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Doh!  Pikachu is worried that people will think he's saying Christianity is Pagan in the sense that slathering priests drink babies' blood. I'll admit that despite all the asinine stuff he has posted, I never got the idea he was saying such a thing. Not much credit for that, though. 


Shhhh, don't talk so loud  

I'm not thinking of the Trilateral Commission. With Pikachu, it's more like the Ferengi Grand Nagus.

 
Pikachu says he's really been asking, "Are our ridiculous myths different from everybody else's ridiculous myths."  The answer is No. Because it is bigoted and ignorant to call any of these stories "ridiculous". 

The better question is, "Which of these stories is true and passes the tests of history?" And on that account, no one coms even close to Christianity.  No one.
 

Just in cadse you missed it, Pikachu repeats Crossan's politically correct sentiment:

Augustus came from a miraculous conception by the divine and human conjunction of [the God] Apollo and [his mother] Atia. How does the historian respond to that story? Are there any who take it literally?... That divergence raises an ethical problem for me. Either all such divine conceptions, from Alexander to Augusts and from the Christ to the Buddha, should be accepted literally and miraculously or al of them should be accepted metaphorically and theologically. It is not morally acceptable to say directly and openly that our story is truth but yours is myth; ours is history but yours is a lie. It is even less morally acceptable to say that indirectly and covertly by manufacturing defensive or protective strategies that apply only to one's own story. [John Crosssan, The Birth of Christianity, 1998, pg 28 - 29.]

Heck yeah. It isn't morally acceptable until you prove who's right and who's wrong. But Crossan is too politically correct to mention that part.