Read Joseph atwill's book Caesar's Messiah.. he argues that the New testament was written by the Roman empire specifically the flavian dynasty in order to pacif

Read Joseph atwill's book Caesar's Messiah.. he argues that the New testament was written by the Roman empire specifically the flavian dynasty in order to pacify the Hebrews and integrate them into the Roman empire.. the Romans had a history of merging Roman mythology and culture with the mythology and culture of subjugated lands... I find his thesis compelling and probably true, but then again I've suspected since I was a little kid that the New testament was bogus