Christianity, irrespective of the quality of the arguments and the data, you will relish The Christ Conspiracy. But in terms of this book being a responsible account of the origin of Christianity, it is unsalvageable.
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Summary: MANDATORY READING
Review: This book should be required reading for everyone. If you want some insight into what is going on on this planet, you will get no better start than this book. You will discover that Christianity is pure hoax, no doubt about it. If religion isn't about "god," then what is it about??????? Thanks a million, Acharya.
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Summary: Facts Not Beliefs
Review: Do You Want The Truth...Or Do You Want To Continue To Live In A Lie. Acharya S Presents Facts Not Beliefs To The nth Degree. This Book Is Worth Reading And Studying. The Truth Will Set You Free But First It Will [Make You Mad]. Get Free. ...I Feel Reading This Book Has Given Me A Rebirth Of Right-Knowledge Concerning Jesus And Christianity. Great Job Acharya S.
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