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Acharya S is the pen name of Dorothy Melne Murdock.
She is an American critic of Christianity who operates a web site, "Truth be Known" in which she contends to reveal that Jesus Christ is a fictional person and a plagiarised pagan myth stolen by the early church and supposed as an actual person so as to unify the Roman State.
She claims many impressive things about herself, billing herself as a historian, mythologist, religious scholar, and linguist, as well as an archeologist.
However, she seems to hold only a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Franklin University.
Her book, "The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold" is an expanded verison of her web site, and both have been heavily criticised for lack of use of primary sources, obtuse or biased remarks, lack of formal reasoning, and prominent use of secondary sources, which themselves are often suspect. These include Barbara Walker's "Women's Encyclopedia of Myth and Secrets" and "The World's 16 Crucified Saviors" by Kersye Graves. The latter is the primary source of her book and relies heavily on quotations from others to generate an air of authority for the work, which asserts that Jesus did not exist as an actual person because the author has found people who say he didn't.