"JESUS STORY WAS FABRICATED"—Says A Controversial Bible Scholar.
Wonders they say shall never end,but why or for what reason should someone go so deep to condemn or destroy peoples believe without being 100%sure of his foundings and evidences...
The bellow article was first online on uk daily mail on the month of october but I just happened to stumble upon it and have gat to ask'is it possible to believe that Jesus(The New Testament)Biblical References and biography are invented(fabricated)?' If yes,what about his predecessors(the prophets and old testament)?also fabricated?...
The article bellow...
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.
At the 'Covert Messiah' conference, to be
held at the Conway Hall in Holborn a week
on Saturday, 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.
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.
To this day, especially in the United States,
it is used to create support for war in the
Middle East."
Elsewhere, Mr Atwill also writes: “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.”
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", he continues.
"The biography of Jesus is actually
constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories,
but especially on the biography of a Roman
Caesar."
Richard Dawkins, the English evolutionary
biologist and author, well known for his
anti-religion views, yesterday tweeted a
link to the press release advertising the
event in London.
However, he later tweeted: "RT doesn't
imply endorsement.
I'm not qualified to
judge Atwill's thesis. Just thought it might
be worth a look."
Mr Atwill's theory is simply one of a
number of what are known as Bible
conspiracy theories.
These theories commonly include the
suggestion that secret societies, mystery
schools and other religions used the
fictional story of Christ to unify the Roman
Empire under one state religion.
The bellow article was first online on uk daily mail on the month of october but I just happened to stumble upon it and have gat to ask'is it possible to believe that Jesus(The New Testament)Biblical References and biography are invented(fabricated)?' If yes,what about his predecessors(the prophets and old testament)?also fabricated?...
The article bellow...
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.
At the 'Covert Messiah' conference, to be
held at the Conway Hall in Holborn a week
on Saturday, 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.
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.
To this day, especially in the United States,
it is used to create support for war in the
Middle East."
Elsewhere, Mr Atwill also writes: “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.”
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", he continues.
"The biography of Jesus is actually
constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories,
but especially on the biography of a Roman
Caesar."
Richard Dawkins, the English evolutionary
biologist and author, well known for his
anti-religion views, yesterday tweeted a
link to the press release advertising the
event in London.
However, he later tweeted: "RT doesn't
imply endorsement.
I'm not qualified to
judge Atwill's thesis. Just thought it might
be worth a look."
Mr Atwill's theory is simply one of a
number of what are known as Bible
conspiracy theories.
These theories commonly include the
suggestion that secret societies, mystery
schools and other religions used the
fictional story of Christ to unify the Roman
Empire under one state religion.
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