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| * "The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold" is well researched with over 1200 footnotes and hundreds of quotes. | * "The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold" is well researched with over 1200 footnotes and hundreds of quotes. | ||
| * Acharya S masterfully draws comparisions demonstrating without doubt, that Christianity is founded in thousand year old myths. | * Acharya S masterfully draws comparisions demonstrating without doubt, that Christianity is founded in thousand year old myths. | ||
| * Her determination to reveal the truth about Christianity is seen in the sheer number of painstaking quotes from such as Thomas Paine, Rev. Robert Taylor, Gerald Massey, JM Robertson, Joseph Wheless, GA Wells and Barbara Walker leaving her detractors to resort to the last resort of denial... the personal attack. |
* Her determination to reveal the truth about Christianity is seen in the sheer number of painstaking quotes from such as Thomas Paine, Rev. Robert Taylor, Gerald Massey, JM Robertson, Joseph Wheless, GA Wells and Barbara Walker leaving her detractors to resort to the last resort of denial... the personal attack. | ||
| If the writing of one lone person can so offend or even threaten the Christian God, it would seem he is not much of a god! If ideas different then the standard Christian belief bother this god, let him deal with it. | |||
| This awesome god Christians speak of, sure seems to need a lot of help from us poor humans. Read Acharya's books and other books on the subject, open your mind and see where it leads you. You may just see the real light of common sense! | |||
| ==Criticisms== | ==Criticisms== | ||
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Acharya S is an American critic of Christianity who operates a web site, "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 Franklin and Marshall College.
On the web site 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.
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 Hindu story of the life of Krishna, as well as the life of Buddha (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.
Compliments
- "The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold" is well researched with over 1200 footnotes and hundreds of quotes.
- Acharya S masterfully draws comparisions demonstrating without doubt, that Christianity is founded in thousand year old myths.
- Her determination to reveal the truth about Christianity is seen in the sheer number of painstaking quotes from such as Thomas Paine, Rev. Robert Taylor, Gerald Massey, JM Robertson, Joseph Wheless, GA Wells and Barbara Walker leaving her detractors to resort to the last resort of denial... the personal attack.
If the writing of one lone person can so offend or even threaten the Christian God, it would seem he is not much of a god! If ideas different then the standard Christian belief bother this god, let him deal with it. This awesome god Christians speak of, sure seems to need a lot of help from us poor humans. Read Acharya's books and other books on the subject, open your mind and see where it leads you. You may just see the real light of common sense!
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, The World's 16 Crucified Saviors by Kersey Graves and Women's Encyclopedia of Myth and Secrets by Barbara Walker — 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
- Truth be Known (Acharya S's website)
- Interview with Acharya S in Paranoia Magazine
- "A Refutation of Acharya S's book, The Christ Conspiracy" (includes a rebuttal) from RisenJesus.com