IN THE BEGINNING,
or shortly thereafter, there emerged a tribe of savages who fabricated a god of hate, war and suffering. Its name was Yaweh (Jehovah). Using "The Lord" as an excuse for their atrocities, the savages embarked on a series of wars against neighbouring tribes and races. They slaughtered men, women, children and babies just for the joy of watching them die. Eventually this brutal tribe of savages was itself conquered by the Romans.
While under Roman rule, the savages longed for a messiah, a christ, someone to save them from their fate. But none came. Many of the savages perished at the hands of the Romans, those that survived were scattered far and wide. One particularly brutal savage, Saul, whilst under the influence of the Amnita Muscura mushroom (which grew prolifically along the Damascus freeway), suffered a drug induced fit, during which he saw a vision of the absent messiah.
So convinced was he that he had seen the "christ" that he adopted the role of promotions manager and set about convincing gullible peasants that the messiah had indeed come but that everybody had blinked and missed him. The more Saul travelled the more creative his mind became. Before long he had manufactured sufficient 'facts' to fill several books.
Other survivors of the Roman occupation developed their own ideas concerning the messiah who would one day come, most notably the Gnostics and the Essenes. The Essenes insisted that the "christ", when he came, would minister only unto the Hebrews, not to the hated gentiles. And both groups agreed that mankind could communicate directly with "god" without bouncing their prayers off robed robbers.
BOLT ON CHRIST!
Eventually word of the imagined messiah reached corrupt businessmen in Rome, the equivalent of today's Mafia. This criminal fraternity saw an opportunity to seize power and make money. They employed four scribes (since named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) to cobble together stories of messiahs and deities favoured by other nations. The result was Yeshu (Jesus), a mongrel cross between Bachus, Apollo, Prometheus and Mithra, bolted together then pasted onto Saul's illiterate and mentally deranged Essene whose circumcision had gone horribly wrong resulting in a septic wound where his genitals had once been.
Born of a virgin then threatened by a despotic king, this Frankenstein christ brought corpses back to life, walked on water, was betrayed, crucified, resurrected, then zoomed up to heaven to be reunited with its grotesque father. In other words, the standard, traditional messianic fare.
The Gnostics, the Essenes and other "heretics" vanished, probably slaughtered by the crime syndicate to prevent alternative ideas reaching the public. The misogynist raver Saul was posthumously awarded the preposterous title of "Saint" Paul, but was quickly replaced as head honcho by "Saint" Peter. Paul stood in the way of progress because he agreed with the Essenes, especially Jesus, that man could communicate directly with "god" without recourse to priests and other holy charlatans. This was no good to the brotherhood which had to convince people of the need for "holy" go-betweens. There was also the question of Hebrew exclusivity - Jesus' obsession with Jewish supremacy - not a good look if the cult was to expand.
HOLY PLUNDER
Peter was a more practical man, he agreed that middlemen were required to connect people with "god". He also agreed that despite saying "I come only for the lost sheep of Israel" and forbidding his disciples to mix with gentiles, Jesus had come for the gentiles, not the Jews. Peter, formerly Simon, had betrayed his deranged mate in real life, now he happily betrayed him in death. He immediately set about winning converts for the new corporation, murdering anyone who refused to hand over their wealth and other worldly goods. Or as the bible so cutely puts it, "they gave up their ghosts."
Calling itself by now, the Universal (or Catholic) Church, the crime syndicate embarked on a programme to convince people to abandon their pagan beliefs and embrace the new, you-beaut, fabricated religion. To achieve this they had to strike terror into the hearts of their intended victims. They depicted the nature gods, who had served the public well for thousands of years, as devils.
Hermes, Lucifer and Satan, innocuous little deities, were portrayed as the Gods of Hell. Before long the three deities merged, and Satan, complete with horns and pointy tail, became the embodiment of evil. The Church said to people, "Either worship Jesus Christ or burn in hell!" It worked like a charm, and to this day almost two billion simpletons suffer the tyranny of this illusion.
COMPROMISE
Religious history claims that the Emperor Constantine glimpsed a sign in the sky assuring him that were he to worship christ he would more easily conquer his enemies. He gave it a go, slaughterd thousands of pagans then converted to christianity. Constantine took control of this prosperous new religion, tidied it up, changed the sabath from Saturday to Sunday to appease the sun (Sol Invictus) worhippers, insisted that "god" and Jesus were one and the same, pronounced a mother of five a virgin, then murdered his own mother and son when they became a nuisance. Thousands of other dissidents were driven into the desert to die. Christianity was now well and truly established.
At the Council of Nicea in 325 CE (Christian era), 82 essays were 'voted' the "Word of God" and bound together in one volume and called the Holy Bible. Countless other essays were trashed for one reason or another and most are lost to us forever.
Some years later another contentious issue was decided by priestly vote - Are women human? The result - nine "yes", eight "no" - meant that women could not be hunted and killed for meat. They were in fact human, but only just.
After his death, as Constantine's empire crumbled, power reverted to Rome. The head honcho, now calling himself a "pope", busied himself taking care of business. He and his successors concentrated on murdering heretics, amassing wealth, wallowing in luxury and grovelling in cesspits of vice and fornication. Christianity had by now veered a long way from the path of humility, abstinence, denial and compassion, preached (though eratically practiced) by Jesus.
THE CRUSADES
With the collapse of Byzantium (Constantinople) and the rise in the 7th century of Islam, most of the middle east came under Muslim control. Then in 1095 Pope Urban 2nd decided that he'd had enough. It was time to drive the Muslims out of Jerusalem, so he sent the first wave of christian mercenries into the so-called "holy land" to slaughter as many people as possible. His armies were very successful. They boasted of battles where their horses were knee deep in the blood of the infidels. They weren't too fussy who they killed - Jews, Christians, Muslims - if it breathed it was fair game. Children were raped and stabbed for Jesus.
The Crusaders liked the joint so they built lots of interesting castles and set up home along the Mediteranean coast. But oddly enough the Muslims resented their presence. Eventually the Crusaders were driven out of Jerusalem by a Muslim warrior known to us as Saladin. The pope was ropeable! He sent another army. And yet another army. And still more armies. One army was led by a "divine" goose! The carnage went on for a couple of hundred years but eventually the Crusades fizzled out and the Vatican turned its wrath on Europe instead.
DIVINE TERROR!
In 1231, Pope Gregory 9th decided it was time to to completely eliminate heresy. He formed a bureau of secret police called The Inquisition. Its job was to convert or kill disbelievers. It achieved this by the liberal use of rope, flame, thumb screws, eye gouges, red-hot pincers and pokers, and "divine" clamps for ripping off women's breasts and men's genitals. This reign of terror continued unabated until 1478 when Pope Sixtus 4th, dissatisfied with with the body count, assembled an entire army of cutthroats and torturers and turned it loose on the citizens of Europe. This was the Spanish Inquisition.
In the 14th century a rival church established itself in France which treated women as equals. Based largely on the 'gnostic' tradition it allowed women to own land and property and it encouraged them to take the holy vows and preach. Known as the Cathars, this progressive sect presented a powerful threat to the Catholic Church, so the pope ordered its destruction. The inhabitants of an entire region were either put to the sword or burned to death. Not so much as one infant was spared.
Over the centuries millions of men, women and children were tortured and murdered by the Pope's evil army of butchers. Anyone who challenged the Church's authority, or even looked like they might challenge its authority, was gouged, crushed, strangled, burned or drowned. No atrocity was too severe or too horrible for this cruel and abominable bureau. Europe became a fearful and dreadful place to live.
The Inquisition's reign of terror officially lasted six hundred and three years - till 1834 - (In fact, the last "witch" known to be hanged by the Catholic Church was in Mexico in 1913. I said "known"). Eventually though, the Catholic Church was faced with an enemy even more effective than its armies of torturers and executioners. It was called a printing press. Educated men started publishing documents challenging the church's authority and many paid the inevitable price. Copernicus even questioned the validity of the bible itself and was quickly despatched by fire. Gallileo published similar observations but was forced under threat of death to recant.
But despite this, heretics and freethinkers did write and were heard. Over the centuries the Catholic Church had done everything possible to suppress learning and block intellectual advancement but now the floodgates were open and the culture of superstition and ignorance was under attack.
PROTESTANT vs CATHOLIC
Two successful challenges to the Catholic Church took place in Europe, one led by Martin Luther in Germany - the first heretic to recognise the full potential of the printing press - another led by the monstrous King Henry the Eighth of England. The 'Protestant' movement was born and news of the less structured form of worship quickly spread throughout christendom. The pope's thugs reacted with typical savagery and the result was that millions of people throughout Europe died in numerous wars, all because of Rome's obsession with power.
But despite Rome's best and most murderous efforts, eventually the Protestant movement was established and the Catholic Church was forced to abandon its more diabolical and extreme forms of punishment.
King James 1st of England employed 47 scholars to study the bible and to report any inconsistences. They discovered that the bible was consistently inconsistent and recommended that 16 books be expunged. Their advise was accepted and the King James Authorised Version of the bible became numero uno. Catholics, however, clung to the older version (the Douay Bible) with 82 books. Strangely, the book of Thomas, brother of Jesus, has never been included in the bible, probably because it depicts Jesus as a deranged and bitter man.
NAZIS FOR JESUS
Over the centuries religious wars abated, but the past lives on in countries like Ireland and (former) Yugoslavia where Catholics and Protestants still hate each other with a vengeance. As recently as 1942, Croation Catholics were decapitating anyone, irrespective of age, who refused to convert to "the one true faith." Throughout the war, the pope remained silent as millions of heretics, called Jews, were sent to concentration camps by Nazis loyal both to Hitler and to the Catholic or Lutheran Church.
To this day, not Hitler nor one Nazi monster has been excommunicated by the pope. Far from it, in 1999, Cardinal Stepinac, a Croatian 'Ustashi' (secret police) murderer, was posthumously beatified (made a saint) by Pope John Paul 2nd.
Even so, the glory days of blood and burning flesh are over. The Catholic Church now has to rely solely on psychological terror to enslave its victims. Anyone who resists the evil brotherhood risks being excommunicated and pitched into the "fires of hell".
BRAIN CONTAMINATION
This diabolical method of mind control has been applied and perfected over a period of two millennia; seize control of children while they're young and susceptible to programming, sodomise their brains with revolting stories of fire, torment, devils and suffering. Pollute them with horror, corrupt them with lies, then offer them salvation provided they remain loyal to the Church and its teachings.
Using terror and applied violence, the Catholic Church has, over the centuries, ammassed a fortune in stolen money and property. More recently it has advanced into real estate speculation and the stock market. The Catholic Church pays no tax yet it is the wealthiest business corporation in the world today. Less than nought-point-one per cent of it's staggering income is used for charitable works to fool its followers into believing that it "cares". The truth is that the Catholic Church cares only for wealth and power. Always has. Always will. It remains the brotherhood of evil, the cruelest, most decadent and disgusting institution on planet Earth.
The Christian religion is the religion of hell and as such it is an abomination to any true God that there might be. And if there is such a place as "hell" be certain that it is reserved for those who deliberately spread the disease known as Christianity.
Built on a myth
based on an embecile
promoted by a misogynist
adopted by criminals
adapted by forgerers
embelished by fraudsters,
formalised by a murderer
enforced by torturers
split by an executioner
salvaged by gangsters
claimed by big business
marketed as the Divine Truth
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