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Has not the Sun been more helpful than the gods?
We can figuratively say that the sun created the earth, ensured its well-being by guiding it into a harmonious orbit and ordained its fruitful destiny for billions of
years. It kept us at an optimum distance so
that adequate but not more energy(unlike
the other distant frozen planets, the earth is warm but not scorching like the smaller ones nearer to the sun) reaches the earth , its size has been made optimum so that there is an atmosphere with hydrogen, oxygen, water vapor and an abundance of elements which later, using the energy supplied by the sun, produced life here and gave momentum for evolution. The unicellular organisms evolved with the energy from the sun diversifying into myriad life-forms and the earth is now the home of a very advanced civilization. The sun has loved us unlike any god or goddess. It still burns its resources and immolates itself to provide adequate warmth and energy to us and this will continue till its death.
the other distant frozen planets, the earth is warm but not scorching like the smaller ones nearer to the sun) reaches the earth , its size has been made optimum so that there is an atmosphere with hydrogen, oxygen, water vapor and an abundance of elements which later, using the energy supplied by the sun, produced life here and gave momentum for evolution. The unicellular organisms evolved with the energy from the sun diversifying into myriad life-forms and the earth is now the home of a very advanced civilization. The sun has loved us unlike any god or goddess. It still burns its resources and immolates itself to provide adequate warmth and energy to us and this will continue till its death.
But the gods have left humans orphaned and they have done every harm imaginable. They made danger haunt every human footstep from day one. Humans had been constantly on the run from the faster and stronger beasts in the early period. There were marshes and sumps everywhere and so many got drowned. Human life has been extremely difficult from the earliest times when there was scarcity of food, the fury of nature, diseases and death.
In the quakes of the 20th century more than 1, 250, 000 people died. Death by floods can be reasonably assumed to be more or less in the range of a million a century. The number of people who die in volcanoes, tempests and hurricanes is big too. Then everything collapses in a second. A quake or a plague kills the young, the old and those in their middle ages with all their dreams. Deadly diseases like cancer make human life an ordeal. So many different types of cancers haunt man today as before. Even as I write this, many are in agony; they suffer, suffer and suffer.
Extreme poverty. According to UN statistics 2.8 billion people live on less than US$2/day and roughly 1.2 billion people live on less than US$1.25/day. There are at least 300 million people in India who live with less than half a US$ a day. Malnutrition is the underlying cause of death for at least 3 million children under the age of 5 per year in the world. 3.4 million die every year from water related diseases around the
world, and roughly 768 million people do not have access to clean water. Around 35 million live with AIDS today. A woman dies every two minutes due to
complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Only 1/2 of all the women in the
under developed regions receive recommended medical attention. See how the Omnipotent God gives suffering to His special creation!
Multitudes are born into the inhuman conditions of filth and dirt of blighted Areas. Gods have killed more than half of all humans as children. Those who have survived have done so out of pure luck. There is no visible purpose at all in creating those children other than bringing pain and trouble to everyone concerned.
From the earliest times, tribes fought for their tribal all-father
or deity who prodded his followers to defeat others and establish his
superiority. Gods have partitioned the earth; each sect owing allegiance to a
god, carved out a certain portion of the inhabited lands. Later, when organized religions were
established, they fought to establish their might and it continues to this day.
The followers of the mythological gods which flourished in
the Roman Empire persecuted the early Christians and murdered many of
them. When Christianity gained upper
hand (as the Roman Emperor accepted it as the official religion) it became the
persecutor. The Inquisition courts in the name of its god, threw thousands alive
into the dens of lions, or into boiling oil and killed or torched others.
Even scientists were not spared for upholding the truth (remember Bruno and
Galileo who were persecuted or burnt alive for rejecting foolishness advocated
by the Church.)
The Islamic conquerors killed innumerable followers of other gods and forcibly converted many of them into Islam at gun point. Nobody knows how many perished in the
crusades waged between Christians and Muslims! Christians and Muslims have persecuted the Jews for centuries, Even now the
Arab Israeli wars do not seem to end.
When one religion disintegrate into a number of denominations, as
did Christianity and Islam, conflicts follow. The Anglo-French wars
and others of Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries were between the protestant and
catholic nations. In the latter half of the twentieth century
we see wars becoming common between the different sects of Islam. Continued wars
between Iran and Iraq, the threat of a conflict between GCC nations and Iran
emanate from the animosity between Sunnis and Shiites. Sectarian Islamic
warfare is spreading wherever the sects are becoming powerful. Christian
nations conquered Islamic Afghanistan and Iraq killing or maiming millions for
their own motives!
Jihadists immolate themselves
in the name of their god to murder people believing in another god. Terror has
become a real threat to the existence of humans. Meaningful harmony seems to be almost
impossible as one god’s demands look conflicting with another's. Followers owe
allegiance to their god and their group in an emotionally charged context and
communal conflicts can arise any moment in countries where different religions
co-exist and can become a full-fledged war.
The various gods of different religions are in rivalry and are
competing with each other. Wars, conflicts, massacre, killing and hatred
continue everywhere. There is no help coming from any one of them. No prayer is being answered ever.
No help reaches the poor who die of
hunger, malnutrition and diseases. The only thing available in abundance for the poor is the
religious texts like the Bible, Quran, Gita and so on which are distributed free
after a quake, tsunami, cyclone, flood, famine, or plague.
Due to anti-abortion and anti- artificial contraception polices of gods’
religions, the poor proliferate and
their life is in abject poverty. The heavenly father who feeds the birds of the
air does not help them at all. Religions
have accumulated great wealth in the names of gods but they do not help the poor,
the sick, or the orphaned. The clergy
have lived a luxurious life and even now the cardinals, bishops, priests -all lead a
care-free life at the expense of the faithful. One in every fifty Catholic
priest is a pedophile. If they have harmed 5 children each, total number of
children harmed during our period will alone be more than 1.5 Million! The number of
priest-sodomites will be much more.
Stephen Hawking has declared that god is not required for the universe. Einstein had said there cannot be an immortal soul. Gods and souls are found only in the
thinking of man or in the books written by those who lived long back and who
never understood the workings of this world or life, Man’s quest for immortality,
his helplessness before death makes him continue with such beliefs although
they are products of their own
imagination. That could be the reason why a good percentage of the world
population does not believe in any god any more.
There is no need to believe in the sun (you believe something which is not there); you understand it, the sun is so very real, concrete, living and the true reason of every breath you take. It is not a god or anything special in the scheme of the universe. It is just a star like the trillions of others. But it gave enough energy for life to spurt up and evolve into intelligent beings here. It has played the role of a traditional god unlike the thousands of gods that have surfaced. No wonder many people have worshiped it as a deity.
There is no need to believe in the sun (you believe something which is not there); you understand it, the sun is so very real, concrete, living and the true reason of every breath you take. It is not a god or anything special in the scheme of the universe. It is just a star like the trillions of others. But it gave enough energy for life to spurt up and evolve into intelligent beings here. It has played the role of a traditional god unlike the thousands of gods that have surfaced. No wonder many people have worshiped it as a deity.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Bible, the Worst Book Ever
I do not think there can be a more foolish thing than the Bible. God created the first parents out
of His immense love. But He put them to a test and they failed. The loving God
immediately opened the gates of hell and started roasting the souls of men,
women and children for all eternity. He
could have forgiven them--after all Eve was tempted by the serpent God had set
upon her for the purpose.Instead, God punished them in this world, in the
world to come and further, passed the sin to the entire future generations! Can there be something more cruel?
The Bible is not only mere falsehood or a collection of fables gathered from here and there of the ancient period, full of transmissions and outright deceit, but also an account of God’s particular love for Israel to the exclusion of all the others. It is dominated by a fiendish and angry God who kills the entire kingdoms of Canaan area to settle his small tribe Israel.
The Bible is not only mere falsehood or a collection of fables gathered from here and there of the ancient period, full of transmissions and outright deceit, but also an account of God’s particular love for Israel to the exclusion of all the others. It is dominated by a fiendish and angry God who kills the entire kingdoms of Canaan area to settle his small tribe Israel.
The Bible is hardly something we should be teaching our children
or anyone for that matter. God was so happy killing children and infants. He
killed every infant, toddler and children in the deluge he sent to destroy
everything. When he annihilated Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone, he
just didn’t bother about infants, toddlers or kids. He had a special love for
killing the firstborn in his monstrous campaigns against the Egyptians. He sent
his angels to behead their firstborns. His passion to kill the first born
remained alive for ever. The Israelite celebrated the Passover and sprinkled
blood on their doorposts so that God wouldn't kill their firstborn children
(Hebrews 11:28) like he did those of the Egyptians as recorded in the Exodus.
The OT
books are narrations regarding the lives, of the Israelite, their animal
sacrifices, rituals, wars, cruelty, social life and relationship with their
tribal chief. The choosing of a small
tribe, at a particular period of human history, to reveal His mind and His
grand plan to redeem man from the pits they had been thrown into with the original sin, is against the
universality of any Supreme, all-loving Being. Those who lived before Christ
and the vast majority of those who lived later have not heard of Him or got
convinced of Him.
The Bible is full of violence and ugly stories, with a few seemingly
good platitudes and parables interspersed. Anyone who has read the Bible
independently will find it hardly worth reading. But still, preachers,
teachers, priests, bishops, cardinals and the Popes, setting aside the
intrinsic controversies, fallacies, fictitious stories, misleading concepts,
sexy narrations, descriptions of vengeance, anger and utter nonsense, propagate
that it is the ‘word of God.’ Their programmed brains do not see the obscenities, tortuous massacres, unrelenting vindictiveness, hundreds of pages of God’s anger and vengeance. God is pictured as an ethnic maniac who loved the
smell of burnt blood, and fatty flesh.
There are several filthy, violent or sexy passages in the Bible,
including genocide, murder, rape, incest, and explicit sex narrations. There
are descriptions of how Lot’s daughters have sex with their father to get
pregnant! It cannot be a one day affair as getting pregnant will not happen
overnight. It is written Cain, after killing Abel, knew his "wife
"(his own mother was the only one woman alive at that time as there is no
mention of a sister for Cain in the Bible). Abraham marries his half-sister and
God approves it. Onan was asked to have sex with his brother’s (whom God had
killed) wife and since Onan refused to impregnate her God kills him too. Among those who have several wives and concubines are Gideon,
Elkanah, David, Rehoboam, Abijah, and Solomon. Collecting more wives and sex
slaves was a sign of status in God’s book. King Solomon, with thousands of
wives and concubines was a great hero. He sees women as accursed and treats
them as sex objects of men and oppresses them. He encouraged slavery and
stoning of women if their hymen was not intact at marriage.
There cannot be anything more foolish than the teaching that God
Almighty sent His only son to die for the sins of man. A simple wish of his
must have obliterated the first sin. He could have simply forgiven the first
parents’ simple disobedience and the entire mankind would have been free of the
Original Sin. It is foolish to think Almighty God walked through the rugged
terrains of Palestine to get struck, scourged and crucified! (How did God
locate this infinitesimally small earth in the entire universe with 200 billion
galaxies and trillions and trillion of stars and planets?) I do not think any writer/poet
or dreamer has ever woven a more fictitious stuff than what is in the gospels. Unknown authors made a Jew a god like the young
pagan gods born of virgins and who did many miracles, died young and
resurrected to save their people. Paul
invented the theory of redemption and he gave a meaning for the crucifixion of
a Jew.
How can this thing be the best book? How does it become the
bestselling Book? May be they are forced upon people as they force children to
accept Christianity without any consent from them. Christianity has been doing
so from the time the Roman Empire chose it as its official religion. Modern day
terrorists and serial killers must have learnt a lesson or two from the Old
Testament practices like stoning adulterous women, raping, oppressing,
beheading firstborns, massacring people and animals and annihilating entire
opposition armies even by throwing heavy stones from heaven. This book needs to
be banned as it leads people to violence, oppression, deceit, falsehood and treachery.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Nature/gods are monstrously indifferent to humans
Food has
been scarce ever since humans' appearance on this planet. As they started to walk
upright, they had to eke out a precarious existence by hunting animals, many of them
faster or stronger than him, or by gathering fruits and roots. Their lives depended on the vagaries of nature and the locality he was born into. They were under perpetual threat from the ferocious beasts, poisonous snakes and
marshes that abounded then. Danger lurked everywhere, they were constantly on the
run; trees were his only refuge; as he had climbed down the trees with the
improvement of posture, he was not good in reaching their tops.
Billions
have perished in natural calamities-like floods, hurricanes, quakes, famine,
plagues - and in wars fought for gods and religions. Deadly viruses have been threatening human
life. At this moment millions are fighting hunger, cancer, AIDS, TB, Malaria or
dying. Human life has been extremely difficult from the earliest times when
there was scarcity of food, the fury of nature, diseases and death. Every year
volcanoes, tempests, earthquakes, floods and hurricanes devour millions of
people who have built their humble dreams with their sweat and blood. But in
one destructive moment of nature everything is over. All their dreams, along
with their breath, are obliterated once and for all.
Nature and gods have been indifferent to humans;
they are not concerned whether we live or die whether we are in pain or suffer.
Can nature bring havoc to humans without the explicit consent of the Omnipotent
and Omniscient God? Can a volcano devour thousands without the nod of the
Almighty? Every natural disaster, every suffering of man, every ill of
children, every evil that has happened to the living beings must have been
brought upon them by the almighty Himself! Is He a monster who creates people
and brings sufferings to them? The orgy goes on according to His whims and
fancies. Is He evil incarnate that enjoys the agony of the poor sent down here
for a passing breath?
In the
quakes of the 20th century more than 1250000 people died. (Source: Wikipedia)
People have died likewise in all the 1000 centuries we have been here on this
earth. But as population has been steadily increasing over the years we cannot
compute an exact figure of the total number of people died so far in quakes
since the dawn of humanity.
Death by
floods can be reasonably assumed to be more or less in the range of a
million people a century. The number of people who die in volcanoes, tempests
and hurricanes will be big too. Due to various epidemics since the birth of
Jesus, more than 1000 million people have died. In the 1918 flue pandemic, 75
Million people died worldwide (source Wikipedia). Certain plagues like cholera,
small pox and others decimated human groups. How do we assimilate that this is
the outcome of a loving God’s loving Providence?
These
hapless people had built their dreams over so many years and constructed their
lives by years of toil. Everything collapses in a second. A quake or a plague
kills the young, the old and those in their middle ages with all their dreams.
I often think of humans rearing up pigs and slaughtering them when they want.
Is not the Almighty doing the same thing with us? He creates and kills us as He fancies; it’s
all a play for Him; there is no love or meaning in the whole burlesque that He
is carrying on down here.
Deadly
diseases like cancer make our lives an ordeal. So many different types of
cancers are haunting man today as before. Even as I write this, there are
millions of people in the world who are in agony. They suffer, suffer and
suffer. Is there any help coming from above? And still Christians speak about
the abundant love of their God. It affects
the rich, the poor and the medium class alike. But in tsunamis, floods, quakes
and hurricanes the poor suffer more. And they believe and pray God more than
the elite. But when a natural disaster strikes the poor get thrashed up or
simply get killed like insects.
There are
so many other ills that haunt modern man: heart diseases, diabetes,
pressure, urinary problems, kidney and liver failures, and innumerable other
ills. There are those who are blind, deaf or mute, the physically handicapped
and the imbeciles and the feeble-minded.
Why doesn’t
God bring some light into the dark world of the blind? Let them see at least
once the beauty of His wonderful creation. Let the deaf hear at least once the
music of the wind, the twitter of the birds, and the murmur of a meandering
stream. Is it not demonic to deny them such simple pleasures? Can you fathom
the reason for creating a violently mad guy who has to prolong his existence
with all the ill-treatment he receives from other humans apart from the ills he
already received by birth?
Extreme poverty. According
to UN statistics 2.8 billion people live
on less than US$2/day and roughly 1.2 billion people live on less than
US$1.25/day. There are at least 300 million people in India who live with less
than half a US$ a day. Malnutrition is
the underlying cause of death for at least 3 million children under the age of
5 per year in the world. Thousands of adults too are dying every year too. Millions are born into the inhuman conditions of filth and dirt of
blighted Areas. Will this monstrous drama of the Almighty ever end?
3.4 million People die every year from water
related diseases around the world, and roughly 768 million people do not have
access to clean water. About 35 million
people are living with AIDS today. 67% of them are living in Sub-Saharan
Africa. A woman dies every two minutes due to complications during pregnancy
and childbirth. Only 1/2 of all the women in the under developed regions
receive recommended medical attention. But why there is no pro-active action
from God? His choicest creation has been suffering from the beginning of time
till now and this will, in all probability, continue till the end of time.
Things
happen as per the gravitational, chemical, biological and physical laws of matter. There is
no interference of a god, or force-good or bad- from any where extrinsic to this world.
Those who die get buried; those who survive live on. Nature is monstrously indifferent to man. We can understand these truths like light and darkness. No god is concerned whether
humans live or die, whether they succeed or fail, whether they are in pain or
joy.
Beginnings of gods. As early
humans could not understand this universe or life he deified nature phenomena.
Good phenomena became benevolent gods and bad ones evil deities. Appeasing the latter and pleasing the former
followed. Millions of gods got evolved in the course of time. In tandem with
the rise of powerful kings over chieftains, some gods were elevated to superior
positions and later to an unassailable heights resulting in monotheism. In the
course of time, fervent religious leaders established sects according to their
own convictions and fancies. Now we have hundreds of such warring sects each
one of them claiming to be the follower of the true god. The rivalries between
the gods of the diverse sects have caused most of the wars and other communal
conflicts of the world so far.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
A Simple Fact Proves There is No God!
Demographists
suggest that the death rate among medieval children
in UK was around 25% in the first year, 12.5% between one and four, and about
6% between five and nine(Nicholas Orme, University of Exeter). It works out to
around 44% before the age of ten. If in UK so many children died, in the other
parts of the world it would be more or less of the same pattern. About 400-500
years back 44 children out of 100 died before reaching the age of ten. I think
it would be reasonable to assume that half of them did not become adults. If we
project this to 2000 years and more backwards we can easily assume that one out
of two children died before the age of ten and may be only 45 out of 100 reached adulthood.
Child-Deaths
have come down in the modern era. Child mortality rate 180 per thousand in 2060
has come down to around 45 in 2015 as
per UN estimates. But more children still die before reaching the age of ten.
According to UN estimates 6.3 million children under the age of five died in
2013. WHO estimates 5.9 million of them died in 2015, 16 000 every day. But
when we consider more than 100,000 years humans have been here on this planet, child-death has come
down substantially only in the last 2 or 3 centuries as medicine, science and living standards
advanced. In all the 99700 years child death continued unabated. And God has
nothing to do with this reduction in the child death rates. The pertinent question: why do gods let them
suffer and die like insects?
They have
suffered greatly throughout man’s history. Some of them have died due to contagious and
other diseases; others died due to inadequate food and water. Natural
calamities –like floods, hurricane, quakes, tsunamis, volcanoes have massacred
them too. If god cannot protect and help them grow into adulthood why does He
create them? There is no visible purpose at all in creating children other than
bringing pain and trouble to everyone concerned. Is He a Monster who enjoys
creating and massacring them haphazardly at his whim and fancy?
Children cannot use freewill
If
Christians say children will go to heaven, why the hell are they sent to this
world? They don’t reach adulthood and hence cannot use their freewill to merit
heaven or deserve hell. If God sends them to heaven out of His love, is there
any purpose for creating them? They suffer out of hunger and thirst or they are
in pain due to diseases until they die. Their suffering causes pain to their
loved ones too. Their deaths break the hearts of the poor parents who so
painfully conceived, gave birth and brought them up.
Even today
children die without food, water or both.Youngsters go to school
hungry, tired and half naked. They live in filth by the side of stinking drains
and on footpaths. A Child dies every six
minutes in Africa. 3000 children die in India every day! They are all suffering
and their life is an ordeal without food, clothes, home and medical care. According
to Global Issues, (2014 estimates) 21000 children die around the world each
day! One child is dying every 4 seconds. 900 children die in an hour! The silent killers are poverty, hunger,
easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. Where are
the gods?
As per the
Population Reference Bureau (PRB) a total of more than 108 billion humans have
been born here. Out of them 50-55% must
have died (before reaching adulthood) as we estimated earlier, up to the modern
times. In the last 3 centuries or so the child death rate has come down.
We interpolate deaths of children from the PRB table for total population from 50,000 B.C.
Period total births total child (before14) deaths in
millions
50,000
B.C.- - assumed % given
in brackets.
8000 B.C. 1,137,789,769 625 (55%)
1 A.D. 46,025,332,354 25313 ”
1200
26,591,343,000 14625
”
1650
12,782,002,453 7030
”
1750
3,171,931,513 1114 (50%)
1850
4,046,240,009 1820 (45%)
1900
2,900,237,856 1160 (40%)
1950
3,390,198,215 1017 (30%)
1995
5,427,305,000 1085 (20%)
2011
2,130,327,622 213 (10%)
Total
child deaths: 54302
million or 54 billion up to 2011 from from 50,000 B.C. More deaths would have happened before that and we leave it as we don't have even a guess.
As I write
this, thousands of children are dying in Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, India, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Mozambique and in many other nations. If gods have
been killing almost half of all people getting birth here, what is their purpose
of creating humans? Those who survive do so randomly or out of luck. There is no conscious interference from any god. No purpose
is served in creating them as they die without ever exercising freewill. Why
do gods create the psychotic, the patients of hysteria, the hydro-cephalic, the
brain deficient, the mentally retarded and the imbeciles (about 5% of the
population) who need others’ help just to prolong their existence and who are
in perpetual pain. Most of them do not enjoy any freedom at all to deliberate and decide their actions. Without freewill the children and the mentally retarded cannot do
anything to attain heaven, moksha, nirvana, anything in the afterlife.
As the
Creator has no definite plan or purpose for their creation, the only inference
is either He is not an Intelligent Being or He has nothing to do with the
birth, life and death of humans. Either way, we are compelled necessarily to
reach the conclusion that there is no god.
Saturday, March 11, 2017
There is no evidence Jesus lived
Gospels no authentic
document
The gospels, written in Greek-to propagate a religion-are
the only source for the life and ministry of Jesus. He and his Jewish fishermen
followers spoke Aramaic. There is no trustworthy evidence to show that any of
these books were in existence before 100 years after the death of Christ. Even
Christian scholars, admit that Mark was written sometime around 70 AD, Luke by
about 110AD, Matthew by about 130AD, and John by around 140 AD. Hence they
could not have been written by the guy's disciples. As layers and layers were
added to the oral stories with elaborations, distortions, additions,
interpretations borrowing from here and there, we cannot get the faintest
outline of who Jesus was and what he did or said.
How can something written more than a century after the
person they describe lived and died, without any historical document to base
what is written, become true? The original gospels no longer exist; they have
been lost or destroyed. The oldest existing manuscripts belong to the 6th
century which are copies of copies of copies. We do not know who, when and how
they were copied. There were many Gospels in circulation in the early
centuries: "the Gospel of Paul," the Gospel of Bartholomew," the
"Gospel of Judas Iscariot," the "Gospel of the Egyptians,"
the "Gospel or Recollections of Peter," the "Oracles or Sayings
of Christ," and many others. It is even argued that works were forged in
the names of the apostles, and even in the name of Christ. They had many
contradictory stories and they were all burnt after the Synod of Trent that
accepted the four as canonical. There is absolutely no certainty or reliability
about anything found in the Gospels.
The story of Jesus was not a new idea!
There lived many men who bore the name, "Jesus"
and many political leaders who had the title "Christ." All the
materials necessary for the manufacture of the story of Christ existed
too. In all the pagan cultures there
were gods born of virgins who performed miracles, gave new teachings, got
killed or crucified and who ascended into heaven after resurrection. One could
easily fabricate a story like Jesus’ from the literature of the time.
Historians are silent
on this guy
The Jewish and pagan historians of the 1st&2nd centuries are
almost silent regarding Jesus. Flavius Josephus who died about 100 AD published
"The Jewish war" in 77/78 and
"The antiquities of the Jews" in 94/95. In the earlier Greek versions
there is no mention of Jesus as such. But in the subsequent editions there are
references to Jesus (which must have had been added later.) All leading
scholars agree that the phrase “if it is lawful to call him a man’ found twice
in later editions is simply a later addition. Cornelius Tacitus in about 116 AD
mentioned in his manual: “ Nero was fiercely persecuting Christians on account
of their crimes. Although the pernicious superstition was momentarily subdued,
it again broke out not only in Judea but also in the city of Rome.” Tranquilus
Suetonius who lived in the 2nd century alludes to Christians who adhere to a
new and pernicious superstition in two passages in “The Live of the Caesars.”
Around 112 CE, Pliny the Younger wrote to Emperor Trojan, detailing how he was
conducting the trials of those accused of being Christians. A few years later, another historian,
Suetonius, wrote that Emperor Claudius had expelled Jews from Rome because of
the disturbances instigated by Chrestus. If Jesus were the guy described in the
Bible--calming the seas, walking over water, curing lepers, making the blind
see, the deaf hear, raising the dead, he would have been quite famous and the
historians of the period would have written extensively on him. But they hardly
mention about the guy. How come the Almighty was known only to handful of
ignorant fishermen?
Contradictions on his
birth stories
Matthew says Jesus was born when Herod was the King of
Judea. Luke says he was born when Cyrenius was Governor of Syria. Herod died in
the year 4 B.C. and Cyrenius,(Quirinius)did not become Governor until ten years
later. Herod and Quirinius are separated by the reign of Archelaus, Herod's
son. Between Matthew and Luke, there is, thus a gap of ten years, as to the
time of Christ's birth. No early Christian knew when Christ was born. Christmas (Dec.25th ) was a pagan festival adopted as such. Christians have contrary opinions concerning
the year the Messiah appeared on earth. Nobody knew when the Almighty god was
born! Was he born at all?
The story of the Immaculate Conception and connected legends
and the miracles were invented to picture him as a god like the mythical gods: Mithra, Attis, Osiris, Horus, Apollonius Dionysus and others. Many scholars
find the genealogy given in the gospels totally wrong- obviously added to show
that Jesus is the heir of the promise made to Abraham. But if he was born of a
virgin and what is the use of giving the genealogy extending to Joseph? Matthew and Luke give a genealogy of Jesus, the names, and
even the number of generations differs between the two-obviously added to show
that Jesus is the heir of the promise made to Abraham. What
purpose a maternal genealogy would serve in a Jewish (patriarchal) setting?
Matthew and Luke say Jesus was born in Bethlehem-the city of
David- by making Joseph and Mary travel from Nazareth to it, two provinces away
for registering in a Roman census.(there is no historical evidence) Even if
there was one, only the head of the family had to go and not his fully pregnant
wife. His birth is made to happen here to fulfill a prophesy of Micah. The
stories of the shepherds and wise men who recognized the child as the son of
god are preserved in Mathew and Luke. Remember David himself was a shepherd in
the fields of Bethlehem. The narration could have been inserted to show the coming
of the Messianic Shepherd from David’s line. Mathew describes the attempt of Herod to destroy the child
and hence Joseph and Mary took flight to Egypt and returned back to Nazareth
where they then settled down.
There was no city of
Nazareth in the 1st Century
Gospels try to show that Nazareth was his home town. Was
there a city of Nazareth in the first century? Historians do not think there
was anything called Nazareth during the time. The Encyclopedia Biblical says,
“We cannot perhaps venture to assert positively that there was a city of
Nazareth in Jesus' time." If there was no Nazareth in the 1st century,
gospels are fictitious.
The gospel writers
did not know about his early life?
After his birth, nothing is known of the life of the
Almighty until he reached the age of 30. Luke mentions Jesus discussing with learned people in the Temple of Jerusalem like Buddha did, when he was 12. There
were stories of other gods having such discussions with the learned at young ages.
If Jesus was recognized as
the promised King by the shepherds and Herod and the learned people, why did he emerge a stranger from
Nazareth to begin his ministry? Why didn’t any one recognize him during his
public life? Why are the four gospels
silent on the thirty years of the life of Jesus?
Inconsistencies in
his public life
Gospels speak only about his ministry which lasted just one
year according to the synoptic gospels and more than two according to John. John
says Jesus was very much in Judea and went to the Temple of Jerusalem often.
But other gospels say his ministry was in Galilee and he went to Jerusalem
towards the end. Why should one betray Jesus who appeared daily in the streets
and preached often in the Temple? The
priests would not have bribed a man to betray a teacher whom everybody knew. If
the accounts of Christ's betrayal are true, what John writes about his public
appearances in Jerusalem must be false.
Was Jesus crucified?
There are many scholars who doubt the story of Christ's
crucifixion. They mention that Roman civilization was one of the highest orders
in the world. Their courts were models of order and fairness. None was
condemned without a trial nor handed to the executioner before being found
guilty. The judge Pontius Pilate found him innocent and no charge of wrong
doing was brought before him. It looks improbable that a man found innocent
could be punished, tortured and crucified. Why did the Jews a civilized people of
the time want to crucify a man who were working so many miracles and doing only
good?
Is it not strange that during the first 8 centuries a lamb was represented as dying on the cross for
the salvation of the world? A lamb
carried a cross and a lamb was on the cross. Pope Hadrian I, confirming the
decree of the sixth Synod of Constantinople, commanded that thereafter the
figure of a man should take the place of a lamb on the cross at the close of
the 9th century. Till then a lamb was on the cross. Did Jesus die on
the cross at all? Remember, there is an amulet depicting the god
Dionysus on a
cross, very similar to the way we see crucified Christ’s picture. May be,
Christ was not crucified after all. Was the whole story of Christ fabricated
from the mythical gods and the Church with its political and spiritual power
made people believe it?
Jesus was fabricated!
The story of Jesus was certainly fashioned after the
mythical gods like Osiris, Dionysus, Attis, Adonis, Mithra with some ideas taken from Buddha and Krishna. The narratives of some of these gods existed hundreds
of years before Jesus’ story emerged and some others were almost contemporaries
of Jesus. The preachers who wrote about Jesus and fashioned him were familiar
with them and they drew from them extensively or rather they created a Jesus in
their model. With the Pauline idea of redemption, he was made to die and later resurrect like many of the pagan gods.
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