In the "Table Talk", Hitler praised Julian the Apostate's "Three Books Against the Galilaeans", an anti-Christian tract from 362. In the entry dated 21 October 1941, Hitler stated: When one thinks of the opinions held concerning Christianity by our best minds a hundred, two hundred years ago, one is ashamed to realise how little we have since evolved. I didn't know that Julian the Apostate had passed judgment with such clear-sightedness on Christianity and Christians [...] the Galilean, who later was called the Christ, intended something quite different. He must be regarded as a popular leader who took up His position against Jewry [...] and it's certain that Jesus was not a Jew. The Jews, by the way, regarded Him as the son of a whore—of a whore and a Roman soldier. The decisive falsification of Jesus's doctrine was the work of St. Paul [...] Paul of Tarsus (his name was Saul, before the road to Damascus) was one of those who persecuted Jesus most savagely.