Harpur (and Kuhn) seem to reject Christianity as a hoax and seek to replace it with gnostism or early
egyptian mystery religion.
Jesus is a myth like Apollo and Hercules and Christianity is nothing but a syncretism of Mediterranean paganism,
Egyptian mystery religion, Jewish Essenism, and Grrek and Roman elements.
Not exact matches
Unfortunately, he and / or his followers, notably including Luke and John, also threw in a few aspects of the Roman, Greek and
Egyptian «
mystery religions» so prevalent among the Gentiles of the day, who were his target audience.
@Mo, however, all these
religions can be traced back to the
egyptian mystery systems, and most of them have links to astrology (yes, astrology, not astronomy).