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In order to prove that Jesus Christ existed, one must have basic historical
facts that can be agreed upon in official records. Though it doesn't
necessarily make Jesus a historic figure to assign him a birthplace or a
birthday, it's a good start. Unfortunately, neither the bible nor church
documents can sustain the claim that Jesus was born on the twenty-fifth of
December (a date assigned to most of the saviours of the ancient world,
including: Adonis, Attis, Pan, Bacchus, Osiris and Dionysus among countless
others). Even the Bible cannot agree with itself, in Luke (1.199), Jesus is
said to have been born during the time of Quirinus, making his birth a
fourteen-year difference from the time of Matthew (1.199).

So the day and year aren't known exactly; so what! That doesn't mean
anything. Unless one realises that his most intimate friends supposedly
wrote the gospels during the lifetimes of his mother and siblings
Understanding that Jesus' birth is not verifiable through any written
document is essential to knowing that he wasn't a real person and only a
Universal sun myth (consider this: Jesus' death was accompanied by the
darkening of the sun, his resurrection happens to be the date of the vernal
equinox, and that this date has progressively shifted from the 25th December
to the 6th January). (3.272).

What about the events surrounding his birth? Are they real? No, and they can
easily be refuted with a little knowledge of world mysticism and language.
In the Gospels, the word for stable is Katalemna, but this word's actual
meaning is a temporary shelter or cave (1.32). Among the babies born in a
cave is Pan, Mithras, and Zeus (again...there are many more). The birth of
Mithras was said to have been witnessed by three shepherds, equivalent to
Jesus' three wise men (1.33). Even the presents offered unto Jesus were
those offered to Adonis, whose sacred incense was myrrh.

The town of Bethlehem was the supposed birthplace of this supposed saviour.
The name Bethlehem means 'house of bread'. Adonis was the god of corn and
the god of bread. The star that the three wise men had followed to the birth
of Jesus was, in Egypt, a yearly omen of the flooding of the Nile. The
flooding of the Nile is associated with the 'world renewing power of Osiris,'
so it is obvious that this star symbolised in the ancient world the 'coming
of the lord' (1.33).

What of the miraculous virgin birth? It seems that this too is simply an
appropriation of mythology. Throughout most of the ancient religions it is
extremely common to have a god impregnate a virgin woman (3.275). From China
to Siam and even Mexico to Palestine, all gods chose the method of
impregnating virgin women to come into this world. Jesus was born to Mary,
Buddha to Maia (as well as Hermes), Agni to Maya, Adonis to Myrrha, Bacchus
to Myrrha, and so on (2.301). Most, if not all of these women, ascended to
heaven and each were known as 'Queen of Heaven'.

What about the surrounding situation of this god-man's death? Well, 'Good
Friday falls not before the spring equinox, but as soon after the spring
equinox as the full moon allows, thus making the calculation depend upon the
position of the sun in the zodiac and the phases of the moon.' (3.273). What
did that mean? It meant that the festival originally designed to celebrate
the Pagan goddess of fertility, Oestera, has become what the Christians now
call Easter. Needless to say, the eggs and rabbits are symbols of fertility
and NOT Jesus' crucifixion.

This calls into question whether or not Jesus was in fact crucified. Cross
has a general meaning of stake in the New Testament. Jews used to display
the bodies of those they had stoned to death on stakes. In the Acts of the
Apostles, Peter says that Jesus was "hung on a tree", and so does St Paul in
his letter to the Galatians. Attis and Adonis were both hung on a tree as
well, the latter being known as "He on the tree."

Before the crucifixion, both Jesus and Dionysus wore purple robes, crowns -
the former of thorns, the latter of ivy - and both were given wine to drink.
Jesus dies next to two thieves. One goes up to heaven with him and the other
goes to hell. Eleusis, as well as Dionysus and Mithras, have on their side
two torch-bearers, one pointing the torch upwards and the other pointing the
torch downwards (symbolising the ascent to heaven and the descent to hell)
(1.51). The story originates with the Greek brothers Castor and Pollux,
which on alternate days are given the name "The Sons of Thunder," which in
the gospel of Mark are what Jesus calls James and John.

Aside from this immense amount of evidence showing that Christians merely
thieved the ideas from their predecessors, there is much more found in other
religions. In fact there are fifteen crucified saviours, inclusive of
Krishna, Odin, Hesus (not Jesus), Quetzalcoatl, Criti, Baili, and Indra
(2.352). Therefore, the crucifixion is an appropriation of Pagan symbolism
(the cross originally symbolising spirit in the centre of the four
elements). Early Christians and Buddhists wore the swastika because it was a
good luck sign meaning "it is well" in Sanskrit. As the Church grew in power
they wanted to instil a sense of guilt and therefore changed their symbol
into a slaughtered lamb, and then a crucified saviour paying for the sins of
the world.

The Jesus story can not even stand up to the criticism of a rational and
fairly knowledgeable person, so how can the rest of the beliefs contained
within the bible be true? Well, even though the literary works written down
during the time of Jesus' supposed birth to a century after can fill
libraries, its interesting to know that neither Jesus nor the twelve
disciples are mentioned - and Christianity only get a few paragraphs at the
most (1.133). So how is it that Christians can ascertain that there were
twelve disciples? Because there have been few god-saviours who did not have
twelve apostles or messengers.

Numbers were very important to ancient mythological stories, especially the
numbers 12, 7, 3 and 40. For instance, Jacob had twelve sons, there were 12
tribes of Israel, twelve months in the year, 12 gates or pillars of heaven
and the Jews were in the wilderness for 40 years. Jesus fasted for 40 days;
from the resurrection to the ascension were forty days. Moses was on the
mountain with God for 40 days. Noah and Hercules were swallowed by a whale,
at exactly the same place - Jappo - and were inside the whale for 3 days,
the same number of days between the crucifixion and the resurrection of
Jesus. The feeding of the five thousand - a miracle interestingly also
performed by Elisha in 2 Kings 43-44 - happened with 2 fish and five loaves
of bread, equalling seven. In Mark Mark 4:11 and Luke 8:10 Jesus is trying to make his
disciples understand that his stories are meant to be taken as complex
allegories involving numbers. Jesus says: "To you it is given to know the
Mysteries of the Kingdom of God. But to the rest of them it is only given in
allegories." In Luke 8:1, Jesus admits to speaking in riddles and parables
yet only the literal world has been spoken for centuries. Perhaps the
message has been "misrepresented" by religious authorities on purpose.

Early Church fathers Origen and Clement tried to establish Christianity
amongst Pagans by using the argument that it would be absurd to believe in
Paganism and not Christianity. Why would it be absurd? Because of the
extreme similarities that they themselves acknowledged (3.273). As a result
of the likeness between Pagan religions and Christianity, the latter
continued to grow. Alterations of biblical documents, addition of forgeries,
and addition of previously held heretical books and the omission of parts of
the Bible became a norm in the Church.

Eventually fanatics came up with the idea known as Diabolical Mimicry to
refute the Pagan claim that they were using their ideas to gain power
(1.26). Diabolic Mimicry holds that the devil knew the Jesus story thousands
of years before and so had created religions similar to Christianity in
order to keep people astray from the one true saviour. Unfortunately, for
the masses, Christian dogma had won favour with the Roman politicians and
this idea was forced onto the people through heresy hunting (the killing of
anyone who held different ideas to the Church) mass slaughters (of Pagan
followers, "witches", and other freethinkers), war and repression (1.244-6).
All Pagan books were ordered to be burned. Pope Gregory VII burned the
Apollo Library. Emperor Theodosius burned 27,000 ancient scrolls. Ptolemy
Philadelphius burned 270,000 ancient documents and after 1233 more than
25,000 were burned (even some in the new world). The tragedy is that most of
the works burned had nothing to do with Paganism - they were scientific
documents seized by illiterate peasants.

So what is the true legacy of the Church after two thousand years? A Church
built upon the ruins of an old Pagan temple that symbolises racism, sexism,
homophobia, sexual repression guilt, organised crime and HATE!

Sources:

1. The Jesus Mysteries by Timothy Freke and Peter Ghandi.
2. Deceptions and Myths of the Bible by Loyd M Graham.
3. The Truth About Jesus by M.M Mangasarian, found in You Are being Lied To,
edited by Russ Kick.


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"Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real
distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of
the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the
spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

To abolish religion as the illusory happiness of the people is to demand
their real happiness. The demand to give up illusions about the existing
state of affairs is the demand to give up a state of affairs which needs
illusions. The criticism of religion is therefore in embryo the criticism of
the vale of tears, the halo of which is religion."

1818 - 1883 - Karl Marx