“The gospels are all priestly forgeries over a century after their pretended dates.” Joseph Wheless, Historian and Lawyer (1868-1950) The Christian fathers “deemed it a pious act to employ deception and fraud in support of piety” Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, Church Historian (1693-1755) “Christianity and Paganism, when rightly understood, differed in nonessential points, but had a common origin, and really were one and the same religion” Ammonius Saccas , Celebrated philosopher, (160AD-242AD) “Several of the most important doctrinal parts of corrupt modern Christianity are nothing more than scraps of the Heathen mythologies of various kinds taught by different nations, long previous to the Christian era” Godfrey Higgins, Historian and English magistrate (1972 – 1833) “The Christian religion contains nothing but what Christians hold in common with heathen; nothing new” Celsus, Greek Philosopher (2nd century)