I am not finished with what I recently said about St Augustine. For the faithful, the crucial event in Augustine’s conversion happened when, at random, he picked up an epistle of Paul and read a verse that struck him like a bolt of lightning.
Augustine was the architect of the Dark Ages. It is high time for Daybreak: exactly the opposite regarding the Jesus myth that persists in quite a few quarters of the American racial right.
From the video ‘Bible scholars leave Christianity’ (which is over 10 hours long!), the eureka moment I like the most is this moment of reverse conversion. While reading an ancient ‘pagan’ text, a Bible scholar realised that Evangelists of later times had plagiarized the legends of Jesus from the story of Romulus, the God of the Romans.
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And as I have said several times on this site, there was Semitic malice in the writer of the Gospel in that he not only plagiarised the story of Romulus, but also inverted the pagan message. Romulus’ material kingdom favouring the mighty is transformed by the Evangelist into a spiritual one favouring the humble.
As Richard Carrier says, it certainly looks like the Christian passion narrative is an intentional transvaluation of the Roman Empire’s ceremony.