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Horatio Parker · 02-26-2013, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by newsmax

With news this week that Bill O'Reilly is set to offer a new book about the death of Jesus, it appears the top-rated Fox News host is following in the footsteps of another famous author whose books on the deaths of Lincoln, Kennedy and Jesus became instant best-sellers in their day.

The late Jim Bishop, a veteran newspaperman who once reported for the New York Daily News and later was a syndicated columnist, saw his book "The Day Lincoln Was Shot" become a runaway best-seller in 1955.

A series of similar-themed books followed, with Bishop penning "The Day Christ Died" in 1957 and then in 1968 "The Day Kennedy Was Shot" — a minute-by-minute account of JFK's 1963 shooting in Dallas.

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http://www.newsmax.com/InsiderReport...2/24/id/491739

Toto · 03-27-2013, 06:15 PM

Candida Moss on HuffPo

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... In a brief conversation about his forthcoming book Killing Jesus, O'Reilly stated that Jesus died because of taxation. Without going into detail about the specifics of his argument, he went on to discuss the similarities between Roman treatment of Jews at the time of Jesus and the current administration's encroachment on the liberties and properties of modern Americans.

rdalin · 03-27-2013, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Toto

Candida Moss on HuffPo

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... In a brief conversation about his forthcoming book Killing Jesus, O'Reilly stated that Jesus died because of taxation. Without going into detail about the specifics of his argument, he went on to discuss the similarities between Roman treatment of Jews at the time of Jesus and the current administration's encroachment on the liberties and properties of modern Americans.

Well, hell, everyone knows that. What other possible cause could there have been?

mountainman · 03-31-2013, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Toto

Candida Moss on HuffPo

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... In a brief conversation about his forthcoming book Killing Jesus, O'Reilly stated that Jesus died because of taxation.

Did they run out of fish with Caesar's money in their mouths?

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Originally Posted by KJV Mat 17:27

Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea,
and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up;
and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money:
that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

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