"Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature is sin! What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned."
— Friedrich Nietzsche (Daybreak)
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Heretics Deserve Death
Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, who was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism. In the Summa Theologiae, he wrote:
"With regard to heretics two points must be observed: one, on their own side; the other, on the side of the Church. On their own side there is the sin, whereby they deserve not only to be separated from the Church by excommunication, but also to be severed from the world by death."
That Thomas specifically says that heretics "deserve ... death" is related to his theology, according to which all sinners have no intrinsic right to life (Romans 6:23). For Jews, Thomas argues for toleration of both their persons and their religious rites.
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Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, who was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism. In the Summa Theologiae, he wrote:
"With regard to heretics two points must be observed: one, on their own side; the other, on the side of the Church. On their own side there is the sin, whereby they deserve not only to be separated from the Church by excommunication, but also to be severed from the world by death."
That Thomas specifically says that heretics "deserve ... death" is related to his theology, according to which all sinners have no intrinsic right to life (Romans 6:23). For Jews, Thomas argues for toleration of both their persons and their religious rites.
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We have accomplished what we have accomplished in spite of Christianity, not because of it. Our competence derives from our European blood, not from their Jewish noscriptures.
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"What could be sillier than what the Christians call wisdom! The god of the Jews, their great lawgiver (say the Christians) made a mistake. Why do you so grudgingly worship this Creator, you hypocrites, when he promised the Jews everything—that he would make their race prosper, that he would raise them up from the dead in their own flesh and blood—this same God who inspired the prophets?"
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From: On the True Doctrine by Celsus (ca. 178 CE).
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From: On the True Doctrine by Celsus (ca. 178 CE).
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"The story of Moses, with its many miracles, has all the hallmarks of a myth. The account of Moses' birth is a retelling of the myth of the birth of Sargon the Great, the king of Akkad, which is known in a number of variations from the early sixth century BCE. Like Moses, the child Sargon is 'set in a basket of rushes' and 'cast into the river', from which he is later rescued by an influential woman. These probably all go back to Egyptian stories which tell of Osiris confined in a chest and thrown in the Nile."
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From: The Laughing Jesus by Tim Freke.
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From: The Laughing Jesus by Tim Freke.
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A Censorship Rampage
Christians went on a censorship rampage and destroyed as much evidence as they could in the name of "piety", ravaging Pagan temples, murdering their priests, burning libraries and torturing and slaughtering nonbelievers and believers alike by the millions.
Christian structures were built upon the ruins of the Pagan temples, such as in the case of the Vatican, which was founded upon the remains of a complex dedicated to the sun god Mithra.
Indeed, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome stands an obelisk moved from Egypt by Emperor Caligula, who placed it in his circus, after which it was later transported during the 16th century AD/CE to the Piazza San Pietro, eventually serving as the gnomon of a sundial.
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From: Christ in Egypt by Acharya S.
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Christians went on a censorship rampage and destroyed as much evidence as they could in the name of "piety", ravaging Pagan temples, murdering their priests, burning libraries and torturing and slaughtering nonbelievers and believers alike by the millions.
Christian structures were built upon the ruins of the Pagan temples, such as in the case of the Vatican, which was founded upon the remains of a complex dedicated to the sun god Mithra.
Indeed, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome stands an obelisk moved from Egypt by Emperor Caligula, who placed it in his circus, after which it was later transported during the 16th century AD/CE to the Piazza San Pietro, eventually serving as the gnomon of a sundial.
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From: Christ in Egypt by Acharya S.
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A Pack Of Lies
After years of painstaking research we concluded that the traditional history of Christianity was at best hopelessly inaccurate and at worst a pack of lies. Christianity was not the cult of a first-century Messiah, but a Jewish adaptation of the ancient Pagan Mystery religion. We even ventured an informed guess as to who may have authored the original Jesus myth—a sect of mystical Jews called the Therapeutae.
Jewish philosopher Philo, himself known as 'the Pythagorean', describes the Therapeutae as practising 'the contemplative life', which was a way of describing Pythagoreans. He tells us their wisdom stems from Greece. Philo's denoscription of the Therapeutae was written before the time that Jesus is supposed to have been teaching, so he is clearly not writing about disciples of an historical Messiah. The Therapeutae did not follow Jesus. They created him.
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From: Jesus and the Lost Goddess by Tim Freke.
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After years of painstaking research we concluded that the traditional history of Christianity was at best hopelessly inaccurate and at worst a pack of lies. Christianity was not the cult of a first-century Messiah, but a Jewish adaptation of the ancient Pagan Mystery religion. We even ventured an informed guess as to who may have authored the original Jesus myth—a sect of mystical Jews called the Therapeutae.
Jewish philosopher Philo, himself known as 'the Pythagorean', describes the Therapeutae as practising 'the contemplative life', which was a way of describing Pythagoreans. He tells us their wisdom stems from Greece. Philo's denoscription of the Therapeutae was written before the time that Jesus is supposed to have been teaching, so he is clearly not writing about disciples of an historical Messiah. The Therapeutae did not follow Jesus. They created him.
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From: Jesus and the Lost Goddess by Tim Freke.
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"In terms of religious identity, Paul is representative of the Jews who produced the writings that now make up the New Testament. They were, to be sure, Jews who believed in Jesus. They thought of Jesus as the realization of classical Jewish hopes."
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From: Paul Was Not a Christian by Pamela Eisenbaum.
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From: Paul Was Not a Christian by Pamela Eisenbaum.
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The Ultimate Jewish Messiah
Christianity started as a messianic Jewish sect. Most of Jesus's teachings were intelligible and acceptable in terms of Second Temple Judaism; what set the followers of Jesus apart from other Jews was their faith in Jesus as the resurrected messiah.
While ancient Judaism acknowledged multiple messiahs, the two most relevant being the Messiah ben Joseph and the traditional Messiah ben David, Christianity acknowledges only one ultimate Messiah. Jesus would have been viewed by many as one or both.
According to Larry Hurtado, "the Christology and devotional stance that Paul affirmed was not a departure from or a transcending of a supposedly monochrome Jewish messianism, but, instead, a distinctive expression within a variegated body of Jewish messianic hopes."
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Christianity started as a messianic Jewish sect. Most of Jesus's teachings were intelligible and acceptable in terms of Second Temple Judaism; what set the followers of Jesus apart from other Jews was their faith in Jesus as the resurrected messiah.
While ancient Judaism acknowledged multiple messiahs, the two most relevant being the Messiah ben Joseph and the traditional Messiah ben David, Christianity acknowledges only one ultimate Messiah. Jesus would have been viewed by many as one or both.
According to Larry Hurtado, "the Christology and devotional stance that Paul affirmed was not a departure from or a transcending of a supposedly monochrome Jewish messianism, but, instead, a distinctive expression within a variegated body of Jewish messianic hopes."
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The Butcher Of Saxons
The Saxon Wars were the campaigns and insurrections of the thirty-three years from 772, when Charlemagne first entered Saxony with the intent to conquer, to 804, when the last rebellion of tribesmen was defeated.
In all, 18 campaigns were fought. They resulted in the incorporation of Saxony into the Frankish realm and their forcible conversion from Germanic paganism to Christianity.
Charlemagne issued a number of decrees designed to break Saxon resistance and to inflict capital punishment on anyone observing heathen practices. His severe and uncompromising position earned him the noscript "butcher of Saxons."
In 785, he issued the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, which asserted, "If any one of the race of the Saxons hereafter concealed among them shall have wished to hide himself unbaptized, and shall have scorned to come to baptism and shall have wished to remain a pagan, let him be punished by death."
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The Saxon Wars were the campaigns and insurrections of the thirty-three years from 772, when Charlemagne first entered Saxony with the intent to conquer, to 804, when the last rebellion of tribesmen was defeated.
In all, 18 campaigns were fought. They resulted in the incorporation of Saxony into the Frankish realm and their forcible conversion from Germanic paganism to Christianity.
Charlemagne issued a number of decrees designed to break Saxon resistance and to inflict capital punishment on anyone observing heathen practices. His severe and uncompromising position earned him the noscript "butcher of Saxons."
In 785, he issued the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, which asserted, "If any one of the race of the Saxons hereafter concealed among them shall have wished to hide himself unbaptized, and shall have scorned to come to baptism and shall have wished to remain a pagan, let him be punished by death."
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The Divinity Of Nature
The native religion of heathen Germany saw the earth as a place of the Gods. Its mysteries and symbols were referable to a worship of nature; all the phenomena of the universe were informed by divinity. Christianity reversed this view; nature, ceasing to bear die impress of the divine, became diabolized. Christianity turned these earthly pagan Gods into devils and repudiated all that was of the earth.
Characterized by a deistic denial of the divinity of nature, Christianity is hostile to human nature. It provides the basis for political despotism insofar as it grants a special authority on what is right and just to a few who are said to be nearer the divine, and it represses the healthy expression of the body and the sensuous admiration of beauty. Priests are then a ready ally of political authority, while all people are alienated from their original nature.
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From: Religion and Philosophy in Germany by Heinrich Heine.
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The native religion of heathen Germany saw the earth as a place of the Gods. Its mysteries and symbols were referable to a worship of nature; all the phenomena of the universe were informed by divinity. Christianity reversed this view; nature, ceasing to bear die impress of the divine, became diabolized. Christianity turned these earthly pagan Gods into devils and repudiated all that was of the earth.
Characterized by a deistic denial of the divinity of nature, Christianity is hostile to human nature. It provides the basis for political despotism insofar as it grants a special authority on what is right and just to a few who are said to be nearer the divine, and it represses the healthy expression of the body and the sensuous admiration of beauty. Priests are then a ready ally of political authority, while all people are alienated from their original nature.
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From: Religion and Philosophy in Germany by Heinrich Heine.
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The Founder Of Christianity
Paul [the Jewish Pharisee], not Jesus, was the founder of Christianity as a new religion which developed away from both normal Judaism and the Nazarene variety of Judaism. Paul derived this religion from Hellenistic sources, chiefly by a fusion of concepts taken from Gnosticism and concepts taken from the mystery religions, particularly from that of Attis.
The combination of these elements with features derived from Judaism—particularly the incorporation of the Jewish noscriptures—provided a background of sacred history for the new myth, and Paul alone was the creator of this amalgam.
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From: The Mythmaker by Hyam Maccoby.
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Paul [the Jewish Pharisee], not Jesus, was the founder of Christianity as a new religion which developed away from both normal Judaism and the Nazarene variety of Judaism. Paul derived this religion from Hellenistic sources, chiefly by a fusion of concepts taken from Gnosticism and concepts taken from the mystery religions, particularly from that of Attis.
The combination of these elements with features derived from Judaism—particularly the incorporation of the Jewish noscriptures—provided a background of sacred history for the new myth, and Paul alone was the creator of this amalgam.
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From: The Mythmaker by Hyam Maccoby.
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The Abrahamic Alliance
Though they are officially “non-profit” organizations, Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, and several other Christian organizations are profiting from lucrative contracts with the federal government to resettle refugees in the United States.
Of the 100,000 refugees resettled in the United States in 2014 under the Refugee Resettlement program, an estimated 40 percent were Muslims.
In FY 2015, the State Department, through the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, spent more than $1 billion on these programs. Much of this $1 billion in annual revenue goes to voluntary agencies (VOLAGs).
Five of the top nine VOLAGs are Christian non-profits. The other four are Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International Rescue Committee, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and the Ethiopian Community Development Council.
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Though they are officially “non-profit” organizations, Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, and several other Christian organizations are profiting from lucrative contracts with the federal government to resettle refugees in the United States.
Of the 100,000 refugees resettled in the United States in 2014 under the Refugee Resettlement program, an estimated 40 percent were Muslims.
In FY 2015, the State Department, through the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, spent more than $1 billion on these programs. Much of this $1 billion in annual revenue goes to voluntary agencies (VOLAGs).
Five of the top nine VOLAGs are Christian non-profits. The other four are Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International Rescue Committee, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and the Ethiopian Community Development Council.
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Christian Charities Profit from Muslim Refugee Resettlement
Several Christian organizations are profiting from lucrative contracts with the federal government to resettle refugees in the United States
Genetic Memory
There is no religion more effective than one which is born of its own people, that which molds and cultivates the character of a definitive race, while ensuring the higher progressive development of its nationhood, concordant with Nature's laws.
All human progress springs from the repeated effort of the soul of man to give expression to those primeval spiritual ideas that were implanted deep within the genetic memory of each race when it first found its identity upon the earth.
The indigenous, pre-Christian (pagan) religions produced numerous spiritual archetypes from which evolved a common, heroic folk-mythos, value system, gnostic wisdom and ethnic traditions spanning the entire, grand backdrop of man's life drama.
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From: Temple of Wotan by Ron McVan.
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There is no religion more effective than one which is born of its own people, that which molds and cultivates the character of a definitive race, while ensuring the higher progressive development of its nationhood, concordant with Nature's laws.
All human progress springs from the repeated effort of the soul of man to give expression to those primeval spiritual ideas that were implanted deep within the genetic memory of each race when it first found its identity upon the earth.
The indigenous, pre-Christian (pagan) religions produced numerous spiritual archetypes from which evolved a common, heroic folk-mythos, value system, gnostic wisdom and ethnic traditions spanning the entire, grand backdrop of man's life drama.
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From: Temple of Wotan by Ron McVan.
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The Psychological Ploy
It’s in the Gospel of John that we read one of the bluntest statements of truth, wherein Jesus says, "You [Gentiles] worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews."
Paul and his [Jewish] cabal deliberately lied to the masses, simply to undermine Roman rule. This little group tempted innocent people with a promise of heaven, and frightened them with the threat of hell.
This psychological ploy was part of a long-term plan to weaken and, in a sense, morally corrupt the masses by drawing them away from the potent and successful Greco-Roman worldview and more toward an oriental, Judaic view.
It turned believers into weak and subservient sheep, ones whose lives are oriented around the manufactured sayings of a marginal rabbi and of prayer to Jehovah, the invisible God of the Jews.
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From: The Jesus Hoax by Dr. David Skrbina.
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It’s in the Gospel of John that we read one of the bluntest statements of truth, wherein Jesus says, "You [Gentiles] worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews."
Paul and his [Jewish] cabal deliberately lied to the masses, simply to undermine Roman rule. This little group tempted innocent people with a promise of heaven, and frightened them with the threat of hell.
This psychological ploy was part of a long-term plan to weaken and, in a sense, morally corrupt the masses by drawing them away from the potent and successful Greco-Roman worldview and more toward an oriental, Judaic view.
It turned believers into weak and subservient sheep, ones whose lives are oriented around the manufactured sayings of a marginal rabbi and of prayer to Jehovah, the invisible God of the Jews.
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From: The Jesus Hoax by Dr. David Skrbina.
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"In the entire works of the Jewish historian Josephus, which constitute hundreds of pages, there are only two paragraphs that purport to refer to Jesus. Although much has been made of these 'references', they have been dismissed by many scholars and even by Christian apologists as forgeries. Bishop Warburton (1698-1779) labeled the Josephus interpolation regarding Jesus as 'a rank forgery, and a very stupid one, too.'"
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From: The Origins of Christianity by D.M. Murdock.
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From: The Origins of Christianity by D.M. Murdock.
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"As the annual rebirth of the sun's light, the winter solstice was important in most parts of the world. In fact, the Romans already had an ancient winter festival whose seven days bracketed the solstice. Choosing the birth of Christ as December 25 successfully integrated long-standing popular traditions with the imagery of a new religion."
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From: Echoes of the Ancient Skies by E. C. Krupp.
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From: Echoes of the Ancient Skies by E. C. Krupp.
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The Abrahamic Struggle Against Paganism
"In most of the last two thousand years, the Jews have had little time, possibility, or desire to propagate monotheism to humanity. With the penetration into many pagan societies of two monotheistic religions, Christianity and Islam, the Jews became minor actors in the historical struggle against paganism."
"Like its predecessors, neo-paganism merits Jewish concern. Nothing good for the Jews—nor for society at large—can come out of a worldwide strengthening of paganism. The same goes for a distorted emphasis on the importance of nature."
"Nature's laws represent the world of the savage and barbarian; the Noahide laws represent civil society. Civilization must be intolerant toward barbarity. No compromise is possible between the monotheist God and the polytheist deities."
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"In most of the last two thousand years, the Jews have had little time, possibility, or desire to propagate monotheism to humanity. With the penetration into many pagan societies of two monotheistic religions, Christianity and Islam, the Jews became minor actors in the historical struggle against paganism."
"Like its predecessors, neo-paganism merits Jewish concern. Nothing good for the Jews—nor for society at large—can come out of a worldwide strengthening of paganism. The same goes for a distorted emphasis on the importance of nature."
"Nature's laws represent the world of the savage and barbarian; the Noahide laws represent civil society. Civilization must be intolerant toward barbarity. No compromise is possible between the monotheist God and the polytheist deities."
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Full article here.
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"The idea of some sect 'making up' the Jesus myth may seem strange today, but this is because we no longer think of myths in the same way as our ancestors did. To us myths are irrelevant fantasies, but the ancients regarded them as profound allegories encoding mystical teachings. Mythical motifs represented philosophical principles. Creating new myths was a way of exploring new ideas."
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From: Jesus and the Lost Goddess by Tim Freke.
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From: Jesus and the Lost Goddess by Tim Freke.
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