PREFACE

A PARABLE

IN CONFIDENCE

THE PROBLEM STATED

THE JESUS STORY A RELIGIOUS DRAMA

THE JESUS OF PAUL

IS THE WORLD INDEBTED TO CHRISTIANITY?

SOME MODERN OPINIONS ABOUT JESUS.

ANOTHER RHETORICAL JESUS

"WE OWE EVERYTHING TO JESUS"

A LIBERAL JEW ON JESUS FELIX ADLER, PRAISES JESUS

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Title: The Truth About Jesus Is He a Myth?

Author: Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian

Edition: 10

Language: English

Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading
Team.

THE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS IS HE A MYTH?

ILLUSTRATED

M. M. Mangasarian

[Illustration: Woman Crucified. In the Church of St. Etienne, France.
For a Long Time This Bearded Woman Was Supposed to be the Christ]

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

CONTENTS

PART I

A PARABLE IN CONFIDENCE IS JESUS A MYTH? THE PROBLEM STATED THE CHRISTIAN DOCUMENTS VIRGIN BIRTHS THE ORIGIN OF THE CROSS SILENCE OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS THE STORY OF JESUS A RELIGIOUS DRAMA THE JESUS OF PAUL NOT THE JESUS OF THE GOSPELS IS CHRISTIANITY REAL?

PART II

IS THE WORLD INDEBTED TO CHRISTIANITY?

PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY, OR CHRISTIANITY NOT SUITED TO WESTERN RACES

PART III

SOME MODERN OPINIONS OF JESUS A RHETORICAL JESUS "WE OWE EVERYTHING TO JESUS" A LIBERAL JEW PRAISES JESUS

APPENDIX—REPLIES TO CLERICAL CRITICS

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.