Are they really hoaxes?
Let's check a review written by By Steven L. Roberts (Madison, WI) for the top ranked book,
Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History, Vol.
"Liars for Jesus by Chris Rodda is one of the best written and most important books about contemporary American politics that I have read in years. The only problem with this book is that it was apparently published with the author's own money, making its availability somewhat limited. This book should be widely read and discussed, because it helps explain why the Christian Right seems so incomprehensibly loony to most of us who are not part of that movement, and, conversely, why they attack the rest of us with such unfettered zeal.
There has been a series of revisionist "history" books published since the end of WWII which give a "Christian" version of American history that attempts to paint the Founding Fathers and subsequent American culture in a way that is in agreement with contemporary Fundamentalism. We have now had a couple of generations of conservative Christians who have been buying into this version of history and reacting angrily to an America that assumes fundamental principals like the separation of church and state to be at the core of what America stands for.
Author Rodda systematically lists and then busts a series of myths that these spurious history books have generated. She leaves no stone unturned in doing so.
Things get really scary when she starts quoting Supreme Court opinions written by Rennquist, Thomas and Burger, and it becomes apparent that members of our highest court do not know the difference between real history and Fundamentalist wishful thinking.
The book is a fascinating study in how the desire for a different set of facts can, over time, morph into an alternative if deluded "reality".
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Well, it sounds interesting. What is the historical truth regarding historical Jesus?
If you check out Intelligence Code (Arena of Great Heroes), you will encounter about the fictional Jesus (Yeshua)'s travel through Indian to China through silk road. Yeshua learned about Hinduism and Buddhism for about 10 years during his 'private life' until he returned back to Israel. Also, in this novel, Jesus was not killed on the crucifixion, and survived and moved to Kashmir with his Holy Grail.
He was buried at Roza Bal near Srinagar while asking Saint Thomas to finish his evangelical work at south India.
Well, it is hard to say this is historical, but we need open our mind to look at his life with more historical possibilities and evidences.
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