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Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Misquoting Jesus: How Christianity triumphed
(NPR via BDE, 3/20/18) Host Terry Gross interviews Professor of Religion Bart D. Ehrman on his book The Triumph of Christianity: How A Forbidden Religion Swept the World.
The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why traces the history of Christianity devolving or evolving from a weird cannibal faith (with its strange communal ritual drinking of blood and eating of flesh) of a handful of peasants in rural Galilee to a dominant Western religion.
It did it in less than four centuries with the help of the Roman Empire [see the documentary Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus], Vatican, and Western war powers like the British Empire and Nazi Germany, exploring how it was nearly fated to become an obscure Jewish sect that instead molded Western culture, economics, and law.
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