Why I Don't Buy the Resurrection Story: The Main Argument

http://infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/resurrection/lecture.html

hagiography," a sacred account of a holy person regarded as representing a moral and divine ideal. Such a genre had as its principal aim the glorification of the religion itself and of the example set by the perfect holy person represented as its central focus. Such literature was also a tool of propaganda, used to promote certain moral or religious views, and to oppose different points of view

---Steve