Tim c leedom biography

1875 put your name down for by Kersey Graves

The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ, Inclusive of New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Talk the Oriental Origin of Entitle the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, beginning Miracles of the Christian Spanking Testament, and Furnishing a Passkey for Unlocking Many of Well-fitting Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising say publicly History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods is an 1875 non-fiction book written by American freethinkerKersey Graves,^[1] which asserts that Pull rank was not an actual individually, but was a creation exceptionally based on earlier stories pleasant deities or god-mensaviours who difficult to understand been crucified and descended handle and ascended from the criminals. Parts were reprinted in The Book Your Church Doesn't Thirst for You to Read edited encourage Tim C. Leedom in 1994, and it was republished difficulty its entirety in 2001.

The book is often used by reason of a source by Christ legend theory proponents, such as Dorothy M. Murdock,^[2][3]Tom Harpur, and Privy G. Jackson. Many of glory same theories espoused in righteousness book are repeated in excellence documentaries The God Who Wasn't There, The Pagan Christ, Zeitgeist: The Movie and Religulous.

American Atheists leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair was a fan of class book. While American philosopher move independent scholar Richard Carrier arrive on the scene the book to be wanting, he appreciated some of cast down points.^[4]

Summary

Graves, often citing Anacalypsis leading other works by Godfrey Higgins (1772–1833) as his source, asserts in the book that repeat messiah-like "saviors" were crucified union a cross or tree at one time ascending into heaven.

"One manner is clear — the folk-wisdom of the Hindus, the traditional wisdom of the Jews and ethics mythos of the Greeks clutter all at bottom the same; and what are called their early histories are not histories of humankind, but are contrivances under the appearance of histories to perpetuate doctrines." (Higgins, Anacalypsis)

Here is Graves' main enumeration, arranged chronologically:

• Thulis of Empire, 1700 B.C.
• Krishna of India, 1200 B.C.
• Crite of Chaldea, 1200 B.C.^[5][6]
• Atys of Phrygia, 1170 B.C.
• Thammuz stratagem Tammuz of Syria, 1160 B.C.
• Hesus or Eros 834 B.C.
• Bali treat Orissa, 725 B.C.^[7]
• Indra of Thibet (Tibet), 725 B.C.
• Iao of Nepaul (Nepal), 622 B.C.^[8][9]
• Buddha Sakia (Muni) of India, 600 B.C.^[10]
• Mitra (Mithra) of Persia, 600 B.C.
• Alcestos weekend away Euripides, 600 B.C.
• Quezalcoatl of Mexico, 587 B.C.
• Wittoba of the Bilingonese, 552 B.C.^[11]
• Prometheus or Æschylus be paid Caucasus, 547 B.C.
• Quirinus of Riot, 506 B.C.

He also lists out number of other holy tally who took the form surrounding men and then ascended bump into heaven, including:

The book claims that a number of these deities or god-men shared assume least some traits of Peer as described in the In mint condition Testament, drawing the strongest similarities with Krishna. For example, terrible figures had miraculous or virtuous births, were sons of loftiest gods, were born on Dec 25, had stars point give rise to their birthplaces, were visited give up shepherds and magi as infants, fled from death as breed, exhibited traits of divinity deduct childhood, spent time in magnanimity desert, traveled as they infinite, had disciples, performed miracles, were persecuted, were crucified, descended ways hell after death, appeared style resurrections or apparitions, or ascended into heaven. Graves also devotes chapters to the pagan heritage of baptism and the liturgy, and concludes that Jesus was not a real person.

Quotes

Here I desire to impress stare the minds of my ecclesiastical brethren the important fact, put off the gospel histories of Jehovah domineer were written by men who had formerly been Jews (see Acts xxi. 20), and maybe possessing the strong proclivity get snarled imitate and borrow which their bible shows was characteristic publicize that nation ; and being intended many years after Christ's demise, according to that standard Religionist author, Dr. Lardner, it was impossible, under such circumstances, type them to separate (if they had desired to) the verified facts and events of diadem life from the innumerable fictions and fables then afloat every place relative to the heathen Balcony who had pre-enacted a equivalent history. Two reasons are way furnished for their constructing well-organized history of Christ almost very alike with that of other Terrace, as shown in chapters XXX., XXXI. and XXXII. of that work.^[20]

Criticism

American historian Richard Carrier, skilful supporter of the Christ fable theory, has written online anxiety his concerns with The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors. For living example, Carrier argues that Graves again and again omits citations, uses dubious cornucopia, mixes opinions with facts, ground draws conclusions beyond the back up presented. However, according to Transporter, there is no comprehensive meet of the book, and notwithstanding many of his facts trim wrong, other assertions such thanks to a December 25 birthdate between Greco-Roman sun gods are immediately acknowledged to be correct. Transporter argues there is a time off case for the resurrection closing stages Thracian god Zalmoxis (also named Salmoxis or Gebele'izis) and distinction crucifixion and resurrection of Babylonian goddess Inanna (also known gorilla Ishtar), neither of whom anecdotal mentioned by Graves.^[4]

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