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Khrisna of India. Thammuz of Syria. Esus of the Celtic Druids.
Mithra of Persia. Quexalcoati of Mexico. All were crucified gods,
and all met their fates hundreds of years before Jesus appeared on
the scene. In this foundational work of modern atheism, American
spiritualist KERSEY GRAVES (1813-1883) breaks the Christ myth down
into its component parts and ably demonstrates how the story of
Jesus has its roots in the depths of antiquity. Here you'll read
about the surprising prevalence throughout global folklore of: .
the miraculous and immaculate conception of the gods . stars that
point out the time and place of a savior's birth . angels,
shepherds, and magi visiting an infant savior . the 25th of
December as the universal birth date of gods . saviors who descend
into Hell . and much more. This is essential reading for students
of comparative mythology and modern freethinkers. ALSO AVAILABLE
FROM COSIMO: Graves's The Biography of Satan and The Bible of
Bibles
Khrisna of India. Thammuz of Syria. Esus of the Celtic Druids.
Mithra of Persia. Quexalcoati of Mexico. All were crucified gods,
and all met their fates hundreds of years before Jesus appeared on
the scene. In this foundational work of modern atheism, American
spiritualist KERSEY GRAVES (1813-1883) breaks the Christ myth down
into its component parts and ably demonstrates how the story of
Jesus has its roots in the depths of antiquity. Here you'll read
about the surprising prevalence throughout global folklore of: .
the miraculous and immaculate conception of the gods . stars that
point out the time and place of a savior's birth . angels,
shepherds, and magi visiting an infant savior . the 25th of
December as the universal birth date of gods . saviors who descend
into Hell . and much more. This is essential reading for students
of comparative mythology and modern freethinkers.
Known to be a masterpiece of freethought literature. The World's
Sixteen Crucified Saviors has been out of print but sought after
for many years. A small part of it was reprinted in The Book Your
Church Doesn't Want You to Read in 1994, thereby causing renewed
interest. Many people are unaware that before Christianity there
were 15 other religions that also had a savior who died for their
sins, then arose from the dead. Graves gives all the details
inside, plus much more found in common like the immaculate
conception of the gods, virgin born gods, magi, shepherds and
angles who visit the infant saviors, the birthday of the gods being
December 25th, plus an explanation as to how Jesus began to be
worshipped as a God. Some scholars are suggesting that Jesus had
spent time in India. One chapter in this book discusses 346
striking analogies between Christ and Chrishna, the Hindu god.
Could this same story have travelled from India rather than the man
himself? Could this everpresent story, "the greatest story ever
told, " be the common link between all early religions? Has the
purpose of religion, in general, been designed to provide all of
mankind with a common set of beliefs, to keep us from learning the
real truth for ourselves? It is difficult to answer these
questions, and it probably always will be, but this book offers us
a small step closer to the answers. It shows that Christianity is
not alone and special in its beliefs, and may cause us to explore
further into the origins of religion.
CONTAINING NEW, STARTLING, AND EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS IN
RELIGIOUS HISTORY, WHICH DISCLOSE THE ORIENTAL ORIGIN OF ALL THE
DOCTRINES, PRINCIPLES, PRECEPTS, AND MIRACLES OF THE CHRISTIAN NEW
TESTAMENT AND FURNISHING A KEY FOR UNLOCKING MANY OF ITS SACRED
MYSTERIES, BESIDES COMPRISING THE HISTORY OF 16 HEATHEN CRUCIFIED
GODS This is one of the most controversial books about the
Christian narrative of Jesus ever published. Graves tried to gather
together all of what was known at the time about other similar
stories of gods who walked the earth, preached ethical and mystical
doctrines, and ended up as deicides. Today, folklorists have
discovered a set of world-wide themes relating a story of a
culture-hero who has a miraculous birth and tragic death. This is
one of the archetypal stories which Jung and Campbell discussed. It
is now considered less shocking that incidents in religious
narrative could be drawn from the global bank of folklore motifs.
This does not lessen the impact, however, on traditional believers
in these narratives as the absolute truth. So is the need for a
deathless hero who saves humanity part of the deep structure of our
brain? Is religion simply filling a psychological need which is
part of being human? This book may be picked apart in its details;
however, it was one of the first to explore this 'big' question, an
answer to which is as pressing today as it was then. The World's
Sixteen Crucified Saviors raised a host of questions, few of which
have yet been adequately answered, over a century later. There are
serious flaws in this book. Graves was apparently not working from
original sources, with the exception of the Bible; he seems to have
relied on books such as Higgins' Anacalypsis, without necessarily
citing them. He muddles Vaishnava Hinduism and Buddhism, two belief
systems with fundamental differences. That said, the traditional
narratives of Krishna and Buddha do contain motifs in common with
the NT stories of Jesus.
Or Twenty-seven Divine Revelations Containing a Description of
Twenty-seven Bibles, and an Exposition of Two thousand Biblical
Errors in Science, History, Morals, Religion, and General Events.
Written in 1863. Partial Contents: Leading Positions of this Work;
Relationship of the Old and New Testaments; Why this Work was
Written; All Bibles Useful in Their Place; Twenty-Seven Bibles
Described: Hindu, Egyptian, Persian, Chinese, Mohammedan, Jew,
Christian; General Analogies of bibles; Numerous Absurdities in the
Story of the Deluge; Ten Commandments, Ten Foolish Bible Stories;
Bible Prophecies not Fulfilled; Bible Miracles; Bible
Contradictions; Obscene Language of the Bible; Bible Errors-New
Testament; Divine Revelation Impossible and Unnecessary; Original
Sin and Fall of Man not True; Repentance; An Angry God; Special
Providences an Erroneous Doctrine; Faith and Belief; A Personal God
Impossible; Evil, Natural and Moral, Explained; Rational View of
Sin and its Consequences; Bible at War with Eighteen Sciences;
Bible as a Moral Necessity; What Shall We Do to be Saved? True
Religion Defined; Sects, Schisms, and Skeptics in Christian
Countries; The Christians' God; Idolatrous Veneration for bibles;
What Shall We Substitute for the Bible? Religious Reconstruction;
or, the Moral Necessity for a Religious Reform.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1865 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1875 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1879 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1879 Edition.
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