FURTHER to Matthew A Clarke's letter (You Say, Monday, May 12), there's no credible historical evidence showing that a person named Jesus Christ lived during the years 1-33 AD and taught gospels during the latter years of his life.

Also, the existence of his four purported chroniclers - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - cannot be reliably vouched for.

There are reasons to think that Rabbi Saul of Tarsus (known to Christians as St Paul - the Billy Graham of his day) conceived Judaic Christianity as a powerful propaganda device which he applied successfully to the flourishing Roman Empire after General Titus levelled Jerusalem while quelling the Jewish rebellion there.

An important source for the Tarsus Rabbi and other writers appears to be a Jewish sect called the Essenes. This pacifist sect disappeared before the alleged life of Jesus Christ, although some of its scrolls still exist.

Other sources used to form parts of the fake Judaic-Christianity story were pilfered from many other peoples.

The Judaic-Christian handbook - the "Holy Bible" - must contain the wildest stories ever told.

There may be a case for people having a religion (a code for living), but it must be a good one and not one which includes such bad advice as "resist not evil", "take no thought for the morrow", "blessed are the meek", "turn the other cheek" "if any man come to me and hate not his father, mother, wife, children" ....and so on.

The world that we are in now is the only one having our form of life of which any of us knows so far, and this contains several very large man-made hoaxes - lies - perpetuated by vested interests.

These could be easily dismantled if truth were allowed to prevail.

E W CARR,

Malvern.