The Reactionary Utopian, by Joe Sobran
March 20, 2008

The Man They Still Hate
The hatred of Christ usually pretends to be directed at side targets: St. Paul, the institutional Church, or, more vaguely, organized religion (as if religion would be all right if only it were a solitary activity). The cliché of the Christ-haters is that he was a great moral teacher who never claimed divinity, but that his simple message of love was corrupted by his followers. But why would anyone want a man crucified for preaching an innocuous message of benevolence?
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