I have only one response to the following news item: Earliest Mention of Christ in Writing Refers to Him as a “Magician”…
Egypt: “The magician by Christ” or “by Christ the magician” are two translations for what may be the earliest known mention of Christ, found written into the outside of a bowl found in Alexandria’s harbor by a team of scientists.
Team lead Franck Goddio said “It could very well be a reference to Jesus Christ, in that he was once the primary exponent of white magic.” The artifact could be from as recent as the early 1st century A.D. and as old as from the late 2nd century B.C.
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I read a book about 40 years ago called “Christ the Con Man”, which was interesting. The ability to influence people to believe in what you want to do is a powerful tool in culture. The lack of skepticism in a general population allows a greater result by influencing minds than actually doing something like work. BTW the scaling of the title picture on your site seems changed by some default width?(CSS)? I could be wrong, it could be my video configuration. It is dangerous to make fun of an icon that people have accepted for psychological reasons. Perhaps it might be a test of the validity of something if it is subject to ridicule and invokes no visceral negative response. All your logic is illogical.
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