The Eternal Divider
"At the start of the Christian movement, they were very few in number, and unified in purpose. Since that time, they have spread all around and now number in the thousands."
"It is not surprising, therefore, that there are divisions among them—factions of all sorts, each wanting to have its own territory. Nor is it surprising that as these divisions have become so numerous, the various parties have taken to condemning each other, so that today they have only one thing—if that—in common: the name 'Christian.'"
"But despite their clinging proudly to their name, in most other respects they are at odds. I suppose, however, that it is more amazing that there are any points of agreement at all, given the fact their belief rests on no solid foundation."
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From: On the True Doctrine by Greek philosopher Celsus (ca. 178 CE).
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"At the start of the Christian movement, they were very few in number, and unified in purpose. Since that time, they have spread all around and now number in the thousands."
"It is not surprising, therefore, that there are divisions among them—factions of all sorts, each wanting to have its own territory. Nor is it surprising that as these divisions have become so numerous, the various parties have taken to condemning each other, so that today they have only one thing—if that—in common: the name 'Christian.'"
"But despite their clinging proudly to their name, in most other respects they are at odds. I suppose, however, that it is more amazing that there are any points of agreement at all, given the fact their belief rests on no solid foundation."
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From: On the True Doctrine by Greek philosopher Celsus (ca. 178 CE).
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"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth."
— Thomas Jefferson (Notes on the State of Virginia)
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The Holy Foreskin
The Holy Foreskin first made an appearance in medieval Europe around 800 CE, when King Charlemagne presented it as a gift to Pope Leo III. Charlemagne said it had been given to him by an angel.
However, rival foreskins soon began to pop up all over Europe. All told, twenty-one different churches claimed to have the Holy Foreskin, often at the same time. Various miraculous powers were attributed to these foreskins. In particular, they were supposed to be able to protect women during childbirth.
The Catholic Church eventually sought to extract itself from the Holy Foreskin controversy, deciding that it was rather unseemly for so much attention to be paid to Christ's private parts. It adopted the view that all the rival foreskins were frauds, and in 1900 made it a crime punishable by excommunication to write or speak about the Holy Foreskin.
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The Holy Foreskin first made an appearance in medieval Europe around 800 CE, when King Charlemagne presented it as a gift to Pope Leo III. Charlemagne said it had been given to him by an angel.
However, rival foreskins soon began to pop up all over Europe. All told, twenty-one different churches claimed to have the Holy Foreskin, often at the same time. Various miraculous powers were attributed to these foreskins. In particular, they were supposed to be able to protect women during childbirth.
The Catholic Church eventually sought to extract itself from the Holy Foreskin controversy, deciding that it was rather unseemly for so much attention to be paid to Christ's private parts. It adopted the view that all the rival foreskins were frauds, and in 1900 made it a crime punishable by excommunication to write or speak about the Holy Foreskin.
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Against Common Sense & Better Judgment
For nearly 2,000 years hundreds of millions of people have been taught that a historical "son of God" called Jesus Christ lived, did miracles, suffered and died as a blood-atonement especially established once and for all by God Himself, the Creator of the entire cosmos.
In reality, the gospel story of Jesus is not a factual portrayal of a historical "master" who walked the earth 2,000 years ago, but a myth built upon other myths and godmen, who in turn were personifications of the ubiquitous solar mythos and ritual found in countless cultures around the world thousands of years before the Christian era.
Nevertheless, countless believers have insisted that the gospel tale happened, not because of any evidence, but merely because they have been told it was so and blindly accepted it, against common sense and better judgment.
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From: The Christ Conspiracy by D.M. Murdock.
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For nearly 2,000 years hundreds of millions of people have been taught that a historical "son of God" called Jesus Christ lived, did miracles, suffered and died as a blood-atonement especially established once and for all by God Himself, the Creator of the entire cosmos.
In reality, the gospel story of Jesus is not a factual portrayal of a historical "master" who walked the earth 2,000 years ago, but a myth built upon other myths and godmen, who in turn were personifications of the ubiquitous solar mythos and ritual found in countless cultures around the world thousands of years before the Christian era.
Nevertheless, countless believers have insisted that the gospel tale happened, not because of any evidence, but merely because they have been told it was so and blindly accepted it, against common sense and better judgment.
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From: The Christ Conspiracy by D.M. Murdock.
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"Rather than serving as that of a historical Hebrew prophet, the legend of the divine lawgiver is found in germ around Europe and Africa, as well as the Near, Middle and Far East, as are other biblical tales. In this archetype, the main character possesses different names, races and ethnicities, depending on the locale: 'Menu' is the Indian legislator; 'Mises' appears in Syria and Egypt, where also the first king, 'Menes the lawgiver', takes the stage; 'Minos' is the Cretan reformer; and 'Mannus' the Teutonic lawgiver."
— D.M. Murdock (Did Moses Exist?)
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The Anonymous Authors
All gospel authors are anonymous, writing at least a generation or more after the fact. None claim to be eyewitnesses; on the contrary, "Luke" explicitly tells us he is investigating the story inherited by his generation of believers, and the gospel we attribute to "John" purports to be handed down from an unnamed "beloved disciple."
However, this clearly fictitious "beloved disciple" character doesn't exist in any of the earlier gospels—and has been gratuitously inserted into their rebooted plotlines. For example, in Luke, Peter runs to go see the empty tomb (24:12). In John, both Peter and the beloved disciple run to the tomb—and the beloved disciple conspicuously outruns Peter there (20:3-4).
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From Varieties of Jesus Mythicism by John W. Loftus.
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All gospel authors are anonymous, writing at least a generation or more after the fact. None claim to be eyewitnesses; on the contrary, "Luke" explicitly tells us he is investigating the story inherited by his generation of believers, and the gospel we attribute to "John" purports to be handed down from an unnamed "beloved disciple."
However, this clearly fictitious "beloved disciple" character doesn't exist in any of the earlier gospels—and has been gratuitously inserted into their rebooted plotlines. For example, in Luke, Peter runs to go see the empty tomb (24:12). In John, both Peter and the beloved disciple run to the tomb—and the beloved disciple conspicuously outruns Peter there (20:3-4).
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From Varieties of Jesus Mythicism by John W. Loftus.
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"There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
— Galatians 3:28
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— Galatians 3:28
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"The earliest evidence you have for Christianity are the letters of a man who never met the historical Jesus."
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The Very Vilest Of Mankind
Around the year 75 BC, prominent speaker and teacher Apollonius Molon wrote the first book to explicitly confront the Hebrew tribe, "Against the Jews." From his early years in Caria and Rhodes he would likely have had direct contact with them, and thus was able to write from personal experience. Molon referred to Moses as a "charlatan" and "imposter," viewing the Jews as "the very vilest of mankind."
Josephus adds the following: "[Molon] has scattered [his accusations] here and there all over his work, reviling us in one place as atheists [in the sense that they rejected the Roman gods] and misanthropes, in another reproaching us as cowards, whereas elsewhere, on the contrary, he accuses us of temerity and reckless madness. He adds that we are the most witless of all barbarians, and are consequently the only people who have contributed no useful invention to civilization."
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From: The Jesus Hoax by David Skrbina.
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Around the year 75 BC, prominent speaker and teacher Apollonius Molon wrote the first book to explicitly confront the Hebrew tribe, "Against the Jews." From his early years in Caria and Rhodes he would likely have had direct contact with them, and thus was able to write from personal experience. Molon referred to Moses as a "charlatan" and "imposter," viewing the Jews as "the very vilest of mankind."
Josephus adds the following: "[Molon] has scattered [his accusations] here and there all over his work, reviling us in one place as atheists [in the sense that they rejected the Roman gods] and misanthropes, in another reproaching us as cowards, whereas elsewhere, on the contrary, he accuses us of temerity and reckless madness. He adds that we are the most witless of all barbarians, and are consequently the only people who have contributed no useful invention to civilization."
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From: The Jesus Hoax by David Skrbina.
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French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher Voltaire in a letter to Frederick the Great.
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"We don’t have the original of any book of the New Testament. What we have are copies of copies of copies of copies... It’s not until the late second/early third century that we begin to get the complete texts of some of the individual books of the New Testament, and not until the early-to-mid fourth century that we have our first two complete New Testaments, the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Siniaticus. This means for the first 150 to 200 years of Christianity, we have a complete textual black-out period, where we simply cannot know what was originally written about Jesus at all."
— John W. Loftus (Varieties of Jesus Mythicism)
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— John W. Loftus (Varieties of Jesus Mythicism)
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No Proof Of Any Kind
Discussing all of the non-Christian evidence, historian Dr. H.E. Barnes, a professor at Columbia University, remarks that "next to nothing exists" and concludes: "In all, this evidence mounts up to some twenty-four lines, not a single one of which is of admitted authenticity."
"But even if they are authentic, and were derived from earlier sources, they would not carry us back earlier than the period in which the gospel legend took form, and so could attest only the legend of Jesus, and not his historicity."
In any case, these scarce and brief "references" to a man who supposedly shook up the world can hardly be held up as proof of his existence, and it is absurd that the purported historicity of the entire Christian religion is founded upon them. As it is said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof; yet, no proof of any kind for the historicity of Jesus has ever existed or is forthcoming.
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From: The Origins of Christianity by D.M. Murdock.
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Discussing all of the non-Christian evidence, historian Dr. H.E. Barnes, a professor at Columbia University, remarks that "next to nothing exists" and concludes: "In all, this evidence mounts up to some twenty-four lines, not a single one of which is of admitted authenticity."
"But even if they are authentic, and were derived from earlier sources, they would not carry us back earlier than the period in which the gospel legend took form, and so could attest only the legend of Jesus, and not his historicity."
In any case, these scarce and brief "references" to a man who supposedly shook up the world can hardly be held up as proof of his existence, and it is absurd that the purported historicity of the entire Christian religion is founded upon them. As it is said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof; yet, no proof of any kind for the historicity of Jesus has ever existed or is forthcoming.
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From: The Origins of Christianity by D.M. Murdock.
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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 scriptures—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 scriptures—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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"Christianity has emptied Valhalla, felled the sacred groves, extirpated the national imagery as a shameful superstition, as a devilish poison, and given us instead the imagery of a nation whose climate, laws, culture, and interests are strange to us and whose history has no connection whatever with our own."
— German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1795)
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The Three Marys
Three incarnations of Mary stood at the foot of Jesus' cross, like the Moirai of Greece and the three Norns at the foot of Odin’s sacrificial tree.
Up to Hadrian's time, victims offered to Zeus at Salamis were anointed with sacred ointments—thus becoming "Anointed Ones" or "Christs"—then hung up and stabbed through the side with a spear.
Nothing in Jesus' myth occurred at random; every detail was part of a formal sacrificial tradition, even to the procession of palms, which glorified sacred kings in ancient Babylon.
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From Varieties of Jesus Mythicism by John W. Loftus.
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Three incarnations of Mary stood at the foot of Jesus' cross, like the Moirai of Greece and the three Norns at the foot of Odin’s sacrificial tree.
Up to Hadrian's time, victims offered to Zeus at Salamis were anointed with sacred ointments—thus becoming "Anointed Ones" or "Christs"—then hung up and stabbed through the side with a spear.
Nothing in Jesus' myth occurred at random; every detail was part of a formal sacrificial tradition, even to the procession of palms, which glorified sacred kings in ancient Babylon.
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From Varieties of Jesus Mythicism by John W. Loftus.
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"I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you." — Genesis 12:3
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"'If we only lived as Christ lived, what a beautiful world this would be,' saith all thoughtless ones. If we lived as Christ lived, there would be none of us left to live. He begat no children; he labored not for his bread; he possessed neither house nor home; he merely talked. Consequently, he must have existed on charity or have stolen bread. 'If we all lived like Christ,' would there have been anyone left to labor, to be begged from, to be stolen from? 'If we all lived like Christ' is, thus a self-evident absurdity."
— Ragnar Redbeard (Might is Right)
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Jesus Never Existed
None of the supposed eyewitnesses ever met Jesus. Not even Paul—whose letters formed the foundation of the Christian movement—who "did not receive [the gospel] from any man, nor was [he] taught it; rather, [he] received it by revelation from Jesus Christ" (Gal 1:12), as further explained in Acts 9.
During Jesus' entire lifetime, not one person wrote anything about the miracles, what Jesus said, or what his followers did. There were many first century writers, philosophers, historians, and other commentators—such as Petronius, Seneca, Martial, and Quintillian—who had good reason to notice Jesus, but did not. We have no bodies, no tombs, no physical remains, no letters, no engravings—nothing that counts as evidence.
Even esteemed Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria—alive at the purported time of Jesus and one of the wealthiest and best connected citizens of the Empire—makes no mention of Christ, Christians, or Christianity in any of his voluminous writings.
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None of the supposed eyewitnesses ever met Jesus. Not even Paul—whose letters formed the foundation of the Christian movement—who "did not receive [the gospel] from any man, nor was [he] taught it; rather, [he] received it by revelation from Jesus Christ" (Gal 1:12), as further explained in Acts 9.
During Jesus' entire lifetime, not one person wrote anything about the miracles, what Jesus said, or what his followers did. There were many first century writers, philosophers, historians, and other commentators—such as Petronius, Seneca, Martial, and Quintillian—who had good reason to notice Jesus, but did not. We have no bodies, no tombs, no physical remains, no letters, no engravings—nothing that counts as evidence.
Even esteemed Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria—alive at the purported time of Jesus and one of the wealthiest and best connected citizens of the Empire—makes no mention of Christ, Christians, or Christianity in any of his voluminous writings.
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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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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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