This is a book by Tom Harpur. His premise is that Christ is basically an ancient Egyptian concept that has been borrowed many times and that Christianity went from being esoteric and right to literal and wrong. That being said, I cannot recommend this book.
First, the writing is very repetitive (annoyingly so) and not always clear. Some judicious editing would have helped a lot.
Second, the leaps in logic cover some long distances. It seems like the author left out some very important pieces to his story. I wanted to toss the book out a few times, but it was like seeing a car wreck and not being able to look away.
In fairness, the author introduces some interesting concepts and expresses some nice and occasionally profound sentiments here and there, but they are not tied together into any cogent argument.
It is also a bit of a shock to hear the Jesus Seminar being criticized for not going far enough. The comments on George Bush were really uncalled for as well.
If you decide to take a look anyway, don't say I didn't warn you.
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