Subject: DailyCatbox Special Pearly gates II edition
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 04:08:20 -0600
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PERSON OF THE YEAR: God
No one else had as profound an effect on American politics in 2007, except
perhaps the Devil (not shown). He influenced the actions of every candidate
for president and continues to guide our foreign policy, speaking to
President Bush on a regular basis.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/opinion/01deconink.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/Laura-Knight-Jadczyk/lost_gospel.htm
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Report: White House Continues to Meddle With Science Reports
Edits them, censors them, shreds them and compresses them into long-burning
fireplace logs.
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"According to a new survey, 25% of people say they don't know where Jesus
was born. The other 75% say they had Jesus doing their lawn and he could be
from Mexico or Guatemala."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071210/ap_on_re_us/church_shootings
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The Last Supper: It was actually a brunch. The check reveals that one guy
only had a soft-boiled egg and tea, while everyone else stuffed themselves.
But when the bill was paid, it was divided equally. The moral: "In groups,
always order the most expensive thing. When you order as a group: eat well.
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http://www.religion-info.com/religiousfraud.html
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Talking Jesus Action Figure Recalled
Talks too much about the poor.
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The Dumb Index
"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have
schizophrenia." Thomas Szasz
The following figures from an article in NEWSWEEK represent the number of
college graduates within each religious group in America. Can this be used
to relate the intelligence of the membership of each religion? Damn right it
can and I bet you already had a pretty good idea who would place last:
1) Unitarian 49.5
2) Hindu 47.0
3) Jewish 46.7
4) New Age 40.6
5) Episcopal 39.2
6) Agnostic 36.3
7) Presbyterian 33.8
8) Congregationalist 33.7
9) Buddhist 33.4
10) Eastern Orthodox 31.6
11) Muslim 30.4
12) National Average 24%
13) Evangelical 21.5
14) Methodist 21.1
15) Catholic 20.0
16) Mormon 19.2
17) Churches of Christ 14.6
18) Assemblies of God 13.7
19) Nazarene 12.5
20) Baptist 10.4
21) Pentecostal 6.9
22) Holiness 5.0
23) Jehovah's Witness 4.7
The message there is hard to miss; intolerance, bigotry and fundamentalism
are directly related to how much education one has.
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"Mitt Romney pleads for tolerance, says Mormons aren't half as bad as
Catholics."
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Huckabee Proposes to Replace Social Security With 'Loaves and Fish' Program
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Henry VIII turns over in his grave;
Roman Catholics have overtaken Anglicans as the country's dominant religious
group. More people attend Mass every Sunday than worship with the Church of
England, figures seen by The Sunday Telegraph show.
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Faith does not enhance reason, it replaces it.
"I live to see the day when we won't have public schools. Our churches will
have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy
day that will be!" Jerry Falwell
The defense rests.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/case/case22.html
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In a bold move that could dramatically alter the playing field of the 2008
GOP presidential race, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee today named Jesus
Christ as his vice-presidential running mate.
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Christianity in Public Schools
I am all for teaching about Christianity in public schools:
· In the first grade teach them what the DARK AGES were about.
· In the second grade teach them what the CRUSADES were about.
· In the third grade teach them what the INQUISITION was about.
· In the forth grade teach them what NORTHERN IRELAND is about.
· In the fifth grade teach them what the MIDDLE EAST is about.
· In the sixth grade teach them what being a NON CHRISTIAN in Nazi
Germany was about.
· In the seventh grade teach them what SALEM was about.
· In the eighth grade teach them what JIMMY SWAGGART, Ted Haggard,
Jerry Falwell, and Pat Robertson is about.
· In the ninth grade teach them what JIM & TAMMY BAKKER were about.
· In the tenth grade teach them what DAVID KORESH and RANDY WEAVER
were about.
· In the eleventh grade teach them what RAY HILL and JOHN SILVA were
about.
· In the twelfth grade go over it all again so they never forget.
An hour a day everyday for a year on each subject. In fact, I would be
willing to give them an hour of forced denominational prayer everyday for
every hour they spend on the above subjects.
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The difference between a cult and a religion is the number of people in it
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Did Jesus, before he produced bread and fish out of the air to feed the
masses(a damn Sociallist welfare houndout if I ever saw one), preface his
miracle commanding they first don orange vests and pick up empty wine cups
along the Road to Damascus?
A bill sponsored by the GOP was passed requiring those getting public
housing assistance work two hours of menial labor each week for the
government. Sounds good. I am sure that being the fair people we are and not
wanting to only pile on the poor, that the bill will also require forced
labor from:
· All those being assisted by home mortgage deductions.
· All farmers paid to not grow anything or who sell their products at
fixed rates to the government.
· All CEO's and Board of Director members who get any form of federal
subsidies or tax breaks for their companies.
· All members of congress who get health care from military hospitals.
· Anyone receiving Social Security beyond what they paid in.
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"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is a socialist,
anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their
husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and
become lesbians." Pat Robertson
The ten sure signs that He is the true Jesus Christ of the Second Coming:
1) He is a White Republican
2) Wears a dark suit with a red tie
3) Carries an M16 with bandoleer
4) Sports a spiffy Himmler haircut
5) Carries a dead fetus in a towel
6) Swings a "TAXATION IS THEFT" placard over his shoulder
7) Has a headband with an 800 number on where to send him all your
money
8) Carries a large paddle inscribed with: "Bring unto me the little
children"
9) Advocates executing more people more often more quickly
10) Hates homosexuals and lesbians very VERY much
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"And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man
that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day. And they that found him gathering
sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And
they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to
him. And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: All
the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. And all the
congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and
he died; as the Lord commanded Moses." Numbers 15:32 - 15:36
That is about the worst thing I ever read. Put that in a Rap song and
Walmart wouldn't sell it.
A recent poll showed that a the majority of Americans believe the Earth is
less than 10,000 years old and that creationism should be taught in public
schools. Even more sadly, about the same numbers holds true concerning
teachers, including science teachers. So bend over, because George of
Nazareth is pulling down his pants to stick a big hard double dose of
religious lunacy up your ass for the foreseeable future. He has a win-win
going for it is no longer conjecture, it is now accepted by the majority of
Americans that Jesus Christ is a conservative Republican who died on the
cross to give tax breaks for the wealthy.
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Pregnant Homeless Woman Denied Room
If God didn't want people screwing at 13 why did he make them sexually
mature at 13? Is God stupid?
UPI - Bethlehem, Dec 25 33BC - A homeless pregnant woman claiming to be a
virgin and her husband of a few weeks, were denied a room today at the El
Beth Inn. She and her long haired, dress-wearing supposed husband, dragged a
bag laden mule around town looking for a place to stop and have a quick
baby. They found an open animal pen where the woman went into labor. She
produced a healthy boy and breast fed it. The woman who would only give her
name as "Mary" was later arrested for indecent exposure and vagrancy. The
child, "Jesus Doe" is now in protective custody awaiting disposition of
fornication and illegitimacy charges against "Mary and Joe Doe".
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The Religious Right is more concerned with what goes on before birth and
after death than what goes on in between
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"Immigration isn't the issue. Hating immigrants is the issue."
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There is virtually nothing of Jesus Christ left in the Religious Right, it
is now wholly dedicated to three issues: denying women the constitutional
right to choose their own futures in regards to abortion; promoting
discrimination, prejudice, bigotry and hatred of homosexuals, and destroying
the concept of separation of Church and State by replacing the public
schools with a system of religious indoctrination centers
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained
Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons
believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"
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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=192
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When Matt Lauer asked Romney the Huckabee question about Jesus and the devil
being brothers, Romney refused to answer and handed the question off to the
Church of Latter Day Saints. The Church issued a deceptively worded
statement that most reporters incorrectly read as a denial of the
brotherhood of Jesus and Satan. In fact, the Church could not and did not
deny it. The Church did correctly point out that attackers (meaning critics)
of Mormonism often use the brother bit. Critics also use the Church's 70
year delight in polygamy and sex with very young girls, which also happens
to be true. Critics of Mormonism have plenty to work with without inventing
anything.
The pundits had no idea how deliberately misleading Romney's speech was.
They loved the bit about Romney's father marching with Martin Luther King.
None of them knew that if at the end of the march with George Romney, Martin
Luther King was so taken with Mormonism that he wanted to convert and become
a Mormon priest, George Romney would have had to tell him that they don't
allow black priests. George Romney might also have had to explain to the
Reverend King that Mormons believe black people have black skin because they
turned away from God.
I give you the words of the holy Book of Mormon:
"And I beheld, after they had dwindled in unbelief they became a dark and
loathsome and a filthy people, full of idleness and all manner of
abominations."
Brigham Young, the most revered president of the Mormon Church, who marched
his people all the way to the Utah territory because he so vehemently hated
the laws of the United States, taught that sex with black people would kill
white people. Instantly.
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The more you know about Romney's religion, the more you want to ask him
questions about it. Your religion was founded by an alcoholic criminal named
Joseph Smith who committed bank fraud and claimed God told him polygamy was
cool after his first wife caught him having an affair with the maid and who
then went on to have 33 wives, and you really believe every word that he
said and wrote? Do you really believe that the American Indian is
genetically descended from Israelites? Would it shake your belief if DNA
testing showed no such relationship between Indian tribes and Jews? Do you
really believe that Jesus Christ came to America? Do you really believe that
your possible general election opponent, Barack Obama, is black because his
people turned away from God? Are you in favor of big increases in federal
funding for Missouri or turning the site of the Garden of Eden into a
national park?
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Onward Christian Soldiers
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7677
***???? What does that separation of church & state mean??
For US Army soldiers entering basic training at Fort Jackson Army base in
Columbia, South Carolina, accepting Jesus Christ as their personal savior
appears to be as much a part of the nine-week regimen as the vigorous
physical and mental exercises the troops must endure.
That's the message directed at Fort Jackson soldiers, some of whom
appear in photographs in government issued fatigues, holding rifles in one
hand, and Bibles in their other hand.
Frank Bussey, director of Military Ministry at Fort Jackson, has been
telling soldiers at Fort Jackson that "government authorities, police and
the military = God's Ministers,"
Bussey's teachings from the "God's Basic Training" Bible study guide he
authored says US troops have "two primary responsibilities": "to praise
those who do right" and "to punish those who do evil - "God's servant, an
angel of wrath." Bussey's teachings directed at Fort Jackson soldiers were
housed on the Military Ministry at Fort Jackson web site. Late Wednesday,
the web site was taken down without explanation. Bussey did not return calls
for comment. The web site text, however, can still be viewed in an archived
format.
The Christian right has been successful in spreading its fundamentalist
agenda at US military installations around the world for decades. But the
movement's meteoric rise in the US military came in large part after 9/11
and immediately after the US invaded Iraq in March of 2003. At a time when
the United States is encouraging greater religious freedom in Muslim
nations, soldiers on the battlefield have told disturbing stories of being
force-fed fundamentalist Christianity by highly controversial, apocalyptic
"End Times" evangelists, who have infiltrated US military installations
throughout the world with the blessing of high-level officials at the
Pentagon. Proselytizing among military personnel has been conducted openly,
in violation of the basic tenets of the United States Constitution.
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http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/god_to_use_powers_for_evil?utm_source=onion_rss_daily
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Rain on your parade dept;
WARNING DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU STILL BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS OR JESUS FOR IT
WILL RUIN IT FOR YOU.
Christmas has a complicated history. The modern Christmas (Christ's mass or
Xmas X(Chi) being the first letter of ??????? or Christ. ) is a mixture of
different religions and traditions from multiple countries. The Santa Claus
mythology was added very recently and the most modern characterization was
as recent as 1931. Old Saint Nick morphed from a flying Nick/Woden fusion
flying on a white horse into a chubby cheerful read and white sporting grand
father figure with flying reindeer.
One of the roots of Christmas was the Roman holiday called Saturnalia this
was a celebration for the god Saturn from whom we also get Saturday and for
Safari Jews (Sabbath day). Saturn's name means (sower) one who sows, as in
sowing seeds or the famous phrase you "reap what you sow."
Thus Saturn was of course the Harvest god. During the time of winter
festival which was December 17th and the holiday (probably because it was so
fun) was lengthened to become from December 17-24th. On this day(s) the
Romans had feast, exchanged presents, shut down business, drank, gambled,
sang, and sometimes got naked. And that is not an exaggeration. The reason
it stopped on December 24th is because on December 25th, now Christmas, they
had another festival, "Dies Natalis Solis Invicti," "the birthday of the
unconquered sun." On this day they worshiped several different solar
deities.
There was a prophecy that said Saturn's son would over throw him. So Saturn
ate all of his male children to try and prevent this. However his wife
Uranus hid one of child on an island and gave her husband a stone wrapped in
cloth and allowed him to believe it was the baby.
Saturn ate the rock while his son Jupiter secretly grew up on the island and
then over threw his father. This is a lot like the River in a Basket story
of Moses and the Pharaoh supposedly killing all the first born male
children. And then Moses escaped that and grew up to defeat the pharaoh's
sorcerers in magical contest and free his people (The Hebrews) from slavery.
Of course Moses turning staff into snakes, by magic, in a contest with the
sorcerers, as it is written in the bible, is not accurate. There was a
medical practice done by doctors who may have seems like wizards as in
ancient many cures were attributed to spiritual powers. The practice
preformed by these men was that of removing a poisonous parasite still found
in Africa today. The parasite is a worm and it had to be carefully removed
by slowly twirling it around a stick. You could not just yank it out because
it the worm broke it would poison the host. Men who could perform this task
often hung a sign outside their workplace of a worm or snake twirled around
a stick. Or they would walk with a staff that had a snake's picture carved
on it or even the top of the staff carved into the head of a snake. (Note
that the biological distinctions between snakes and worms were void at the
time).
This later became morphed into the Caduceus which is still used as a medical
symbol. Now later wings would be added to the symbol on the top with snakes
below as they were the symbols of the upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt, a
falcon and a cobra. The Caduceus was a symbol of the sorcerers or occultist
magic like people who could cure illnesses. Alchemy which became chemistry
was also associated with Magic. Ironically, early Science and Religion were
much one in the same.
Apparently, Moses new the same trick as the best magicians proving that he
had equal or greater "spiritual" powers. Obviously they did not literally
change wood into snakes. Now of course according to history, Moses did not
free the Hebrew slaves. The Hebrews may have had a leader at a later date
but much of the Moses story is total fiction.
In reality, or history, it was actually King Cyrus of Persia who set the
Hebrew people free from slavery. Cyrus was a Persian king who sacked the
city of Babylon (now Baghdad) the capital of the Babylonian empire.
The Babylonian people were delighted about this because they were serving a
very unpopular king Nabonidus who was worshiping the moon god Sin instead of
the more popular Harvest God Marduk (the dragon). Marduk's temple is of
course the famous Tower of Babel which King Nebuchadnezzar II expanded on
with Assyrian writing thus making it have two languages.
Nebuchadnezzar was also the King who created one of the wonders of the world
the Hanging Gardens. And he conquered Judah and destroyed temples in
Jerusalem. So naturally the Bible vilifies him and created the myth about
the Tower of Babel trying to reach Heaven and the Hebrew god punishing men
for it by scattering them all over the earth and creating different
languages. Of course that's Judeo-Christian mythology not history or
reality.
It was Cyrus the Great who with the combined strength of Persia and Media
took Babylon without resistance while the unpopular Nabonidus was away. The
Persian king did not believe in slavery and it was he who set the Hebrews
free in Palestine. They did not gather up and walk out of Egypt right
through the Red Sea and no Egyptians were chasing them.
As some of you know, the Jesus myth is copied from earlier sun god myths
from Egypt and India. Namely the stories of Horus and Krishna. For example
both Christ and Chrishna had virgin births from a woman and the divine. Both
were called the son of god,. Both had a last supper and both died and were
resurrected. However the Krishna story is 332 years older than the claim of
Jesus. Now the crucifixions were very different. Kristna was wounded in the
foot by an arrow (like the Achilles myth) and then pinned to a tree. Acts
5:30 and 10:39 and 13:29 of the Bible as well as 1 Peter 2:24 and Galatians
3:13 refer to Christ hanging on a tree.
This is interesting to me because Achilles was also a half human and the son
of Thetis who it was prophesized would have a son who would overthrow Zeus
if he married her. Zeus (Greek) of course became Jupiter (Roman). Thus
Achilles is Saturn/Moses/Krishna/Jesus. Believers in reincarnation would
have a field day with this, but it is much more likely that the same
lies/half-truths/myths just get re-told. Zeus backed off from courting
Thetis and she ended up with Prometheus (the bringer of light also known as
Lucifer). Zeus or Prometheus (there is a debate) made man out of clay in
godlike images and then Prometheus gave man "fire" wisdom. Then as
punishment for Prometheus/Lucifer giving fire to man Zeus would then punish
men by making them labor and have pains (much like the garden of Eden
story). Later Old Zeus gave a special wedding gift to mankind. He gave it to
a woman named Pandora, it was a box... Oh how like the Old Testament god
Zeus is.
Horus was also born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a
cave/manger with his birth being announced by a star in the East and
attended by three wise men. (Note that to Egyptians gods could be living
men, they really believed the pharaohs were gods) Both Horace and Jesus were
crucified between two thieves. Both walked on water. Horus was called KRST
or the anointed one. Etc etc and Hebrews who became the Jews a sect of whom
later created Christianity (a form of Judaism where the messiah is believed
to have come and is open to all ethnicities rather than being intrinsically
exclusive to a arbitrary ethnicity -which is it is genetically unscientific)
close their prayers with Amen (the Egyptian sky god who became the "breath
of life" used in the creation stories of man).
Even the 'Jewish' political nation/bloodline, and I am not getting into
that, gets its name from a trinity of gods. Three Egyptian gods, Isis, Ra,
and El became Israel. (Mother, Father, and of the sun and a generic word for
god's name (El) Exodus 6:3 God calls himself El Shaddai it is still in any
older Bible, but the newer ones replace his name with Lord or The Lord.
The land of course was Philistine/Canaan aka Palestine but under the
Babylonian empire, but that's a tangent. (it's all over the rest of this
site:)
Allegedly, God promised this land to his people and then the term Israel
became the New name of Jacob (Genesis 32:2 and the Israelites were of his
bloodline and the Promised land was to be just for them. This later changed
to become not the Israelites but the Jews and Jews were people of multiple
origins who might believe they have a common bloodline but in reality do not
and basically are anyone who believes in the religion of Judaism thus
Whites, Blacks, Hebrews, or whoever can be Jewish. But only Hebrews could be
Israelites. Of course they would argue about this. Moderate Jews would say
anyone can me Jewish and Zionist Jews cling to the ancient fascist claims.
December 25th is a special day in the year for astronomers/astrologers. It
is the time of the winter solstice where the sun in farthest from the earth
and on the horizon it seems to stand still for three days before changing
directions and rising in the sky again thus being "reborn" and later
bringing spring and summer. Now if you care, on the modern calendar this day
is actually around December 21-22 maybe you can catch it next year.
Totally separate from the mythological mess in the south was a separate set
of religions in Northern Europe who also had a late December winter
calibration, after all they were all looking at the same sky, called Yule.
This is when people set Yule logs of fire in honor of Thor the thunder god
who would later became a marvel comic book character because of his
unchallenged coolness among all the gods people have invented. Seriously,
the Nordic myths (religions same thing) arguably have the best and most
entertaining creation stories with the Greeks taking second place. I
recommend you dig into it. Sometimes I think religions were like the
old-school soap operas and pro-wrestling dramas of the day.
Now as you know the Christian armies ended up winning and then converting
the youth (by force and torture) of the Pagans to some form of Christianity
only later to disagree about minor things divided into sects and killed each
other again for 300 years. Thus the Scandinavian traditions had a large
impact of Christmas because they were the last to be conquered. (Until the
Native Americans who further influenced [for the better] Christianity
again).
To better convert the Pagans it was a strategic must to assimilate their
holidays. In fact if you want to know where the typical portrait of the
Aryan Jesus came from look no further Apollonius of Tyana whose white face
and features were copied to appeal more to the Northern converts.
Never mind that long hair being a direct contradiction with Corinthians
11:14 not like anyone actually reads their religious texts anymore anyway.
We no longer teach history in schools, it's too controversial with the money
making myths. Also If Christ came from Krishna, Krishna was Black (or Dark
Indian) that is what his name means.
It is from this Pagan root that you will get the stories about elves, and
putting an evergreen inside your house and top it with a goddess (or star)
which later became an "angel" even though according to the Bible all angels
are men and according to reality angel is the Latin word angelus, which came
from Greek ???????, ángelos, meaning "messenger." Angel came from the Greek
word for messenger and probably got it wings the same way as the US postal
service (who deliver messages) did, which would come from Greek
messenger-god Hermes who had little wings on his feet and sometimes back.
Apparently the evergreen tradition was old enough to bother the Jews of the
Old Testament who wrote about Christmas trees (which apparently god didn't
like because they were of a different religion)
Quote:
"Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not
dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For
the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the
forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it
with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that
it move not. . . . They are altogether brutish and foolish." (Jeremiah
10:2-8 )
-show that to your fundamentalist Christians.
But what about the Santa Claus story? Well believe it or not several myths
bout the myth have been made up to explain this story. Truth be known the
modern figure of Santa in the Red and White with the beard etc came from the
American company Coca-Cola. However the figure is much older than that. His
name is Dutch Sancte Claus. He is a combination of the Catholic St. Nicholas
and a couple of poets in New York. But we'll get to that next time. The
physical depiction of him came from Coca-cola based on the famous poem "Twas
the Night Before Christmas."
Quick Origin of Santa Claus
"a. Nicholas was born in Parara, Turkey in 270 CE and later became Bishop of
Myra. He died in 345 CE on December 6th. He was only named a saint in the
19th century.
b. Nicholas was among the most senior bishops who convened the Council of
Nicaea in 325 CE and created the New Testament. The text they produced
portrayed Jews as "the children of the devil"[11] who sentenced Jesus to
death.
c. In 1087, a group of sailors who idolized Nicholas moved his bones from
Turkey to a sanctuary in Bari, Italy. There Nicholas supplanted a female
boon-giving deity called The Grandmother, or Pasqua Epiphania, who used to
fill the children's stockings with her gifts. The Grandmother was ousted
from her shrine at Bari, which became the center of the Nicholas cult.
Members of this group gave each other gifts during a pageant they conducted
annually on the anniversary of Nicholas' death, December 6.
d. The Nicholas cult spread north until it was adopted by German and Celtic
pagans. These groups worshiped a pantheon led by Woden -their chief god and
the father of Thor, Balder, and Tiw. Woden had a long, white beard and rode
a horse through the heavens one evening each Autumn. When Nicholas merged
with Woden, he shed his Mediterranean appearance, grew a beard, mounted a
flying horse, rescheduled his flight for December, and donned heavy winter
clothing.
e. In a bid for pagan adherents in Northern Europe, the Catholic Church
adopted the Nicholas cult and taught that he did (and they should)
distribute gifts on December 25th instead of December 6th.
f. In 1809, the novelist Washington Irving (most famous his The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle) wrote a satire of Dutch culture entitled
Knickerbocker History. The satire refers several times to the white bearded,
flying-horse riding Saint Nicholas using his Dutch name, Santa Claus.
g. Dr. Clement Moore, a professor at Union Seminary, read Knickerbocker
History, and in 1822 he published a poem based on the character Santa Claus:
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature
was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with
care, in the hope that Saint Nicholas soon would be there." Moore innovated
by portraying a Santa with eight reindeer who descended through chimneys.
h. The Bavarian illustrator Thomas Nast almost completed the modern picture
of Santa Claus. From 1862 through 1886, based on Moore's poem, Nast drew
more than 2,200 cartoon images of Santa for Harper's Weekly. Before Nast,
Saint Nicholas had been pictured as everything from a stern looking bishop
to a gnome-like figure in a frock. Nast also gave Santa a home at the North
Pole, his workshop filled with elves, and his list of the good and bad
children of the world. All Santa was missing was his red outfit.
i. In 1931, the Coca Cola Corporation contracted the Swedish commercial
artist Haddon Sundblom to create a coke-drinking Santa. Sundblom modeled his
Santa on his friend Lou Prentice, chosen for his cheerful, chubby face. The
corporation insisted that Santa's fur-trimmed suit be bright, Coca Cola red.
[b]And Santa was born - a blend of Christian crusader, pagan god, and
commercial idol."[/b]"source for the red text
And now to kick a dead horse please watch this about
Christianity and Sun worship.
This film was made a good two years before Zeigeist and by the same folks.
It's long but worth it. I am not advocating the stance on drugs just the
history. If people knew the roots of religion, I think religions would die.
Well most people can not even find some countries on the map much less know
a thing about them. I think our educational sytem purposely dumbs people
down.
Gods do not die; they just morph into new stories like a bad game of
Telephone. Conquered people already have their own state myths so in order
to control them you have to embrace their myths and use them or incorporate
your own myths into them. That is what religion does. It controls people and
concentrates their wealth to finances armies. Even today the Christian
Churches in America have 4-8 billion dollars each invested in defense
companies involved in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Jerusalem has been a
religious-military-industrial-complex cash cow for a very very long time.
The Romans saw the advantage of Monotheism to Polytheism as they saw the
advantage (in war) of an emperor instead of a republic. Polytheism has the
problem of dividing the wealth among the different temples and thus dividing
the power and clout of different areas (like the Greek City States).
Monotheism also bestowed full power to god's appointed authorities (the
kings) and did away with the senate. The Romans copied a very powerful
monotheistic religion, Judaism. However they had to get rid of the ethnic
ties of Judaism being only for Israelites. Thus through the Krishna story
they created a sacrificial figure who could serve to open up the
monotheistic Judaism to ALL people (including Italians) through the Christ
figure. Also the afterlife story was better than the original Greek/Roman
one where only well to do's got to go to Mt. Olympus. Christianity spent a
great deal of time creating "for the poor" stories to covert the herd and
turn them against the senate.
A Caesar knew where his army came from and where the power was and that was
in ruling the masses. Give them bread and circuses...From there on it became
a campaign of kill, convert, and collect. Today the Vatican church has its
own bank, its own gold deposits (much of it stolen by murder from the
Americas) and over a trillion dollars worth in assets and capital. It has
its own small country. The more deadly wing however is the Protestants and
the age of TV preachers. They are aligned with the Zionist movement of
fundamentalists Jews and Protestants who are willing to try and create
conditions for Armageddon.
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http://www.eso-garden.com/index.php?/weblog/the_origins_of_christmas/
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Earlier this year, antiabortion revolutionary theocrats celebrated the tenth
anniversary of the crimes of Paul Hill, the ex-Presbyterian Church in
America (PCA) minister who, on July 29, 1994 assasinated abortion provider
Dr. John Britton and James Barrett one of his escorts, and seriously
wounding another, June Barrett, outside a clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Hill
was convicted of his crimes and was executed by the State of Florida.
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PERSON OF THE YEAR: God
No one else had as profound an effect on American politics in 2007, except
perhaps the Devil (not shown). He influenced the actions of every candidate
for president and continues to guide our foreign policy, speaking to
President Bush on a regular basis.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/opinion/01deconink.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/Laura-Knight-Jadczyk/lost_gospel.htm
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Report: White House Continues to Meddle With Science Reports
Edits them, censors them, shreds them and compresses them into long-burning
fireplace logs.
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"According to a new survey, 25% of people say they don't know where Jesus
was born. The other 75% say they had Jesus doing their lawn and he could be
from Mexico or Guatemala."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071210/ap_on_re_us/church_shootings
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The Last Supper: It was actually a brunch. The check reveals that one guy
only had a soft-boiled egg and tea, while everyone else stuffed themselves.
But when the bill was paid, it was divided equally. The moral: "In groups,
always order the most expensive thing. When you order as a group: eat well.
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http://www.religion-info.com/religiousfraud.html
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Talking Jesus Action Figure Recalled
Talks too much about the poor.
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The Dumb Index
"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have
schizophrenia." Thomas Szasz
The following figures from an article in NEWSWEEK represent the number of
college graduates within each religious group in America. Can this be used
to relate the intelligence of the membership of each religion? Damn right it
can and I bet you already had a pretty good idea who would place last:
1) Unitarian 49.5
2) Hindu 47.0
3) Jewish 46.7
4) New Age 40.6
5) Episcopal 39.2
6) Agnostic 36.3
7) Presbyterian 33.8
8) Congregationalist 33.7
9) Buddhist 33.4
10) Eastern Orthodox 31.6
11) Muslim 30.4
12) National Average 24%
13) Evangelical 21.5
14) Methodist 21.1
15) Catholic 20.0
16) Mormon 19.2
17) Churches of Christ 14.6
18) Assemblies of God 13.7
19) Nazarene 12.5
20) Baptist 10.4
21) Pentecostal 6.9
22) Holiness 5.0
23) Jehovah's Witness 4.7
The message there is hard to miss; intolerance, bigotry and fundamentalism
are directly related to how much education one has.
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"Mitt Romney pleads for tolerance, says Mormons aren't half as bad as
Catholics."
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Huckabee Proposes to Replace Social Security With 'Loaves and Fish' Program
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Henry VIII turns over in his grave;
Roman Catholics have overtaken Anglicans as the country's dominant religious
group. More people attend Mass every Sunday than worship with the Church of
England, figures seen by The Sunday Telegraph show.
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Faith does not enhance reason, it replaces it.
"I live to see the day when we won't have public schools. Our churches will
have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy
day that will be!" Jerry Falwell
The defense rests.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/case/case22.html
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In a bold move that could dramatically alter the playing field of the 2008
GOP presidential race, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee today named Jesus
Christ as his vice-presidential running mate.
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Christianity in Public Schools
I am all for teaching about Christianity in public schools:
· In the first grade teach them what the DARK AGES were about.
· In the second grade teach them what the CRUSADES were about.
· In the third grade teach them what the INQUISITION was about.
· In the forth grade teach them what NORTHERN IRELAND is about.
· In the fifth grade teach them what the MIDDLE EAST is about.
· In the sixth grade teach them what being a NON CHRISTIAN in Nazi
Germany was about.
· In the seventh grade teach them what SALEM was about.
· In the eighth grade teach them what JIMMY SWAGGART, Ted Haggard,
Jerry Falwell, and Pat Robertson is about.
· In the ninth grade teach them what JIM & TAMMY BAKKER were about.
· In the tenth grade teach them what DAVID KORESH and RANDY WEAVER
were about.
· In the eleventh grade teach them what RAY HILL and JOHN SILVA were
about.
· In the twelfth grade go over it all again so they never forget.
An hour a day everyday for a year on each subject. In fact, I would be
willing to give them an hour of forced denominational prayer everyday for
every hour they spend on the above subjects.
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The difference between a cult and a religion is the number of people in it
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Did Jesus, before he produced bread and fish out of the air to feed the
masses(a damn Sociallist welfare houndout if I ever saw one), preface his
miracle commanding they first don orange vests and pick up empty wine cups
along the Road to Damascus?
A bill sponsored by the GOP was passed requiring those getting public
housing assistance work two hours of menial labor each week for the
government. Sounds good. I am sure that being the fair people we are and not
wanting to only pile on the poor, that the bill will also require forced
labor from:
· All those being assisted by home mortgage deductions.
· All farmers paid to not grow anything or who sell their products at
fixed rates to the government.
· All CEO's and Board of Director members who get any form of federal
subsidies or tax breaks for their companies.
· All members of congress who get health care from military hospitals.
· Anyone receiving Social Security beyond what they paid in.
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"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is a socialist,
anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their
husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and
become lesbians." Pat Robertson
The ten sure signs that He is the true Jesus Christ of the Second Coming:
1) He is a White Republican
2) Wears a dark suit with a red tie
3) Carries an M16 with bandoleer
4) Sports a spiffy Himmler haircut
5) Carries a dead fetus in a towel
6) Swings a "TAXATION IS THEFT" placard over his shoulder
7) Has a headband with an 800 number on where to send him all your
money
8) Carries a large paddle inscribed with: "Bring unto me the little
children"
9) Advocates executing more people more often more quickly
10) Hates homosexuals and lesbians very VERY much
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"And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man
that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day. And they that found him gathering
sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And
they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to
him. And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: All
the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. And all the
congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and
he died; as the Lord commanded Moses." Numbers 15:32 - 15:36
That is about the worst thing I ever read. Put that in a Rap song and
Walmart wouldn't sell it.
A recent poll showed that a the majority of Americans believe the Earth is
less than 10,000 years old and that creationism should be taught in public
schools. Even more sadly, about the same numbers holds true concerning
teachers, including science teachers. So bend over, because George of
Nazareth is pulling down his pants to stick a big hard double dose of
religious lunacy up your ass for the foreseeable future. He has a win-win
going for it is no longer conjecture, it is now accepted by the majority of
Americans that Jesus Christ is a conservative Republican who died on the
cross to give tax breaks for the wealthy.
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Pregnant Homeless Woman Denied Room
If God didn't want people screwing at 13 why did he make them sexually
mature at 13? Is God stupid?
UPI - Bethlehem, Dec 25 33BC - A homeless pregnant woman claiming to be a
virgin and her husband of a few weeks, were denied a room today at the El
Beth Inn. She and her long haired, dress-wearing supposed husband, dragged a
bag laden mule around town looking for a place to stop and have a quick
baby. They found an open animal pen where the woman went into labor. She
produced a healthy boy and breast fed it. The woman who would only give her
name as "Mary" was later arrested for indecent exposure and vagrancy. The
child, "Jesus Doe" is now in protective custody awaiting disposition of
fornication and illegitimacy charges against "Mary and Joe Doe".
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The Religious Right is more concerned with what goes on before birth and
after death than what goes on in between
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"Immigration isn't the issue. Hating immigrants is the issue."
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There is virtually nothing of Jesus Christ left in the Religious Right, it
is now wholly dedicated to three issues: denying women the constitutional
right to choose their own futures in regards to abortion; promoting
discrimination, prejudice, bigotry and hatred of homosexuals, and destroying
the concept of separation of Church and State by replacing the public
schools with a system of religious indoctrination centers
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained
Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons
believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"
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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=192
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When Matt Lauer asked Romney the Huckabee question about Jesus and the devil
being brothers, Romney refused to answer and handed the question off to the
Church of Latter Day Saints. The Church issued a deceptively worded
statement that most reporters incorrectly read as a denial of the
brotherhood of Jesus and Satan. In fact, the Church could not and did not
deny it. The Church did correctly point out that attackers (meaning critics)
of Mormonism often use the brother bit. Critics also use the Church's 70
year delight in polygamy and sex with very young girls, which also happens
to be true. Critics of Mormonism have plenty to work with without inventing
anything.
The pundits had no idea how deliberately misleading Romney's speech was.
They loved the bit about Romney's father marching with Martin Luther King.
None of them knew that if at the end of the march with George Romney, Martin
Luther King was so taken with Mormonism that he wanted to convert and become
a Mormon priest, George Romney would have had to tell him that they don't
allow black priests. George Romney might also have had to explain to the
Reverend King that Mormons believe black people have black skin because they
turned away from God.
I give you the words of the holy Book of Mormon:
"And I beheld, after they had dwindled in unbelief they became a dark and
loathsome and a filthy people, full of idleness and all manner of
abominations."
Brigham Young, the most revered president of the Mormon Church, who marched
his people all the way to the Utah territory because he so vehemently hated
the laws of the United States, taught that sex with black people would kill
white people. Instantly.
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The more you know about Romney's religion, the more you want to ask him
questions about it. Your religion was founded by an alcoholic criminal named
Joseph Smith who committed bank fraud and claimed God told him polygamy was
cool after his first wife caught him having an affair with the maid and who
then went on to have 33 wives, and you really believe every word that he
said and wrote? Do you really believe that the American Indian is
genetically descended from Israelites? Would it shake your belief if DNA
testing showed no such relationship between Indian tribes and Jews? Do you
really believe that Jesus Christ came to America? Do you really believe that
your possible general election opponent, Barack Obama, is black because his
people turned away from God? Are you in favor of big increases in federal
funding for Missouri or turning the site of the Garden of Eden into a
national park?
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Onward Christian Soldiers
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7677
***???? What does that separation of church & state mean??
For US Army soldiers entering basic training at Fort Jackson Army base in
Columbia, South Carolina, accepting Jesus Christ as their personal savior
appears to be as much a part of the nine-week regimen as the vigorous
physical and mental exercises the troops must endure.
That's the message directed at Fort Jackson soldiers, some of whom
appear in photographs in government issued fatigues, holding rifles in one
hand, and Bibles in their other hand.
Frank Bussey, director of Military Ministry at Fort Jackson, has been
telling soldiers at Fort Jackson that "government authorities, police and
the military = God's Ministers,"
Bussey's teachings from the "God's Basic Training" Bible study guide he
authored says US troops have "two primary responsibilities": "to praise
those who do right" and "to punish those who do evil - "God's servant, an
angel of wrath." Bussey's teachings directed at Fort Jackson soldiers were
housed on the Military Ministry at Fort Jackson web site. Late Wednesday,
the web site was taken down without explanation. Bussey did not return calls
for comment. The web site text, however, can still be viewed in an archived
format.
The Christian right has been successful in spreading its fundamentalist
agenda at US military installations around the world for decades. But the
movement's meteoric rise in the US military came in large part after 9/11
and immediately after the US invaded Iraq in March of 2003. At a time when
the United States is encouraging greater religious freedom in Muslim
nations, soldiers on the battlefield have told disturbing stories of being
force-fed fundamentalist Christianity by highly controversial, apocalyptic
"End Times" evangelists, who have infiltrated US military installations
throughout the world with the blessing of high-level officials at the
Pentagon. Proselytizing among military personnel has been conducted openly,
in violation of the basic tenets of the United States Constitution.
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http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/god_to_use_powers_for_evil?utm_source=onion_rss_daily
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Rain on your parade dept;
WARNING DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU STILL BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS OR JESUS FOR IT
WILL RUIN IT FOR YOU.
Christmas has a complicated history. The modern Christmas (Christ's mass or
Xmas X(Chi) being the first letter of ??????? or Christ. ) is a mixture of
different religions and traditions from multiple countries. The Santa Claus
mythology was added very recently and the most modern characterization was
as recent as 1931. Old Saint Nick morphed from a flying Nick/Woden fusion
flying on a white horse into a chubby cheerful read and white sporting grand
father figure with flying reindeer.
One of the roots of Christmas was the Roman holiday called Saturnalia this
was a celebration for the god Saturn from whom we also get Saturday and for
Safari Jews (Sabbath day). Saturn's name means (sower) one who sows, as in
sowing seeds or the famous phrase you "reap what you sow."
Thus Saturn was of course the Harvest god. During the time of winter
festival which was December 17th and the holiday (probably because it was so
fun) was lengthened to become from December 17-24th. On this day(s) the
Romans had feast, exchanged presents, shut down business, drank, gambled,
sang, and sometimes got naked. And that is not an exaggeration. The reason
it stopped on December 24th is because on December 25th, now Christmas, they
had another festival, "Dies Natalis Solis Invicti," "the birthday of the
unconquered sun." On this day they worshiped several different solar
deities.
There was a prophecy that said Saturn's son would over throw him. So Saturn
ate all of his male children to try and prevent this. However his wife
Uranus hid one of child on an island and gave her husband a stone wrapped in
cloth and allowed him to believe it was the baby.
Saturn ate the rock while his son Jupiter secretly grew up on the island and
then over threw his father. This is a lot like the River in a Basket story
of Moses and the Pharaoh supposedly killing all the first born male
children. And then Moses escaped that and grew up to defeat the pharaoh's
sorcerers in magical contest and free his people (The Hebrews) from slavery.
Of course Moses turning staff into snakes, by magic, in a contest with the
sorcerers, as it is written in the bible, is not accurate. There was a
medical practice done by doctors who may have seems like wizards as in
ancient many cures were attributed to spiritual powers. The practice
preformed by these men was that of removing a poisonous parasite still found
in Africa today. The parasite is a worm and it had to be carefully removed
by slowly twirling it around a stick. You could not just yank it out because
it the worm broke it would poison the host. Men who could perform this task
often hung a sign outside their workplace of a worm or snake twirled around
a stick. Or they would walk with a staff that had a snake's picture carved
on it or even the top of the staff carved into the head of a snake. (Note
that the biological distinctions between snakes and worms were void at the
time).
This later became morphed into the Caduceus which is still used as a medical
symbol. Now later wings would be added to the symbol on the top with snakes
below as they were the symbols of the upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt, a
falcon and a cobra. The Caduceus was a symbol of the sorcerers or occultist
magic like people who could cure illnesses. Alchemy which became chemistry
was also associated with Magic. Ironically, early Science and Religion were
much one in the same.
Apparently, Moses new the same trick as the best magicians proving that he
had equal or greater "spiritual" powers. Obviously they did not literally
change wood into snakes. Now of course according to history, Moses did not
free the Hebrew slaves. The Hebrews may have had a leader at a later date
but much of the Moses story is total fiction.
In reality, or history, it was actually King Cyrus of Persia who set the
Hebrew people free from slavery. Cyrus was a Persian king who sacked the
city of Babylon (now Baghdad) the capital of the Babylonian empire.
The Babylonian people were delighted about this because they were serving a
very unpopular king Nabonidus who was worshiping the moon god Sin instead of
the more popular Harvest God Marduk (the dragon). Marduk's temple is of
course the famous Tower of Babel which King Nebuchadnezzar II expanded on
with Assyrian writing thus making it have two languages.
Nebuchadnezzar was also the King who created one of the wonders of the world
the Hanging Gardens. And he conquered Judah and destroyed temples in
Jerusalem. So naturally the Bible vilifies him and created the myth about
the Tower of Babel trying to reach Heaven and the Hebrew god punishing men
for it by scattering them all over the earth and creating different
languages. Of course that's Judeo-Christian mythology not history or
reality.
It was Cyrus the Great who with the combined strength of Persia and Media
took Babylon without resistance while the unpopular Nabonidus was away. The
Persian king did not believe in slavery and it was he who set the Hebrews
free in Palestine. They did not gather up and walk out of Egypt right
through the Red Sea and no Egyptians were chasing them.
As some of you know, the Jesus myth is copied from earlier sun god myths
from Egypt and India. Namely the stories of Horus and Krishna. For example
both Christ and Chrishna had virgin births from a woman and the divine. Both
were called the son of god,. Both had a last supper and both died and were
resurrected. However the Krishna story is 332 years older than the claim of
Jesus. Now the crucifixions were very different. Kristna was wounded in the
foot by an arrow (like the Achilles myth) and then pinned to a tree. Acts
5:30 and 10:39 and 13:29 of the Bible as well as 1 Peter 2:24 and Galatians
3:13 refer to Christ hanging on a tree.
This is interesting to me because Achilles was also a half human and the son
of Thetis who it was prophesized would have a son who would overthrow Zeus
if he married her. Zeus (Greek) of course became Jupiter (Roman). Thus
Achilles is Saturn/Moses/Krishna/Jesus. Believers in reincarnation would
have a field day with this, but it is much more likely that the same
lies/half-truths/myths just get re-told. Zeus backed off from courting
Thetis and she ended up with Prometheus (the bringer of light also known as
Lucifer). Zeus or Prometheus (there is a debate) made man out of clay in
godlike images and then Prometheus gave man "fire" wisdom. Then as
punishment for Prometheus/Lucifer giving fire to man Zeus would then punish
men by making them labor and have pains (much like the garden of Eden
story). Later Old Zeus gave a special wedding gift to mankind. He gave it to
a woman named Pandora, it was a box... Oh how like the Old Testament god
Zeus is.
Horus was also born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a
cave/manger with his birth being announced by a star in the East and
attended by three wise men. (Note that to Egyptians gods could be living
men, they really believed the pharaohs were gods) Both Horace and Jesus were
crucified between two thieves. Both walked on water. Horus was called KRST
or the anointed one. Etc etc and Hebrews who became the Jews a sect of whom
later created Christianity (a form of Judaism where the messiah is believed
to have come and is open to all ethnicities rather than being intrinsically
exclusive to a arbitrary ethnicity -which is it is genetically unscientific)
close their prayers with Amen (the Egyptian sky god who became the "breath
of life" used in the creation stories of man).
Even the 'Jewish' political nation/bloodline, and I am not getting into
that, gets its name from a trinity of gods. Three Egyptian gods, Isis, Ra,
and El became Israel. (Mother, Father, and of the sun and a generic word for
god's name (El) Exodus 6:3 God calls himself El Shaddai it is still in any
older Bible, but the newer ones replace his name with Lord or The Lord.
The land of course was Philistine/Canaan aka Palestine but under the
Babylonian empire, but that's a tangent. (it's all over the rest of this
site:)
Allegedly, God promised this land to his people and then the term Israel
became the New name of Jacob (Genesis 32:2 and the Israelites were of his
bloodline and the Promised land was to be just for them. This later changed
to become not the Israelites but the Jews and Jews were people of multiple
origins who might believe they have a common bloodline but in reality do not
and basically are anyone who believes in the religion of Judaism thus
Whites, Blacks, Hebrews, or whoever can be Jewish. But only Hebrews could be
Israelites. Of course they would argue about this. Moderate Jews would say
anyone can me Jewish and Zionist Jews cling to the ancient fascist claims.
December 25th is a special day in the year for astronomers/astrologers. It
is the time of the winter solstice where the sun in farthest from the earth
and on the horizon it seems to stand still for three days before changing
directions and rising in the sky again thus being "reborn" and later
bringing spring and summer. Now if you care, on the modern calendar this day
is actually around December 21-22 maybe you can catch it next year.
Totally separate from the mythological mess in the south was a separate set
of religions in Northern Europe who also had a late December winter
calibration, after all they were all looking at the same sky, called Yule.
This is when people set Yule logs of fire in honor of Thor the thunder god
who would later became a marvel comic book character because of his
unchallenged coolness among all the gods people have invented. Seriously,
the Nordic myths (religions same thing) arguably have the best and most
entertaining creation stories with the Greeks taking second place. I
recommend you dig into it. Sometimes I think religions were like the
old-school soap operas and pro-wrestling dramas of the day.
Now as you know the Christian armies ended up winning and then converting
the youth (by force and torture) of the Pagans to some form of Christianity
only later to disagree about minor things divided into sects and killed each
other again for 300 years. Thus the Scandinavian traditions had a large
impact of Christmas because they were the last to be conquered. (Until the
Native Americans who further influenced [for the better] Christianity
again).
To better convert the Pagans it was a strategic must to assimilate their
holidays. In fact if you want to know where the typical portrait of the
Aryan Jesus came from look no further Apollonius of Tyana whose white face
and features were copied to appeal more to the Northern converts.
Never mind that long hair being a direct contradiction with Corinthians
11:14 not like anyone actually reads their religious texts anymore anyway.
We no longer teach history in schools, it's too controversial with the money
making myths. Also If Christ came from Krishna, Krishna was Black (or Dark
Indian) that is what his name means.
It is from this Pagan root that you will get the stories about elves, and
putting an evergreen inside your house and top it with a goddess (or star)
which later became an "angel" even though according to the Bible all angels
are men and according to reality angel is the Latin word angelus, which came
from Greek ???????, ángelos, meaning "messenger." Angel came from the Greek
word for messenger and probably got it wings the same way as the US postal
service (who deliver messages) did, which would come from Greek
messenger-god Hermes who had little wings on his feet and sometimes back.
Apparently the evergreen tradition was old enough to bother the Jews of the
Old Testament who wrote about Christmas trees (which apparently god didn't
like because they were of a different religion)
Quote:
"Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not
dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For
the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the
forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it
with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that
it move not. . . . They are altogether brutish and foolish." (Jeremiah
10:2-8 )
-show that to your fundamentalist Christians.
But what about the Santa Claus story? Well believe it or not several myths
bout the myth have been made up to explain this story. Truth be known the
modern figure of Santa in the Red and White with the beard etc came from the
American company Coca-Cola. However the figure is much older than that. His
name is Dutch Sancte Claus. He is a combination of the Catholic St. Nicholas
and a couple of poets in New York. But we'll get to that next time. The
physical depiction of him came from Coca-cola based on the famous poem "Twas
the Night Before Christmas."
Quick Origin of Santa Claus
"a. Nicholas was born in Parara, Turkey in 270 CE and later became Bishop of
Myra. He died in 345 CE on December 6th. He was only named a saint in the
19th century.
b. Nicholas was among the most senior bishops who convened the Council of
Nicaea in 325 CE and created the New Testament. The text they produced
portrayed Jews as "the children of the devil"[11] who sentenced Jesus to
death.
c. In 1087, a group of sailors who idolized Nicholas moved his bones from
Turkey to a sanctuary in Bari, Italy. There Nicholas supplanted a female
boon-giving deity called The Grandmother, or Pasqua Epiphania, who used to
fill the children's stockings with her gifts. The Grandmother was ousted
from her shrine at Bari, which became the center of the Nicholas cult.
Members of this group gave each other gifts during a pageant they conducted
annually on the anniversary of Nicholas' death, December 6.
d. The Nicholas cult spread north until it was adopted by German and Celtic
pagans. These groups worshiped a pantheon led by Woden -their chief god and
the father of Thor, Balder, and Tiw. Woden had a long, white beard and rode
a horse through the heavens one evening each Autumn. When Nicholas merged
with Woden, he shed his Mediterranean appearance, grew a beard, mounted a
flying horse, rescheduled his flight for December, and donned heavy winter
clothing.
e. In a bid for pagan adherents in Northern Europe, the Catholic Church
adopted the Nicholas cult and taught that he did (and they should)
distribute gifts on December 25th instead of December 6th.
f. In 1809, the novelist Washington Irving (most famous his The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle) wrote a satire of Dutch culture entitled
Knickerbocker History. The satire refers several times to the white bearded,
flying-horse riding Saint Nicholas using his Dutch name, Santa Claus.
g. Dr. Clement Moore, a professor at Union Seminary, read Knickerbocker
History, and in 1822 he published a poem based on the character Santa Claus:
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature
was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with
care, in the hope that Saint Nicholas soon would be there." Moore innovated
by portraying a Santa with eight reindeer who descended through chimneys.
h. The Bavarian illustrator Thomas Nast almost completed the modern picture
of Santa Claus. From 1862 through 1886, based on Moore's poem, Nast drew
more than 2,200 cartoon images of Santa for Harper's Weekly. Before Nast,
Saint Nicholas had been pictured as everything from a stern looking bishop
to a gnome-like figure in a frock. Nast also gave Santa a home at the North
Pole, his workshop filled with elves, and his list of the good and bad
children of the world. All Santa was missing was his red outfit.
i. In 1931, the Coca Cola Corporation contracted the Swedish commercial
artist Haddon Sundblom to create a coke-drinking Santa. Sundblom modeled his
Santa on his friend Lou Prentice, chosen for his cheerful, chubby face. The
corporation insisted that Santa's fur-trimmed suit be bright, Coca Cola red.
[b]And Santa was born - a blend of Christian crusader, pagan god, and
commercial idol."[/b]"source for the red text
And now to kick a dead horse please watch this about
Christianity and Sun worship.
This film was made a good two years before Zeigeist and by the same folks.
It's long but worth it. I am not advocating the stance on drugs just the
history. If people knew the roots of religion, I think religions would die.
Well most people can not even find some countries on the map much less know
a thing about them. I think our educational sytem purposely dumbs people
down.
Gods do not die; they just morph into new stories like a bad game of
Telephone. Conquered people already have their own state myths so in order
to control them you have to embrace their myths and use them or incorporate
your own myths into them. That is what religion does. It controls people and
concentrates their wealth to finances armies. Even today the Christian
Churches in America have 4-8 billion dollars each invested in defense
companies involved in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Jerusalem has been a
religious-military-industrial-complex cash cow for a very very long time.
The Romans saw the advantage of Monotheism to Polytheism as they saw the
advantage (in war) of an emperor instead of a republic. Polytheism has the
problem of dividing the wealth among the different temples and thus dividing
the power and clout of different areas (like the Greek City States).
Monotheism also bestowed full power to god's appointed authorities (the
kings) and did away with the senate. The Romans copied a very powerful
monotheistic religion, Judaism. However they had to get rid of the ethnic
ties of Judaism being only for Israelites. Thus through the Krishna story
they created a sacrificial figure who could serve to open up the
monotheistic Judaism to ALL people (including Italians) through the Christ
figure. Also the afterlife story was better than the original Greek/Roman
one where only well to do's got to go to Mt. Olympus. Christianity spent a
great deal of time creating "for the poor" stories to covert the herd and
turn them against the senate.
A Caesar knew where his army came from and where the power was and that was
in ruling the masses. Give them bread and circuses...From there on it became
a campaign of kill, convert, and collect. Today the Vatican church has its
own bank, its own gold deposits (much of it stolen by murder from the
Americas) and over a trillion dollars worth in assets and capital. It has
its own small country. The more deadly wing however is the Protestants and
the age of TV preachers. They are aligned with the Zionist movement of
fundamentalists Jews and Protestants who are willing to try and create
conditions for Armageddon.
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Earlier this year, antiabortion revolutionary theocrats celebrated the tenth
anniversary of the crimes of Paul Hill, the ex-Presbyterian Church in
America (PCA) minister who, on July 29, 1994 assasinated abortion provider
Dr. John Britton and James Barrett one of his escorts, and seriously
wounding another, June Barrett, outside a clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Hill
was convicted of his crimes and was executed by the State of Florida.
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