Did Mithras say “He who will not eat of my body and drink of my blood…”?
In 1999 two journalists named Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy published a book called The Jesus Mysteries: Was the “original Jesus” a pagan god? The book appealed to a “new atheist” demographic, and material from it could be found online throughout the 2000’s. On p.49 they made the following claim, in the middle of a series […]