John E. Remsburg On The Absurdity Of Christianity

“An unlettered and credulous enthusiast, named Jones, imagines that he has had a revelation, and proceeds to found a new religious sect. He gathers about him a band of "disciples” as ignorant and credulous as himself. He soon gets into trouble and is killed. But the Jonesists increase-increase in numbers and in meanness--until at length, they become sufficiently notorious to receive a paragraph from an annalist who, after holding them up to ridicule and scorn, accounts for their origin by stating that they take their name from one Jones who, during the administration of President Roosevelt, was hanged as a criminal. The world contains two billions of inhabitants-mostly fools, as Carlyle would say--and as the religion of this sect is a little more foolish than that of any other sect, it continues to spread until at the end of two thousand years it covers the globe. Then think of the adherents of this religion citing the uncomplimentary allusion of this annalist to prove that Jones was a god!”

The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence By John E. Remsburg (1909) p. 49

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