With reference to Nicholas E. Meyer’s Freethinker review of Tom Holland’s book Dominion, a very popular work of history which is beloved by the New Theists and various other nostalgists for Christianity. Read the review here. Nicholas’s caption for this illustration, which accompanied the article, reads:
They got there first with the message—in the extraordinary conjunction of founders of systems of belief around the sixth century BCE. Left to right: Lao Tse of China, Zarathushtra of Persia, Mahavira of India, Confucius of China, and Buddha of India. They are looking askance because not everyone in their time was a seeker of correct paths—they are watching the first known counterfeiter, Polycrates of Samos, foist a wooden drachma on yet another contemporary, rich Croesus of Lydia, and keeping the Real McCoin for himself.
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