The Mythicists\u2019 Forum is pleased to award $1,000 to anyone who\u00a0demonstrates that Jesus actually lived. The winning essay will show\u00a0that the figure \u2018Jesus of Nazareth,\u2019 as grandly recorded in the\u00a0Christian gospels, was a real person and not the pure invention of the\u00a0evangelists. Further details of the Real Jesus Challenge (also known as\u00a0the 2011 Historicist Prize), can be found at\u00a0http:\/\/www.nazarethmyth.info<\/a><\/p>\n Rene Salm Now where have I come across a fringe group offering a prize for anyone who can prove the conclusions of mainstream scholarship to the satisfaction of a panelist of adherents of that fringe group? Oh, I remember now! Among creationists! Among the best known of these are\u00a0Kent Hovind\u2019s famous $250,000 prize<\/a>, and Adnan Oktar (better known under his pen name Harun Yahya) offering ten trillion Turkish lira<\/a>.<\/p>\n In fact, in this particular respect mythicism seems like it is worse<\/i>, a money-making scam, since the Real Jesus Challenge web site asks those who submit entries to also each pay $50<\/a> for the work that the judges would have to engage in reading their submission!<\/p>\n
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