1909

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If it is not historically true that such and such things happened in Palestine eighteen centuries ago, what becomes of Christianity? —THOMAS HUXLEY.

By education most have been misled, So they believe because they were so bred; The priest continues what the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.—DRYDEN.

CONTENTS

[ PREFACE ]

[ PART I. ]

[ A PARABLE ]

[ IN CONFIDENCE ]

[ IS JESUS A MYTH? ]

[ THE PROBLEM STATED ]

[ THE CHRISTIAN DOCUMENTS ]

[ VIRGIN BIRTHS ]

[ THE ORIGIN OF THE CROSS ]

[ THE SILENCE OF PROFANE WRITERS ]

[ THE JESUS STORY A RELIGIOUS DRAMA ]

[ THE JESUS OF PAUL ]

[ IS CHRISTIANITY REAL? ]

[ PART II. ]

[ IS THE WORLD INDEBTED TO CHRISTIANITY? ]

[ CHRISTIANITY AND PAGANISM ]

[ PART III. ]

[ SOME MODERN OPINIONS ABOUT JESUS. ]

[ ANOTHER RHETORICAL JESUS ]

[ "WE OWE EVERYTHING TO JESUS" ]

[ A LIBERAL JEW ON JESUS ]

[ APPENDIX ]

[ FROM THE SUNDAY PROGRAMS ]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[ 005 Woman Crucified. In the Church of St. Etienne, France. For a Long Time This Bearded Woman Was Supposed to Be The Christ ]

[ 010 Picture in Herculaneum, of the Days Of Pompeii, Showing Cupid Crowned With a Cross. ]

[ 022 Swastika. Earlier Form of the Cross. ]

[ 023 the Lamb in The Holy Sepulchre, Mosaic of The Iv Century, Sarcophagus of Luc de Bearn. Showing the Lamb on The Cross. ]

[ 029 the Lamb Standing Upon The Gospels. Viii Century. ]

[ 035 in Use Upon Heathen Altars Centuries Before Christianity. ]

[ 037 Ascension of Jesus, Ninth Century. ]

[ 038 Juno Nursing Her Divine Child, Mars. ]

[ 041 the Persian God, Mithra. All The Gods Have The Solar Disc Around Their Heads, Showing That Sun-worship Was One of The Earliest Forms of Religion. ]

[ 043 Isis Nursing Her Divine Child, 3000 B. C. ]

[ 048 the Unsexed Christ, Naked in The Church of St. Antoine, Tours, France. ]

[ 061 Portion of Manuscript Supposed to Be Copy Of Lost Originals. ]

[ 072 ]

[ 073 the Goddess Mother in The Grecian Pantheon. ]

[ 076 the Annunciation, Birth, and Adoration of Amenophis Of Egypt, Nearly 2000 Years Before Christ. ]

[ 078 the Nativity of The God Dionysius, Museum Of Naples. ]

[ 080 Prehistoric Crosses Discovered in Pagan Sepulchres (italy). ]

[ 081 House of Goodness, With Cross. Egyptian, 2000 B. C. ]

[ 082 Pagan Priest of Herculaneum Wearing the Cross. ]

[ 083 Cross of the Chinese Emperor Fou-hi,2953 Years Before Christ; and an Ancient Pagan Cross Discovered in Newgrange, Ireland. ]

[ 084 Used by a Priest of Bacchus, Showing the Cross. ]

[ 085 Engraving of the Xi Century; Lamb on Cross; a Lamb Carrying the Cross; The Lamb and The Cross, Ix Century. ]

[ 086 Mosaic of St. Praxedes, V Century, Showing The Lamb Christ; the Lamb Slowly Becoming Human; The Lamb Multiplying The Loaves and Fishes, Iv Century Sarcophagus. ]

[ 087 the Lamb Resurrecting Lazarus, Iv Century Sarcophagus. ]

[ 088 Modern Christ. ]

[ 089 Christ and the Twelve Apostles, Carrying Swastikas And Solar Discs Instead of the Cross. Sarcophagus, Milan. ]

[ 117 Coin of the Xii Century, Showing Halo Around Lamb's Head. ]

[ 122 St. Margaret of the Catholic Church, Westminster, England; the Goddess Astarte Carrying a Cross, British Museum. ]

[ 142 Italian Sculpture of the X Century. ]

[ 160 the Hindu Trinity. ]

[ 170 Engraving of Xv Century Representing the Trinity. ]

[ 175 Trinity in Xiii Century. ]

[ 182 Conception of Trinity, Ninth Century. ]

[ 195 Figures on a Phoenician Vase, Showing the Use Of The Cross, Evidently in Some Ceremony of a Religious Nature. ]

[ 218 Christ, Half Woman, at Baptism in Jordan. Cathedral Of Chartres, France. ]

[ 255 Head of a God With Horns. Museum Of St. Germain. ]