Shake This

Testament and The Lucifer Gospel. What are they?

Simply the two latest novels that propose the possibility of “shaking the foundations” of Christianity.

Since the volume of recent “faith-shaking” novels about Christianity has now officially reached (according to this official) nauseating proportions, I’ll cut straight to the point: You want to talk faith-shaking? Then consider this:

* Mormonism: Founded by Joseph Smith, a convicted fraud.

* Scientology: Founded by L. Ron Hubbard, a science-fiction author.

* Islam: Founded by Mohammad, an attention-seeker who searched and searched before finally finding some people who would believe his newly-invented faith – a faith founded on the pagan moon-god Allah, one of many gods worshiped by Mohammad’s contemporaries. Oh – and one more note of possible interest ... Mohammad was about as warlike and bloodthirsty as today’s “radical” (i.e. true) Muslims.

There are other examples, I’m sure, but I trust that you catch my drift. So let’s cut it with the drama that Jesus might not be who Christians claim He is. Enough with the codes and secret societies and “long-lost secrets”; there are plenty of truly fraudulent religious figures, both historically and in today’s world – write a book about them.