Directory Summary
What is Christianity, and when did it begin? This website gives the answers, not as mere Christianity—as a belief or in terms of symbols of Christianity today—but as a subject of legitimate
scientific history, history about Christianity! Scientific history is based on
sound evidence fairly considered,
not on
previous assumptions and special pleas. Looking at the beginning of Christianity, the
gospel evidence is examined in context. The
gospel stories make
perfect historic sense,
without any special pleas or
divine intervention. The founder of Christianity, Jesus, was a
Jewish martyr, declared a
gentile god and rejected by his own people, for whom he had given his life. The question of early Christianity, its rise and spread, and its relationship with the
Hellenistic mysteries and Paganism are also examined. Christian believers were
not pious Jews, but were
Hellenized Jews. The
conflict with heresy is dealt with in its own section. It will make any Christian cross, but Christianity is
anything but divine, and
Christians have been
anything but good. It is still a religion of
liars, cruel torturers and murderers. In the light of the history of Christianity,
no one with
an ounce of humanity could
be one.
The Wisdom of Carl
One of the saddest lessons of history is that, if we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World (1996)
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Give or take a few, it’s been 23756 months since the first coming of Christ ended. The Rapture can’t be long now… Can it?
Before you go, think about this…
Being blessed by priests, even by the pope is no guarantee that you will secure God’s favour. The Crown Princess of Brazil was blessed by the Pope then had the terrible misfortune of giving birth to a horribly deformed child, and after that she was exiled and died. The Emperor of Mexico’s widow also died in exile, “a hopeless maniac”, after having the papal blessing. In 1870 the Pope blessed a steamer full of nuns heading for South America. It sank with no survivors. A new Catholic church was built on a faoundation stone blessed by the pope. It no sooner had opened than it was destroyed by a bomb.
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Moses and Exodus
