BIBLE SCHOLAR SAYS CHRISTIANITY WAS A ROMAN FABRICATION

So what if Christianity was a Roman creation. 

True, much cruelty and murder has taken place in the name of Christianity over the centuries: The Inquisition, genocides in Europe and the Americas, and much more.

But reality shows that at the present moment people need a faith, and if the current trend of militant atheism and disparaging of religion in the West continues (and by religion they really mean Christianity), the void will be filled by another religion, quite possibly by one much less tolerant than today's Christianity.

Unwittingly, militant atheists are creating the conditions for a shift towards more rigid, dictatorial, and violent alternatives to Christianity.

 

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The Independent - Story of Jesus Christ was fabricated to pacify the poor, claims Bible scholar Joseph Atwill.

 

A controversial American biblical scholar is set to make his first appearance in London next week to present a discovery that he claims proves the story of Jesus Christ was invented as a system of mind control to enslave the poor.

 

Joseph Atwill, who is the author of a book entitled 'Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus', asserts that Christianity did not begin as a religion, but was actually a sophisticated government propaganda exercise used to pacify the subjects of the Roman Empire.

The upcoming Covert Messiah Conference

 

At the 'Covert Messiah' conference, to be held at the Conway Hall in Holborn (in central London) on October 19, Mr Atwill will present his theory that the New Testament was written by first-century Roman aristocrats and that they entirely fabricated the story of Jesus Christ.

Christianity as Roman mind control

 

Outlining his ideas in a blog posting on his website Mr Atwill writes: "Christianity may be considered a religion, but it was actually developed and used as a system of mind control to produce slaves that believed God decreed their slavery."

 

Mr Atwill says that acts of insurrection by Jewish sects, who were awaiting the arrival of a so-called 'warrior Messiah' in Palestine, were a perpetual problem for the Roman Empire and that after the Empire had exhausted all traditional means of dealing with the problem they resorted to psychological warfare.

 

"They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system," Atwill told PRWeb.com.

 

"That's when the 'peaceful' Messiah story was invented. "Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to 'give onto Caesar' and pay their taxes to Rome."

 

Mr Atwill continues: "Although Christianity can be a comfort to some, it can also be very damaging and repressive, an insidious form of mind control that has led to blind acceptance of serfdom, poverty, and war throughout history.

 

“In fact he [Jesus] may be the only fictional character in literature whose entire life story can be traced to other sources.  Once those sources are all laid bare, there’s simply nothing left.”

What led to Joseph Atwill's ideas
 

Atwill says he made his discovery when while studying the New Testament alongside the 'War of the Jews' by Josephus - the only surviving first-person historical account of first-century Judea.

 

Mr Atwill claims that he began to notice a sequence of parallels between the two texts.

 

"What seems to have eluded many scholars is that the sequence of events and locations of Jesus ministry are more or less the same as the sequence of events and locations of the military campaign of [Emperor] Titus Flavius as described by Josephus," Atwill claims.  "This is clear evidence of a deliberately constructed pattern".

Read more:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/story-of-jesus-christ-was-fabricated-to-pacify-the-poor-claims-controversial-biblical-scholar-8870879.html

http://uk.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11201273.htm

Richard Atwill's blog - http://caesarsmessiah.com/blog/

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History - Romans renamed Judea "Palestine" - The Roman occupation of Judea - http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Romans.html


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