Have YOU been hoodwinked by the shrewd Church spin doctors or are you still keeping your mind free?
Fundamentalist apologetics (of any ilk) become somewhat
infuriated when their holy books are challenged in any way and quickly react
with comments similar to:
Such unguarded and in fact quite preposterous claims, based on blind conviction alone, occurred following my recent criticism concerning Fundamentalist infiltration into Ufology.
https://www.ufodigest.com/article/ufology-the-infiltration-by-fundamentalists/
Anyone can claim that any book is historically accurate, if enough long-term ‘spin’ is given to it. Anyone can claim that ‘all’ archaeological finds are evidence of a relationship between such a find and the book’s historical legitimacy.
Of course this is all basically poppycock and founded on one thing – blind faith handed down via religious propaganda through the ages.
THE BIBLE: IS IT FACT OR FICTION?
It would appear that in the noble quest of truth we need to examine this issue a little more closely.
The Bible was NOT produced via a series of saintly individuals in white gowns, within ancient places of pious worship, who were divinely touched.
It was NOT created by a selective succession of unquestionably noble individuals who were each in turn listening to a divine voice whilst slaving over a hot altar candle. Such hallowed images are of course instilled in many via shrew religious propaganda methodology but they are entirely inaccurate.
The Bible was constructed by countless religious
activists who were either at the top of this fraudulent assembly line or were
simple minions in its ultimate formation. Each new translator gave their own
specially biased slant to the earlier literature; each century saw new
additions based upon the personal or political whims of the latest re-writers.
Editing and basic construction of the Bible came
from select ‘club members’ of the early Christian Church. Doctrinal authority
within the Church possessed the raw fundamental text matter and decided ‘exactly’
what would appear in the Bible.
There occurred ample opportunity, and
motivation, to surreptitiously modify or create new writings that might
reinforce the position of the Church and namely the most ‘influential’ members
of the Church themselves.
Incidentally, history clearly testifies to the rank
corruption within the early Church! More recently, we have seen the despicable
corruption exhibited via international clergy abuse cases on a massive scale against children and related cover ups,
which have gravely affected numerous denominations.
Subsequent to the original languages being
translated into the Latin tongue, it was only a matter of time before the
original language could be done away with. This clever Church ruse gave further
power and exclusivity to an already corrupt doctrinal system, which was
controlled by an aggressive and uncompromising theocratical machine
like the world has never seen.
Church authority had to be preserved over the
populace AT ALL COSTS, thus the common individual in the street remained no
wiser due to enforced theocratic ignorance. The dictatorially fostered fraud
within the Bible continued without challenge, as it largely does to this
day.
Numerous outrageous frauds were perpetrated on the
trusting and largely uninformed populace. Speaking ill of Church authority was highly dangerous and the ramifications severe, hence the populace knew its place and
largely kept silent.
Christian historians concede to the deceitfulness
of the early Church and they confess that the martyrs, saints, traditions and
customs of the Christian Church were transparently stolen from ancient Pagan sources. In fact
the whole Christian calendar is blatantly moulded on the earlier heathen
agricultural year. Moreover, many Christian and secular historians freely admit
that events in the New Testament were taken from much earlier Pagan mythology.
Yes, the death and subsequent resurrection design
for a god occurred in numerous pre-Christian tales. It was an easy matter for
the Church to incorporate such concepts in the name of mass conversion.
The 'Real' meaning of this divine concept is the
demise and rebirth of Mother Nature's natural cycle each new coming season.
The Church simply substituted this wholesome Pagan
wisdom, by swapping a Sun god for a ‘Son of God’! This was a clever
and effective missionary ploy to manipulate the native people away from
their ancient, heathen birthright.
DISHONESTY BEHIND THE BIBLE
There are claimed to be some two hundred gospels,
epistles and other books relating to the alleged worldly existence of Jesus. Out of
these, only twenty seven are acknowledged by Church authority. The
remainder have been declared by the Church to be fraudulent documents and
heretical writings. This is largely because these documents did not fit into the ecclesiastically - accepted worldview.
Hundreds of known early Church forgeries
exist. The early Church fathers found it rather too easy to lie and deceive
when the situation suited their theocratic (and of course political)
intentions.
Dishonesty was apparently quite acceptable to them
on numerous occasions.
The 4th century Church Father and Bishop of
Caesarea, Gregory of Nazanzius wrote to St. Jerome:
"A
little jargon is all that is necessary to impose on the people. The less they
comprehend, the more they admire."
Possibly the greatest figure in Christian antiquity
Augustine of Hippo, freely wrote: "It is lawful, then, to him that
discusses disputes and preaches of things eternal, or to him that narrates of
things temporal pertaining to religion or piety, to conceal at fitting times
whatever seems fit to be concealed."
Clearly Augustine was no stranger to various
aspects of biblical dishonesty/censorship and aware of the outrageous fraud within early
versions of the Bible.
The 4th century Bishop and ecclesiastical
historian, Eusebius, openly bragged that he deceitfully concealed all that
would be a disgrace to early Christianity. Too many Church authorities to
mention here have followed his early example over the centuries, as they still
do today. Eusebius apparently even related, as truth, a
preposterous account of directing a LETTER TO JESUS CHRIST and then RECEIVING A
RESPONSE. Source: Ecclesiastical History Vo 1.
If that’s not enough to merit serious questioning (or just blatant mockery) of his word, then try
this one for size. Eusebius claimed: "On some occasions the bodies of martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs." Source: Edward Gibbon. History of Christianity.
Unfortunately, a plethora of examples of early
Christian ‘wishful- thinking’ and unadulterated dishonesty proliferate. This
simply adds further proof to the dubious authenticity behind this particular
belief system.
Add to this the fact that such one-sided ecclesiastical
authorities edited and reformed vast swaths of the Bible and you get a clearer
picture of the subterfuge residing under the surface of Christian doctrinal
belief, which is always asserted as unchallengeable gospel accuracy by supercilious
fundamentalists.
The persistent Christian belief of a physical
resurrection of Jesus after his supposed death is (like all other aspects of
this ancient fabrication of truth) a development of blind faith and powerful
sectarian propaganda, with no foundation in historical fact.
THE GOSPELS
The gospels were unheard of by the alleged figures Peter, Paul, and the early Church Fathers; they
were in fact forgeries created later on by the ecclesiastical propaganda machine. The Bible did not take on anything like its
present day configuration until the fourth century.
The Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, and
Protestant canons were not adopted until contemporary times. The Bible was
acknowledged as a compilation of independent writings. The Council of Trent
(1563) determined the Roman Catholic; Protestants condemn the Catholic Bible as
a ‘Popish pretence,’ (i.e. a fake.) The Greek Catholics at the Council of
Jerusalem in 1672 finally accepted the Book of Revelation. Their Bible contains
a number of books not in the Roman canon. The Westminster Assembly in 1647
approved the list of sixty-six books composing the ‘authorised Version’. The
most widely used contemporary Bible is consequently less than 300 years old.
We are
however ‘expected’ by grinning Christian apologetics to accept their word that
this historically rehashed text, they call the Bible, is the bona fide Word of
God.
Thousands
upon thousands of church activists over many centuries will have all had their
‘go’ at adding bits here and there to this bizarre fantasy transcript. Errors
in translation, rationalisation, etc will indubitably be countless.
In
today’s high-tech age one cannot even get a simple complaint say, about miss-sold
payment protection insurance, effectively looked at by a high street bank or an
authority (such as the UK’s gravely ineffective Financial Ombudsman Service)
without months of secretarial mistakes, delays and denials. One cannot even
trust what is written by the contemporary local media either, as it is usually
proven to the nothing less than ‘sensationalistic spin’ inserted primarily to
sell newspapers.
Nevertheless
the ecstatic Christian apologist ‘still’ expects us to gulp down centuries of
influenced quill-and –ink scribbled, ecclesiastical half-truths as the indisputable
Word of God.
Amazing
yes, but so true and millions have swallowed the missionary bait hook, line and
sinker!
The entire Christian faith system is based on the blind conviction that the Bible is the greatly acclaimed so-called ‘WORD OF GOD’, therefore if this holy book cannot be shown to be divinely-inspired, then the Christian faith could be said to be counterfeit and no more than a travesty based on religious propaganda and ancient rewrites of earlier Pagan myths.
The entire Christian faith system is based on the blind conviction that the Bible is the greatly acclaimed so-called ‘WORD OF GOD’, therefore if this holy book cannot be shown to be divinely-inspired, then the Christian faith could be said to be counterfeit and no more than a travesty based on religious propaganda and ancient rewrites of earlier Pagan myths.
If the Bible cannot be revealed to be God-inspired, then Christianity
can be said to be the same as any other religion that has been produced and
practiced by mankind throughout the ages.
The ‘man-made’ Bible narrative of the alleged Jesus figure is an inconsistent and perplexing account.
The ‘man-made’ Bible narrative of the alleged Jesus figure is an inconsistent and perplexing account.
The Bible shows that this historically-controversial personality (who many distinguished scholars now claim
never actually existed in history) spoke and taught many bizarre and irrational
things, and often believed he was having a personal discussion with evil
spirits.
Furthermore some comments Jesus
was ‘claimed’ to have made were apparently stated by him WHEN HE WAS ALONE. One needs to ‘seriously’
think for a moment about this peculiar claim.
How can such
statements be reported in the Bible as JESUS’ OWN WORDS when NO ONE ELSE WAS AROUND TO HEAR WHAT HE SAID?
Are we perhaps to believe
that the gospel writers had access to ancient mobile phones, electronic bugging
devices or are we to accept that these obscure writers just expressed such
claims via some sort of a ‘nod and a wink’ on the dream level from their deity?
The mind boggles!
Clearly such claims are both inconsistent
and unfounded in the extreme. They merely give us further hard evidence
concerning the utter deceit behind such wild biblical claims. Nonetheless, rapturous
evangelists sporting expensive suits expect us to take ‘their’ word for such
absurdity. What utter nonsense!
I
have noted several sites, including the following, trying so hard to explain
this embarrassing issue away - without success.
Again, we are expected
to see such flimflam and double-talk as some type of ‘historical fact’ when it
is clearly nothing of the sort.
Via seriously reading the whole Bible and you
will discover disconcerting issues (certainly unsuitable for young children with vulnerable
minds) of : SHEER
IGNORANCE, RAPE, SLAUGHTER, SEXUAL PERVERSION, FILTHY LANGUAGE, SERIAL
WEIRDNESS, COLLECTIVE LUNACY, SENSELESS REGULATIONS, CANNIBALISM AND HUMAN/ANIMAL
SACRIFICE.
It astounds the mind's eye how anyone in a
right frame of mind could read the Bible and honestly ‘believe’ that it was written by a prudent, just, and compassionate deity. Personally I find such claims
to be an INSULT to all divinity!
Christian activists have found biblical
scriptures telling them to burn people at the stake, to authenticate slavery, to single out and ‘stone’ others due to their sexuality, to subjugate and maltreat others that fail to share the Christian
faith, to treat women as second class citizens, and to kill and perpetrate wholesale warfare (onward
Christian soldiers) in the name of
their ‘Loving’ god.
Regrettably, there are some sanctimonious
zealots, even in the present day, that would have us ‘return’ to the worrying teachings and hazardous laws established in
the Bible by the thought controllers – mind manipulators that demand not a FREE DEMOCRACY but a THEOCRACY
RUN BY BIGOTED PRIESTS.
I for one will have no truck with such transparent Dark
Age propaganda and categorically dangerous fundamentalist nonsense!
DEDUCTIONS
1. The
Bible is a fraudulent serious of greatly adulterated documents created by
religious fanatics wanting to foster a certain, coloured monotheistic worldview
on the rest of society. Apologetics still seek to enforce this
hoax-based cosmology on us today.
2. The
gospels are a serious of contradictory narrative writings created by unknown
authors, after the assumed death of the Jesus Christ figure, with a purpose to
reunify the Jewish religious system for their own sectarian ends.
3. All
claimed evidence for an historical
Jesus figure, including his assumed birth, life, death and resurrection is
based on third-hand hearsay and is a result of 1st century myth making.
4, The
Bible, gospels and the whole Jesus Myth are blatant early Christian
adoptions of much earlier Pagan legends, which can be traced back to ancient
civilizations such as Mesopotamia, Samaria etc.
5. All
Christian society is provably based on this olden theocratical lie and
fraudulent claims with no foundation in authentic fact.
6. Polytheism
and Monotheism are and always will be incompatible due to
unchangeable Church doctrine, which demands evangelical mission to ‘all’
other faiths.
7.
Christianity is ‘NOT’ the native faith of any land.
8. The
virgin birth, miracles, crucifixion and alleged resurrection of the assumed
Jesus figure were all divine concepts taken by the earliest Christ Cult activists from much older
pagan folklore, to support their hidden theocratic agenda.
BIBLICAL ORIGINS
Sources
other than the Christian gospels are frequently given as indisputable evidence
of a historical Jesus figure. However, these allegations are also fraught with uncertainty.
Josephus
is one of the apologetics most beloved examples to substantiate their claims.
Josephus Flavius was
in fact a Jewish historian who lived as the earliest non-Christian who
mentioned a Jesus.
A lot of scholars deem that
Josephus' short accounts of Jesus (in Antiquities) came from interpolations perpetrated by a later Church father. This
was most probably Eusebius; yes that bizarre old zealot who thought he could
find living people is the stomachs of beasts.
Also Josephus' birth in 37
C.E., which was well after the supposed crucifixion of Jesus, puts him out the
time frame regarding any appropriate witness account. Furthermore, he wrote Antiquities in
93 C.E., after the first gospels were written! Consequently, even if his accounts
about Jesus came from his hand, his information could only serve as speculative
guess work, yes – hearsay! Clearly the altar wine was flowing a little ‘too’
freely when these irrational theories were hatched up.
Other
claims also for an historical Jesus come from sources outside of Christian
writings. These accounts come from authors who also lived after the alleged life of Jesus. Because
they did not exist during the time of the imaginary Jesus, none of their
accounts serve as reliable eyewitness verification.
In
any contemporary court of law such alleged ‘evidence’ would naturally be thrown
out of court!
The source of Christian
fundamentalist faith is then clearly nothing more than a very clever, ancient THEOCRATIC FRAUD used once, as it is today, by self-righteous religious missionaries, zealots, politicians, teachers, academics and in fact anyone with a sectarian axe to grind
to control the minds and hearts of the population!
This monotheistic and power-based
fraud has twisted once wholesome native heathen polytheistic traditions that
intimately linked mankind with the cycles of the earth, moon, sun and stars into
something that they never were!
The beautiful and edifying ancient pagan myths of
our ancestors were shrewd spiritual analogies for these essential seasonal
events and never meant to be corrupted into man-made fantasies that provided even
greater authority to certain, elitist priesthoods in positions of power.
The root of Christian fundamentalist faith holds no
foundation in historical evidence and amounts to nothing more than theocratical
wishful-thinking and anciently passed-on hearsay!
Apologists
in seeking to defend what is indefensible merely support the fact that their
theories are counterfeit and based on one thing alone – blind faith! They initially
deceive themselves, then others along the way!
Effective
challenges to their doctrine will of course always be met with what has now
come to be seen as rather tiresome cries of: ‘BEWARE SATAN’ and ‘YOU WHO HAVE BEEN DECEIVED’.
Logic
always gets thrown out of the window when the apologetic meets his/her match.
Dissent or criticism toward their faith will eventually bring in the big church
rollers to quell the latest threat to their spiritual monopoly over the credulous
masses.
Such
is a nature of the repressive, ecclesiastical propaganda machine!
Naturally,
due to my sincere writings here and elsewhere I will probably be tarred as
being at least a MISGUIDED HEATHEN or at worst the NEW ANTI- CHRIST.
I
of course would expect nothing less from an intolerant theocracy that is long
past its ‘sell-by date’! Nevertheless, I continue to fully support freedom of
belief.
I
may add that I do know of several former so-called ‘Born Again Christians’ that
have realised the absurdity of this particular credo and bravely managed to throw
off the shackles of such blind, dogmatic herd mentality.
I
salute these brave souls!
My
heartfelt wish is that others may eventually liberate themselves from such
ecclesiastically – induced bondage.
Human
spirituality deserves better than the tyrannical yoke that it has suffered for
the last 2000 years.
Happy to live in ignorance - or want to know more?
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