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The End.
That's all folks. Pikachu has finished soiling our screen with his half-truths, obfuscations, and poor research. Now may be a good time to shower before you finish up.

POCM's Rear End is what's left as we follow Pikachu's retreating tuckus over the horizon to where he gives us some of his "little thoughts". Very little, as it happens.

At two cents, these would be overpriced.

The last dregs, filtered  

Heretics without basis: Although all their documents are later than the NT, and thus by Pikachu's standard without merit, Pikachu decides that the Ebionites and the people who copied and read the Gospel of Thomas were more original. Huh huh huh. You can hear me licking my chops now...

 

Exegesis without Context Pikachu falls for the old canard that Paul knew nothing about a historical Jesus.

He also emphasizes here that Paul came from "pagan" Tarsus. Uh huh. Never mind that Paul was educated in Jerusalem and returned there after every missionary journey; that his mission was accepted by the other apostles. See more on that here.

Pikachu also pledges some allegiance to the Christ myth canard. There is no contemporary evidence of Jesus life, he says, but he ignores reliable non-contemporary evidence (Tacitus, Josephus, Lucian) completely and never explains why evidence must be contemporary to be of use, nor what contemporary writers should have mentioned Jesus who didn't. Also the usual canards dating the Gospels late and anonymously. Yep. All the old stuff we've already refuted.

And yep, a kiss of the ring to the outdated "Bauer hypothesis". Sorry folks, but Bauer is out of date; he's been criticized off the map, and the whole shebang was established long before Christianity got a sword in its hand. Nice try.

 

And more of the same, blah blah blah.  In case you missed it the first 76,938 times, Pikachu re-sings and re-dances all his usual "Christianity looks like paganism" routines. He even uses the "Orpheus on the cross" picture for about the 56th time.

Someone had better get the news to him that it was a forgery before it's too late."Wow."