Re: Religious Book Discusion Groups

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>> On Mar 30, 7:35 pm, AJA <ahnem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Bren" <BGK...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> . The Pagan Christ (or was that Pagan Jesus?) was written by Freke
>> and Grandy and there are many other scholars who question the
>> traditional story of Christ as well..Matthew Fox for one.
>> Good to get an rounded view on Christ I feel.
>>
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> But I still fail go understandf why a person would pattern their lives
on 
> a
> Pagan Christ or a Pagan Jesus.  And I still don't understand the very 
> terms.
> Blessings,
> Ann

The 'Pagan Christ' is a newage invention; it's a mixture of gnosticism, 
Jungian archetypes, and all-myths-are-one-myth.

http://www.tomharpur.com/books/books_thepaganchrist.asp

I rather liked "the early Christian church covered up all attempts to
reveal 
the Bible as myth", considering that the early Christian church didn't
even 
*have* a Bible, let alone one they found it necessary to debunk.

Jani