Skeptiko - Alex Tsakiris - Acharya S. Examines the Effects of Myth Making on Christianity

Interview with religion and mythology scholar Acharya S. (D.M. Murdock) examines the effects of early Christianity on other religions of the time.

Join Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris for an interview with Acharya S. author of, Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ. During the interview Acharya talks about the religion and myths:


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Alex Tsakiris: One of the things that your work is really important in doing, and it's something we didn't talk enough about, is that it's a really thorough analysis of the power and practices of cultish behavior, of power formation, and power manipulation. I think unless we really come to grips with this we can't separate out what happened to these religions.
On one hand we have these traditions and these myths and those that made the myths, and on the other hand we have the same characters that we see on the landscape today that say, "Hey, wait a minute. Maybe I can make a buck off of this. Maybe I can control things. Maybe I can make my group superior and win out over the other groups. And maybe I can use these myths to do it."

Unless we thoroughly understand that stuff, and at the same time appreciate the possibility that there is some genuine non-biological-robot, spiritual experiences that may be happening; until all that's on the table, we can't really get our arms around it.

Acharya Sanning: What I'm just doing is writing a factual recitation of what has happened in these places. It's very empowering to know this stuff.

Also, when we were talking in the beginning about being in the middle between extremists on either side, this mythicism position that I am discussing which looks at supernatural beings in antiquity as mythical figures, not real people who landed on planet Earth and did a bunch of magic tricks. This is really a neutral position because you don't have to believe in it and you don't have to dismiss it. You don't have to be a theist or an Atheist. You can be either one to enjoy this information.

All I'm doing is collecting religious and mythological ideas from as far back as we can tell and putting them together and showing their influences on our thinking today. It doesn't require any kind of belief or any kind of joining or any kind of control...


Skeptiko - Alex Tsakiris - Acharya S. Examines the Effects of Myth Making on Christianity

D.M. Murdock: Ancient Gods and Myths in the Bible

D.M. Murdock in radio interview about myths, ancient gods, Jesus, Moses and the bible.



Find out more about the work of Acharya S/DM Murdock at http://www.truthbeknown.com/ http://www.stellarhousepublishing.com/ http://freethoughtnation.com/ and http://astrotheology.net/

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WHO IS MYTHICIST MILWAUKEE?

Mythicist Milwaukee is a group dedicated to studying the mythicist position - researching the parallels between ancient civilizations' beliefs and today's modern religious practices.

Be warned, if you find mythicism to be distasteful to your current mythological beliefs, than this video may not be for you. If you decide to watch it anyway, we are definitely open to constructive criticism and we hope you enjoy the show. Well what do I know, I'm just the video guy, here's the Webster full definition of MYTHICIST. 1 : a student or interpreter of myths. 2 : an adherent of the view that apparently supernatural persons or events have their origin in human imagination especially as revealed in myth.

Your's very truly, Adam Montney

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Did Moses Exist? with D.M. Murdock

Previously I have interviewed Frank Zindler, Richard Carrier, David Fitzgerald, and Robert Price, all of whom are 'mythicists'; they don't think there was ever anyone alive whom we could recognize as either Jesus or Moses.

Of the lot of them, I would have thought that Price was the foremost expert, but he referred me to D.M Murdock, also known as Acharya S, author of 'Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver'.



The Ra Men podcast EP10 - Did Moses Exist? with D.M. Murdock
November 2014

Are the New Testament Gospels History? Where's the Proof?

In this clip from the DVD "Great Minds of Our Time," independent scholar of comparative religion and mythology D.M. Murdock aka "Acharya S" speaks about the burden of proof vis-a-vis claims that the gospel story of the supernatural savior Jesus Christ in the New Testament represents "history."

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For more information about the book "Who Was Jesus?" see: http://stellarhousepublishing.com/whowasjesus.html

The Jesus Christ Conspiracy

D.M. Murdock, who also goes by the pen name "Acharya S.," is the author of The Christ Conspiracy, the most controversial of modern treatments of the Christ Myth theory. She has had to field flack from both apologists and atheists.

D.M. Murdock - The Christ Conspiracy.
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An independent scholar of comparative religion and mythology, Murdock was educated in Classics and Greek Civilization, at Franklin & Marshall College and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece. She has traveled extensively around Greece, participating in the archaeological excavation at Corinth, in addition, probably, to eating loads of squid.



Her other books include Suns of God, Who Was Jesus? and Christ in Egypt. Her articles and books can be found at her websites TruthBeKnown.com, StellarHousePublishing.com and FreethoughtNation.com. Point of Inquiry is happy to feature an interview with Acharya by fellow Jesus Mythicist Robert M. Price (assuming, of course, that both of them exist!

Date: June 27, 2011
Podcast: Point of Inquiry
Host: Robert Price
By: Center for Inquiry