Sunday, January 6, 2019

Jesus the Jew vs Christianity



INTRODUCTION:  Hi Everybody. This is Leo Volont.   This Text is a 11 Part Series attacking Christianity, but not from the Atheist perspective. I refer to scriptural content and to Doctrines which the Christians themselves should be familiar with but which the Atheists would never take the time to learn by emersion.  Yes, the Atheists might also object that I often break away from the Purist Logic to resort to the most shameful forms of quasi-logic and even make  appeals to sentiment and the emotions.  Well, there again, the Atheists should appreciate that I am trying to get into those Christian Heads by thinking the way they think, and doing the way they do, and that some soapy  clean clinically perfect Logic would only make their eyes glaze over.  Of course I also bring in History and many personal observations.  I speak a great deal of Jews and Judaism, but don’t suspect this Series will get a lot of Jewish attention, but if any Jews DO watch or read, then I sincerely apologize from the start for whatever it is I was not accurate about, but hope you keep in mind that Ancient Proverbial Truth that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.  Anyway, I divided this Paper up into Sections mostly to put it all into ‘bite size’ chunks, which would make it far more convenient for the Internet Viewer than if it were one huge clip.  The Sections will not be of uniform length, for while I did try to edit down the larger sections, I resisted adding trivial filler to the smaller ones.  But, yes, over the entire Series much is said and many subjects are covered.  I hope you will all enjoy it.   


Part One: Jesus the Jew vs Christianity [framing the Argument – Jesus is Unapologetically Moral, Righteous and Jewish.  Christianity is Greek and Exploits Free Sin]

The other day I was thinking that perhaps I wasn’t doing enough to reach out to the wider Spiritual Community, and so I did a search for ‘Spiritual Dreams’ and I’d jump into some open discussion.  I was thinking that a lot of New Age Pages would pop up, but I was surprised to find that it was entirely Christian Stuff.  “Christians” I thought, “What do ‘Christians’ know about Spiritual Dreams?”   And, yes, I glanced over some of it, and it was mostly dusty old scriptural references to biblical dreams (you know, Joseph’s skinny cows in Egypt), but much of it was to warn people that even their own most sacred dreams were Satanic and that their only recourse should be to commit their souls to Jesus Christ and never dream again.  Well I had a WTF moment there to be sure.   


Anyway, I couldn’t help but resent this unprovoked Christian assault on my own Spiritual Life, and so I decided to show them that maybe Satan wasn’t their only problem.  So here is my counterattack.  

Firstly, we can hit on something that is right there on the surface, that Christianity, as a set of doctrines that govern people’s moral, religious and spiritual behaviors, has very little to do with Jesus of Nazareth.  God, who probably does his best to preserve us from deception, has given us a major hint here.  “Christianity” is derived from the Greek word “Christos” which means “anointed” which implies Oil.   Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew, not a Greek, and he was from a Jewish Religious Sect that saw oil as problematically slimy, stinky, and hard to wash off, but viewed Water as being pure and sacramental, you know, Baptism and all that.   So, what is the word “Christos” even talking about here?  It points to a big disconnect.  We should expect that the name for the Religious Beliefs, Doctrines and Traditions that involve Jesus of Nazareth should be derived from the Name Jesus, right?  And we would expect the parent language for this Organizational Name to be in the Language of the Jews, right?  Remember, Jesus was a Jew, and in the course of his lifetime ministry he had never addressed a Gentile Audience or sent any delegation to address a Gentile Audience. Yes, Jesus was clearly endeavoring to reform Judaism, but such reform had been going on with each Prophet since the Babylonian Captivity and Jesus was only pressing forward with a Movement that already existed.  Jesus was not for any NEW Religion.  He stood by Judaism.  His Mission had been to become the Jewish Messiah.  He was not striving to overthrow the Temple but to be embraced by it.  So how does all of THAT end up in some Oily Greek Word?    Well, I can suppose that God had deliberately decided to protect the good name of Jesus from any linguistic connection to “Christianity”?   You know, for something this important at the Teleological Level, there can be no accidents – God does not mince His words.   So, it would be evident to a child who has learned his first letters that “Jesus” has nothing to do with “Christianity”.

Now, let’s look at Doctrine.  In the New Testament, from what we know from source research and scriptural exegesis, we can only be sure of One Sermon having been actually delivered by Jesus of Nazareth (The long version is the Sermon on the Mount, Mathew chapters 5 thru 7, and the short version is the Sermon on the Plain, Luke Chapter 6 verses 17 thru 49).  This sermon propounds a doctrine of Righteousness and Social Morality.  And that same Scriptural Scholarship that tells us what Jesus DID say, also tells us what Jesus NEVER said.  Well, Jesus NEVER offered to make himself a Human Sacrifice so that Humanity could enjoy Free Sin.  This should be obvious.  First, we need to remember that Jesus was endeavoring to be Messiah which required that he be alive and not dead.  And then Jesus of Nazareth would have been aghast at the idea that anybody should use his Name in order to promote Free Sin. 

Yes, I know, that Christians don’t call it “Free Sin” and they find the term insulting.  Well, forgive me for being indelicate in the way I describe their Doctrine, but they can’t say it’s not true.  We know for a fact that the Christians DO use the words “Salvation by Faith” and “Forgiveness of Sins”, right?   Well, any Means into Heaven that bypasses the Social Moral Criteria of Righteousness, is just some form of Free Sin, right?  Words have Meaning, and we must be allowed to understand them for what they are telling us.   Christian Salvation by Faith is a License to Free Sin. It couldn’t be clearer. What else could account for the fact that so many Republicans are Christian?

Part Two: Jesus the Jew vs Christianity [Permissive Doctrines from Paul are Lowest Common Denominator in Christianity.  Water Can’t Rise Over the Lowest Hole In The Bucket.  (for more attack against Paul, refer to Scott Nelson’s webpage Jesus and Judaism vs Paul and Christianity.  I was going to write a book but after finding Nelson’s Page, I felt the work had already been done.)]

Well, of course, many ordinary every day Working Class Protestants tell me that their understanding of Salvation is not that of Free Sin.  They tell me that they agonize over sin and really do try to eliminate it from their lives.  And, of course, God Bless them for it.  But, honestly, they would be a better fit as Religious Order Catholics.   You see, Protestantism is delineated around the Doctrines presented by Paul, and this is primarily because Paul’s Doctrines are the Most Permissive.  A Religion is only as strong as its Weakest Link and the Weakest Link in Christianity is Paul.  Water can’t rise higher than the lowest hole in the bucket and Paul was perhaps one of the Lowest Holes that ever lived.   Christianity can hold no compelling force against Sin as long as it contains not one but several doctrinal excuses that not only Justify Evil but even encourage it as a kind of Proof of Salvation.  We’ll discuss this more in depth later.  

Now, yes, the Good Christians actually do have some significant Scriptural Support for their point of view.  In addition to the Sermon On the Mount that Jesus gave, as well as his Moral Example, we have the Letters of several of the Real Apostles of Jesus who had been with Jesus from the beginning.   There is John who has a few Letters in the New Testament, who states that “Works are Proof of Salvation”, which is to say that one’s Salvation is not Absolute but in proportion to one’s demonstrated Righteousness.  Any High Civilization could have that sentiment up on a sign atop every City Gate.   Then we have James, Cousin of Jesus. You know, while it seems the general understanding that Peter was the Leader of the Early Jesus Community, we see that by the time the Book of Acts gets to Chapter 15, about midway through,  both Peter and Paul are down on the Council Room Floor and James is sitting high up on the Bench hearing them plead their arguments while he is the one, gavel in hand, making all of the big decisions.  So, James was clearly Leader and Chief Apostle.  So it should be especially relevant when James stares right into Paul’s face and writes in his Letter “Faith without Works is useless”. There can be no Salvation without ostensible Righteousness.    

In the face of all this True Apostolic opposition to his “Faith Alone” Doctrine, Paul would only concede that it is possible that a man could become Righteous, but only by the Grace of God, and that Righteousness should never be cultivated by any positive personal effort.  For Paul Righteousness was not either necessary or even to be desired.  I believe that Paul’s priority was to make Sinners feel welcome, in the sense that a Rich Sinner throws more money into the plate than a Poor Saint.  So, in his Letters Paul castigates those who strive for Righteousness as being Proud, trying to ‘earn’ their Salvation, and compares their Good Works to ‘dirty rags’.  Those who are Naturally Good are encouraged to such humility as to suppose they should be ashamed of their Virtues.  The Christian view is that Righteousness should come unbidden like Lightening out of a clear Blue Sky or not at all.  Unless God forces it upon us by an insistent Grace, Righteousness would not be worth having, but would probably only make us Proud.  I guess it is only a Modern Notion that Pride in one’s Competence and Character is to be seen as Self Respect, which is now considered a good thing.  Or maybe that is only in the Liberal Community.

You know, One would think that the Christian Church would have formulated their Doctrine around The Sermon of Jesus and the viewpoint of  James, who obviously outranked both Peter and Paul, but in order to have done so, all of the works of Paul would have had to have been struck from Canonized Scripture, and Paul anathematized and any scriptural references regarding him would have had to have been in the negative – “Paul the Pretender”, “Paul that Dickhead” and such.  But as I said above, a Religion is valuated at its most permissive level.  So apparently the Doctrines of Paul were retained not because of Religious, Moral or Spiritual Reasons, but only because Paul’s Doctrines had more Commercial Appeal or Political Sponsorship.  Paul Won in the Marketplace of Ideas by appealing to the Lowest Most Common Elements.  The Best of Something will always be a smaller proportion than the Ordinary. High Standards were a Filter they did not want to apply because they wished to capture Quantity and not Quality.  If we ‘market’ a Religion in this way we arrive at the paradox of “You can have it all – You can both Sin AND be Saved”.  This is what Paul proposed and what Christianity accepted, but the internal Contradiction killed it as a Civilized Religion.  Take for instance the Good Christian who is challenged by temperamental weaknesses and extraordinary temptations.  He or she may have to struggle arduously against immoral or amoral character defects for a considerable time and need all the encouragement they can get.  But what about when he or she hears or reads their own Doctrine telling them that Sin is the accepted Status Quo.  How can this be encouraging? And what if they actually do the work required and become Righteous, well, then they are accused of Pride, of Insulting the Holy Spirit by trying to Earn their own Salvation … of trying to be better than everybody else.  They’re suspected of being Liberal.   They are told that THEY’RE ALREADY SAVED and so ‘stop rocking the boat’.   Protestants define themselves as “Confessed Sinners” and therefore that is all that they really expect from themselves.  So, yes, really, when we speak of a Christian Nation, we can almost expect it to be Morally Apathetic, not despite Christianity but because of Christianity.

Part Three:  Jesus the Jew vs Christianity [Paul Suspected of Being Fake or Worse, so Protected by “Every Word” Doctrine]

Here would be a good place to make an observation regarding Paul.  As far as I can remember, I have never heard in discussion that  Paul ever once in his letters or known Table Talk ever quoted Jesus of Nazareth (You know, it seems exactly like he accepted a Challenge from the Devil, where he was permitted to Steal the Church and the Good Name of Jesus but only on the condition that he never be allowed to use a single Sacred Phrase from out of the mouth of Jesus, or his tongue would burst into flames or something…. So, don’t you think it amazing that Protestants who claim to read their Bible every day have never picked up on this?  Well, some certainly must have.  Heck, I spotted it myself, didn’t I?!   Really, from Little Sunday School Kids who would want to do a Report on “Paul’s Favorite Jesus Sayings”, to Post Grad Seminary Scholars wishing to do about the same thing at their level, this Fact of a strict exclusion of any Word of Jesus from all of Paul’s writings and known discourses, which must have been discovered over and over again thousands of times, should honestly have sent up a Field of Red Flags.  Really, this ‘Jesus-Avoidance’ by Paul, who claims Apostle Status, should have triggered an instant referral to that Scriptural Warning in the Gospels where Jesus insists that there will be False Apostles, and that his Followers should be on a continuous lookout for them, right?  But when was the last time we heard any Christion say “Hey, this don’t look right.  If Paul ain’t a False Apostle than who the heck is?”  

Oh, but the Protestants who sit on their Beliefs and Doctrines Committees actually must have determined that there WAS a problem regarding the disturbing Satanic bent in Paul, but since they found his Doctrine of Free Sin so convenient for any number of practical reasons, they made the effort to shore up his theological credibility with a simple stop gap solution, that is, a New Doctrine that states that “every word of the Bible is the Word of God”.   And, yes, considering that everybody who’s ever said anything in the Bible is largely ignored, we can conclude that this “Every Word” doctrine was obviously whipped up to bolster up Paul.  For instance, “Every Word” does not apply to James who flatly contradicts Paul.  If you notice, even the Words of Jesus take back seat to Paul’s, since the Sermon’s insistence on Moral Responsibility is completely ignored.  But yes, I concede that “Every Word” is often used opportunistically, for instance, it is used to Divinize any crotchety hateful Prophet from the Pre-Moral Old Testament who has issues with the LGBTQ Community.   

You know, we really need to appreciate how exceptional the “Every Word” Doctrine is.  Every other Religious Scripture in the World goes in with the assumption that the Truth of their Scriptures are supported by their Coherency, Beauty, Poetry and Compelling Intensity.  But this Quality of Spiritual and Religious ‘Self Evidence’ is exactly what was found lacking in Paul.   His Letters were not the Poetry of the Holy Spirit.  These Letters show Intellectual Process in Progress.  He is not Seeing the Divine and revealing a Vision.  He was obviously just scratching his head and making it all up as he went along.  His Doctrines actually change from Letter to Letter.  These Letters were not presenting a Consistent Vision of Holy Truth but come across as opportunistic appeals to the vulnerabilities of the people he was writing to at the time.  Paul probably never suspected that his letters would be collected and compared (and since they have been, why is it that we don’t care about what we found by it?).

So, yes, Protestants under the new “Every Word” Doctrine, are now subject to the Penalty of Committing the Unforgivable Sin, should they believe their own Conscience or Voice of the Holy Spirit when it tells them that Paul was a cheat, a liar and a False Apostle.  Effectively Protestants anointed Paul as a Second and far more important Christ, as, you see, the tacit assumption of Christianity is that people are not so much “Saved” by belief in ‘Christ’ as by the belief in the Validity of Paul’s Promise that they are Saved by belief in Christ.  It’s true: The whole House of Cards of Christian Salvation rests on whether we can trust the word of Paul the Tent Salesman.  Maybe in that moment at the Tent Meeting where we are Born Again and receive our Salvation, we should ask “Hey, Can I get a warranty with that?”.

Part Four: Jesus the Jew vs Christianity [Western Catholic Divergence from Paul in Middle Ages a Good Thing. Marian Catholicism, Monastic Religious Orders and Civilization. Purgatory A Good Thing. Clerical Corruption. Indulgences. Paul’s Doctrine of Amoral Election and Predestination.  Printing Press and Protestantism Resurrects Paul the Vampire]

Oh, by the way, we all need to keep in mind, that this Divinity of Paul is an exclusively Protestant thing.   Western European Catholics since the Dark Ages, who had a Civilization to run, were never under the illusion that Paul was anything but Evil, and that he would be a horrible influence on the People, and so they left Paul ignored and undisturbed in the forgotten back pages of the New Testament. We should remember, that these were the days before the Printing press, and Bibles were not then available for Public Consumption and so a Liturgical Silence in regards to Paul was enough to keep that Vampire effectively nailed up in his Coffin (You know, I looked up various webpages for Lists and Chronicles of Medieval Names from the 11th to the 13th Centuries, which is where I stopped looking, and I did not find a single entry for a “Paul” or anything like “Paul”.  So, it seems that the Catholic Church really had erased Paul from the public consciousness.  And, yes, the Catholics redefined “Salvation” to no longer mean Free Sin, by formulating a “Purgatory” to effectively take the place of the old “Hell”, but ‘Purgatory’ was a much more refined, even elegant, concept.  You see, ‘Hell’ was defined as being ‘Eternal Torment’ whereas Purgatory would be for only some limited finite indeterminant amount of time, in the sense of being “as long as it takes”. The Idea there is that Sins could be ‘Burned’ away in Purgatory by the Divine Light shining down through the cracks in the Floor in Heaven, and that when a Soul was finally Clean, Pure, and Worthy of Heaven, He or She would be welcomed into Eternal Bliss and the Heavenly Community of Saints.  The Catholic Heaven would not have all the muddy footprints and that bus station smell of a Protestant Heaven.   

Well, Western Catholicism peaked during the High Middle Ages, in the 11th and 12 Centuries, at around the time of the 1st Crusade and Saint Bernard.  More than a 1000 Cathedrals were built across Frankish Western Europe just in the 11th Century alone, using primarily Community Funds and Labor from both the Rich and the Poor Classes alike.  It seems that Marian Catholicism, with strong Leadership and Examples from the Religious Monastic Societies, had created a largely Unified Society. But then along came the Late Medieval Church which had its Problems.  It seems that so much money was involved in Organizing and Deploying Crusaders to the East, that the Popes became addicted to the money flow, and so eventually they got to appointing only Bishops who would assure them an unobstructed access to graft, skims and kickbacks.  One must remember that the Popes and the Bishops were very familiar with the Doctrines of Paul, and so they had no reason to hesitate regarding the Morality of any of this.  You see, if you are familiar with Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians, which the Bishops were, you would know that the Rich and the Powerful have their own special form of Salvation – ‘Salvation by Election’ or ‘Predestination’.  That means that because God is Omnipotent and Wills all things, that if you are Rich and Powerful, it shows that God has already shown an explicit Preference for you, which, for some reason, is supposed to naturally follow from Earth to Heaven when you die. Yes, Jesus in his Ministry had said that being Rich was more than likely detrimental, but Paul contradicts this and claims just the opposite, which is another reason why Paul had to become Divine through the “Every Word” Doctrine, so he would have the power to countermand Jesus on this very important Right-Wing Talking Point.   

But let’s get back to the Decline of Catholicism in the Late Middle Ages.   It seems that the Popes and the Bishops came up with an ingenious way to exploit Purgatory.   You see, the Pope, using his Traditional Powers as Vicar of Christ on Earth, could write up and distribute “Indulgences” that could exempt Sinners from Purgatory, thus effectively bringing back a kind of Paul’s Free Sin (Muddy Footprints in Heaven again), except it was not “Free” but very expensive and only the Wealthy could afford to pay for these “Indulgences”.   Well, this Corruption provoked the Protestant Rebellion at just the time that the recently developed Printing Presses were churning out Bibles in all of the Vernacular Languages, giving a wide voice to Paul’s Free Sin Doctrines (the name Paul would skyrocket in the Birth Records).  To show that Protestantism had its Heart in the wrong place from the very beginning, we should point out that it was the greatest complaint of that very first Protestant, Martin Luther, that the Church was suppressing Paul’s Free Sin Doctrine and that the Common People had every bit as much right to Free Sin as any Rich Man who could afford to pay for an Indulgence. 


We are never told whether Paul ever met Jesus, but if he had, it was as an enemy.  Paul was an admitted and well acknowledged persecutor of the Jesus Community.  Now, Jesus said in his Sermon that “a tree is known for its fruit, and if a man’s heart be good, then that goodness will spring forth abundantly”.   But Paul!... Paul was a ‘Tree’, that from the very beginning, was a murderer of Christians, and so how could we ever expect a Dark Stinking Rotten Heart like that to ever change to Goodness and Light? Really, Paul was a Psychopath, and Psychopaths are what they used to call Demons.  It is clear that Paul’s Arrogance was the same before as after his pretended ‘Conversion Experience’.  The Bible does little to hide Paul’s blatant loud-mouthed nastiness.  For instance, in the Book of Acts, there is described a Story that in a visit to Crete, Paul was confronted by a little old man whom he should have been acknowledging with deferential respect, but, because of some political difference, he got down in his face and hollered so savagely and gestured so wildly, that the poor meek mild little old man took fright and died then and there of a heart attack.  And Paul only scoffed, stepped over the body and said “Who’s Next?”   This is not the portrait of a Saint.

The Book of Acts tells us of a particular mile stone in Paul’s career where he is Chief Thug in the Murder Plot against Stephen who had just been popularly elected by the Jesus Community to replace Peter. What had happened there was that Peter (his name literally means Rock which is a gangster name, right?), well, Peter had just found himself in disgrace because he had murdered this nice married couple, Ananias and Sapphira, whom everybody liked because they were such good people.  He clubbed them to death in his office because they didn’t hand over all their money to his Communal Treasury, which he probably kept in his back pocket.  Ananias and Sapphira had held back some of their life savings for a rainy day and died for it.  Now one can imagine that they weren’t the only ones in the Jesus Community to hold back a little; after all, haven’t we all at one time or another been members of a Religious Cult where we were careful to leave our Bank Passbooks at home under the safe keeping of our mothers?   Besides, why should they have trusted Peter, that Crazy Usurping Self Appointed Wannabee Pope who thought himself worthy to step into the Master’s Shoes (and, yes, we still have to deal with the same thing Today.  Every time some Real Guru dies, whoever it is that was only around to answer the phone, wash the dishes, pay off the whores and take out the trash, comes forward and says he’s the Boss now, and then raises the Dues). So, yes, the whole Community was terrified for their lives and wanted Peter gone, therefore Electing Stephen who ran on the platform of being reliable, sane, good, decent and not a demonic psychopathic killer. 

So, Paul, lurking off to the side, who neurotically hated all the Righteous Followers of Jesus, because they made him feel threatened and insecure somehow, well, he would have been inclined to kill Stephen anyway, but here he saw an opportunity to ingratiate himself with Peter who was obviously Worldly and Corrupt, that is, a man Paul could see eye to eye with.   So Paul murders Stephen.  Oh, wait, or maybe there had already been a deal made between the two, and it wasn’t just Paul murdering Stephen on prospect so he could “get his foot in the door”?   But howsoever it worked, Peter, no longer worried that a change in Regime would have him hanged up by his heals, was so grateful to Paul that they struck up a partnership – Peter would take the Jews, and Paul would take the Greeks.  With a hand shake Paul was magically transformed from theWolf Persecutor of Christians to a Shepherd with His Own Franchise Flock. This was the Real Conversion Experience of Paul.   We can see how their Deal played out.  The Book of Acts tells us that Paul would send Peter a skim off his take from his Mission up North with the Gentiles, obviously the price he paid for his Franchise. 

So, the Book of Acts makes it clear that Peter and Paul were a marriage of self-seeking and Corruption.  One has to wonder whether the Protestants read their New Testaments for Spiritual Edification or for insights into Capitalist Business Management Practices.  

Part Six: Jesus the Jew vs Christianity [The Nature of the Miraculous.  Faith as a Negative – Lack of Faith Explains Religions’ Failure To Do the Impossible. Supernatural Spiritual Beings and Magic.  The Transcendental God of Unity and Oneness is Like No God At All.  Elbert Einstein: Transcendental God even Better Than Atheism. Moral Religion is Dualistic]

But now we should ask ourselves just what was the inherent significance of Jesus of Nazareth?  Well, it’s clear he was a Saint.  Miracles would explain his great popularity.  Of course, if he were a rabble-rousing Revolutionary with a gift for oratory then he would also have been popular, but the Pharisees, and Sadducees would have been afraid for their lives to come around and show him any overt contempt, but this wasn’t the case with Jesus.  Also, Jesus got along well with Tax Collectors, who would have been uncomfortable in the company of a violent Revolutionary.  So, it must have been miracles.    But was Jesus also the Jewish Messiah?  Well, what is the difference between a Saint and a Messiah except for the Intent of his or her Angelic Support?

Oh!  I guess here we need to take some time to discuss the Nature of the Miraculous.   You know, it is a mistake to think that Faith can work Miracles.  “Faith” has always been a construct employed by Spiritualist Con Men.  It’s always used in the negative sense to explain why Miracles DON’T happen.  For instance, say you should pay a thousand dollars to an Indian Guru who whispers into your ear a sacred mantra that he promises will heal the sick, allow you to walk through walls and to levitate.  You go home and try it and your cat still coughs up hair balls, you bump your nose really bad, and no matter how much you do that mantra you still can’t get up off your ass.  So, you go back and ask for your money back, but the Guru tells you that it should have all worked out fine but the problem is YOU DON’T HAVE FAITH.   Oh, so you look around and notice that it’s not working for anybody else either, and you mention it to the Guru.  “Yeah, lack of Faith is a big Spiritual Problem nowadays”, he says.  So you suggest that he heal somebody of something, walk through wall or two and pick his own ass up off the floor.  “Yeah, I would”, he says, “but your negative energy is a real bummer, man, and it’s bringing me down.  Besides, JUST ASKING FOR PROOF DESTROYS FAITH THUS MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO PROVE”.  So, yeah, they got an answer for everything and it always comes back to Faith as the ultimate runaround.  Where ever Money and Spirituality mix, FAITH is always the escape clause.   This Idea of Faith is certainly Paul greatest contribution to Religion and Spirituality, in terms of developing them as lucrative Business Models. The New Age Movement would go out of business without it.  But in Spiritual terms, Faith’s biggest miracle seems to be that after 2000 years of everybody getting ripped off by it, that not more people are complaining.  


So Spiritual People need to stop looking to Faith for Miracles.  So, does that mean there are no Miracles?  Well, there are thousands of Miracles in the Historic Record, which won’t go away unless we start doing some serious Book Burning.  But we know that Miracles were not always explained by Faith.  For instance, the Shamanistic Traditions tell us that miracles are the work of Spiritual Entities, that is, either Earth Spirits or Celestial Spirits, Light or Dark.  Persian Zoroastrianism, which, by the way was the Religion of the Magi which you may be familiar with in terms of the “Three Wise Men” who were Zoroastrian Magi, well, they speak of these Spiritual Entities as Angelic when connected with Light and Goodness, or Demonic when connected to Darkness and Evil.  Of course, we can expect that between the Min Max Poles of the Light Dark Continuum there were a great many Spirits who were not wholly One Thing Or the Other and I expect that these were the Spirits who did most of the heavy lifting in the ‘Magic’ that the Magi and, after the Arab Conquest, the Fakirs and Sufis later  became known for.  

So, if we toss out Faith, then we must suppose that Saintly Miracles can be possible only with the active Support of Angels. Or maybe it is possible that a person, with a great deal of work in his Dreams and Astral Travels, may find a way of developing a kind of Angelic Power within his or her own Self.  The Stories are mixed.  Sometimes we have Saints praying for results, to some Third Party, and then they happen.  We have Shamans who Conjure Up Spirits who then do stuff.  And then we have Those who just seem to do it all on their own.  I wish I knew more about it.

Now, some people might insist that “God” is performing these Miracles.  Well, the “God Works Miracles” Argument falls down in two ways.  First, it is rare to see any BIG Miracle, in the sense that Supernatural Phenomena seem to require the same kinds of Forces, Matter and Energies as Material Phenomena, only of the Spiritual variety, perhaps from another plane or level.  These are Limited Finite Phenomena, even though they are Supernatural.  And if we define God as Infinite, well, that means we are Over-Defining – using way too much gun for the bear we’re shooting. And if God were involved, with Infinite Energy resources, then we’d read of as many BIG Miracles as small, but that’s not the case.  

Secondly, the Enlightened Mystics who have experienced God Consciousness come back to tell us that God is Transcendental and couldn’t care less about Worldly stuff, good or bad.  You know, its exactly the same as how you can’t expect a spaced out junky to be a great Community Activist.  The Transcendental God Of Oneness is the Ultimate Spaced Out Junky.  

Oh, that reminds me of an interesting Story about Albert Einstein.  It seems that European Scientists were fleeing the Nazis and coming to America, but they were shocking all the provincials with their cold blatant Atheism, which was getting lousy Press and threatening their Funding, and so Einstein got them all together and told them to do what he does, that is, to say that they believe in a Transcendental God.  It sounds really good, but that a Transcendental God would actually be so useless as to not really exist at all, right?, and so, Win Win, everybody gets what they want.   Yes, the Man was a Genius, wasn’t he?

Anyway, If we want Goodness, Social Cohesion, and a High Civilization based on Love and Peace, then, Einstein was right about how an Indifferent and Uncaring Transcendental God of Oneness would be useless in getting us there.  We would actually have to go out on the Extreme Light End of Dualism and invoke the Angels.  They don’t have to be White Light Angels, but the Rule is “The Brighter the Better”.



Anyway, let’s bring this discussion back to Jesus.  Was he the intended Messiah?  Well, in evaluating him we would need to identify whether it seemed like he had the kind of Messianic Angelic Support that would be actively pushing him into a Messianic Mission.  Here the evidence is mixed.  There seems no dispute that there were Ministering Angels committed to protecting Jesus from harm, and the kind of Angels who provided for Healing the Sick, and materializing up Fishes and Loaves, and Wine at Weddings and such.  But we would expect this kind of thing from any first-rate Saint.  But Jesus appears to have thought himself on a Messianic Mission.  But reservations regarding the Messianic Ambitions of Jesus must certainly arise only because his Mission Failed, but even that is confused, because it is not as though Jesus died trying.  He may have died only because he stopped trying.  You see, Jesus flatly quit, as will be covered below, leaving his Angels high and dry, and so it may have been a fact that they were indeed Messianic Angels but that Jesus had been a flawed Messianic Candidate.  Well, then why did they pick him?  Couldn’t they see he was unreliable?  Well, yes, that is an interesting question, and I guess that the answer for it was that the Time for the Messiah had come – the Stars were set in the Sky and a choice had to be made NOW.  Looking down the Angels saw that Mary, Joseph and Jesus were the best stock they could possibly find to work with.  Jesus apparently looked Perfect Enough. Even in Heaven perhaps it is true that ‘the show must go on”. 

We can read in the Gospels that Jesus resigned as Messiah in the Garden of Gethsemane on the eve of his Crucifixion (we have the quote right here :  “Father, take back this cup that thou hast given  me… I Quit”). 

My hunch about all of this is that Jesus had come to Jerusalem thinking that he would not only have overwhelming Public Support for his Campaign to be the Recognized Messiah, but that the Temple Community and the Intelligentsia would also rally to his cause. Apparently, Jesus had every power but that of Prophecy.  Anyway, after his arrival in town, things began going badly for him right from the start, and, really, it was his own fault, or it seemed that way.  His first stop was at the Temple Grounds where he tore up the Temple’s Commercial Courtyard, causing havoc with all the Gift Shop Kiosks and flipping over Money Tables.  Yes, we hear of people having a big problem with mixing Spirituality with Money, myself being one of the foremost, but these Vendors were licensed by the Temple and the License Fees were used to defray Temple Salaries and used for Schools and Clinics and such.  And they were just harmless Gift Shops!  You know, some ‘Temple Memento’ bought to please one’s Aunt back home is not to be classified in the same category as some “New Age Pack of Lies Book” that had been written to the specifications of a Publishing House Consumer Survey to give people exactly what it is they wish were the Truth. I hate spiritual exploitation for money, but a Trinket?  What you see is what you get, and so I’m fine with it.   

But back to this Temple Yard Fiasco.  We are told by his own people that Jesus actually chased the vendors around with a whip.  This frenzied tantrum of an out of control Jesus did not play well with the Public or with that Powers that Be, and Jesus found he had only turned possible friends into implacable foes.

(Hmmmmm, Is anybody else thinking that this isn’t the Jesus we all know and love? It seems that something was uncharacteristically wrong with Jesus at this point.  You see, just before entering Town we have the story of Jesus coming across a fig tree, but figs were out of season, and Jesus got into such a fit of blind rage that he “blasted” the tree – killed it dead.  All the Leaves shriveling to brown in an instant.    He was here demonstrating a mean streak of intense irritability that we had never seen in him before, and he was still under this same dark influence when he reached the Temple and had his angry fit there).

  
Anyway, this Temple Debacle dropped Jesus into a state of confusion and uncertainty.  If he really had been intended to become the Messiah, then Jesus would come to make the decision that would set Civilization back for thousands of years, and we’re still counting.   What could possibly have discouraged him so much that he simply abandoned the Fate of the Jews and even all of Humanity?  Well, let’s look.  Whatever Fever had stricken him on the day he entered Jerusalem, which incidentally must have overwhelmed the Protection of his retinue of Angels, and therefore must have been the projection of a consolidated and determined Dark Side, well this Fever receded, probably leaving a residue of humiliation and shame.  Is it possible that this is the first time in his life that Jesus made a mistake in public that he would have to live down, and he simply had no practice in knowing how something like that works?  Or did he believe he was no longer ‘worthy’ because of one bad day?  Or maybe he had presumed that the Messianic Campaign would all be easy.  Maybe he did realize that his wild psychological swing was the product of a Dark Side Attack and he lost trust in himself and his Angels ability to protect him.  But then there was the Human-Social element: You know, he had been used to the wild acclaim of uneducated and impressionable country bumpkins back in the Hills of Galilee .  The occasional stone-faced Pharisee or Sadducee should have tipped him off that Jerusalem would be a harder ‘room’ to play to.   So his lukewarm to hostile reception must have demoralized him to the bone.   And combined with all those possibilities, well, maybe Jesus didn’t have a “Plan B”, should his “Plan A” fizzle.  


So, yes, Jesus had many reasons for why he may have been so discouraged that he would want to toss in the towel and quit.  But, really, all he would have needed to do is just ‘ride it out’.  He had Angelic Protection and Angelic Access to Supernatural Phenomena, and so what more did he really need?  The Plan would have been able to write itself.   He could have simply but unobtrusively and without a hint of threat declared himself the Messiah, just like any harmless ‘Crackpot’ would have done,  and then rent a small store front office within a city block of the Temple Grounds, and hang out a shingle saying “Messiah: Religious, Spiritual, Personal Advice and light Carpentry”, and settled in for the long haul of building Public Consensus where he could focus simply on making more friends than enemies, and learning from experience how one goes about living down an embarrassing faux pas.  Certainly, given his Good Character and continued Angelic Support, his Stature as Messiah would have steadily grown up into something substantial.  If his Social-Administrative initiatives worked in Judea, then they would have been the Model for other Societies, in much the same way that Persian Zoroastrianism had transformed Post Captivity Judaic Thought, and caused the first stirrings of Moral Thought even amongst the Greeks.  It’s really a shame we never found out how Jesus had planned to translate his Social-Moral Vision into institutionalized administrative policies, and how he would have set up the Bureaucracies and Leadership structures.  After all, even as a Successful Messiah, he would not have lived forever, and any Lasting Legacy for the World could only have been in the Institutions he had established.   
  
Oh, despite the still reverberating tragic consequences of Jesus chucking the Mantel, the “I Quit” episode does in fact give us a better idea that Jesus did in fact have the kind of Angelic Protection that would have been granted a Messiah.  We only need to look at the Before and After pictures.  The very moment he Quit, the Angels abandoned him on the spot.    The Roman Police, within minutes, more than likely tipped off by the Angels themselves (Angels are not the most Sentimental of Creatures), well, yes, the Police found him on the Hill, arrested him and it was none stop beatings, humiliations and tortures for the next 15 hours until he was ‘dead’ on the cross.  This followed a life of 33 years in which the Angels so insulated him from harm that he never once even stubbed a toe. I can imagine Jesus inquiring of one of the Court Clerks in preparation of his Trial, “I have this intensely uncomfortable feeling all over and I have no idea what on Earth it could possibly be?”   “Uh, you mean PAIN”.  

Part Eight: Jesus the Jew vs Christianity [The impact of the Failed Messianic Mission on the Mediterranean World. The Destruction of Jerusalem. The Great Jewish Rampage search “Kitos War” and the “Bar Kokhba Revolt”. The Jewish Diaspora. Christian Exploitation of the Jewish Catastrophe]

Now, about the consequences concerning his own Legacy on the one hand and the Rise of Christianity on the other.  Again, Jesus was no Prophet, or I can hardly imagine what he might have seen in that Alternate Future where he didn’t quit but continued on doing whatever he did as Messiah.  How could it possibly have been any worse than what did happen?  If you are not familiar with the History, then allow me to go over it in brief.   His generation would not pass before Jerusalem was sacked and the Temple burnt to the ground. Judea was ravaged, sending Jews fleeing all across the Mediterranean World.  These traumatized Refugees, probably many of them already Zealots, became radicalized in their hate for both Rome who had conquered and despoiled them then, and hate for the Greeks who had conquered and despoiled them under Alexander the Great centuries before.  Perhaps they even resented the Greeks for their Christianity that made a hostile caricature of both their Religion and of Jesus of Nazareth.  Well, not that Jesus had a huge following in Jerusalem or amongst the Jews across the Mediterranean World, but I suspect that they would have resented the misrepresentation of any Jew by the Greek Community.   

These Radicalized Jews would rise up across the width and breadth of the Mediterranean World and slaughter up to a MILLION Greeks and Romans (search “Kitos War” and the “Bar Kokhba Revolt”).  Some small nations were entirely depopulated after this Jewish Rampage.  This would lead to a second and even more punitive Attack on Jerusalem as well as campaigns to exterminate Jews all throughout the Roman Empire.  And it wasn’t just the Roman Army that went after the Jews with a vengeance.  There was scarcely a Soul in the Roman Empire who did not have some friend or relative who had been raped, slaughtered and mutilated by this Jewish Rampage.  The Memory and the Bitterness Against the Jews who had perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity, would last Centuries, or maybe we could even say that this Trauma became, in a sense, “baked” into the European Psyche, where in a European Person’s Nightmares he or she still sees Jews with knives and clubs.  It is not the way I would wish Collective Consciousness to work.   But in any event, what Jews who did survive, and no, they weren’t all radicalized murderers, terrorists, Zealots and Allied Jewish Appeal Telemarketers, but they were still all well advised to abandon the Mediterranean World.  It was the beginning of the Great Jewish Diaspora.  Jews would have to find new homes among peoples who would eventually hear of what had happened in the Roman Empire.    This made it impossible for the Jews to just start over somewhere with a clean slate, and people the World over became wary of the Jews.    

But overall, it was a time in the Mediterranean World where nobody, neither Jew nor Gentile, were happy and where everybody had suffered and received some permanent psychological scars from the widespread trauma.  Now, considering all of that, given Horror Stories and Tragedies by the Millions, now let’s imagine that Jesus could see into the Future and knowingly and deliberately choose ALL OF THAT by saying the words that he certainty did say: “Father, take back this cup that thou hast given me… I Quit”.   If Jesus had been Prophetic and knew what was to happen, then we could put that message in a bottle and label it “Think about this ye who would be King”.  But if Jesus had not been Prophetic and hesitated out of an abundance of caution, well, there’s a lesson in that too. “Bring on Change!  Up the Revolution!  It can’t possibly turn out worse than the Doom we’re already facing.”.

Now let’s think about all of that but in relationship to the sinister rise of Christianity. Remember that the first sacking of Jerusalem was in 70 A.D. which was just a bit more than 3 decades after the Crucifixion.  The Jesus Community was growing and thriving and the memories of Jesus were still vivid but mostly still oral. Why write down what everybody knows, right?  But then comes the Sacking of Jerusalem and the ravaging of Judea and all at once every member of the Jesus Community is slaughtered in the massacre (you know of course that this was the Fulfillment of the Prophecy in the Book of Revelations – the Final Battle, the End of the World, the Day of Judgment, and the Followers of Jesus being taken up into Heaven… and so that is what it must have seemed like to the Community of Jesus in Judea, where it actually was their Final Battle, the End of their World, their Day of Judgment, and, yes, where they were taken up into Heaven).  With the Destruction of Jerusalem and the razing of Judea, All the True Knowledge of Jesus, except for the Sermon and a few fragments from notebooks, were destroyed as utterly as the Temple Walls themselves.  After that the Greeks were free to make up anything they liked and so they did.  The Greeks made Jesus the Poster Boy for Free Sin.

Part Nine: Jesus the Jew vs Christianity [The Flip Side of Free Sin:  Original Sin and People as Inherently Evil.  Are we Judged on our History or Final Character?] 

Oh, Remember how all of this got started, with the Online Christians telling us that Satan infiltrates our very own Dreams and that our only chance for avoiding Damnation is through the Blood of Christ.   Well, we did not discuss that Doctrine, did we?  But it is sort of the Other Side of the Coin to the Free Sin Doctrine.  One is either Saved or Not. Christian Doctrine is both Carrot and Whip.  So, yes, we need to talk about the even Darker Side of Christianity.  It is not as though one has the option to say “No thank you.  Murdering Jesus is too high a price to pay for some easy and convenient Salvation.  I prefer to be as Good and Just as I can and trust in the Wisdom and Mercy of the Angel of Judgment.  I am sure I will be disposed of fairly”.  Christian Doctrine thought of that and blocked it off with the Doctrine of Original Sin.  Well, this is what that Doctrine entails:  It seems that, yes, that while Sin can be Forgiven, Sin is also inevitable, intrinsic to Human Nature, inescapable, and that our lives and characters are hopelessly polluted.  So Christianity offers no Righteousness Option.  Satan is the King of this World, and if Christians hadn’t Murdered Jesus with their own Hands, to trade His Blood for their Sin, then they would all certainly burn in hell.

But shouldn’t Christians feel guilty about that?  I find it incomprehensible that Christians Celebrate Easter, the Anniversary of their Crime literally against God, or they believe Jesus to be God.  The Christians certainly can’t dodge the guilt of Murdering Jesus, since they are so forward in claiming all the benefits that accrue from it.  We know it was the Romans who drove in the spikes, and like themselves they were Gentiles, and for all the talk of Sacrifice, it was not the Jews that killed their own Messiah, but they themselves the Gentiles.   Couldn’t they find one of their own to butcher.  The Greeks have 20 Gods on Top of Mount Olympus and none of them would do?  Was the Meat of Hercules too tough for the Altar Plate? Or was Hercules too strong for them to subdue and they went in search for a meeker milder murder Victim.

I wonder How is it that Christians hear of the Legends of Vampires who drink Human Blood for Immortality and don’t see it as an Allegory for Themselves?   It’s ironic that they Murdered Jesus so they WOULDN’T burn in Hell.  What will they say to the Angel of Judgment who on the Last Day asks them “Given the choice of living Righteously, or murdering a man you thought to be as pure as God, so you could trade his blood for every kind of sin and abomination, well, how did you choose?”    And, again I can remind you all.  ‘The Angels aren’t very sentimental.’

Now, yes, let’s continue…  can we reasonably move beyond this Doctrine of Original Sin?  Many Christians, knowing only what they’ve been told, will demand of me how God is supposed to treat Sinners, for “all Men have Sinned”?  If Heaven could be earned only by Souls that have Never Sinned and that it is a reasonable given that everyone must have sinned at one time or another, then any Perfect Righteousness would be impossible, and so wouldn’t a Perfect Heaven be Perfectly Empty?   Well, aren’t the Christians misstating the Situation?  What does the complete moral history of our Lives matter if on our Last Day we are Righteous in Character?  We do not throw out our cloths at the end of each day because they have lost their laundered freshness, because it’s easy enough just to wash them.  Paul’s Doctrine presupposes that Sin leaves permanent stains.  Huh!?  Well, of course not!  Why do we allow Paul to hypnotize us with such nonsense?  People make stupid mistakes all the time, but the rest of their Lives and their Innate Character are not indelibly stained by it (unless they posted it on Facebook).   To show you how Sin in the Real-World works, well, take the instance of almost every young man who will get too drunk at one time or another and say “I’ll never do that again”, and he won’t …  well, not until he forgets, but every succeeding time it becomes easier to remember.  People of Good Character only get better with Age.   So my point is that People live and learn.  If people are told that Social-Moral Goodness is possible and preferable and then rewarded for it, then they will learn Righteousness through trying to live Righteously.  And If they fall in the mud, they only have to take a bath.  There should never be any need for murdering Jewish Messiahs for their Blood.  

Part Ten: Jesus the Jew vs Christianity [“Jesus Lived in India: His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion” by Holger Kersten. Semitic “Jewish” People in the Kashmir.  Jesus influences Buddhist Doctrine. A Possible future Jewish Messiah]  

Oh, but there is another issue that we can talk about.  You know, it is likely that neither did Jesus Die, that is, when they say he did, nor was he Resurrected.   You see, I had read a book once which greatly impressed me, and it’s still in print:  it reads like a carefully researched doctoral thesis… the book is entitled “Jesus Lived in India: His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion” by Holger Kersten.  The book makes the point that NOBODY dies from a few hours of being Crucified and that it is largely a death by exposure to the elements and thirst – making a person suffer a long agonizing Death in public view is sort of the point.  Remember that Jesus had a few rich friends, one of whom being Joseph of Arimathea, who bribed Pilot to have Jesus taken down almost immediately after he had been put up. They had to use that Story about Jesus being stabbed with a spear to convince anybody that Jesus could possibly have died after so brief an ordeal.  But, yes, Jesus was taken down, treated for his wounds and as soon as he could walk was told to get out of Town and go to Damascus which was outside Roman Jurisdiction so that Pilot could finally “wash his hands” of the whole affair.  Jesus went on to become a kind of a spiritual super star in the Far East and was said to have been the Key Note Speaker at the Third World Buddhist Conference (you see, the Buddhists were caught up in so many Doctrinal Quarrels among themselves that they reached out to Jesus as a Neutral Speaker, so they would know what it sounded like for everybody to clap together.  From that we get the famous Buddhist Zen Koan “What is the sound of two hands clapping?”  It would be an insult to say the Koan is actually “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”.  It would be a slap in the face).   Anyway, it is said that Jesus died in India at close to 100 years old and his tomb is in the Kashmir and any cab driver can take you to see it.

Well, all of that sounds lovely until we add it all up.  Jesus quits his Messianic Mission and has one really bad day, and then has to do a little bit of physical therapy, but then goes on to live another 60 years like a Rock and Roll Star.  Jesus would be 70 when he would hear of the Sacking of Jerusalem, the Destruction of the Temple and the devastations done to Judea, but wouldn’t that have just verified his Prophetic Vision of it all?  So, did Jesus make a Calculation?  What if he could have made the World’s situation better by being Messiah, but somehow not quite have had the same Beautiful Rock Star Life that he ended up with? 

Well, the author of that book, Holger Kersten, does point out details that could make us think the situation more complex.  It seems that the Kashmir, then as now, is populated by Semites (he even uses pictures of people’s noses!)  Kersten reviewed Census Material going back to these ancient times and found that during that time one out of every four boys was named “Moses”.  He found place names that match place names from the Old Testament.  He provides evidence that the Holy Land Jews did not become acquainted with their Books of Moses until the time of their Babylonian Captivity.  Well, Babylon was a cosmopolitan city in a cosmopolitan World.  The growing Persian Empire had secured a wide scale Peace and so trade routes stretched into the Far East through India.  The Jews in Babylon during their Captivity may have found the Story of their Semitic Cousins from the Kashmir – “the Land of Milk and Honey”.  Kersten wondered how anybody could call the scrub brush of the Holy Land “the Land of Milk and Honey”, but the Kashmir is a land of lakes and fertile valleys at an altitude above sea level high enough to break the Heat of India.  There is probably no more beautiful country in the World than the Kashmir.  And, to Jesus, wasn’t it also Jewish?  Every 4th boy was a “Moses”!  The People of the Kashmir certainly didn’t give him a hard time.  Maybe Jesus just picked the better Jews! But, still, no Empire of Righteousness spread throughout the World with its epicenter in the Kashmir.  But, well, Kersten does wonder whether Jesus may have influenced Buddhist Doctrine.  You see, original Buddhist Doctrine was entirely nihilistic, as pessimistic as any kind of spiteful French Existentialism.  Original Buddhism tells us that the ‘source of all suffering is desire’. Effectively Buddha was telling people to give up caring about anything.  But Jesus fell in with the Mahayana Movement which pushed the Bodhisattva Ideal of Saints educating Humanity.  Jesus gave meaning to Buddhism.  He imbued it with a sense of Social Morality.  So, yes, perhaps Jesus did make a Calculation and determine the Path that truly did maximize his Utility to the World.

But, then, it doesn’t answer for a Jewish Messiah.  I have had dreams in which I’ve encountered a Young King, of light complexion but black hair.  His nose wasn’t small.  He’s been growing up in my dreams.  He started as a Gloriously Noble but Proud Young Fool, to be protected from his own impulses that were Idealistic, Conforming to the Highest Principles, but Impractical to the extreme… but from dream to dream, he grew and became Wiser and better Measured… less of a danger to others and himself.  In the last Dream, I looked at him and realized he no longer needed Baby Sitting.  There was smoke on the Horizon from a Burning Town, and with a grim and steady determination he started marching straight towards it. There would be no evasion or Self Doubt this time.  Maybe he’s the Jewish Messiah.  I think if I saw him in the News I’d know it was him.

Part Eleven: Jesus the Jew vs Christianity [Summation.  Jesus as per Gentiles.  Jesus as per the Jews.  Paul’s Christ as Treacherous Betrayer of God and Heaven.  With no valid Salvation, what lays in store for Christians. ]

In summation, what should we carry away from all of this?    What should our appraisal of Jesus of Nazareth be?  Well, first, every Gentile needs to take a step back.  Is Jesus of Nazareth really any of our business?  Yes, historically and intellectually we may be curious, but we really need to return proprietary rights to Jesus back to the Jews.   Now, I do agree with many to most Modern Jews that the legacy of Jesus of Nazareth should not be overly emphasized.  There is no arguing with the fact that he did not become the Jewish Messiah, and so he was either some self-deluded crackpot, or he in fact willfully tossed aside the Mantel and let himself be killed leaving them vulnerable to genocidal slaughter and thousands of years of existing in Diaspora.  Oh, and these Genocidal Slaughters would happen repeatedly, as we now know.   Christianity, ostensibly under his Name, would become their greatest persecutor.  Even Islam, not especially known for its hospitality to other Religions, would show more hospitality and welcome to the Jews than Christianity, which didn’t change until of course after Zionism launched their Invasion into the Heart of Islam, usurping Palestine, which is only the edge of their envisioned Greater Israel. So, yes, such aggression should make us all wonder where in the Talmud it is written “One good turn deserves a merciless Attack”.  But, yes, back to the affronts of Christianity… this Jesus the “Christ” of Christianity was not the kind of Messiah the Jews had in mind.  In fact, it would be easy to suppose that every Jew would find the Idea of Jesus F. Christ somewhat repugnant.  I honestly don’t know how an Organization like Jews for Jesus can even exist.  It sounds too much to me like “Blacks for the Klan”.  

However, it is widely recognized by the more enlightened elements of the World Jewish Community that Jesus was not all bad.  Most importantly there is the “Sermon of the Mount”.  The Christians don’t want it, they don’t appreciate it, and if Fox News told them all that it was a Speech delivered by a New York Liberal Jew then they would be perfectly willing to hate it.  The Sermon is in fact a representative expression of Judaic Social Morality and the Jews should own it.  Heck, they should sue the Christian World for Exclusive Rights to the Sermon and insist on a Stop Print Injunction against the New Testament because it’s Free Sin Doctrines are a Moral Obscenity and their being connected to the “Old Testament” Jewish Scriptures under the same Cover makes the Christian Bible a Libelous Slander against the Good Character of the Jewish People.  

But perhaps we can stretch the “not all bad” verdict a little further.  If we should look at the Life of Jesus, but within the perspective of his Jewishness, we would see that he had been a Religious Ascetic from a Respectable Sect who accomplished an extensive and ambitious Public Outreach Program presenting a spectrum of Social Moral Ideas that were avant-garde at the time and commendable in any day and age.  Stripped of all the gross sordid Greek impostures, false claims and the disgusting doctrines of free sin, well we would find that Jesus was a veritable Saint, and we all can see that such a Life, such a Man, and such a Jew would not be one whom any Jew should be embarrassed to recognize as a fellow Jew in good standing within their Hallowed Community.

Finally we are left with the fact that Jesus and Christianity became very famous and very influential, and so many of us think that that must mean something, right?  Well, it does, but not in a good way.  You see, it is instructive that Jesus was born under the same Star as Apollonius of Tyana who was also a much-acclaimed Saint but who never achieved a fraction of the Fame that Jesus subsequently acquired.  But Apollonius lived a long life and was never Martyred.  Jesus became famous specifically because his Death could be Exploited – We’ve all heard what the Protestants say, and they even hold up signs at the football games that say: “Jesus died so that we may Sin”. So, yes, the Tragic Death of Jesus has been twisted against him.   But, yes, if their situations had been reversed, with Apollonius being murdered instead of Jesus, well Apollonius would have become the Greek Shill for a Sin Condoning Christ.  Actually, Apollonius might have been a better fit, considering that he was already Greek and didn’t require the transplanting that Jesus did.  But then there was the Destruction of Jerusalem, a Lucky Accident for the Greeks, where all the Living Witnesses to the Real Jesus Story died in one wild terrible swoop, which, as we discussed earlier, defaulted complete Editorial Control of the Life of Jesus, only thinly “based” on a True Story, into the hands of the unscrupulous and rapacious Greek Christians.  So, yes, Christianity was definitely a fluke of History: the cynical exploitation by the worst jaded schemers in the Greek World, of a series of momentous tragedies involving the best of all possible peoples in the Semitic.   You know, it is said of Jesus, that in the early days of his Ministry that he had been tempted by Satan but that he had held strong.  Well, we might think that Jesus must have supposed that he had walked away from that Ordeal holding the better hand.  But History shows us that, unless there is more to be seen, that Satan had the last laugh – if Jesus wouldn’t deal with him, then Satan would find a man who would:  Satan found Paul.

Now, I can’t really call Paul the Anti-Christ because the “Christ” was what Paul created It to be, the Personification of Permissive Evil and the Agent responsible for Surrendering a Perfect Heaven to an Intentionally Planned Pollution by Self Confessed Sinners.  What True God could possibly consort with such Filth in the kind of Heaven envisioned by Paul?  A Heaven with Sin becomes Hell, doesn’t it? But Paul, with Paul’s sensibilities, wouldn’t see the problem, would he?  What murderous psychopath would?   In Paul’s Heaven, would not a Republican carry his Oppressiveness for the Meek and the Poor even up into Heaven?  Would Saintly Latin Female Souls be forced back into their Aprons of Servitude even in Heaven?  Well, Yes, If the same Sins are allowed Above as Below. Wouldn’t Sins forgiven on Earth be Forgiven in Heaven also?  Would not the Golden Fields of Heaven be parceled up into Lots and Sold to the Greatest Sinners, as is done here now down on Earth?

So, yes, perhaps these Denizens of Paul’s Darkened Heaven would not even realize they’re creating a new Hell.  But the Righteous and Pure Souls would know.   God would know.  God would have to become a Refugee in his own Universe!  He would take the Pure and the Righteous Souls with Him.  It would be a Paradise Lost and the start of a Long Wondering until God could find a Place of Purity far enough and high enough away, so it could be secure against the betrayal of his Treacherous Son, the Christ.   

So, no, Paul is not the Anti-Christ, but what we need to realize is that his Christ is Monster.  With a Christ like that, it would be the Anti-Christ we would be cheering for, wouldn’t it?  But in terms of the Judaic View, Paul was clearly the Anti-Messiah, the Anti-Jew, the Anti-Anything that is good, wholesome, upright and decent.  It should come as no surprise to us that all around the World today it is the Christians who are standing in the way of all that is Socially Moral, Just, Right and Fair.  When the Day of Judgment arrives, God’s Job can be an Easy one -- just let all Christians hold up their Free Sin Tickets to Salvation.  These can be their Passports to Hell!

Well, There!  That was my counterattack. That should be enough.  Anybody who reads all of that will be inoculated against these Christians, so they won’t be able to scare us away from our Dreams and Visions.  You know, This was a fairly large project.  I hope it is a while before another Religion pisses me off.  I could use some rest.  As the Poets say… I’m too old for this shit.    



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