If they’ve devoted their professional lives to the study of Christianity’s origins and don’t know it’s mainly a retelling of other astrological and ancient myths (virgin birth, three wise men, dec 25, 12 disciples, temptations in the desert, the betrayer, the crucifixion, the rebirth, and on and on) then they’re probably not very good.
True, true. However scholars of Christianity kind of have a bias there, dunnthey.
that’s why I specified secular scholars.
If they’ve devoted their professional lives to the study of Christianity’s origins and don’t know it’s mainly a retelling of other astrological and ancient myths (virgin birth, three wise men, dec 25, 12 disciples, temptations in the desert, the betrayer, the crucifixion, the rebirth, and on and on) then they’re probably not very good.