I'd really like to read this, even if it is responsible for star wars:
http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Thousand-...7947365&sr=1-1
THere are lots of interesting questions about early christianity/the church/jesus, but until we can get beyond the idea that it is entirely possible for someone to have existed in reality, and for people subsequently to have mistaken beliefs about said person, we're not even on the grid.
I'm perfectly willing to believe that there's imagery in the vatican that makes use of egyptian motifs. I'm not taking that as evidence that the Pope secretly worships Anubis or something while no one's looking. Or that the freemasons are the heirs to a tradition running via the knights templar, the early christians, the egyptian masons, Marco Polo and big bird.
This is more up my street:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/...20090528.shtml
Unfortunately i listened to it about 2 months ago and can't recall anything about it. I do seem to recall that the debate of the relative import on the early church of St Paul and Jesus is an interesting one however.
OH, and Cueball TRs, obviously. In fact more TRs on all topics, tbh.