Jesus, Yet Another Sun God Myth.

Worship of the sun, under it's myriad forms, has been around since neolothic times. Neolithic times (new stone ages) lasted from about 10,000 BCE to about 2,000 BCE (BCE=Before the Common Era, i.e., before the alleged Jesus was born. CE=Common Era).

Some of the best known sun worshippers were the Sumerians, the Egyptians and the Babylonians. They had all kinds of imaginative myths surrounding their worship. One of the common stories was that at the winter solstice (21st of December), as seen from the Middle East or thereabouts, the sun would stay low in the sky for three days and then start rising. It was said to "die" for three days and then resurrect, or rise from death.


The myths that were made up consisted of stories of how the sun,  represented by a god-man, was born of a virgin, died and rose three days later. In some of those myths, the sun had 12 followers (the Zodiac should ring a bell here), and performed all kinds of miracles, such as changing water into wine, resurrecting the dead and feeding thousands with only a few loafs of bread and some fish. Sound familiar? You can read about this in its various forms on the Internet. All you have to do is Google it, or Yahoo! it, or Duckduckgo it, whichever you prefer, and you'll be rewarded with more reading material than you can cope with.

All this to say that the sun myth, involving a virgin-born god-man dying and rising after three days, is far far older than Christianity's myths about Jesus.

Now the myths varied depending on the cultures using them. They were adapted to the specific cultures making them up. If you compare many of these myths to Christianity, you'll find some divergences, but you will also find that the main themes don't change, i.e., the subject was a virgin-born  man-god, who performed miracles, taught wisdom, died for the sins of others and rose on the third day. This is common to all those myths.

Suffice it to say that you will find in Christianity's myth of Jesus enough in common with the sun-god myths to realize that this is more than just a co-incidence.

Why is it that you don't hear priests or preachers telling you about this? They know about it, in fact, many of them are well acquainted with these old myths. Could it be that it would be bad for business if they did? Imagine the Catholic church, for example, admitting that their Jesus is nothing more than a re-hash of the old sun-god myths? I think the sound of money falling in the collection plate would die out really fast if that ever happened.

There's nothing much unique to Christianity. Early Christians hi-jacked the Jewish Bible, which they then renamed the Old Testament (OT), and then proceeded to find "prophecies" in the OT about Jesus being Israel's Messiah. Whoever wrote the gospel of Matthew was particularly adept at "finding" (read: inventing) prophesies to "prove" that Jesus was the long-awaited Messiah. His gospel is replete with very imaginative stories, such as the virgin conception and birth, for example. Suffice it to say that "Matthew" had very different interpretations of these "prophecies" than did the rabbis.

Isaac Asimov once wrote that "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived". All one has to do is read that collection of books we call the Bible to find out just how ridiculous some religious beliefs are. Asimov is also quoted as saying that "Nobody but a dedicated Christian could possibly read the Bible and not see them as a tissue of non-sense." Amen brother, amen!

But let me be clear, lest someone thinks I'm just picking on Christianity: I think ALL religions are a tissue of nonsense. They belong in the childhood of man, when we were ignorant and had no better tool than superstition to understand the world we lived in. But to believe that a god became a man, was brutally tortured and crucified so that his "loving Father" could forgive sin, is one of the most absurd concepts it has ever been my displeasure to know.

Punishing an innocent man for the wrongdoings of others flies in the face of any concept of justice we hold dear. It is not love to require a human sacrifice in order to forgive "sin"; it's insanity. The Christian deity is a psychopath of the worst order, and one only has to read the first five books of the Bible to ascertain this. They are filled with murder, rape, genocide, baby-killing; you name the atrocity and the god of the Bible has commanded it somewhere in the OT.

How such a deity can be called a god of love is beyond understanding. He puts two people in a garden, tells them not to eat of a certain fruit, and when they do, he condemns them as well as all of their descendants. There is nothing in any definition of love or justice that covers such insanity, but because it's a religion, people, even some highly intelligent people, believe it. Go figure!

The worst part is that they insist we respect those beliefs. BULLSHIT! I'm not required to respect such ridiculous beliefs. I respect people's rights to believe whatever foolishness they wish, but I don't have to respect their beliefs.

Christianity is neither new nor unique. It is a copy, and a bad one at that, of one of the oldest religions on earth, the belief in a god-man, born of a virgin, dying and rising on the third day for the sins of others. Nothing new here, folks, move along.

There is no justice in punishing an innocent man. There is no love in requiring a horrible human sacrifice so that a some maniac can forgive; and there certainly is no love in sending people to be tortured in "hell" for eternity because of the "sins" of a brief lifetime. That is nothing short of psychotic, in my opinion.

Jesus, if he even existed, was not a god. At best, he was an itinerent rabbi who had some good things to say about human relationships, though he never condemned slavery, oddly enough. He was at the wrong place in the wrong time and wound up getting executed Roman style; again, if he even existed.

Some of his followers, or more likely some people who had heard of him, made up stories about him and the whole thing appealed to the poor and downtrodden, who were looking for some payback against their oppressors, and they started a religion, which through accidents in history, lives on even today, despite the fact it's one of the most ridiculous religions on this planet.

One only has to look at how Christians live today compared to what the NT teaches, to see that there are no real followers of Jesus around anymore; there havent' been any for a long long time, so why not just admit it and move on. It's high time man gave up his childish faerie stories about gods and saviours and grew up.

grgaud