Curious why you seem so upset about what you read in that book, Tunesmith--Though not much discussed in the mass media, the things you mention are not new ideas to those who have studied history, religion, and literature, and their factuality or lack of factuality really has little to do with the philosophical underpinnings of Christianity--

You never answered the questions about your age, but whatever it is, you seem fairly naive, since you have obviously accepted the truth in what these particular writers have presented, without question--At any rate, most of the people here(even the mainstream Christians) have been around long enough to have much better reasons to question the institution of Christianity than the authors of your book have layed out--