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Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity

By: George Bernard Shaw

... that Jesus shared that view. But it is quite clear from the New Testament writers (the chief authorities for believ- ing that Jesus ever existed) tha... ...b- ject of detecting discrepancies in the four narratives to show that the writers were as subject to error as the writers of yesterday’s newspaper. A... ...e mostly also matters of fashion. We are conscious of a difference between medieval fashions in belief and modern fashions. For instance, though we ar... ...he stamp of superstition. We will believe in nothing less than millions. A medieval doctor gained his patient’s confidence by telling him that his vit... ... on the reader’s attention by facing the question whether, if and when the medieval and Methodist will-to-believe the Salvationist and miraculous side... ...ven the tight little island which was the nucleus of the em- pire by their Scottish logic and theological dogma; and it may be sustained very plausibl...

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