Born in the Second Century
For nearly two thousand years, we've been told that Christianity began around 30 AD - when the disciples of the backwoods preacher "Jesus of Nazareth" came to believe he had risen from the dead. But now, BORN IN THE SECOND CENTURY exposes this tale as a myth. Host Chris Palmero - an adherent of the Catholic Church - proves that Christianity began almost one hundred years after the imagined death of Jesus, through a close reading of the New Testament and books left out of the Bible.
Born in the Second Century
4. The Gospel of Mark a Work of Brutish Lateness.
Even the most important book in history - the Gospel of Mark - is not safe from the wave of mutilation that is BORN IN THE SECOND CENTURY. The writing that hauled a god down to Earth will itself be hauled into a bin labelled "fake second century legends."
Anyone who listens to this episode can learn about how the Gospel of Mark was written half a century later than the scribes are saying. "Mark" invented a life for Jesus, but his volatile, conniption-throwing Christ is nothing more than a truncheon that he used to whack his sectarian enemies. Host Chris Palmero will discuss when, where, and why Mark was written, the earliest evidence for Mark in the literary and archaeological record, its many embarrassing anachronisms, and why it should be declared late and spurious.
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