Christian Deceit.

The creation of Christianity involved the adoption of the moral precepts of the wisest thinkers in western Asia and beyond, to be blended into the legend of Jesus the Christ. As one looks into ancient literature there is not a single teaching in the Gospel that cannot be likened virtually word for word in the ethical literature of Greeks, Romans, Hindus, Jews, and others.

The passage in Matthew 5:28, "Whoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her in his heart." Was taken almost word for word from one of the books of the Talmud called Challah. In the little Jewish book called the Sotar, the Catholics found the advice about the son turning against the father, the daughter against the mother, and the daughter in law against the mother in law in the time of the Messiah," when a man’s foes shall be they of his own household." So in Matthew these shocking words about hating one’s relatives are placed in the mouth of Jesus. In the writings of Lao, Tse, Buddha, Socrates, and Pittacus had been teaching that good must be returned for evil, the Jews said. "Cast not your pearls before swine" first, " He who would do injury to another has already done it," declared Seneca; "The Gods regard with delight the man who when struck does not strike back," says a Hindu proverb and lo and behold the supposed Jesus repeats them all. Over one hundred years before the Common Era began, Tiberius Gracchus said the foxes had holes and the birds had nests but man had no place to lay his head. So the Christians give the words to the supposed Jesus. As if it was his own words they have this Jesus repeat the old Jewish maxim about those who exalt themselves being humbled, and those who humble themselves being exalted. From Seneca, Plato, Buddha, even from Sibyis, the Christians borrowed words and ideas and used them to provide their Saviour with ethical and speculative credence.

The Christian establishment denies the issue of plagiarism (imitation of ideas of someone else) by claiming that the disciples and their proselytes would not have been capable of "inventing the remarkable statements of Jesus, which are so obviously stamped with personal originality combined with profundity of thought." On the other hand, the evidence indicates that the redactors (revisers or editors) had no intention of inventing anything. They confiscated, instead, the wisdom of philosophers both ancient (such as Buddha) and contemporary with the genesis of the Common Era (such as Hillel and Seneca). These documented recorded history are still available today but the supposed Jesus never left a single written word documented outside of the New Testament which was compiled and manipulated over hundreds of years. This age of Christian deceit began in the second century of the Common Era and continued well into the Middle Ages. Contradictory in the face of Job’s words "God does not need our lies" the Catholics Doctors of theology professed to believe that it was an act of virtue to deceive and to lie, when by these means the interest of religion might be promoted. Eusebuis, for example freely avowed that he would omit whatever might tend to the discredit of the church and magnify whatever might contribute to her glory.

" It is not we who take our opinions from others," argued the Catholics in response to critics, "but they who take theirs from us." And this statement invariably led to the lament that the " deceiving serpent" had counterfeited Catholic practices in the mystery religions that antedated the appearance of the Christian saviour god. Some Christians presumed to declare that Greek philosophy was derived from what they call Hebrew wisdom, and they supported their thesis with spurious quotations from the ancient Greek poetry. The Christian deceit continues to this very day.

Jim Lee.