"Reza Aslan's instant best-seller, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth".... interesting looks a brilliant expose which just about covers what is so easily seen already by brilliant minds that have all started to intuit about the myth like Thomas Jefferson & Leo Tolstoy did before.
Jesus: Just another Miracle Worker: Aslan pointing to the same usual three suspects to support his claim that miracle-workers were a dime a dozen in ancient Israel: Honi the Circle-Drawer, Hanina ben Dosa, and Apollonius of Tyana.
He's not vocalizing anything new here, you note how the subject comes up more & more as part of the popular lexicon? You'll also note that Christianity remains the strongest today in those ex-colonial states like Brazil, Mexico, South America & Africa, where the belief in magic can be seen as still fresh in those respective emerging cultures & minds of those people . Which would make perfect sense of the appeal in the magical iconography, but as poverty is lifted & education expands with exposure to science increasing , such hold wanes & lessoned. (Evolution)
If you want a healer, go to a physician (if you can afford or have access to them) , if you want peace seek & find brilliant, integrated , interdisciplinary contemplative minds, there are usually many in every generation, more all the time. |
