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The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Christianity Before Christ

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This book was written in 1875 and has extensive lists of pagan Gods that have similar themes as Christianity and precepts that match it as well. At the end of the book it has a review of the book's main themes that is very helpful as the book has 433 pages. I made it to page 410 thinking that most of the book was throughly researched although the resources were in the text itself and not all that clear in some instances points were made using science and logic but when I got to page 410 things took a drastic change seems the author believed that Jesus was a spiritual medium not a deity on the basis he knew people who were mediums. Seems science was only needed to prove Jesus wasn't a deity but seeing was believing for mediums no science needed.
So for you readers out there like me who are strictly rationalists and lean strongly toward science and resources that may be a bit off putting. I'm not so sure you need to throw out the baby with the bath water in this case but it does make one pause as I said it was 1875 so maybe some slack for the author is in order.

Christians have heard this argument a thousand times, but few really know what people mean by saying that little in Christianity is original. This book provides you with the reasoning behind this claim in an exhaustive way. I found this book to be a much better choice than any of Robert Price's books because Price gets his ideas (or most of them) from this author. For a good counter-argument I recommend The Jesus Legend by Eddy and Boyd.

This book was full of information and backed up its thesis well: that little in Christianity was original. Two cautions: the book was written about 1875, and the author mentions Chrishna (Krishna)in connection with Buddhism instead of Hinduism, though either way his life antedated many details of Christ's.

I wanted to know more about the topic raised in Religulous (movie) and this book gave me just what I was looking for.

VERY INTERESTING !! I WILL SHARE THIS BOOK WITH MANY FRIENDS, WHO I AM SURE WILL BE AS SUPRISED AS I AM.

I like the book. I use it as a reference to check up on Christianity. In my opinion it has the information that is hidden from modern day religion. My position is as an evangelical turned atheist. (you know, always an extremist)

This book contain powerful and helpful information to those who are open to truth. A great deal of effort and research was done prior to its writing. I found it very helpful to me in understanding the problems we face in the world of religion.

I had previously looked this subject up on a search engine. The book is much more comprehensive and well written.
I highly recommend it for anyone that is a serious student of religion.
We all, in every separate country, ethnic group and different belief, have our stories of the Son of God that has been sent to save our people and the people of the world. We all, through ignorance or conceit, believe that our people are the chosen ones.
There is only one God, he is called a multitude of names, each in accordance to the chosen dialect or language, each has tales or stories of the Son sent by God.
This book is excellent evidence that The God has sent his Son many times to try to bring the peoples of earth back to the correct path, whatever that is.
Our religious church's and groups have hidden, denied and out right lied to their people to further their own thoughts and beliefs.

This is an excellent book and I highly recommend it to everyone.

I wish I had read this book a long time ago , highly recommended !