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The Real Da Vinci Code

Christians have accused Dan Brown of misleading people about Christianity by writing a novel full of inconsistencies and errors. The Da Vinci Code, however, makes no pretence to be other than a novel, and novels are not true. They are stories. The story about a god appearing on earth in the form of a man in the New Testament that Christians call “gospel truth” is also full of errors and inconsistencies, but these, Christians affirm, are true errors and inconsistencies.

No one honest can deny that this story began to be altered and exaggerated from the outset, and had already been deliberately changed by the time the gospels were written down, particularly when organizations were founded—the gentile Churches—to promote it in the world alien to that of the story itself. The supposed authentic testimony about Jesus in the later books of the New Testament too often are at variance with the authentic testimony about him in the earlier books. The Jesus of Mark is more human than the Jesus of Matthew and Luke and utterly different from the Jesus of John who openly identifies himself with God in a megalomanic way.

The earlier Jesus was obviously expecting the end of the world soon, but when it did not happen, the later books had to play his whole emphasis down, and push the end of the world further into the future. Early Christians made Jesus suit their wishes and the interests of the wider world of the Roman empire, a quite different world to Judaea. The man who led an insurrection against the Roman military occupation of Judaea had to be made into a gentle pacifist whom the Romans could love and admire. His revolutionary actions were bowdlerized into miracles to hide their true nature, and his brief conquest of Jerusalem was made into the eccentric act of simply overturning tables in the temple court with a whip made of a few threads. The pious Essenic Jew was turned into an anti-Semitic gentile god, the judge of the world, a faint memory of his own belief that the world was about to be judged—by God Himself.

There cannot be a priest or pastor who does not know the historical evidence paints a picture quite different from the one propagated by the Christian churches. They are taught criticism and archaeology in the seminaries, but refuse to allow their sheep in the congregations to hear the same truths lest their faith be tested. The same extends to the stories of the Old Testament, most of which before king Omri is simply mythical, and myths not evolved as a people evolved but myths in the Leo Straussian sense—myths imposed by rulers, the Persian shahs then the Egyptian Ptolemies, to condition the people to obey.

These pages try to report in a more accessible form than scholarly papers the historical and scientific evidence for a proper historical reading of the biblical myths and how they arose, and also offer criticisms of Christian beliefs. There is not the least reason why the events of the bible, in both testaments, cannot be understood without God wiggling his index finger in human history. Dan Brown is right that a conspiracy has existed since time immemorial to gull and trick simple, uneducated people but his novel is not a serious attempt to address the issues based on the evidence, but a pot boiler to make money. It has done that.

These pages give the unfanticized and unfinancialized evidence. It is no less interesting, and reveals a fraud on the public that extends beyond Jesus into the fifth century BC. It is not a consistent or coherent plot over that whole time but illustrates how religion was a propaganda machine and a force for social engineering, intended essentially to ensure obedience to the rulers, and to raise revenue for them. The beneficiaries were always a class of priests who implemented the plan at first for the Persian shah, and then simply for the individual benefit of the class of rogues who remained when the shahs had been overthrown.

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06/22/2009 11:00 PM

When was the Bible Written?
If the bible was written around 700 BC, Jewish historians preceded the first historian, Herodotus by 200 years. It is manifest nonsense. Persian scholars with access to Assyrian records wrote the history to back up the law, Deuteronomy. The message was to obey God whose law it was. It showed God had punished previous generations for apostasy, and would do again, if the people were not righteous, ie obedient to the law. Obedience suits rulers.

06/22/2009 11:00 PM

Did King David ever Live?
Revised: The evidence for king David outside the bible is minute and controversial. No kings of Judah before Hezekiah are attested outside the bible. Judah was created as an Assyrian puppet.

06/22/2009 11:00 PM

Solomon and his Temple
Revised: An empire centred on Jerusalem in the tenth century BC is strongly disputed. There was a tenth century BC, but no emperors called David and Solomon lived in it. Tenth century BC "Solomonic" strata should be dated to the ninth century BC Omride dynasty of the Northern Kingdom. No literary tradition existed in tenth century BC Palestine.

06/12/2009 01:00 AM

Exodus and Numbers: An Hellenistic Romance
Revised. John Van Seters, building on the work of others, shows conclusively that the author of Exodus-Numbers, called J or the Yahwist, used Deuteronomy, the Deuteronomic history and parts of the prophets. Exodus-Numbers must therefore be later than Deuteronomy. If the latter was brought by Ezra from Persia in the late fifth century BC, then Exodus-Numbers is Hellenistic.

06/08/2009 09:00 PM

Who Lies Sleeping? Blog
The "Who Lies Sleeping?" blog is launched, so the Anthroposaurs are indeed back, and available for comment and discussion.

05/18/2009 11:00 PM

Sermon on the Mount, the Essene Renewal of the Covenant.
Whitsuntide feature: The Feast of the Renewal of the Covenant, held at Pentecost about the beginning of June, was for Essenes the principle holy day of the year, to renew the covenant and to allow initiates to be regraded. It has much in common with the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew. Jesus's newly baptized Nazarenes were being read the rules. Matthew uses Essene words, even the "poor in spirit".

05/17/2009 09:00 PM

The Dinosaur Heritage and the Extinction of Man
They're back! The Anthroposaurs! "Who Lies Sleeping?" is online again from adelphiasophism.com

04/26/2009 11:00 PM

Old Testament Research and Criticism
Dogma stopped free enquiry into the bible for a thousand years until Enlightenment and science led to the Higher Criticism. Julius Wellhausen showed that the law of Moses was misplaced in sacred history. It had to come at the end of the evolution of Judaism. Ezra, the Persian brought it.

04/18/2009 08:00 PM

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
April Features: The first of several linked pages on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, myth or history?

04/13/2009 08:00 PM

The Crucifixion
Easter Feature: The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Details of the Crucifixion and what it stands for

03/20/2009 08:00 PM

When was Exodus Written?
Updated: Evidence that Exodus is an Hellenistic romance written in Alexandria

03/01/2009 08:00 PM

Morality
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02/05/2009 08:00 PM

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01/25/2009 07:00 PM

National Cladistics
Updated. Analysis of 8 measures of religiosity across 17 countries has the US similar to Northern Ireland in religiosity. NI is divided on sectarian lines, and a long civil war has been fought between Catholic and Protestant bigots. Is the US heading for a new civil war based on sectarianism and religious intolerance? Has it already started, its atrocities hidden among the isolated acts of lunatics?

01/21/2009 06:00 PM

Francis S Collins
In his book "The Language of God", Francis S Collins presents evidence for belief. He must be writing for Christians. For anyone else it will seem puerile. His science sections are as good as one might expect, but the personal journey is laughable, and the evidence he offers for belief will be inadequate for anyone who thinks of themself as a scientist. The intended audience must be Christians who reject science, 45% of Americans. Three part review.

12/11/2008 10:00 PM

The Bicameral Mind
The breakdown of the bicameral mind that Jaynes saw in the mid first millennium BC was a bonfire of scribal vanities, writing conventions from the times when only specialized scribes were literate, and all recording was official. The Persian empire torched the conventions of the ANE, and Greeks continued the bonfire after Alexander. But there was a stage when the personality did not count in consciousness.

10/31/2008 10:00 PM

Primitive Revelation
A Primitive Revelation is described in Genesis 3. S Zwemer sought to popularize the idea. It demeans humanity. God gets all the credit, and humanity all the blame. Evolution explain more satisfactorily what is found. Humans are social animals and sin and morals are violations of instincts and rules necessary for society to exist.

10/11/2008 11:00 PM

The Origins of Religion
The origins of religion. Further update of 5 pages which introduce aspects of religion as a scientific study.

09/15/2008 11:00 PM

Higher Criticism of Islam
Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, is a sham and honest scholarship on these religions cannot avoid being offensive to believers. Religious belief excludes scholarship, so no believer can decry work critical of belief as not scholarly. Moslems, as usual, will be outraged that their beliefs are subject to the same criticism here as Judaism and Christianity. These religions are false, and any amount of indignation cannot change it.

07/30/2008 11:00 PM

Nietzsche and Secular Christianity
Nietzsche severely criticized Christianity, but thought there was a "genuine Christianity". His Ubermenschen, "supermen", were Christs, the equivalent of the Cathar Perfects, people trying to be Christs who would raise humanity to a higher level.

07/25/2008 11:00 PM

The Path to Secular Christianity
Christ proclaimed God is real. God is society. His practical dictums, to love each other, to love God, and that to love God was to love each other, are objective not subjective like faith. Yet Christian churches tolerated every imaginable atrocity. Secular Christianity.

07/23/2008 11:00 PM

Myths of the Freemasons
The foundation myths of the Freemasons can be shown to be plausible, given considerable correcting, but plausibility is not proof, even though Christians, and perhaps Masons too, think it is. There is no solid evidence, and we remain skeptical.

07/18/2008 11:00 PM

Death of God and Secular Christianity
Science has proved the death of God, but Christ and his precepts live on. Christians do not do what God incarnated as Christ told them. They must do as He said to enter the kingdom of God. It is here in this world, a secular kingdom, not supernatural. Scientists can be Christs!

07/14/2008 11:00 PM

The Patristic Age
The Patristic Age, following the Apostolic Age of the Church, was the age of the Church Fathers. The honest Christian has to admit these Church Fathers had no consistent or coherent doctrine. By the fifth century, Cyril of Alexandria had a complete theology, but not in the second century. Part 4 added 13 July.

06/23/2008 11:00 PM

The Failed Hypothesis of God
Victor Stenger, in a book everyone should read, shows how science can test for the supposed interventions of God in the world, and shows consclusively that there is no evidence that He does intervene. Either God does not exist or He does not intervene as Christians pray He does.

02/17/2008 10:00 PM

History and Meaning of Salvation
For the Jew, obeying the law, being righteous, saved them. A young man asked how to inherit eternal life. Jesus said without obeying the law, and being poor, he could not be saved. Christ's own life showed salvation depended on doing something, loving others and not accumulating wealth. Paul thought the law was too hard. He dropped it, making it easier to get converts, and for Christianity to spread. Paul made salvation into the mystery of God being magically obliged to save the faithful just for professing their faith in Christ!

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