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This book is GREAT!! Yes! This is an absolutely AWESOME parody of the absolutely worst arguments used against the existence of a historical Jesus. Truly! I commend Burton Woof -- er, Wolfe -- for this tremendous contribution to historical Jesus studies. I'm not kidding! I mean, just check these never-revealed facts:
- Peter Jennings was a "propagdanist" for Christianity!
- PBS is Christianity's "private broadcasting service"!
- Annals 15.44 is a forgery! Heck, the entire Annals are a forgery! Yes, just forget what is said by dozens of classical and Tacitean scholars and textual critics; Burt KNOWS the real score! Wooo hooo!
- No copies of Tacitus date earlier than the 15th century! Right on, Burt! You TELL those Tacitean scholars like Mendell how WRONG they are that that copy from the 11th century was actually in their imagination!
- You have to be an "imbecile" to accept any of the Annals as historical fact! Ronald Syme was an imbecile! So are Mendell and all the rest! You go Burt! I always KNEW imbeciles ran Tacitean studies!
- Organized religion is "the greatest danger to humanity in all of its history"! Take that, Rodney Stark!
- Mohammed didn't exist either!
- The name "Jesus" is a fraudulent translation because it is a "Gentile name"!
- The Catholics destroyed all but one Greek "version" of the Bible so they could give everyone the Latin Vulgate!
- Biblical scholars are just trying to preserve their careers!
- The Dead Sea Scrolls include in their contents references to several "messiahs" (who are executed and resurrected) as well as a "Last Supper"!
- G. A. Wells is a "Biblical scholar"!
- Notetaking didn't exist in NT times because there was no paper -- just papyrus and parchment!
- Circumstantial evidence is more reliable than eyewitness testimony!
- The Bible shows that John the Baptist was also a "savior of humanity"!
- "Iscariot" is Judas Iscariot's last name!
- Acharya S is a reliable source!
- There is no evidence that the Romans used a cross shape to crucify people!
- Romans 16:22 shows that Tertius was the author of Romans!
- Christian missions to the hungry are bad because they enable people to spend money on dope and booze they'd otherwise spend on food!
- The church should be sued for fraud under RICO!
I can hardly wait to write my own book verifying Woof's findings! And I plan to do that just as soon as I go and hit myself on the head repeatedly with a giant wooden mallet!
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