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Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity by James Valliant and Warren Fahy
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Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity by James Valliant and Warren Fahy

By Andrew Bernstein

Apr 20, 2021
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Hertford, NC: Crossroads Press, 2018.

361 pp. $29.99 (hardcover).

Christianity was created by the Roman state, and the New Testament was Roman propaganda designed to pacify fanatically rebellious Jews. This is the boldly original thesis James Valliant and Warren Fahy present in Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity.

The Romans dominated…

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