"The End is Near" mass unconsciousness

[Richard]

I think the historical Jesus was quite a bit different than the long haired white guy portrayed on the big painting in almmost every mainstream western church. Those paintings have always just struck the wrong chord with me...and yet..its so accepted in western religion.

Here are a couple of links to a site that explores the historical jesus in depth.

This one is one of my favorites on the subject. Written by Mahlon H. Smith...(Chair of the Dept of Religion at Rutgers....)

A Little Leaven: Jesus in the Dialectical Perspective

http://www.virtualreligion.net/forum/leaven.html

or here is the link to main site for other interpretations of the gospels outside the mainstream

http://virtualreligion.net/forum/

Calling themselves the Jesus Seminar..an international group of scholars whose historical interpretations and opinons are not popular with mainstream religions..which is probably what drew me to it in the first place.

Good reading though.

Richard