Religion
(Nothing but a lie)
Everything about Christianity is a lie. It was created, and designed to control, the weak, ignorant masses. Still today the “pious,” who are mere puppets for the uber wealthy, continue to weaken public education (keeping ‘em ignorant keeps ‘em under control).
Oh, if you’re a devout believer in the buy bull (without conveniently ignoring the absurd bits), then surely you must accept that men lived inside fish, women turned into pillars of salt, and that there’s a jolly old man chilling in the sky who’s all about performing magic tricks like walking on water. And let’s not forget the talking animals, global floods and heavenly messengers.
Because, you know, nothing says credibility like rivers turning to blood, swarms of locusts engulfing the entire planet, and bushes that chat away with unsuspecting wanderers. And let’s not overlook the majestic giants, mythical creatures and the timeless classic of feeding 5,000 folks with a couple loaves of bread and a few fish. Just your average day in the mystical land of religious storytelling, right?
One cannot merely select the “passages” that appeal. It’s an all or nothing situation! Consider the lunacy of gawd as depicted to the left.
The philosophers of the ancient world were the spiritual masters of the Inner Mysteries. They were mystics and miracle-workers comparable to Hindu gurus. At the heart of the Mysteries were myths concerning a dying and resurrecting godman, who was known by many different names. In Egypt he was Osiris, in Greece Dionysus, in Asia Minor Attis, in Syria Adonis, in Italy Bacchus, in Persia Mithras. Fundamentally, all these gawdmen are the same mythical being. Here’s a short list of the myths that were plagiarized by christians from the Mysteries:
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Osiris-Dionysus is gawd made of human flesh, the savior and “son of gawd”
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His father is gawd and his mother is a mortal virgin
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He is born in a cave or humble cowshed on December 25 before three shepherds
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He offers his followers the chance to be born again through the rights of baptism
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He miraculously turns water into wine at a marriage ceremony
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He rides triumphantly into town on a donkey while people wave palm leaves to honor him.
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He dies at Eastertime as a sacrifice for the sins of the world
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After his death he descents to hell, then on the third day he rises from the dead and ascends to heaven in glory
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His followers await his return as the judge during the Last Days
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His death and resurrection are celebrated by a ritual meal of bread and wine, which symbolize his body and blood
Everything we’re told about the christian gawd was decided at the council of Nicea. The fact that men, 300 plus years after gee-zus supposedly died, convened to tweak critical elements of christ-insanity should be all the proof one needs to conclude that it’s all bullshit.
This meeting was called to resolve the controversy over whether gee-zus was one and the same as gawd. Emperor Constantine I presided over the opening session and hoped a general council of the church would resolve this critical matter.
Wait, what? This needed to be discussed 300 years after gee-zus supposedly arrived on earth due to the immaculate conception (which itself is bullshit)?
But wait there are more modifications to be made. The King James version of the new testicle (er, testament) was completed in the year 1611 by eight members of the Church of England. There were (and still are) no original texts to translate. The oldest manuscripts in existence were written hundreds of years after the last apostle died. There are over 8,000 of these old manuscripts, with no two alike.
Regardless, the King James translators used none of these manuscripts. Instead, they edited previous translations to create a version their secular king and Parliament would approve. So, 21st century Christians believe the “word of gawd” is a book edited in the 17th century from 16th century translations of 8,000 contradictory copies of 4th century scrolls that claim to be copies of lost letters written in the 1st century.
We know very little about gee-zus. The first full length account of his life was St. Mark’s Gospel, which was not written until about 90 AD (about 40 years after he allegedly died). Mark’s Gospel presents gee-zus as a perfectly normal man with a family that included siblings. No angels announced his birth or sang over his crib. Very few of gee-zus’ actual words seem to have been recorded in the Gospels, and much of their material has been affected by later developments in the churches that were founded by St. Paul after his death.
After his death his followers decided that gee-zus had been divine. This did not happen immediately as we see the doctrine that gee-zus had been gawd in human form was not finalized until the fourth century. Gee-zus himself certainly never claimed to be gawd! It should be noted that gee-zus never claimed that his divine “powers” were confined to him alone. Again and again gee-zus promised his disciples that if they had “faith” they would enjoy such powers too. By “faith” gee-zus did not mean adopting the correct theology but cultivating an inner attitude of surrender and openness to gawd.
As to christ-insanity, if gawd created everything in the universe and if gee-zus was gawd’s son (or gawd himself, so confusing) , why did gee-zus not conduct sermons on gravity, mathematics, medicine, aerodynamics, electricity, thermodynamics and countless other matters that man discovered centuries later? Guess he was too busy explaining the complexities of fishing and baking bread.
