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Dr. David Skrbina makes the case that Christianity started as a hoax by Paul:\n\n\n\n"Jesus of Nazareth is one of the most famous men in history.\xa0 There are good reasons to believe that he walked the earth some two thousand years ago, and was eventually crucified.\nBut what about Jesus Christ, son of God?\xa0 What if he never existed?\xa0 What if the divine, virgin-born, resurrected Jesus Christ was a myth, a lie\u2014even a hoax?\xa0 That would have huge implications for modern-day Christianity; it would mean that there is a gigantic falsehood at the core of the religion of some two billion people.In this book, Dr. David Skrbina presents a profound and stunning theory:\xa0 that St. Paul and a band of friends constructed a \u2018Jesus hoax.\u2019\xa0 They took a kernel of truth based on Jesus, the man, and turned him into the divine savior of humanity.\xa0 They did so as a way to strike back at the hated Roman Empire, and to undermine its strength among the common people."That is from the back cover of\xa0The Jesus Hoax: How St. Paul's Cabal Fooled the World for Two Thousand Years\xa0by Dr. David Skrbina.\xa0https://www.davidskrbina.com/jesus-hoax\xa0\xa0\nThis is the third part of series on Revisioning Christianity. Different scholars bring different views to help us understand the history of Christianity and its future. How did Christianity become empire\u2019s religion? Is it believable today? Was it ever believable? Does it yet have a message to inspire peace and justice? Or is it the result of a malicious hoax and a bad idea?\xa0\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Shuck\u2019s five guests include\n1)\xa0Bart Ehrman, author of the newly released,\xa0The Triumph of Christianity: How A Forbidden Religion Swept the World,2)\xa0John Dominic Crossan, who with his wife, Sarah Sexton Crossan have just released\xa0Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision.\n3)\xa0John Shelby Spong, author of the newly released,\xa0Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today,\n4)\xa0Angela Yarber, creator of the\xa0Holy Women Icons Project, and this week,5)\xa0David Skrbina, author of the newly released,\xa0The Jesus Hoax: How St. Paul\u2019s Cabal Fooled the World for Two Thousand Years,\nDr. David Skrbina is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, where he's taught since 2003. \xa0His areas of expertise are philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, and history of religion. Professor Skrbina's books include\xa0Panpsychism in the West,\xa0The Metaphysics of Technology\xa0and\xa0Mind that Abides. \xa0\n\n\n\nProfessor Skrbina corresponded extensively with Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, and in 2010 published\xa0Technological Slavery. This was the first book written by Ted Kaczynski. \xa0It contains the only corrected version of his manifesto, five previously unpublished essays, and about 100 pages of letters to Dr. Skrbina.\nDr. Skrbina is a pioneer in eco-philosophy encompassing ethics, metaphysics, and cosmology and is Deputy Director of the Eco-Philosophy Center. He ran for Lieutenant Governor for the state of Michigan in 2006 with the Green Party. He has a master\u2019s degree in Mathematics and a Ph. D. In philosophy.