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'''Acharya S''' is an ] critic of ] who operates a ], "Truth be Known". She bills herself as a historian, mythologist, religious scholar, and linguist, as well as an archeologist. She holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree from ]. '''Acharya S''' is the ] of '''Dorothy Melne Murdock''', an ] critic of ], and amateur "historian, mythologist, religious scholar, linguist, and archeologist". She holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree from ].


On the web site she contends that ] is a fictional person, and a plagiarised ] myth stolen by the ], created with the goal of unifying the ]. In two books and on her ], "Truth be Known", she she contends that ] is a fictional person, and a plagiarised ] myth stolen by the ], created with the goal of unifying the ]. This thesis is outlined in her web site and expanded in her books.
⚫ In ''The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold'', she expanded the arguments of her web site. In ''Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled'', she uses parallels to the story of Jesus in the ] story of ], and the ] story of ] (Siddhartha Gautama) to argue that the Jesus story is fictional.


Her writings are derived from secondary sources, with no original theses or research.
⚫ Her book, ''The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold'', is an expanded version of her web site. A followup book, ''Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled'', discusses her views further. In it she writes on the ] story of the life of ], as well as the life of ] (Siddhartha Gautama). She points out parallels to the life of Jesus, presenting this as evidence that the story of Jesus was written based on existing stories, and not the life of a real man.

==Criticisms==

The claims of Acharya S have been criticized for a number of reasons. Her detractors say:
* Acharya S's works are poor scholarship. They contain essentially no primary research and little substantiation for her claims.
* The sources for her books — for example, '']'' by ] and '']'' by ] — are themselves of suspect authority and lacking in primary research.
* Her work shows ignorance of the topics on which she writes, and in particular of the Hindu and Buddist traditions.


==External links== ==External links==

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Acharya S is the pen name of Dorothy Melne Murdock, an American critic of Christianity, and amateur "historian, mythologist, religious scholar, linguist, and archeologist". She holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Franklin and Marshall College.

In two books and on her web site, "Truth be Known", she she contends that Jesus is a fictional person, and a plagiarised pagan myth stolen by the Early Christian Church, created with the goal of unifying the Roman State. This thesis is outlined in her web site and expanded in her books. In The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, she expanded the arguments of her web site. In Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled, she uses parallels to the story of Jesus in the Hindu story of Krishna, and the Buddhist story of Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) to argue that the Jesus story is fictional.

Her writings are derived from secondary sources, with no original theses or research.

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