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The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity? Tom Harpur
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Sadly Christianity subsumed or killed most of these traditions. Amazon.com: The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity. Our wars seem cleaner, more intellectual, justified, and reasonable; led by economic self-interest, not by blind blood-wrath, and yet our solders are more likely to kill themselves afterwards then die in them. This is the clergyâ€'laity system and its true purpose is to kill the functioning of the members of the body. Christ is not divided, Christianity is. So you have blind faith in your beloved science to answer all, but Christians, who have admitted they don't have all the answers concerning God, you no breathing room whatsoever. In the deconversion section, he shows how evidence, reason, and experiences related to prayer, morality, deconverted Christians, the Bible, and his relationship with God Himself all lead to his eventual inability to believe anymore. Harpur ;s The Pagan Christ and the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Folk magical practices, awareness of deities at wells etc do not a religion make, especially when most of the folk doing this named themselves Christians and would attend Christian churches. I do however, believe that neither Pagans nor Neo-Pagans should allow academic historians to define our faith for us, especially in light of the depth of lack of academic integrity we have already witnessed . That is a better way to describe my faith journey. The pagans, by which I refer to pre-Christian Western man, may have been unwilling to accept that strange doctrine of the Son of Man, but they willingly accepted that they were sons of men.