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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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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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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"The bible is the most successful deception of all time . . . The ultimate goal is to have the whole world worship the God of Israel . . . and have a one world religion, a one world government, ruled by the Torah messiah from Zion."

An excellent summary of the Christian deception by @Know_More_News.

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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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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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"'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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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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Christianity Is Not European

The foundations of Christianity are: The God of Israel (Matt 15:31), his mythological son—Jesus Christ, the King of the Jews (Mark 15:12)—the Jewish scriptures (Luke 24:44), and the letters of Paul the Jewish Pharisee (Phil 3:5).

Jesus celebrated Jewish festivals (John 5:1)—including Hanukkah (John 10:22) and Passover (John 2:13)—regularly attended the synagogue (Luke 4:16), came to fulfill the Jewish Mosaic law (Matt 5:17), was sent only "to the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matt 15:24), and clearly stated that "salvation is from the Jews" (John 4:22).

The first followers of Christianity were Jewish Christians and all four Gospels contain numerous references to the Old Testament, something that would only be expected of educated Jews. To claim that Christianity's roots are European is even more absurd than to claim that modern Jews are not the real Jews.

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Awaiting a savior breeds a dangerous complacency. It allows us to abdicate our own responsibility for our actions and to neglect the duty we have to ourselves and others. True virtue lies not in looking to someone to deliver us from our troubles, but in facing them with courage and a steadfast determination to do what is right. Seize control of your own destiny, for he who awaits a savior will forever remain in captivity.

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Christianity Did Not Spread Rapidly

Like so much else about Christianity, the claims of its rapid spread are largely mythical. In reality, in some places it took many blood-soaked centuries before its opponents and their lineage had been sufficiently slaughtered so that Christianity could usurp the reigning ideology.

According to noted historian Gibbon, by the middle of the 3rd century, there were at Rome—the hotbed of Christianity—only "one bishop, forty-six presbyters, fourteen deacons, forty-two acolytes and fifty readers, exorcists and porters. We may venture to estimate the Christians at Rome at about fifty thousand, when the total number of inhabitants cannot be taken at less than a million."

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

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Christianity Does Not Oppose Judaism

Christians often cite verses such as Revelation 3:9 as supposed evidence that Christianity is anti-Semitic in nature, which could not be further from the truth.

The Book of Revelation was written by "John" towards the end of the first century, when the Jewish Christians failed to convince other Jewish sects that their prophesied Messiah—a concept foreign to Europeans at the time—had arrived in the flesh.

Those who rejected Jesus as the Jewish Messiah were thus referred to as being "of the synagogue of Satan" and as those who "say they are Jews, and are not," just like how many Christians refer to followers of other denominations as not being true Christians.

And accusing the Jews of having committed deicide by allegedly killing Jesus, while Christianity led to the elimination of our native Gods and to the destruction of our ethnic customs in the name of the God of Israel, is beyond hypocritical. They couldn't have asked for a better outcome.

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Why Don't We Know Any Actual Dates?

We know what day Cleopatra put an asp to her breast (August 12th, 30 B.C.E.). We know what time Mt. Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompeii (August 24th, 79 C.E., between 2 and 3 in the afternoon). We know what day Julius Caesar forgot to beware the ides of March and bumped into Brutus (March 15th, 44 B.C.E.).

So why don’t we know the actual date that Jesus died? Or entered triumphantly into Jerusalem? Or drove the moneychangers from the Temple? Or raised Lazarus from the dead? Or any of the other spectacular events we find in the Gospels and Acts: earthquakes; mass conversions; mass resurrections; trials before governors, kings and emperors; hours of worldwide darkness, etc.?

Why don’t we know the day (or even the year!) of any event in Jesus' life? If you were there the day the sky opened and the angels received Jesus as he ascended up into Heaven, wouldn’t you remember it for the rest of your life?

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From: Nailed by David Fitzgerald.

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Christianity Uplifted Rome?

Rome was founded in 754 BCE. In the year 315 CE, the Emperor himself, Constantine, converted to Christianity, and in 380 CE, Emperor Theodosius declared it the official state religion. A mere 15 years later, in 395 CE, the Empire fractured and the Western half utterly collapsed.

Some may argue that Christianity was responsible for the Roman Imperial Period, which started in 27 BCE, but by the middle of the 3rd century, Christians made up only 5% of the entire Roman population, according to English historian Edward Gibbon.

Christianity did not uplift Rome, it destroyed it. Over a millennium of Roman greatness vanquished within only a few decades. Our competence derives from our European blood, not from Jewish scriptures.

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