Recent content by roger_pearse

I wouldn't take Ehrman's claims very seriously. I reviewed his "scholarly" backup for this book, "Forgery and counterforgery", and it was terribly poor. I don't mean his opinions; just his handling of the raw data. I looked at his statements about Salvian of Marseilles - critical to the book...

I wonder if I might comment. All of this stuff is very misleading, but I confine myself to stuff I know personally in rather great detail. No ancient source records any association between Mithras and 25 Dec., nor between Mithras and the spring equinox. The state sun-god, Sol Invictus...

Some proof of this daft claim would be interesting to see. The ancient sources claim otherwise. From this we learn that the author of this is entirely ignorant of ancient history, which is not done in this way. The claim is made since to cast doubt, rather than to inform. In fact most...

Could you prove this, from your own knowledge? Or did you find someone who says this? If so, who? I can tell you that no classical scholar thinks this. The claim is only made by headbangers, who, one and all, are Christian-haters desperate to rubbish all the data about early Christianity...