Story of Jesus Christ was 'fabricated to
pacify the poor', claims controversial Biblical scholar
Christianity
was a sophisticated government propaganda exercise used to pacify the subjects
of a the Roman Empire, claims scholar
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.
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk
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