On Thursday February 2nd, 2023 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon 

will review and Discuss the controversial 2011 book Caesar's Messiah 

by Joseph Atwill. The subtitle of this work is: "The Roman Conspiracy 

to Invent Jesus and Atwell presents convincing evidence that the 

Flavian family of Roman patricians with the help of renegade Jewish 

historian Josephus, may have done exactly that.Atwill purposes that 

the Gospels were written by members of the Flavian family to make the 

Jesus story correspond with Titus's conquest of Judea and Jerusalem. 

He presents quotes from Josephus "War of Jews" to back this up. This 

will be a hard book for fundamental Christians but not for Gnostic 

Christians. Atwill holds off presenting his Imperial time-line until 

page 302, keeping the casual reader unaware that Christianity was 

flourishing and perishing in Rome long before the Gospels were 

written. So even though he may be correct about Roman influence on the 

Synoptic Gospels, he is wrong in assuming that Christianity began in 

Rome as a False-Flag operation. Perhaps the most shocking event 

described in the book is the alleged origin of the Christian 

Eucharist. Josephus recounts a wealthy Jewish mother killing and 

eating her infant son and offering part of him to her neighbors. 

Saying that he will be "A myth to the world." Of course Atwill is nice 

enough to suggest that Josephus wrote the dialogue but it still sent 

me to my copy of Josephus to make sure he wasn't exaggerating. He 

wasn't. So join us for an hour exploring gaslighting and false news 

in the first century.