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John Mackinnon Robertson (
14 November 1856 -
5 January 1933) was a prolific journalist, advocate of
rationalism and
secularism, and
Liberal Member of Parliament in the
United Kingdom for
Tyneside from
1906 to
1918.
Robertson was born on the
Isle of Arran and left school at the age of thirteen to become a clerk and then a journalist. In 1878 he became a follower of secularist leader
Charles Bradlaugh and became active in the
secularist cause in
Edinburgh, before moving to
London to become assistant editor of Bradlaugh's paper
National Reformer, subsequently taking over as editor on Bradlaugh's death in
1891. The
National Reformer finally closed in 1893. Robertson was also an appointed lecturer for the
freethinking South Place Ethical Society from
1899 until the 1920s.
Robertson's political radicalism developed in the 1880s and 1890s, and he first stood for
Parliament in
1895, failing to win Bradlaugh's old seat in
Northampton as an independent radical liberal.
Robertson was an advocate of the
Jesus-Myth theory, and in several books he argued strongly against the
historicity of Jesus. According to Robertson, the character of Jesus in the New Testament developed from a Jewish cult of
Joshua, whom he identifies as a
solar deity.
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare wrote a book
The Historical Christ directed specifically against Robertson and two other Jesus-myth advocates.
Selected works
Sources
J. M. Robertson (1889). Miscellanies
. Essays. From Internet Archive.
Dekkers, Odin: J. M. Robertson. Ashgate, 1998.
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