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The Second Oldest Profession – Lying for Christ

Hrafnkell Haraldsson August 28, 2011.

Print: politicususa.com

New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, in addressing the issue of early Christian forgeries, writes that there is a history of “lies and deception in the history of the Christian religion” and “irony in the fact that lies and deception have historically been used to establish the ‘truth.’” It is beyond contestation, as he points out in his recent book, Forged (2011) that pious Christians practiced deceit on a large scale.

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