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On our own Tom Verenna's blog post:
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This story is all over the place. I heard Mike Malloy on my local liberal talk radio station last night, who usually just fulminates against the evil of Republicans and the spinelessness of their opposition. But he talked almost reverentially about how he believed in a historical Jesus (a progressive community organizer) and this human Jesus would have expressed some sort of sexuality, etc. And he dug up a 19th century Mormon preacher who maintained that Jesus had multiple wives:
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Both Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert worked this find into their comedy routines.
That's the main stumbling block to mythicism. Jesus is too popular a character in the modern imagination. |
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My money is on fraudulence. If I wanted to make a fraudulent early Christian document, that is about how I would do it.
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Jon Stewart had a routine on the Daily Show - "pure uncut sitcom bait."
And on a less serious note, Simcha Jacobovici TV is intererested. |
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another day in the life in the intellectual ghetto
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