What Your Preacher Didn't Tell You: That You Really Ought to Know

What Your Preacher Didn't Tell You considers the idea that Christianity as we know it is a Medieval European invention. Christian dogma conflicts with historic and scientific facts while directly contradicting what Jesus himself taught. For example, he didn't believe that he was divine, or that he or anybody else was bound for heaven. Although he was mistaken, he expected to become an earthly king. In this study, author John Winsor supports these assertions with Jesus's own words, relying on the Bible as the primary source for the support of his assertion. Today, believers are carefully taught to take their preacher's word for the meaning of the Bible. Sermons aren't question-and-answer periods; each preacher is assumed to have been "called" to serve as a direct conduit from God to their congregation. Even so, preachers regularly emphasize those passages that support Christian dogma and avoid or obfuscate those that don't; they avoid pointing out the thousands of errors and changes in biblical text that were made during Christianity's first few centuries. They often give their parishioners the impression that the Bible's text is too mystical and symbolic for lay people to understand; on the contrary, if you're armed with a few basic clues, it is fairly straightforward reading. What Your Preacher Didn't Tell You provides some of those clues to enable anyone to read the Bible and understand what it really says.