Written for the National Secular Society’s Freethinker’s Text-Book in her secularist years, before she turned to Theosophy, Besant’s book argues that the gospels are unreliable evidence, that Christian doctrines and symbols descend from pagan myths, that its morality is fallible, and that its history is one of persecution.
A vigorous Victorian freethought polemic, a striking contrast to her later Esoteric Christianity. Download the free EPUB.