Is Jesus a Hoax? – the Bible and Other Jewish Fairy Tales
By webreporter on Nov 10, 2008 in RELIGION - OR LACK OF
into some sort of perspective….as a book that was written and edited by men with questionable agendas.
In today’s Sun Sentinel, I read about a Coconut Creek, Florida resident, Burton H. Wolfe who grew up in a Jewish family and at age 18, began to have doubts about the authenticity of the Bible. He especially questioned the story of Jesus Christ.
For over 40 years, he read the Bible cover to cover, along with scores of books and hundreds of articles, discussing them with dozens of scholars, hundreds of Christians, including theologians, priests, nuns and ministers, and a few Rabbinic scholars.
"People want to believe that there is a Jesus Christ who will save them from death in the form of eternal obliteration, the ultimate horror," he said. "Ultimately, it came down to my applying logic and reason to whatever was being studied."
Wolfe has written a book, The Case Against 'Jesus' that, he said, ends all possibility of continuing belief in Jesus Christ and the stories of the New Testament.
Michael Stefan Strozier, CEO of World Audience Publishers, made a case for the book.
"The massive, irrefutable evidence provided in this book demonstrates that the Jesus of Christian religion is nothing more than an invention of ancient Hebrew scribes who took prior fairy tales about deified messiahs appearing on Earth via birth to virgins for the purpose of saving humanity and rewrote those fables into the story of the Christ child," Strozier said.
While admitting that his case is based on circumstantial evidence, Wolfe said the fact that there is no written evidence of anybody named Jesus Christ having lived during the time in question should be proof in itself.
Among others, Wolfe points to the writings of Gaius Plinius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Elder, who widely is purported to have written the world's first encyclopedia, which contained no reference to anybody known as Jesus Christ.
"If he doesn't exist in Pliny, he doesn't exist," Wolfe said.
Wolfe said he is prepared for the criticism his book will generate.
"[Christians] are not going to like my telling them that they are believing in a fake, a fable, a hoax," he said. "[Nor] are most librarians going to risk Christian wrath by cataloging and shelving a book that exposes Christianity as a 1,900-year-old fraud."
The Case Against 'Jesus' is available at bookstores. It also is sold online as an e-book from Wolfe's Web site, ebooks.burtonwolfe. com.
***The Lang Report is grateful to Michael Schmieman and the Sun Sentinel for this article
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