I read “Killing Jesus” and thought it OK for the most part. I wouldn’t expect the producers of O’Reilly’s book to have been given much leeway in creative interpretation, so my guess is that the movie, which I haven’t seen, fleshes out O’Reilly’s “historic Jesus” a bit more.
The normal pablum from unknowing writers was in it: age of oral transmission always gets my goat. Here we have written documents preserved around the world, scribes, and amanuenses mentioned throughout the bible itself, and somehow they come up with the oral transmission garbage. Even when Luke provides direct evidence against it at the beginning of his gospel.
I DVRd the movie, so I’ll watch it when I get time.
Of those politicians in you list my order of priority goes:
Cruz
Walker
Rubio
I just don’t consider Carson to be prime time ready. Regardless of his recently liberal positions, Bush repels the anti-dynastic in me (as does Hillary, Kennedy.)
I still like Perry. I also like Martinez over Fiorina when it comes to a female. Huckabee isn’t really on my list. Trump is a sideshow. Christie is dead in the water.
I very much like Perry and Martinez. You may be right that Carson isn't ready for prime time. (Though I think he'd make a great Surgeon General, or Secretary of HHS in a Republican Administration, if he were interested in serving.)
Marron has pointed out that Carson seems to be a bit squishy on the Second Amendment. I can see why that may be: He had two cousins that he was close to when he a was a boy, then living in Boston. Both turned out to be gang-bangers; and both died of gunshot wounds.
I so agree that "Trump is a sideshow. Christie is dead in the water."
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, dear brother in Christ!