Husky, I do not see anything extraordinary about Acharya S.' thesis, summarized below. I will defer discussion till later.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Acharya S is the pen name of D. M. Murdock. A proponent of the Jesus myth hypothesis, she has authored two books and operates a website named "Truth be Known". Her contention is that all religion is founded in earlier myth and that <b>the characters depicted in Christianity are the result of the plagiarizing of those myths to unify the Roman State.</b>
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Acharya S is the pen name of D. M. Murdock. A proponent of the Jesus myth hypothesis, she has authored two books and operates a website named "Truth be Known". Her contention is that all religion is founded in earlier myth and that <b>the characters depicted in Christianity are the result of the plagiarizing of those myths to unify the Roman State.</b>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acharya_S<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->