Ronald Thomas West Jesus is almost certainly the most misrepresented man in history. ‘The Christ’ is established in scholarship as an invention [lie] by the so-called St Paul, adopted by the church, and smears the reputation of the historical Jesus [a great teacher] by adapting Greek paganism rites that turned animal sacrifice into the Christian ritual human sacrifice and cannibalism known as ‘Communion.’ Any rational person who will like to know the history behind these facts need only look into the research of ‘The Jesus Seminar.’
A gesture of respect to the authentic, historical Jesus would be to explicitly condemn any reference to Jesus’ so-called ’sacrifice’ claiming his blood had been shed to ’save’ people, the most perverted belief ever to contribute to the collective madness of Western civilization infecting the world. I’ve yet to meet a Christian professing blood sacrifice ’salvation’ open to reason and learning, insofar as understanding how much harm these sort of archetype myths do, particularly in relation to perverting the minds of children and leading to desensitizing people to human slaughters on a grand scale.
Talk about pornography. If human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism as base foundation for a culture do not make a pornographic culture, I can’t imagine anything that does.
Maybe it’s time to practice a bit of common sense and simply create a social scene where these images are not welcome and let people wonder what it might be like to live ‘beyond the pale’ or be ‘tempted’ so to speak, to discover the possibilities when they are willing to step beyond the fear mongering and necrotic bonds of ignorance. We live in a literate world now, perversions of history should no longer serve as instrument of superstition created by the power corrupt to control people through fear.
There is no healthy rationale to provide hospitality to any being harboring such absolute social poisons the image of blood sacrifice entails. I certainly don’t need it in my life.
Jesus should not be associated with hate mongering and mainstream Christian dogma is chock full of invented hate, this evil is not limited to the religious right. From the misogynist story of ‘The Fall’ to Cain and Abel requiring blood sacrifice to ‘God’ it just goes on and on.
It’s time to acquire sanity, quit ritually killing and eating Jesus and genuinely healthy people would want no associations with people who’d do this, you think? Particularly people who push the idea Jesus tortured to death was a good thing (as though on a billboard) but consider: Are those who quietly celebrate this killing and eating of a man any better?
According to Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover and the Jesus Seminar- The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus:
“For Paul, the Christ was to be understood as a dying/rising lord, symbolized in baptism (buried with him, raised with him), of the type he knew from the hellenistic [Greek] mystery religions. In Paul’s theological scheme, Jesus the man played no essential role.”
“Eighty-two percent of the words ascribed to Jesus in the gospels were not actually spoken by him, according to the Jesus Seminar.”
“The church appears to smother the historical Jesus by superimposing this heavenly figure on him in the creed: Jesus is displaced by the Christ, as the so-called Apostle’s Creed makes evident.”
“The first step is to understand the diminished role the Gospel of John plays in the search for the Jesus of history. The two pictures painted by John and the synoptic [Matthew, Mark, Luke] gospels cannot both be historically accurate.”
“The Fellows of the Seminar were unable to find a single saying [in John] they could with certainty trace back to the historical Jesus.”
“The words attributed to Jesus in the Fourth Gospel.. ..are the creation of the evangelist for the most part..”
“Words borrowed from the fund of common lore or the Greek scriptures are often put on the lips of Jesus.”
“The evangelists frequently attribute their own statements to Jesus.”
“We know that the evangelists not infrequently ascribed Christian words to Jesus-they made him talk like a Christian, when, in fact, he was only the precursor of the movement that was to take him as its cultic hero.”
“Jesus rarely makes pronouncements or speaks about himself in the first person. Jesus makes no claim to be the Anointed, the messiah.”
“Jesus taught that the last will be first and the first will be last. He admonished his followers to be servants of everyone. He urged humility as the cardinal virtue by both word and example. Given these terms, it is difficult to imagine Jesus making claims for himself-I am the son of God, I am the expected One, the Anointed-unless, of course, he thought that nothing he said applied to himself.”
The historical Jesus was a healing teacher having almost nothing to do with church teaching, hate mongering actually, and a reasonable person should be able to see the good in Jesus teaching has been buried, notably, among other things Jesus had stated:
“You cannot serve God and money”
While the Catholic church has fought tooth and nail to keep pedophilia scandals under wraps to preserve church property and finances from lawsuits and,
“Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s”
While the religious right has devoted itself to undermining our secular constitution and rule of law.
