Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian was an American rationalist and secularist of Armenian descent. Born in Mashger in the Ottoman Empire, he attended Robert College in Constantinople, and was ordained as minister in Marsovan in 1878. During his life Mangasarian wrote a number of books. His most popular, including The Truth About Jesus - Is He a Myth? (1909) and The Bible Unveiled (1911), deal with the evidence against the existence of an historical Jesus.