Gallio's Silence

Gallio (died 65 C.E.) Seneca’s silence is compounded by the fact that his older brother was Junius Annaeus Gallio, who actually appears in the Bible. According to the author of the book of Acts (18:12-17), Gallio was the magistrate who heard Paul's case and threw it out of court. If this is true, it’s curious that Gallio never seems to have told his brother about this amazing Jesus character that everyone was so excited about, since Seneca was very interested in just this sort of thing.

But Seneca shows no sign of ever having heard of Christians or Jesus at all. It’s also strange that even in Acts, Gallio has never heard of Jesus. This makes no sense at all if Jesus was a famous miracle worker recently executed who had returned from the dead and remained in Jerusalem for forty days, as Acts also says.

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From: Nailed by David Fitzgerald.

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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it."

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From: The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine.

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"The pre-Christian Jewish book of Daniel was a key messianic text, laying out what would happen and when [9:25-27], partly inspiring much of the very messianic fervor of the age, which by the most obvious interpretation predicted the messiah’s arrival in the early first century, even (by some calculations) the very year of 30 CE. This kind of messianic math was very possibly the cause of the whole explosion of messianic claims and expectations in that very century."

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From: On the Historicity of Jesus by Richard Carrier.

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"The Bible is an entirely Jewish document. Front to back, cover to cover, A to Z, Old Testament and New—the Bible is an entirely Jewish document. The morality, the theology, the social attitudes, the worldview… all thoroughly Jewish. The Old Testament obviously so; it was written by Jews, about Jews, and for Jews. The same holds with the New Testament, although with a slight twist: it was written by Jews, about Jews, but for non-Jews."

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From: The Jesus Hoax by David Skrbina.

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The Abrahamic World Order

Prophecy is part of the biblical mindset. Ben-Gurion predicted that: "All armies will be abolished, and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah."

Christians find hope in the prophecy that, one day, "nations will not lift sword against nation, no longer will they learn how to make war" (Isaiah 2:4). But more important to Zionists are the previous verses, when "all the nations" will pay tribute "to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the god of Jacob," when "the Law will issue from Zion and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem," so that Yahweh will "judge between the nations and arbitrate between many peoples."

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From: From Yahweh to Zion by Laurent Guyénot.

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The Abrahamic Dialectic

Jews and their Trotskyite neo-conservative Christian allies in the United States organized and perpetrated the attacks of 9/11 to serve as an illegitimate pretext for the Middle Eastern wars between Christians and Muslims.

One of many examples throughout history proving that both Christianity and Islam were created by Jews as opposing forces to serve Jewish interests.

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Yahweh The Devil

Revelation chapter 13 tells a harrowing story of how people in the "last days" will be put to death if they refuse to receive the dreadful "mark of the beast" in either their right hand or in their forehead. Christians are convinced that only "the devil" would inspire an evil law like this, but the truth is, Yahweh did this same exact thing in the Old Testament. [Ezekiel 9:5-7]

Show no mercy? Have no pity? Kill them all? Old and young? Girls and women and little children? Fill the courtyards with the bodies of those you kill? Does it even need to be stated that these are not the words of a loving god? Thus, does it look to you like there is any difference between receiving the mark of the beast or the mark of Yahweh? Does Yahweh seem any more loving or compassionate to you than "the beast"?

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From: What Is Wrong With the Bible? by Charles Giuliani.

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"One of the most unfortunate aspects of the historicizing of this 'oldest story ever sold' was that one particular ethnic group, and that one only, became esteemed above all others for being 'God's chosen people,' the 'priestly nation' and the spiritual masters of mankind. Another aspect has been the vilification of these same people as 'Christkillers' and foaming-at-the-mouth murderers of the Almighty Lord God himself. Thus, in believing the gospel tale, Christians have been forced into a schizophrenic love-hate relationship with the Jews, who are to be perceived as 'God's chosen' and 'Christkillers' at the same time."

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From: The Christ Conspiracy by D.M. Murdock.

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"Christianity was not 'national,' it was not based on race—it appealed to all the varieties of men disinherited by life. Everything that is well-constituted, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offence to its ears and eyes. Again I remind you of Paul's priceless saying: 'And God hath chosen the weak things of the world, the foolish things of the world, the base things of the world, and things which are despised': this was the formula; in hoc signo the decadence triumphed."

— Friedrich Nietzsche (The Anti-Christ)

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Historical Witnesses

There were many first century writers, philosophers, historians, and other commentators who had good reason to notice Jesus, and despite apologists’ fervent denials, a wealth of their writings still exists today. But these perfectly respectable sources are never on Christian lists of historical witnesses.

They include important figures like Epictetus, Pomponius Mela, Martial, Juvenal, Seneca the Younger, Gallio, Seneca the Elder, Pliny the Elder, Plutarch, Justus of Tiberias, Philo of Alexandria, Nicolaus of Damascus and more. And these are just the contemporaries; there are still later commentators who we would expect to have mentioned Christ, but did not.

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From: Nailed by David Fitzgerald.

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"Christians true to their faith are doing [his] God's work."

"It's Christians who brought the world to the Torah more than Jews did."

"The reason people know the words Genesis or Leviticus or Deuteronomy is because of Christians."

— Jewish radio talk show host Dennis Prager

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Christian Appropriation

In the most obvious example of [Christian] appropriation, celebrations of the Winter Solstice were overwritten with celebrations of Christ's birth. Elves of the natural world and the female land-goddesses known as Landdísir were transformed into saints, and the protective family spirits called Hamingja or Fylgja became guardian angels.

Balder’s death and eventual resurrection were reflected in the sacrifice of Christ on Good Friday and his return to life on Easter Sunday. The Easter holiday itself is named for the Germanic goddess Eostra. As early as the ninth century, there are written records that the continental Germans knew April as Ôstarmânoth, named for Ostarâ, the German version of the fertility goddess.

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The 'True Birth' Of 'Jesus Christ'

Rather than the advent and death of a "historical" Christ, the single most important events in the history of Christianity were the "conversion" of the Pagan Emperor Constantine and the convening of the raucous Council of Nicea in 325, which in fact marked the true birth of Jesus Christ.

It is maintained that during the Nicene Council the names Jesus and Christ were put together for the first time in the phrase "Jesus Christ" or "Christ Jesus," uniting two of the major factions, with Jesus representing the Hesus of the Druids, Joshua of the Israelites, Horus of the Egyptians, and Christ representing the Krishna of India, the Anointed of the Jews, among others.

It is thus alleged that the phrase "Jesus Christ," which had never been a name, does not appear in Greek or Latin authors prior to the first Council of Nicea.

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From: The Christ Conspiracy by D.M. Murdock.

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"Josephus records the rise and popularity of several false messiahs in the same general period as Christianity was getting started. He does not explicitly call them messiahs—he probably wanted to avoid reminding his Gentile audience that this was the product of Jewish ideology, and instead claimed it was the product of fringe criminals and ruffians. Josephus recounts at least four messianic figures of the early first century, and documents how enormously popular they were, compelling the Romans to mass military action to suppress them."

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From: On the Historicity of Jesus by Richard Carrier.

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"In the New Testament, Jesus Christ is depicted as having been brought up in a city called 'Nazareth,' a purported biographical detail upon which much speculation has been hung over the centuries as to a 'historical' Jewish messiah figure in the gospel story, buried somewhere underneath layers of pious elaboration. Despite all of this speculation, there exists no hard scientific evidence that the polis or 'city' of Nazareth as depicted in the New Testament even existed at the time when Christ was supposedly being raised there."

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From: Was There a Historical Jesus of Nazareth? by D.M. Murdock.

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The Total Extermination Of The Amalekites

The Massacre of Verden was an event during the Saxon Wars where the Frankish king Charlemagne ordered the death of 4,500 Saxons in October 782.

Charlemagne claimed suzerainty over Saxony and in 772 destroyed the Irminsul, an important object in Saxon paganism, during his intermittent thirty-year campaign to Christianize the Saxons. The massacre occurred in Verden in what is now Lower Saxony, Germany.

Historian Alessandro Barbero says that "the most likely inspiration for the mass execution of Verden was the Bible", Charlemagne desiring "to act like a true King of Israel", citing the biblical tale of the total extermination of the Amalekites and the conquest of the Moabites by David.

Barbero further points out that a few years later, a royal chronicler, commenting on Charlemagne's treatment of the Saxons, records that "either they were defeated or subjected to the Christian religion or completely swept away."

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"Charlemagne created a peaceful environment for Jews in his kingdom. Charlemagne fostered a system where the Christian majority could procure credit through Jewish constituents. Christians were forbidden to loan money at an interest rate, a restriction not shared by the Jews. As a result, Jews were enabled to dominate the money-lending/banking business, thrusting many into prominence & wealth throughout Medieval Europe. The flip side of this was that they would suffer persecutions throughout their history in Europe in part based on the perception that they exploited the Christian community."

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Ethnikos & Katholikos

The word pagan is derived from the Latin pāgānus, meaning "rural" or "rustic". Initially, the word ethnikos was used in the Bible to refer to pagans, meaning those of the ethnic faith, and the word gentile derives from the Latin gentilis, meaning "clan" or "tribe". Catholic, however, derives from the Greek katholikos, meaning "universal", for we "are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal 3:28).

The purpose of Abrahamism is and always has been the universal worship of "the God of Israel" (Isa 45:3) and therefore the Jews—his "treasured possession" who were "chosen out of all the peoples" (Deut 7:6)—by proxy. Those who "will rule over many nations but none will rule over [them]" (Deut 15:6), who will be "the head, not the tail" (Deut 28:13), and who promote universalism—through Christianity and Islam—for everyone but themselves, for they are "a people dwelling alone, not reckoning itself among the nations". (Num 23:9)

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Just Doing What The Bible Said

"Five perfectly red heifers, required for the ritual purification of those who have touched a dead body, arrived in Israel from a ranch in Texas on Thursday, as the Temple Institute continues preparations to lay the ground for the construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem."

"Byron Stinson, the farmer who raised the cattle, is a devout Christian who began breeding cattle for the trait. 'I didn’t set out to do this, but right now, I am probably the best red heifer hunter in Texas,' Stinson told Israel365 news. 'The Bible says to bring a red cow to purify Israel, and I may not understand it, but I am just doing what the Bible said.'"

"'The prophecies came true, and the Jews are back in Israel,' added Stinson. 'Now they need to build a Temple. But it's like buying a really nice car. If you don’t have the key, you aren’t going anywhere. The red heifer is the key to making the Temple work like it’s supposed to.'"

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The Son Of God

Christ's biographical account in the gospels shares many similarities with other religious figures. One was Dionysus, who was believed by the Greeks to be the son of Zeus—the "father of the gods."

In other words, Dionysus was considered to be the "son of god," or the "son of the father." His mother was a mortal named Semele, who was supernaturally impregnated by Zeus. And—get this—the followers of Dionysus were claimed to have been "born again."

Dionysus, like Christ, was a traveling teacher and he was alleged to be the god of wine. This wine attachment is also observed with Christ, who placed a considerable emphasis on wine in the ceremonial "Lord's Supper" and, of course, wine was the theme behind the "miracle" of turning water into wine at the Cana wedding feast.

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From: What Is Wrong With the Bible? by Charles Giuliani.

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"Because it is forbidden for the Jews to convert those who are genetically outside the Jewish tribe to Judaism, the only way to make the non-Jews follow the Torah was the creation of another Torah-guided religion. And Rabbi Joshua—who became Jesus Christ in the minds of the pagans—had done it, and we the Jews have to be thankful for his efforts to fulfill the Jewish mission of the Chosen."

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