The Old Testament and New Testament are very different books; extolling and worshiping very different gods…

The Christian Bible is the New Testament, based on what Christ’s followers wrote about the life and teachings of Jesus over forty years after he was supposedly crucified.

As the Roman empire evolved, different religious sects began to create problems in Roman society. Plotinus (204? – 270 C.E.) and other commentators began to point out the decadence and corruption of Rome’s rulers. Citizens began to turn against the empire, and at this time the Jesus myth was created as a means to undermine the revolt and agitate the masses to help distract from the excesses and over-the-top debauchery of the shameless Roman elite.

Biblical scholar Joseph Atwill asserts that the New Testament is a historically accurate but largely fictional work commissioned by Titus Flavius for the sake of appropriating messianic Judaism on behalf of the Roman Empire. It’s a fascinating theory. One that deserves further study.

Rome was facing a violent uprising from several Jewish factions who were at the time anticipating the birth of a warrior messiah who would once and for all destroy the empire. The Romans wanted to avoid this eventuality at all costs.

For this reason, the Flavians invented Christianity to pacify the violent rebellions against Rome. Their purpose was to create a vision of a “peaceful Messiah” that would serve as an alternative to the rebels who were creating havoc in Judea and threatening Roman dominion in the region. Even more cynically, Josephus (at the behest of the Flavians) employed satirical depictions of events from the Wars with The Jews (66-73 C.E.) in the Gospels to create the typology for the story of Jesus.

Where do you think all that “turn the other cheek” stuff comes from? Why did Jesus – who supposedly loathed the money-changers – implore his followers to “Render…unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s”? He’s telling his followers they must always pay their taxes to the evil empire and just shut the hell up, already.

This only makes sense if one accepts Atwill’s thesis that the purpose of Christianity was to replace the militaristic messianic movement in Judea with a pacifistic religion, sympathetic to Rome.

Why would Rome be made the headquarters of a religion supposedly founded in the Holy Land, in opposition to the Empire? That seems pretty suspicious for a religious cult which was so mercilessly persecuted by the Romans.

Until it was made the state religion, that is…

Also, we get, “the meek shall inherit the earth…” and, “…it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God…”

Jesus is basically saying: “Don’t complain, sheep, don’t rock the boat. God has decided that certain people will be rich in this lifetime…and it ain’t you…

But don’t worry. You poor slobs are more likely to get into heaven, where you will finally receive your just rewards. But not until after you die, of course…”

Saul of Tarsus was walking down the road to Damascus, and (he claims) he had a ‘vision.’ In his vision, information was given to him: That of all the many Prophets streaming in and out of the desert back in the day: Jesus was THE one.

In the year 57 C.E. Paul made his famous ‘Epistles’ speech in which he asserts that everyone should submit to the Roman authorities because they act on behalf of God. As it says in Exodus: “There is no God but God…” So no more free will, no creativity…just submission. Yet Christianity somehow appealed to those who despised Rome and all it stood for. The early Christians thought Rome was corrupt, authoritarian and intolerant of their religion (at the time).

Unbiased historical evidence strongly suggests that the New Testament was indeed composed by Josephus – a prodigious, influential polymath adopted into the Holy Roman Flavian family by General Vespasian. Josephus wrote Wars of the Jews and Jewish Antiquities, both of which are considered by current Biblical scholars to be reliable works which provide historians with valuable information at a time when very little was written down.

As Atwill points out in Ceasar’s Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus, the tradition connecting early Christianity to the Flavians is based on solid historical evidence.

Sadly, this link has received little follow-up from mainstream scholars.

Biblical historians can at least agree that the gospels aren’t eyewitness accounts. They aren’t the word of God. They were written many years after the (supposed) fact, and they weren’t composed by people called Mathew, Mark, Luke or John, either. Half of the Old Testament was taken from the Torah, the holy book of the Jews. That’s why it’s all about Moses leading God’s chosen people to freedom, etc.

Christianity is a synthesis of Egyptian, Talmudic and Greek mythologies. The uncanny parallels between pagan stories in the ancient world and the life of Jesus cannot be easily dismissed. Nor can the parallels between The New Testament and Titus Flavius’s escapades in Wars with The Jews.

There are no credible sources outside the Bible which mention Jesus. Everything written about Jesus in the gospels conforms to the classic ‘mythic hero’ meme. There’s virtually nothing left over which indicates he was a real historical figure.

According to scholars, The New Testament was assembled by combining typological patterns from earlier sources such as Zoroastrian, Mithrain, Krishna, Buddhism, and Egyptian – among others. In many cases, verses are literally paraphrased from earlier writings, and many of the tales attributed to the life of Jesus were lifted directly from these other texts, going back to the Egyptian story of Osiris.

Such an Imperial power play founded on Josephus’ clever penmanship and assisted by Roman intelligencia would, of course, lead to swift syncretizing into Roman society thanks to the cultural hegemony which they still possessed when the New Testament was canonized.

Diocletion was the first to create laws protecting Christians from persecution, and finally in A.D. 325 Constantine organized the Council of Nicea, which codified Christian doctrine.

The New Testament was an attempt to legitimatize the corrupt Roman Empire’s stealing of the land, wealth, and the sacred identity of the Jewish people.

Nicene Christianity became the state church of the Holy Roman Empire with the Edict of Thessalonica in 380 AD, when Emperor Theodosius I made it the Empire’s sole authorized religion.

Historians generally find it difficult to go against the “orthodoxy” of the widespread theories regarding Christian origins – even though they are aware no doubt that these really are revisionist and significantly “manufactured” religions.

Christianity flourished as Rome fell. This is when the veil of ignorance began to fall over humanity and illiteracy and ignorance spread across Europe. The Catholic church set civilization back hundreds of years and threw humanity into the the ‘Dark Ages.’

Rather than teach free will and tolerance, the Catholic church was responsible for widespread suppression, intolerance and oppression of others for decades to come. As the contemporary historian Gaius Tacitus wrote, Christians were considered “Haters of Humanity” by the pagans.

Christianity is merely a covert continuation of the Holy Roman Empire, it would seem. Constantine could clearly see that the empire was crumbling. If he had chosen Mithra as the official God, everyone would now be Mithraens.

[And I’d still be an atheist.*]