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Bill O'Reilly's New Book: Jesus Is All about Low Taxes

9/26/2013

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One of the themes I’ve discussed frequently is the way pseudo-historians and pop culture hucksters use the past to promote a modern agenda. We’ve seen it in Ancient Aliens’ promotion of religious revival, and in America Unearthed’s strange fixation on the politics of racial demographic change in America. That’s why I think it’s worth highlighting a similar theme in Bill O’Reilly’s latest work of historical pornography, Killing Jesus, which promiscuously uses and abuses facts in pursuit of a political agenda that just happens to coincide with O’Reilly’s own brand of conservative politics.

Earlier this week Aaron Adair and Joel L. Watts—who both know more than I ever will about early Christianity—delivered devastating critiques of the way O’Reilly and his coauthor, Martin Dugard, have diverged wildly from contemporary mainstream scholarship on a plethora of issues historical, scientific, and theological. They accept, for example, the untenable idea that the Star of Bethlehem was a comet from 5 BCE, but apparently misunderstand their own source. They routinely ignore or minimize mainstream interpretations of the Gospels—including going so far as to say that mainstream scholars increasingly support the historicity of the Gospels—and here is where Watts begins to outline the political agenda at work.

According to Watts, O’Reilly and Dugard have a preoccupation with emphasizing Roman tax policy by way of complaining about the unfair burden taxation places on the religious. “Galilean outrage against Rome has been building for decades. They have been levied with tax after tax after tax. Antipas is nothing if not ‘a lover of luxury,’ and he uses these taxes […] to finance his own lavish lifestyle”—just like a modern liberal Democrat! There are literally dozens upon dozens of references to taxation in the book (at least 37), almost as many as the 48 references to taxes in the entire Bible, a text nearly seven times the length. By comparison, the Bible has more than 190 references to the poor and poverty, while O’Reilly and Dugard have just 17, even counting when it’s used as an adjective for “bad.” There are “exorbitant taxes” and burdensome taxes, “exorbitant” interest rates on back taxes and punishments for unpaid taxes, “inevitable taxes” and “misappropriated” taxes used for government officials’ fun. One would easily be forgiven for thinking that Jesus’ ministry had nothing to do with the poor or the sick and everything to do with complaining about wasteful Roman government spending and protesting the imperial debt. Note, by the way, that those burdensome taxes modern historians calculate at between 1 and 3 percent of income.

The authors even take a moment to bash Caesar Augustus, the man who founded the empire that in time gave Christianity the power to become, by force, a global faith. According to O’Reilly and Watts, “Octavian has misappropriated vast public sums of money for his personal use, raised taxes, and decreed himself to be Divi Filius.”

In a single sentence, O’Reilly and Dugard reveal their ignorance of pretty much everything. They don’t seem to know how ancient governments worked—public money and private money were not distinct categories, and the head of government was the government; l’etat c’est moi, as another absolute monarch said. Corruption was the way Roman government operated; without it, the empire would not function. Augustus did not precisely “raise” taxes; among his acts was an end to tax-farming to avoid the endemic corruption and exorbitant taxation of which O’Reilly is such an opponent. However, Augustus ended the relatively progressive property tax system (only the rich had property) and replaced it with a fairer but more regressive income tax in which the poor paid rates similar to those of the wealthy (1-3%)—wait a minute; isn’t that what O’Reilly advocates? But Jesus hates Roman tax policy? Live by the Word, die by the word. Remember: Jesus hates the flat tax.

O’Reilly and Dugard  want us to read “Divi Filius” as Son of God, equivalent to Jesus’ title, as an example of Augustus’ hubris; but Augustus meant it as “son of a god,” specifically his adopted father Julius Caesar, who had been declared a god. “Divi filius” was a truncated form of the full honorific “divi Iuli filius,” son of the Divine Julius. It’s important to note the difference between the Latin word “divus,” a minor divine figure, and “deus,” a full-fledged immortal Olympain Deity like Jupiter and Juno, though the distinction was not always perfectly maintained. Christians, pointedly, called Jesus Dei filius, or Son of God. Pagans imagined a range of divine figures, from heroes to minor gods to low-level Olympians to the Big Twelve. Christians, of course, are completely different in recognizing a hierarchy of saints, various orders of angels, Mary, Jesus, and God. A Roman emperor as divus was not a whole order of magnitude different from the Catholic process of canonizing saints to wield special power in heaven and receive special honors on earth. Incidentally, Augustus being the “son” of a god did not make him prima facie divine, no more that Perseus, son of Jupiter, could ever be more than a human hero; the idea that the emperor was divine in life was an affectation that post-dated Augustus.

But what takes the cake is the way O’Reilly and Dugard impose modern American political ideology onto first century Palestine to argue that liberals are hell-bound sinners. The authors claim that John the Baptist told his audience that the Christ would “punish” the unbaptized “in the most horrible manner possible.” This is their interpretation of John’s speech to the Pharisees and the Sadducees in which he warns them that the one to follow him would separate the wheat from the chaff and burn the chaff (Matthew 3:7-12; Luke 3:17). The authors, Catholics both, take a Protestant position that this represents the threat of hellfire and damnation, while other traditions represent this as a cleansing to purify the souls of the wayward, relating it back to John’s claim that Jesus will baptize with the fire of the Holy Spirit.

But what is disturbing is that the authors call the Sadducees “liberal”—though apparently unaware that this is both untrue (they were Mosaic fundamentalists and supplied priests for the Second Temple) and not quite what they meant it to mean (they seem to mean “permissive”)—and therefore create, rhetorically, the syllogism that if (a) Sadducees are going to hell and (b) Sadducees are liberals, then (c) liberals are going to hell. I’m not sure either author is clever enough to have planned this, but it reveals one of the underlying themes of O’Reilly’s work, the promotion of a capital-C Conservative (i.e. political) agenda, even above the small-c conservative position on theology. Pointedly, Watts notes that the two authors omit the text of Luke 3:11 in describing John the Baptist’s preaching. That verse, of course, is socialist propaganda in which John calls on his followers to share their material goods and their food.

It just goes to show what I’ve said many times: Popular history and pseudo-history are about the present, not the past, and reveal agendas and anxieties applicable to today, not yesterday.

21 Comments
Matt Mc
9/26/2013 07:30:27 am

That is a shame. Like I mentioned before I worked on the KILLING LINCOLN doc with him and I was very impressed with his knowledge and wanting to present facts without speculation. I was very apprehensive working with him because of his on screen persona and politics but I found him a very intelligent and nice person.

I was hoping with this book he was going to take the same care as he did with Lincoln. Well you saved me some money, looks like I will just get this book from the library instead of buying it.

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Thane
9/26/2013 02:00:22 pm

Why not read it yourself and make your own judgements about it.

O'Reilly is a public figure with strong opinions and as such comes under attack. Given the polarized nature of current political discussions in our society today, I can't take any third party's interpretation as honest and bias free unless I know that they don't have an axe to grind poor their own agenda to promote.

The critics may be right but until I read it for myself, I can't judge. If O'Reilly's past works were worthwhile, I have no reason to believe this one would be less so.

Full disclosure, I haven't read the book yet or the reviews.

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Matt Mc
9/26/2013 02:23:56 pm

I will now it is on my library list. I just wont buy it

Aaron Adair link
9/26/2013 07:37:11 am

In several places you say "O'Reilly and Watts..." but I think you mean "O'Reilly and Dugard". I don't think Joel Watts wants anything to do with O'Reilly's historical beliefs.

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Jason Colavito link
9/26/2013 07:39:25 am

Well that was a dumb mistake. Thanks for catching that. I fixed it.

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B L
9/26/2013 07:39:58 am

I'm a little disappointed by this one, Jason. Why stress your perception of the politics in this book? Why not judge it on its historic merits (of which there may not be many) like you do with the works of Scott Wolter and his ilk? The political leanings of other pseudo-history proponents are not usually discussed here.

I also think you made a stretch by implying at the start of the fourth paragraph that Christians should applaud Ceasar Augusts who founded the empire that would eventually allow Christianity to spread across the planet. This would be akin to Jews holding Hitler in high esteem since the nation of Israel was a result of the second World War.

I like the blog, and I'll continue to follow. But, the round hole of current political criticism is not a good fit for your square pegged blog. You can do better, and you've proven it over and over.

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Jason Colavito link
9/26/2013 07:47:52 am

I have nothing to add on the historical merits of O'Reilly's book; Watts did a good job with that. I'm not sure, though, that I see a difference between complaining that O'Reilly is imposing conservative ideology on the Jesus story and complaining that Scott Wolter is imposing liberal feminist goddess-worship ideology on medieval history, or Ancient Aliens an ideology of neo-paganism. Recognizing that O'Reilly has imposed these beliefs does not mean that the ideology is wrong, only that it doesn't belong where he put it since it doesn't apply.

I did not imply Christians should applaud Augustus, but it is impossible to divorce the growth of Christianity from the Roman empire. Hitler wasn't present at the foundation of Judaism.

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Shane Sullivan
9/26/2013 12:43:42 pm

I hope this doesn't make me sound overly cynical, but I find this a lot less troubling than those H2 abortions you brought up. When people tune in to the History Channel and associated networks, they expect more than a modicum of truth and impartiality; nobody is looking for that when they open a Bill O'Reilly book. =P

Matt Mc
9/26/2013 02:32:11 pm

Shane, I disagree after O'Reilly's great books on Lincoln and his book on Kennedy. He has proved himself a very well researched Historian (he does have a BA in History). Like I said working with him was a pleasure and at no time during the two months I worked with him was he the harsh abrasive man we see on TV and in his political writings. In fact he was very much the opposite. He (like most TV personalities) has two persona's one public and one private.

He has proven successfully that he is a very complainant when it comes to history.

(I still cannot believe I would ever defend him in any way)

Shane Sullivan
9/26/2013 04:26:20 pm

Matt, maybe I *was* being too cynical; my point was simply that a man of Bill O'Reilly's reputation (as a highly opinionated, often ill-informed political commentator) has limited credibility, and is likely to be second-guessed. If this outing is of lower quality than his previous efforts, then this is disappointing, but not entirely unexpected.

(This is not to say that he shouldn't be held accountable for his shortcomings--but neither is it a direct indictment on his written work, since I've never read any of it)

james
9/27/2013 11:58:55 am

Comparing Augustus to Hitler is a non starter. That is not a legitimate comparison, and it is quite obvious that the empire Augustus built became the vehicle for the spread of Christianity.

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Scott Hamilton
9/26/2013 07:40:02 am

Just FYI, at a certain point in the entry you start mixing up Watts and Dugard.

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Jason Colavito link
9/26/2013 07:48:40 am

Thanks, I fixed it.

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The Other J.
9/26/2013 11:39:58 pm

So which came first, the ideology or the data set? I'm curious whether O'Reilly and Dugard set out to write a religious history text first and their ideology bubbled up, or if they decided to write an ideological screed and used religious history as their template. I think the same could be asked of the other alternative history outlets that get discussed on these pages.

Normally I'd assume the ideology came first, as that's something that inflects a subject's worldview without them even being aware that their worldview is somehow inflected. But the Sullivan-esque cynic in me questions whether proponents of such theories actually cultivated an ideology, or if they identified an already-existing ideology as a market to exploit.

Because these seem like pretty glaring errors in the history by O'Reilly and Dugard, and since O'Reilly has shown he is capable of doing better work, that suggests he identified an already-existing ideological market place and cynically crafted a text targeted at them. No need to really worry about fact-checking, then, because the target market most likely won't be looking for verification, and most likely wouldn't accept it if shown the fact-checks. At least not to any appreciable degree that would hurt the bottom line.

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Jason Colavito link
9/26/2013 11:45:08 pm

Honestly, my guess is that O'Reilly and Dugard weren't intentionally doing it. I think that it's just part of their world view to see tax policy as more important than poverty. Most of the book is a straightforward retelling of the Gospel story.

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Aaron Adair link
9/27/2013 03:00:14 am

There's a saying in Jesus studies that looking down the well of the historical Jesus you only end up seeing your own reflection. O'Reilly and Dugard in many ways are having the same problems teasing out the historical Jesus as every scholar has for the last 200-some years. But they're also doing it without the content knowledge of Bible scholars and without any notable historical method (not to say historical Jesus scholars have a working method).

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The Other J.
9/27/2013 06:54:47 am

Biblical studies as a Rorschach test. That makes a lot of sense.

Joel L. Watts link
9/27/2013 04:10:46 am

First, thanks for covering the review.

When I approached the book, I did so under the assumption it was going to be something of a historical take. It was not. Simply put, the authors took various portions of the Four Gospels and told the same story, but with more word. Their research is non-existent, and at one point, call Josephus 'a great historian.' They even get some really basic points wrong, such as saying the Philistines (and not the Assyrians) conquered the Northern Kingdom.

They show no level of understanding of current scholarly discussions, but instead take at face value what they believe the Gospels say... unless they need to remove a verse or two (such as their use of Luke 3, absent Luke 3.11).

Simply, the book is ideological, and not historical. Judging the reaction by scholars to Lincoln and Kennedy, I'd say this fits neatly into their work there as well.

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9/29/2013 06:31:15 am

The conversion of the Roman Empire may have been good for the Church, but not so much for Christianity. When government and religion become tools of each other, little good results from it. The best example is America where the founders made a conscious decision to form a republic based on a Judeo-Christian moral orientation, while at the same time make an equally conscious decision to not establish a state religion, not declaring America a Christian country. Unfortunately, we are fast approaching a point where America will have a state religion (right or left or other, we don't know yet), and then the usual mischief will ensue.

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NewGuyHere
10/30/2013 12:09:31 am

Thanks, Jason, for keeping this in the archive. It was tremendously insightful.

There is no doubt left from your 'review' that you personally dislike Bill O'Reilly, nor do you prefer his political preferences. You apparently view O'Reilly as 'hard right', while you are 'hard left'. Therefore, your agenda in writing this 'review' is glaringly obvious.

Thus is it relatively easy to surmise that your agenda is simply to do what others do as well, hope to get people (and from what I see on your website, relatively few people!) to buy into your personal agenda in order to hawk your wares.

So your agenda, peddling your wares, is no different than that of Bill O'Reillys. And if we 'must' be suspect of O'Reilly's writings and his 'agenda' in doing so, we must be equally as suspicious of your own, no?

From wading through your website, it's been pretty easy to surmise your politics, your religious views, and again, your agenda.

You peddle yourself as one who 'reveals the truth', by attempting, often weakly, to 'de-bunk' that which you've claimed to review. Yet, you espouse the same rhetoric as those you chastise, by constantly harping "prove me wrong", LOL. That's just as loony as those you condemn, but worse as it's entirely hypocritical.

For those items which you claim you 'can't decipher because nothing's there', that is assuredly NOT the 'mark of good research', as you repeatedly claim. What you consistent fail to realize is that, just because YOU can't decipher it, does NOT mean it's 'indecipherable'. It could mean it's simply not meant, was written, for 'you' to decipher, but it was meant for those who know how to decipher it. Such is the nature of cryptology, symbology, steganography, and all other forms of 'coding'.

I'm glad I stumbled across your little piece of the world here. I also find it despicable that you hawk yourself as some sort of 'authority' on all manner and matters of 'mystery'. Virtually every reference I've found (off your site) appears to be nothing other than a re-print of your own writings expounding your own 'virtues', taken right from this site. Again, most revealing, and truly a damnation of your claimed 'expertise'.

I ended up here looking for actual, factual, empirical data. Sadly, what was discovered was simply another internet huckster hoping for 'fame and glory' hawking his own brand of psycho-babble.

But, that's known now. And we'll be sure to take your 'insights' with a huge block of salt and, after perusal, toss them in the 'huckster bin' with all the other quacks. You know, the SAME 'quacks' you 'claim' to 'expose'.

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Jason Colavito link
10/30/2013 12:24:16 am

I addressed your concern in the very next day's blog post, in which I complained about Howard Zinn's abuse of history to support his liberal goals: http://www.jasoncolavito.com/1/post/2013/09/fair-and-balanced-howard-zinn-and-imposing-liberal-ideology-on-history.html

I don't suppose that will assuage you since you apparently suffer from that particular brand of presumption that exists beyond fact, where any challenge to your assumptions about the world is a prima facie attack on your identity and being.

How, may I ask, am I less an authority on ancient history than Bill O'Reilly, who arrogantly proclaimed that not only had God told him to write the book but that his would be more accurate than the Bible?

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