The general introduction to BORN IN THE SECOND CENTURY, and a reading of the infamous Fragment of Quadratus.
Anyone who listens to this episode can learn about all the difficult problems that come from viewing Christianity as a religion that began after the supposed death of Jesus of Nazareth around 30 AD. Host Chris Palmero presents an alternative view: the Special Paradigm. The theory that Christianity was born out of a mélange of clashing religious ideas nearly 100 years later.
A key piece of early Christian history is examined and found to be spurious: a fragment from a lost book by Quadratus, which claims that some of the people who were resurrected by Jesus lived on into the following century.
Opening reading: Celsus, in the Logos Alethes, describes the MLM-like conversion tactics of Christians in the waning days of the 100's AD.
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12/07/20 • 79 min
Born in the Second Century - 1. The Abandoned Road.
Transcript
[music: Origins intro theme]
A reading from the first ever semi-official pagan response to Christianity: the Logos Alethes, by Kelsus. 178 AD.
"The Christians claim that they alone know the right way to live, and that if only the children will believe them, they'll be happy and their homes will be happy as well. Now if, when they're speaking this way to the children, they happen to see a schoolteacher or parent coming along, these Christians flee in all directions. They also tell the chi
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