Christianity – History’s Greatest Con
If you remain in my word
You are really my disciples
And you will know the truth
And the truth will set you free
John 8:31-32
Christianity is one of the few things in our world that is basically total bullshit. Having said this, I do believe Jesus was born in Bethlehem, but that’s about it. The rest is complete BS. Jesus wasn’t poor, he wasn’t a carpenter, and he didn’t grow up in Nazareth. There was no virgin birth and no resurrection. Jesus wasn’t a Christian, Christians aren’t followers of Jesus, and Jesus wasn’t Jesus. He was a Messiah, but not Jesus, who is the Messiah that comes at the end of days to save the world. Christians actually know Jesus wasn’t Jesus, or at least they were forced to admit it when Jesus was crucified and the world didn’t come to an end. Their response was to make up the story of the second coming, where he comes back as a completely different person and does the things he refused to do the first time around.
The man we call Jesus was really Immanuel, the Jewish Messiah. His advent was predicted in the Book of Issiah, where it refers to him as the ‘Wonderful Councillor’ and the ‘Prince of Peace’ and says that he will sit upon the throne of David. This is clearly describing a pacifist, as do the Gospel accounts of Jesus. To sit upon the thrown of David he had to be a descendant of David, and this is established at the start of both Matthew and Luke, who list his linage from King David then go on to contradict themselves by saying he was born of a virgin. John and Paul both say Joseph was his father. So, rather than being a poor carpenter from Nazareth, he was a rich royal from Jerusalem.1
The name Jesus is derived from Yeshua, which means Jehovah is Salvation in Hebrew. It was translated into Greek as Iesous, then anglicized into Jesus. Yeshua isn’t really a name though, it’s the title of the Saviour of the End Times who comes to lead the forces of light against the forces of darkness in the Battle of Armageddon, the final conflict between good and evil. In the Book of Revelation there’s a passage referring to Yeshua which says that ‘out of his mouth there protrudes a sharp long sword, that he might strike the nations with it, and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron. It then goes on to say that he will tread the ‘winepress of the anger of the wrath of God the Almighty.’ This is not a pacifist, and clearly not the Jesus of the Gospels. Calling Immanuel Jesus is a little insulting, a bit like calling Ghandi Alexandra the Great.2
The fact is Jesus was Jewish, as anyone who has read the gospels should know. His followers were all Jews too, so it should be pretty obvious to anyone with a functioning neuron that Christians, who are not Jews, are not followers of Jesus. Christianity is the religion of Paul of Tarsus, who founded it about a decade after the crucifixion.3
Paul despised Jesus and abhorred what he taught, and launched a campaign to eradicate Jesus’ followers a couple of years after the crucifixion. Having dealt with Jesus’ followers in the holy lands, Paul was heading to Damascus to continue his campaign when Jesus intercepted him and attempted to convert him into a follower. He did this in the belief that converting his main adversary would encourage others to join his movement.4
Converting Paul would entail a complete reversal of his beliefs, so it would require an extreme intervention. According to the Book of Acts, Jesus struck Paul blind and left him that way for three days, and his sight was only returned on condition that he converted. Paul was also put on a total fast during this time, and not given anything to eat or drink, so he would have been in a desperate state after three days of this.5
The possibility that Paul only agreed to convert to secure his release is patently obvious, and you have to wonder why Jesus thought this forced conversion could have worked.
Despite the traumatic nature of his conversion Paul did not continue his homicidal campaign against the followers of Jesus. Instead he joined Jesus’ church (which was known as the Jerusalem Church), then went on to destroy it from the inside.
Paul set up his own branch of the church, then started making changes to what Jesus taught and practiced. Because Paul wanted to convert Romans, who were pagans and unwilling to adopt the laws and customs of the Jews, he ditched the dietary restrictions and the circumcision. He then replaced the Jewish ceremonies and festivals with pagan ones, such as the Eucharist and the Baptism, Christmas and Easter.
Paul also added to the story of Jesus to align him with pagan heroes. The virgin impregnated by God and the resurrection being obvious fables that no sensible adult should believe in. With regards to the resurrection, the details of the ordeal make it clear Jesus survived the experience. He was tied to a post, not nailed to a cross, and he was only up there for six hours, so unlikely to be dead. They didn’t break his legs to see if he was dead, but a guard stabbed him in the side with a spear, causing him to call out in a loud voice, showing that he was actually still alive. Instead of washing and oiling his body and wrapping him in a shroud, they treated him with aloe for the sunburn and myrrh for the stab wound, and wrapped him in bandages. He is then seen by dozens of people in the flesh, and he shows them his wounds to prove to them he was crucified.6
Although Christianity incorporated the ethical teachings of Jesus, these are not his teachings, he got them from Buddha. And while they are an important part of being a follower of Jesus, they are not what defines a Nazarene, which is what his followers were called. What made the Nazarenes unique was the way of life Jesus developed, which he called The Way. Although mentioned several times by Luke in the Book of Acts, the gospels never mention it.7
The fact is Paul is known as the chief persecutor of the followers of Jesus among Christians, who also know their religion is based on Paul’s teachings. The Catholic Church even has a saying that ‘Christianity is based on Pauline thought.’ They also know that Jesus was Jewish, and that they are not, yet still think that they are his followers. This wouldn’t be so bad if Paul was a half decent bloke, but he was a psychopath. Which kinda makes sense when you think about it. Because if Jesus was the Christ, and Paul was he number one enemy, then Paul was the Antichrist.8
There is an important point to make here regarding the true purpose of Christianity. It is not to encourage bad people to do bad things, but to hinder good people from doing good things. The vast majority of Christians are good people, they have just been conned. The fact is we are all brainwashed idiots, it’s just some of us have been targeted more than others.
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