Monday, March 14, 2011

Tom Harpur on Bible Mythology, and Why He says Jesus Christ Never Lived Historically

http://dailybell.ch/1859/Anthony-Wile-with-Tom-Harpur-on-Bible-Mythology-and-Why-He-says-Jesus-Christ-Never-Lived-Historically.html

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  1. My reply:

    Arguments that Jesus never lived because his life story channels prior pagan religions are good but indirect and oblique, and ultimately non-conclusive, even clueless in face of the massive Old Testament references. However, an understanding of the history of the mysterious Jehovah cult of the Jews provides the best framework for dismissing Jesus' historicity. Why? Because the J cult's main production the Old Testament was 400 years old by the 1st century, and the only reason they bother to put out a new production is because of their belief that everything that happens does so because Jehovah made it happen. Hence, when the pagan Romans destroyed Jerusalem along with the Jewish Temple in 70 C.E., effectively destroying the Jewish religion forever since without the temple there can be no priesthood and sacrifices, they had to explain why Jehovah made it happen, and voila, a Ouija Board told them that he sent his ultimate prophet, his only begotten son 40 years earlier, and the Jews rejected him, causing him to reject them. The rest would be just filling in biographical details like any scriptwriter for a TV show does, using the Old Testament for clues – not pagan mythology per se, sorry. Give the cult a few decades, and poof, the New Testament, the only source of the life of Jesus appears mysteriously along with a deliberate attempt to cover the tracks to the real authors. After that it's easy, just produce scrolls with the "Good News" and set up houses to read them to the public, mainly slaves after they sneak away from their Roman masters. The political message: the Roman Empire killed Jehovah's son, so it is doomed even more than Jerusalem was. Plus, your life as a slave may be hopeless, but take a bath and worship Christus and you will end up with him in heaven, while your Roman masters will rot in Hell. And the punchline: it worked.

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