I INTRODUCING “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” The new book from Reza Aslan From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that calls into question everything we thought we knew about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Pharisees’
January 6th, 2013 - 3:19 am § in Religion
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Who was “Jesus?”
A friend recently challenged me to discuss the concept of Jesus as a Messiah. Of course, as a Jew and the son of a liberator of Buchenwald, and as someone acutely aware of the millions of people tortured and slaughtered in the name of Jesus. I have trouble taking this on. In unprejudiced manner[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Was Jesus the founder of the non violent resistance movement?
Jesus of the Roman Bible was no Gandhi, no Alinsky, and no MLK. Was Jesus a quisling? Millions of Jews have died because of Christian calumny of the real resistance movement, the Pharisees. Stephen Stills said that Jesus Christ was the first nonviolent revolutionary. I’m sure Stills was wrong a[...]