Who Killed Jesus? [View All]

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is the name of the book I'm currently reading.

So, I'm sitting in the office of the Ear, Nose and Throat specialist, waiting my turn, reading the book and this nimrod clears his throat at me, smiles in a totally sickening fashion, leers at the book and says "have you accepted Jesus into your heart?"

I said I hadn't. He asks if I read the Bible, I reply "cover to cover" (which I did years ago). He asks "do you know the ending?"

and I respond
This book is subtitled "Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus". It's thesis is that the Passion stories were initially self defense by one Jewish sect against other sects, but when that sect became Christianity and then the official religion of the Roman Empire and then the dominant European religion those stories became the cause of a great deal of evil culminating in the Holocaust. The author holds that Christians need to understand the pain and suffering their fairy tales have caused.

That shut him up.