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Robert M. PRICE

Robert M. Price is a member of the Jesus Seminar, a Regional Director of the Council for Secular Humanism and Professor of Biblical Criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute.


"'Christ' as a corporate logo for this and that religious institution is a euphemistic fiction, not unlike Ronald McDonald, Mickey Mouse, or Joe Camel, the purpose of which is to get you to swallow a whole raft of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors by an act of simple faith, short-circuiting the dangerous process of thinking the issues out to your own conclusions."

From Christ a Fiction
on The Secular Web

"Is it...possible that beneath and behind the stained-glass curtain of Christian legend stands the dim figure of a historical founder of Christianity? Yes, it is possible, perhaps just a tad more likely than that there was a historical Moses, about as likely as there having been a historical Apollonius of Tyana. But it becomes almost arbitrary to think so. For after one removes everything that is more readily accounted for as simple hero-mythology or borrowing from other contemporary sources, what is left?"

Of Myth and Men
in Free Inquiry, Vol. 20, #1



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