THE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS IS HE A MYTH?

Illustrated

By M. M. Mangasarian

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.

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