Forget
the fairy story. Many currents fed the Jesus myth, like
streams and tributaries joining to form a major river. As Christianity
cut its way through the centuries it became a very murky and
dangerous torrent, sweeping away civilizations and all who
stood in its way.
He who has ears
Let him hear!
No man behind the myth!
5-minute enlightenment
for those in a hurry
Fathered
by a God,
worker of miraculous cures,
raised the dead – Asclepius.
Ubiquitous sun-god
'You say
we worship the sun; so do you.'
– 'Ad nationes', Church Father
Tertullian (160-220 AD).
Christianity – the
ultimate product of religious syncretism in the ancient world.
"Jesus
will have to take his place with the host of other demigods
whose fancied lives and deeds make up the mythology of the
world."
Serapis – Greco-Egyptian version of Zeus that was supplanted by Jesus
Christianity
was the ultimate product of religious
syncretism in the
ancient world. Its
emergence owed nothing to a holy carpenter. From the age of the
Ptolemies, Alexandria was
the cooking pot of religious fusion and the land of Egypt provided many of the themes
and much of the detail for what later emerged as "Christianity".
Jesus ben Phiabi, Jesus ben Sec, Jesus ben Damneus,
Jesus ben Gamaliel...
Do
you really think it all began with a sanctimonious
Jewish wonder-worker, strolling about 1st century Palestine?
Prepare to be enlightened. There were many Jesuses but
the fable was a cultural construct (and following
a star would lead you in circles!)
A pregnant virgin, a new star in the sky, birth announcements that somehow reach all the way to wise men from the east, a flight to Egypt and a massacre of babies? If it all sounds too outrageous to be true that's because it is.
The genealogies of Jesus are pious fiction. Matthew was the first to introduce ancestry into the Jesus story and the writer had a Jewish, not a universal, audience in mind. Matthew tied his Jesus to the Hebrew patriarchs and began his yarn with the mythical Abraham.
Luke pushed his alternative Jesus genealogy all the way back to the first man Adam, in keeping with his idea of a saviour for all mankind.
The evidence
for a 1st century town of Nazareth does not exist! – It
is an imaginary city for an imaginary godman. Nazareth did
not exist in the 1st century AD – the area
was a burial ground of rock-cut tombs.
Love? Jesus threatened
retribution to his enemies.
If you think
the godman was "perfect" and only
the Church was a disaster, better check this out. With
multiple authors behind the original gospel story it
is no surprise that the figure of "Jesus" is
a mess of contradictions.
The twelve
disciples are as fictitious as their master,
invented to legitimise the claims of the early churches. Around
the non-existent godman inventive minds fabricated the
phantom lives and heroic deaths of a gang of Jesus groupies.
The original Mary was not a virgin. That idea
was taken from pagan goddesses.Vesta,
Diana, Artemis, Isis – the pagan world knew all
about virgins getting pregnant by randy gods. In the gospels, the shadowy figure of
Mary,
destined to become the most pre-eminent of all the saints and Queen
of Heaven, at best, is a two-dimensional nonentity. But a few centuries of creative
story telling fused all the paraphernalia of pagan myths into the Christian one and fashioned a handmaiden for the Church of
Rome.
Scholars have
been revealing the truth about Christian origins for more
than 200 years. With
vast interests to protect Christian apologists repeatedly declare
the "Jesus myth is dead" but in the 21st century the unmasking of biblical fraud has gone further than ever before.
Priestcraft
is a highly profitable business and finances an
industry of deceit to keep the show on the
road. The supposed
'evidence' of Jesus's existence fills many volumes. The desire for quick-fix salvation and something easy
on the brain cells allows the $ multi-billion
industry of religion to exploit a general ignorance of science and
history. Suspect logic, semantic trickery, and a showman's pizzazz deceives the unsophisticated and packs in the fans of Jesus.
Tropaeum
– ceremonial stake on which the Romans displayed
captured armour.
Nailing
that nonsense about ancient evidence. "Jesus
better documented than any other ancient figure" ? Don't believe a word of
it. Unlike the mythical Jesus,
a real historical
figure like Julius Caesar has a mass
of mutually supporting evidence.
Christianity, like all religious movements, was born from myth-making and many currents fed the myth, including astrological speculation, pagan salvation cults, Hellenistic hero worship, and the imperial cult itself, manufactured at precisely the "time of Jesus", with its own sacrificed saviour (Divus Iulius), its own gospel of a son of god (Res Gestae Divi Augusti), its own priests and temples, established in the very same urban centres which later witnessed the emergence of early Christianity.
The truth is that Christianity grew from neither a god nor a man but out of what had gone before; a human Jesus was no more necessary than was a human Horus, Dionysos, Mithras, or Attis. Can we explain the emergence of Christianity without its humanoid superstar? Of course we can.
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