Started: July 3, 2025
Completed: July 7, 2025
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: I cannot remember how I came to choose this book. I must have read some sort of a review, but I cannot remember what it might have been.
Completed: July 7, 2025
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: I cannot remember how I came to choose this book. I must have read some sort of a review, but I cannot remember what it might have been.
Review:
Nixey uses the word, "heretic," grounded in the original Greek and meaning to choose. In a survey of other saviors before, during, and after the time of Jesus, Nixey presents a world of choice. She explains why we are mostly unaware of these choices in terms of the Catholic church's effort to burn books, outlaw teachings, kill believers (of alternative versions of Jesus, etc.), and destroy churches. Remember the inquisition? Well, all of this works, and Nixey has to work with scant works (only pieces remain) and deal with partially or poorly understand religions. This isn't fully eye opening (it is hard to say that Gilgamesh remains "news"), but it is revealing and that is very interesting.
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