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CHRISTIANITY DYING IN THE WEST |
Christianity Dying In The West?
Posted October 4, 2005
Organiser
October 09, 2005
By M. S. N. Menon
Christianity is dying in the West. But it is springtime
for Christianity in Asia and elsewhere. A Paradox? No.
The Pope himself says so.
According to Pope Benedict, "there is no longer evidence
in the western world for a need of God, even less of
Christ."
Dear Hindu reader, are you listening? Do you know the
implications of what he says? Perhaps not. But you should
know-Christianity is in decline in the West because the
West is ashamed of the Christian God Yahweh, who used to
drink human blood, and it is flourishing in Asia because
Asians are still under the spell of religion.
But how is one to account for the loss of faith in Jesus
Christ? Because there is increasing evidence that he
never existed, because it is now discovered that the life
of Jesus was built on lies by St. Paul.
What is more, Yahweh has remained a jealous God, a God
who rewarded and punished. And he was too closely
associated with the Jewish race to become a God of
mankind.
Today we have about 100,000 monographs on Jesus Christ.
But we know almost nothing about the man! His life was
deliberately kept a secret by the church. And St. Paul
created a Jesus to suit his own objectives.
But are there other records to go by? Very few. Most were
destroyed by the church. Pliny, the younger, mentions a
sect called Christians, but never of Jesus Christ. Jesus
does not even appear in the book of the Jewish historian
Josephus, called Jewish Antiquities (published in 93
a.d.). The Jewish writer Justus lived in Tiberias, where
Jesus was supposed to have lived often. But, he, too,
never mentions the name of Jesus. Philo of Alexandria,
another contemporary of Jesus, was a specialist on Jewish
sects. But he too never mentions the name of Jesus. It is
clear from all these that perhaps Jesus never lived, and
if he lived at all, he was an insignificant person. It
was St. Paul who built up the Christ figure. But today
very few are willing to accept the Jesus Christ of St.
Paul.
It is this lack of proper evidence of his life and work,
which made Ian Wilson, author of Jesus: The Evidence
conclude: "There is scarcely a crumb of information to
compel a belief in Jesus' existence." Rudolf Bultmann,
the greatest New Testament theologian of the 20th
century, almost said the same thing. Ernest Kasemann, a
specialist on the New Testament at the Tubingen
University, says of the research on the life of Jesus:
"One is overwhelmed by how little of the accounts about
Jesus in the New Testament can be called authentic!
So, what passes for "Christianity "is the work of St.
Paul. William Nestle, a Church historian, writes: "
Christianity is the religion founded by St. Paul. It
replaced Christ's gospel with a gospel about Christ."
Modern theologians and researchers in religious history
believe that the Central tenet of salvation through the
death and suffering of Jesus has been a deliberate
misinterpretation by Paul. He is also the author of anti-
feminism in Christianity. He says:" It is good for a man
not to touch a woman." Which is why Mary Magdalene was
made into a prostitute. Paul is also the author of the
concepts of Original sin and Trinity. In short, Paul
produced a totally distorted message of Jesus. The
trouble with the Bible, says Professor, Whitehead, “has
been its interpreters, who whittled down that sense of
infinitude into finitude...and the first interpreter of
the New Testament was the worst-Paul. True, Paul put
Jesus on a pedestal and saved Christianity from being
branded a minor Jewish sect.
If one is not sure about the existence of Jesus, what
about the various claims made by the church on behalf of
Christ? There is no evidence that Jesus died on the
cross. A commission of Bishops (of York and Canterbury),
after 16 years of research, declared that the Bible story
of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ was
incorrect.
Similarly, a book based on a study by seven of Britain's
foremost theologians said that Christ was neither divine
nor an incarnate. Among the distinguished theologians,
who authored the book was Prof. Canon Maurice Wiles,
Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. They
said; "The historical Jesus never presented himself as
incarnate."
Then, what is left of Christ and Christianity? Very
little. Which is why the West is in no need of Christ.
What is more, Darwin had already demolished the
foundation of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve
(Genesis).
The entire edifice of Christianity had thus fallen. But
the empire of the church and its vested interests are so
powerful they can withstand any adversity. "Pesudo-
Christianity," says George Bernard Shaw, "was and will be
fact-proof."
If Christianity is thus dying in the West, it cannot live
and flourish in the East. Can it? It is for you Hindus to
decide.
More at:
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The terrorist mission of Jesus stated in the Christian bible:
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not so send
peace, but a sword.
"For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the
daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in
law.
"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
- Matthew 10:34-36.
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| User: "Brahman Bhat Lifter" |
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| Title: Re: CHRISTIANITY DYING IN THE WEST |
16 Oct 2005 09:13:06 PM |
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Do you think America might have a hindu president in the next few
years, now that christianity is "dying" in the west?. Someone with an
original hindu name like "Gajanandendra Venkataprasadam Bullamancaca"
shortened for a George Bull?
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| User: "" |
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17 Oct 2005 06:46:08 PM |
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Brahman Bhat Lifter wrote:
Do you think America might have a hindu president in the next few
years, now that christianity is "dying" in the west?. Someone with an
original hindu name like "Gajanandendra Venkataprasadam Bullamancaca"
shortened for a George Bull?
Hahahahahahahahaahahahaahahahahaha LOL
yOU guys are going to kill me...
I can't stop laughing
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| User: "Richo" |
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| Title: Re: CHRISTIANITY DYING IN THE WEST |
16 Oct 2005 07:40:52 PM |
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Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
Christianity Dying In The West?
Yes please!
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| User: "Dr. Jai Maharaj" |
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16 Oct 2005 08:11:49 PM |
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In article <1129509652.337459.70650@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Richo" <m.richardson@utas.edu.au> posted:
Christianity Dying In The West?
Yes please!
Yes indeed!
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
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| User: "" |
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17 Oct 2005 06:42:41 PM |
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Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
Christianity Dying In The West?
Posted October 4, 2005
Organiser
October 09, 2005
By M. S. N. Menon
But are there other records to go by? Very few. Most were
destroyed by the church. Pliny, the younger, mentions a
sect called Christians, but never of Jesus Christ.
Really? Pliny wrote:
"they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ as to a god"
http://www.religiousstudies.uncc.edu/jdtabor/saw.html
Jesus
does not even appear in the book of the Jewish historian
Josephus, called Jewish Antiquities (published in 93
a.d.).
Really?
http://www.carm.org/questions/Josephus_Jesus.htm
"At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus And his conduct
was good, and he was known to be virtuous. And many people from among
the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned
him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples
did not abandon his discipleship. They reported that he had appeared to
them after his crucifixion and that he was alive; accordingly, he was
perhaps the Messiah concerning whom the prophets have recounted
wonders."2
Paul is also the author of the
concepts of Original sin and Trinity.
Baloney. Where does Paul say anything about a trinity?
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| User: "Media Anonymous World Services \t.m." |
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20 Oct 2005 05:00:17 PM |
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F.Y.I.
Jesus was an anarcho pacifist like Spartacus, he was the new Mithras killing
the bull of Roman Imperialism, who was teaching emancipation to the people,
so they killed him and St.Paul was an imperial spin artist that netralized
the the story and created the blueprints for the imperial religion that
Constntine put into effect ...war without end amen. It is in the very nature
of imperial religions to be soaked in blood, that is their mandate. See
Ellers "Christian Anarchy"
See Also: http://adban.org
[Jesus] life was
deliberately kept a secret by the church. And St. Paul
created a Jesus to suit his own objectives.
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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16 Oct 2005 04:39:45 PM |
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:38:07 GMT, (Dr. Jai Maharaj)
wrote:
***** of and die, in-your-face nym-shifting, spamming moron.
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| User: "Martin Cleaver" |
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17 Oct 2005 01:37:48 PM |
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This posting was obviously made by a net terrorist :(
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