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Originally Posted by Sam Savage
Revilo P. Oliver wrote a few books and many articles with references about christ-lunacy. I have not read all his material as-of-yet, but I know there is a lot of good material there. There was a Roman by the name of Celsius who wrote a book titled "The True Doctrine," which addressed the christ-eaters? These are not scientific works, but they are a start.
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You mean Celsus: it has been extrapolated from Origen's quotations of it by Hoffman and
is available from OUP.
If antiquarian critiques of Christianity are in play the Emperor Julian's works on it are invaluable (three volumes in HUP's Loeb Classical Library series [13, 29 & 157]).
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Originally Posted by John in Woodbridge
Many will insist that atheism is a religion.
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Atheism is
by definition a religion (agnosticism is as well although that is more open to debate): what it isn't is a theism as it is the religious rejection of theist and deist hypotheses for various different reasons. There is also secular/political religion to contend with incidentally.