`  :::::I know perefectly well what the passage says. That's why I linked to it. Nowhere does this article say that Philo ``founded`` the Christian religion. Engels says that, according to Bauer, Philo was the ``father`` of it. The argument is that Philo created a link between the Greek concept of logos and Jewish tradition, which was the basis for the ideas that became Christianity. The whole point is that in this version Chrisianity starts essentially as a philosophical, ethical and political ideal that later gets a mythic story about a founder woven into it. I don't believe this, of course, but that's what Bauer argues. He's developing the Hegelian model initiated by Feuerbach and mixing it with Aryanist myth-theory of the time. What I find difficult to understand is that you say you want more information abot Bauer, but all you have done is delete a perfectly accurate quotation. I readded it and added more explanation.   `