"Surely, if anyone were to come forth today claiming to be a messiah and preaching the message of Jesus, he would be considered crazy. There are thou- sands of similar bedraggled souls who have ended up in mental asylums. Jesus was so exasperating to the established authorities that they crucified him, a much worse fate. But was one of the reasons that he was psychotic? I do not mean to be unfair to Jesus, and no doubt devout Christians will be offended at the suggestion."
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Paul Kurtz, The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion an the Paranormal, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books (2013) [1st pub. 1986], p. 174.
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