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Letter: Meteors, migraine and conversion

Published 20 May 2015

From John Elton

Christianity’s rise was hardly meteoric: it was insignificant until well after the emperor Constantine’s conversion in AD 313. The descriptions of Paul’s conversion in Acts were written in about AD 100, long after the event, and show every sign of being imaginative fiction rather than serious history writing.

Maybe Paul just hallucinated or, wily cult leader that he was, made the whole thing up.
Lidingö, Sweden

Issue no. 3022 published 23 May 2015

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