John Dominic Crossan makes a good point in this video about how almost all Christians in America have a Santa Claus level of biblical knowledge. This is especially true with evangelicals. Evangelicals have the lowest level of education when it comes to the bible and Christian history. That’s why they all believe such silly things.

What Crossan reports is not radical at all. There are only a small handful of evangelical Biblical scholars who still hold to the traditional Jesus myths. All major universities in the Western world teach the historical Jesus rather than the old Jesus myths that you get at your local Sunday school. Facts are facts, so the old Jesus had to go.

Jesus Scholar John Dominic Crossan

In the last forty years he has written twenty-five books on the historical Jesus, earliest Christianity, and the historical Paul. Five of them have been national religious bestsellers for a combined total of twenty-four months. The scholarly core of his work is the trilogy from The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991) through The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus (1998), to In Search of Paul: How Jesus’s Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire with God’s Kingdom, co-authored with the archaeologist Jonathan L. Reed (2004). His work has also been translated into twelve foreign languages, including Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Russian.

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