Jesus Potter Harry Christ uses the similarities between Jesus and Harry to re-open the debate over the historical Jesus, arguing that both Harry and Jesus are spiritual metaphors told in the literary form of historical fiction. With hundreds of footnotes and references from both ancient mythology and modern culture, Jesus Potter  Harry Christ is a fresh and arresting account of Christian history that is not predicated on the flesh and bones of a historical founder.  "For those whose minds can ask questions freely without  the enforcement of dogma, Derek Murphy raises a genuine argument which  Christian apologists have no answers to besides merely repeating their dogmatic  convictions in the hope that re-asserting the dogma will confirm it as truth."  --John Thomas Didymus - Goddiscussion.com  "Whether or not one agrees with Murphy's ultimate position,  and whether or not one agrees with his arguments that Jesus was entirely  (rather than mostly) mythic, Jesus Potter Harry Christ is well worth wading  through, and wade through it one must, simply because of the sheer mass and  volume of evidence the author provides. Make this a book whose pages you  dog-ear for further reference and second readings." --Tim Callahan, Skeptic  magazine's religion editor and author of the books "Bible Prophecy" and "The  Secret Origins of the Bible"  "Murphy sifts through various mystery religions and myths  of a dying and resurrecting god, and their possible influence upon the Gospel  story. For once, it's done tastefully and without sensationalism. Maybe you've  read works by Freke, Doherty, and Harpur. While I don't want to take anything  away from those researchers--their books are interesting in their own right--I  found Murphy's tempered treatment much more to my taste. Without trying to  foist a Gnostic version of Christianity on me, and without succumbing to  overzealous scholarship, Murphy gently yet forcefully introduces the strong  similarities between Christianity and other first-century religious  philosophies and mystery cults, concluding in the strong likelihood that Jesus  was a mythical savior." --Lee Harmon, author of "Revelation: The Way it  Happened"  "In the newly-released (and blasphemously-titled) Jesus  Potter Harry Christ, Derek Murphy makes the case that J. K. Rowling -- the  author of the Harry Potter series -- achieved her success by tapping into some  of the deepest and most ancient longings of the human heart. These same  longings, Murphy argues, compelled first-century pagans to construct what he  calls "the Jesus myth." Murphy points to similarities between the Gospel  accounts of Jesus' virgin birth, His passion and His return from the grave with  the myths of pagan idols like Isis, Sarapis, Horus and Apollo, Murphy hopes to  convince his readers that Jesus -- just like the gods of mythology -- is fiction.  In fact, he believes that Jesus is just an amalgam of history's best myths." --Chuck  Colson, Christian leader, cultural commentator, and former Special Counsel for  President Richard Nixon

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