Who Killed Christ?
That question still is wet on the lips of hatemongers. They salivate with the anticipation of their roar. The glint of pleasure is in their eyes. It’s a glint of a self convinced self evident truth. They think there’s still one historical fact they can unabashedly guilt freely blame on their phantoms – The Jews.
Few of us are exposed to religious criticism by Biblical scholarship and especially archaeological disputation. The media stays away from these sacrosanct subjects. They fear the fury of the religious. But much of the Bible stands on a fast eroding beachscape. Some of the OT or the Torah has been demystified due to historical evaluations. But the power of the Old Testament is still pretty much retained. Its strength is in the literature. Facts are not important there but the value is. Its quality over quantity.
But the New Testament is another matter. Its is accepted as fact that much of the Gospels have been forged, edited and rewritten. The Gospels written by Hellenic converts to Saul of Tarsus/St. Paul’s version of magical paganized Judaism. The original Evangelists had varying degrees of hostility to their former comrade religion. They needed to support Christianity and distance themselves from Judaism. Blaming the Jews or blaming the victim started here. transforming Judas from the Beloved disciple to the great traitor symbolic of all Jews. There is much accepted evidence that Jesus never fought verbal battles with the Pharisees. In fact once studied you see that Pharisees are applauded in the Gospels and the word Pharisee is substituted for Sadducee. The Sadducees were a small sect of strict scripturists that were quisling for the Roman occupation force.
St Paul heard everything second-hand. Christianity is Judaism by a few degrees of separation. It began as hearsay or rumour of what St. Paul thought Judaism was. Through Hellenistic pagan eyes St. Paul, a Greek fan or fanatic summed up Judaism. He made Jesus Christ out of Yeshua Ben Joseph, The fossilization is so complete we can detect practically nothing of the flesh and blood of the historical Jesus. We only see, whats left, a frozen stone image of Jesus on a crucifix. Exposed to mystery religions and the Gods who were sacrificed for world continuance he could only relate to those ideas.
He was never a Pharisee. He was minimally exposed to the secretive and promising Sadducees who he worked for. Until of course the vision of Christ in his mind.
Yeshua who likely survived the crucifixion was a candidate for Messiah. He was possibly a descendent of David. But he was a learned man, therefore a rabbi and Pharisee. Even today the Roman Catholic Church begrudgingly accepts he was NEVER a Christian. The sand beneath the foundations of these orthodox beliefs are draining away. Time shall reveal all even after 2000 years. Yeshua was on the cross only a few hours. All crucified men were removed on the Sabbath. That was easily survivable. Yeshua seeing his crucifixion did not incite a Judaic Revolution had to leave. But he promised his disciples he would return. Tales of Jesus returning as ghost, avatar or God were added in later Gospels. It was a great tale meant to entrance half Judaized followers. There is even speculation Jesus/Yeshua did return at the beginning of the Jewish War in 66 CE. Where was he? France? maybe. But many accounts in Persia, India and Tibet put him there as Saint Issa. As he travelled, Paul invented his Jesus as Zeus religion to the aggravation of Judeans and irritation of ther Church of Jerusalem.
But the colouring of Jews did not end with the Evangelists. Eventually Christianity became the religion of Rome. It has to be accepted by Rome. and sacrifices were made. Women were demoted and Jews were demonized. Even more distance had to be placed between the Jews and the new faith. With the power interlocked with Rome could the Romans be blamed for the GREAT GODS death?? And so the rewriting continued. The Jews had to be blamed and re-editing would accomplish this. It had already begun with the Evangelists of the Gospels.
The Jews had to be made the scapegoats. Im sure that whoever reworked the NT never in their wildest dreams imagined this would end in massacres throughout the Middle Ages and continuing into a near extermination of the Jews! Biblical scholarship has seen to some scholars dismay, the evidence of this great forgeries. And these evaluations are slowly leaching into popular culture. The Ages of Reason and Enlightenment have made superstition and abracadabra and presto chango into entertainment.
Still many still cling to magical irrational beliefs.
There is nothing more magically irrational than to blame groups of people for what their ancestors allegedly did. This type of thinking that flees away from reason and deduction is welcome on the internet today. Conspiracy theory is usually devoid of rationality and is similar to what religion is losing – the faith.
So even today there are fundamentalist Christians who still actually blame the death of the candidate for Messiah on the Jews themselves. So it must be pointed out that Jesus died on a cross. And the Judean form of execution was NOT that but stoning. And the evidence is there to be seen as Jesus/Yeshua himself saves a young woman from stoning. Its right there in the adulterated Gospels.It couldn’t be changed that Jesus died on a Roman cross. The cross by 330 CE was too important.
Despite the obviousness, the blame was irrationally affixed in the New Testament. The crowds HAD to be turned against Jesus even though they cheered him in his entry into the city on the back of a donkey.
With all these deductions there are still those who love to chew on the nugget of hate and bigotry will still not spit the vile element out. They are too addicted to its demonic pleasure of hatred.
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