“They really backed up their claims with all sorts of evidence, Dr. Foreman. I don’t know what to believe anymore. Is it true? Is all this stuff I was taught in church just a big hoax?”

An obituary tribute selection (Ѻ) of Murdock publications, on the difficult deconstruction of religion backwards into their original myths.

“As concerns my credentials and continuing education, I would like to consider my book Suns of God [2004] in particular a PhD thesis in the subjects of comparative religion and astrotheology. In this regard, I sincerely hope that these important subjects become increasingly popular and taught in colleges and universities, and that others may be able to obtain relevant and appropriate credentials therein.”

“An atheist by the name of Dorothy Murdock (who often calls herself Acharya S.) has claimed to be able to demonstrate that the pagan gods Horus, Dionysius, Mithra and even Buddha were said to have been born of a virgin on December 25th (which she mistakenly presumes to be the Biblical position on Jesus' birth), laid in a manger, visited by shepherds and angels, a prodigy at age 12, to have walked on water, been crucified and risen.”

— Howie Gardner (2014), The Middle East Crisis Can be Solved (pg. 259)

Murdock tombstone, shown with anthropomorphized sun, showing also that she "died" (ceased to exist) on Dec 25 the sun-rebirth day. [9]

“On Christmas Day 2015, she died. She was 55 years old, and died of cancer, leaving a 13-year old son. That she should die on 25 Dec [compare: July 4th and Thomas Jefferson and John Adams] was itself full of irony. Acharya S was certain, certain with a degree of certainty that would appall most of us, that Christmas Day was a fraud: that Jesus of Nazareth never lived, and that the day was in fact the birthday of a huge number of pagan deities – Attis, Mithras, Adonis, Osiris, Horus, and so on. So she wrote, and so she preached with a fierce fervor that contradiction only strengthened.”

“Older religio-mythology books, from longer ago, have the most interesting research, as compared to modern books, which are very sanitized and the products of fairly dull thinking. The older books, from before the WWII era, from the late 18th century until that era, in English, were extremely well-written, the English was very well thought out and taught. The education was obviously superior.”

— Dorothy Murdock (c.1998), interview (4:12-43) (Ѻ)

“Indeed, it is my contention, and that of others deemed ‘Jesus mythicists’, that the creators of the gospel tale picked various themes and motifs from the pre-Christian religions and myths, including and especially the Egyptian, and wove them together, using also the Jewish scriptures, to produce a unique version of the "mythos and ritual." In other words, the creators of the Christ myth did not simply take an already formed story, scratch out the name Osiris or Horus and replace it with Jesus. They chose their motifs carefully, out of the most popular religious symbols, myths and rituals, making sure they fit to some degree with the Jewish "messianic scriptures" as they are termed, and created a new story that hundreds of millions since have been led to believe really and truly took place in history. We are convinced, in other words, that ‘Jesus Christ’ is a fictional character created out of older myths, rituals and symbols.”

— Dorothy Murdock (c.2010), “The Companion Guide to Zeitgeist” (pg. 8) (Ѻ); cited by Mark Foreman (2013) as a “poorly reasoned” argument that does not “hold up” under close scrutiny [11]