The excellent Channel 4 in the UK is not backward with coming forward with ‘anti’ stuff about Jesus Christ. There were loads over the Christmas period last year. In fact, every few months there’s yet another documentary. Indeed, thinking about it there are similar documentaries on BBC Four, and doing the rounds on some of the Discovery type channels.
So, there’s a constant reminder of the oddness that surrounds this one of the religions that sprouted up in the Middle East and then spread out to try to interest the rest of the world. Of course, in the early days the happy natives of the non-Middle Eastern countries that had just spent many millennia simply getting on with stuff, were given life-saving food in exchange for accepting this Christianity thing, or had their life spared from the ducking chair or painful spear-through-the-heart that was on offer as an alternative to worshipping this new god. And so Christianity flourished.
In recent times so much has come to light that completely destroys all but the name ‘Christianity’. It started with the Da Vinci Code, and ended recently with the discovery of Jesus’s tomb alongside that of his wife and children. Or maybe not.
Anyway, the biggest swindle of modern day Christianity is Christ’s actual family were written out of the stories of Jesus. That means his brothers were removed. His wife was removed. His children were removed.
History is re-written to make out they didn’t exist, and Mary moves from being his devoted wife, to suddenly being some prostitute he was trying to guide on the right route.
Indeed, so we are told, Christ’s brother was continuing the preaching about love that Jesus had started, but this was rejected by Paul who decided there should be a far more important role for a church of Christianity.
Yep, Christ’s own brother was written out of Paul’s version of Christianity.
Amazing.
There were loads of gospels written around the time of early Christianity, including that of Mary. Yet, it didn’t fit Paul’s purposes to include her gospel in what later became collectively known as the Bible. He chucked it out alongside around 20 others that didn’t fit in with his concept of what he wanted the masses to read and believe. He even asked for yet another gospel to be written summarising some of the other gospels but putting an anti-Mary spin on the story.
So, why is this religion still holding on? Surely the followers must object to the way the structured ‘church’ treated the family of Jesus?
Apparently not.
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