How the Roman Empire Created a Universal Religion

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SUMMARY:

• This thread will examine works showing that Christianity was a Roman Empire Project
• The common idea among these diverse works implicates one of the oldest established aristocracies of Rome or Europe, the Pisos, which trace their origins back to the days of Alexander the Great
• The undertaking was aimed at pacification and control of empire subjects
• Who the true writers of the New Testament were
• Christianity Project to replace all the other religions that were found all over the old empire. It must be noted that religious diversity had been a source of major headache for the Roman Empire at this time.

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The Synthesis of Christianity

Introduction by Dr. Dorothy B. Thompson PhD
It has been my recent privilege to receive a manuscript by Roman Piso, entitled The Synthesis of Christianity (NOTE: see attached). I have read dozens of books about the history of Christianity, but this one is by far the most unique.

Perhaps Piso’s quote from Abelard Reuchlin sums up his thesis best:

“It was Flavius Josephus who was the creator of Jesus.”​

Piso spent many years researching the fraud of Christianity. It seems that many scholars had previously come to the conclusion that Josephus had indeed created Christianity.

This book, however, presents the authorship of the New Testament as regards the Roman Piso family, the antiquity of which goes back to ancient Rome. Members of the royal Piso family were the composers of the New Testament. The reasons are discussed in the “Piso Theory” and the “Royal Supremacy Theory.”

In a nutshell, the Royals of ancient times invented and promoted superstitions for the purpose of controlling people. The Royals were the only ones who were literate, and who had freedoms, including the freedom of speech. Promoting religion for the purpose of control was the duty and responsibility of the Royals, who were atheists. They knew there were no gods, for they had created them. The main control they sought to preserve was slavery.

Intricate family archives kept track of ever evolving dogmas. Later writers had access to earlier records for their creations. Through the centuries the Royals carefully guarded their great hoax and seemed to thoroughly enjoy the creation of the masterpiece. As Piso describes it,

“being an ancient author was like being in on a long, longstanding perpetually running inside joke.”​

Piso discusses the “penis worship” which is the truth of the New Testament, the “number system” used by the Royals, fascinating members of the Piso family lineage, intricate historical accounts, and the political reasons behind the Christian Myth. The Royals, of course, took pseudonyms for the authorship of their creations. Thus the alias Flavius Josephus. Piso’s evidence is clearly and superbly presented and meticulously documented.

I wonder if the Royals had any idea of the viscous quality of what they created—their sick joke. Realizing who was responsible for the creation of such a monstrous lie certainly won’t endear the Royal Pisos to you, but you’ll love this interesting and important book


Specific Items in History Related to the "Synthesis Of Christianity"

A CHECKLIST OF WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TO BE THE CASE
(1) Emperors were NOT made of common persons. They were in fact all of royal families regardless of what "history" tries or attempts to make the reader believe. This is because of the 'controlled' environment that existed at the time, which is also listed and explained.

(2) As such, there were no "dynasties" as we have been led to think of them. All Roman rulers were inter-related. There were 'branches' of the same family that switched off or took turns ruling so that it appeared that anyone could become emperor, etc. In other words, a deliberate 'facade' was created and maintained for specific purposes.

(3) All religious leaders were closely related to royalty and of royal houses, such as Popes, 'saints' and church writers, as well as 'historians'. No one was allowed to write for the public except royals and their close relatives. This was because it was a dangerous thing for royalty to allow freedom of speech to the common people. If the common person was allowed to speak freely to the masses and they somehow found out or deduced the situation, that would threaten the whole system that was in place and that had been in place for thousands of years.

(4) They all (rulers, writers, etc.) made use of alias names in order to hide their true identities and to be able to give all of the information about themselves and their families, ancestors, etc. that they wanted to and still not let the cat out of the bag. They made it so that we would have to deduce the truth from what they left. They made us (they thought) dependent upon THEM and what they wrote in order to find out and 'confirm' the truth to the degree that THEY allowed us to. This, is what they refer to as the 'Grace' of god. (sic) However, they could not know that we would later have other means in which to make determinations regarding this—and we will discuss that later.

(5) They made use of a wide variety of methods and means in which to control and manipulate the masses. Persons usually refer to this subject as the 'Pisonian Conspiracy', which is NOT a title that we gave this—but rather what the ancient 'historian' Tacitus called it. The Pisos happened to be behind the composition of the New Testament, but the Pisos were not alone in this. In reality, this was simply an effort on the part of all royals who wanted to preserve and continue the practice of slavery. At the time, there were several royal houses at odds with each other over this issue and a long all-out war resulted. The New Testament was simply a 'solution' for the royals who wanted to retain the practice of slavery as well as to increase their power and control over the masses via ideologies given out in the New Testament in rhetorical form. They made full use of all that they had put into the New Testament.

(6) They kept their own private records or archives as to the truth behind all of the works that each particular family branch had written for public consumption. They refer to them in a number of ways, and it becomes evident that later writers made use of records from within their own family archives to create their later works from.

(7) They (the persons who wrote the New Testament, etc.) were able to do these things because of the pre-existing mechanism or system of control over the masses which we call "the closed environment", but which is also known as a "controlled" environment. Which simply stated means that ONLY royals could write works for public consumption—and even then only with permission and approval of a royal counsel. There were NO common persons with the ability to communicate with the masses at large. No freedom of speech. Everything that was written of for the masses were carefully conceived, created, approved of by royalty and had motives behind them for being written.

(8) The main reasons for the New Testament being written was:

a) as a means by which to preserve and continue the practice of slavery and

b) to disseminate rhetorical ideologies to the masses that would make them more easy to control and manipulate. And,

c) to be a 'universal' or 'catholic' religion so as to extend their power and control over the masses to other conquered countries and to more easily conquer other countries.​

They aimed at conquering India for example, which they never really did despite their efforts to do so. They were ALWAYS aiming at extending Roman boundaries.

(9) There was a long all-out war going on between royal houses over the issue of slavery before and as the New Testament was being written. At several points the Romans could very well have LOST the war* and they (the Romans and their allies) were in desperate need for more and better means with which to

a) put down revolt of the slaves themselves and make them complacent and as 'content' as possible in their situation—even going as far as to offer them (in the NT) life after death and a 'reward' in heaven.

b) They needed to make their own military stronger, loyal, and braver, as well as filled with HATE for the enemy; "the Jews."

c) They needed to offer the same 'life after death' to their own soldiers so that they would not be afraid to die in battle. And,

d) they needed a means by which to console the widows and other relatives of soldiers who would fall or die in battle (as well as 'hope' for the crippled, etc.). All of this was done via the rhetoric and ideology that they placed into the New Testament. And,

e) they could NEVER let the masses know that they, the ROMAN royalty manufactured this great lie—so they HAD to appear to be either indifferent and/or non-approving of it (the Christian religion and Christians).​

The only way that you would ever know that it was them was in knowing all of the facts that they had hidden - because those facts reveal their motives, and that is when the truth is finally discovered.

An example that stands out is Pliny the Younger's epistles to the emperor Trajan regarding his 'questions' as to what to do about or with those claiming to be 'Christians'. This is magnificent rhetoric. He ends up,

a) advertising the religion,

b) making Christians appear to be 'martyrs', and

c) effectively hiding the fact that they (the Romans) actually 'created' the religion!​

(10) The 'historians'
These are the persons who wrote the works that we depend upon to tell us what happened. Yet, we have discovered that they,

a) were NOT who they led us to believe they were, and

b) they deliberately mislead us and lied to us in order to hide the truth.​

Only the royals and their close relatives were allowed to write public works, and THEY are the ONLY ones that are referred to in 'history' when they spoke of peoples or sects. The common person was not worthy of mention in history except in general groups such as 'legions' or such and then nearly always, if not always, in order to 'glorify' or otherwise refer to the leaders of those legions, etc.

(11) One of the most important things to know in order for a person to work their way through the maze or 'puzzle' of ancient history in New Testament times is to know just who the 'Jews' were at any given time and place. This means knowing all about each of the sects in the most specific detail and to do this one must do a lot of reading and deducing. However, once this IS known, one is then able to discover so much more than before. The 'historians' played the 'shell game' when it came to the 'Jews'. They often refer to them in general terms and hardly ever make distinctions about just WHICH sect of the Jews they are speaking of at any given time. This means that one must use all available facts in order to deduce that and make the distinctions for themselves. We explain in our findings just who the 'Jews' were at any given time and place. And this will definitely help future researchers.

(12) *Yes, as mentioned, the Romans came close several times to losing the war. There were several very important factors that could have well meant that the outcome may have been different. One of those things was that Nero had executed Gaius Piso and others who were allied to their cause. Before Nero, Claudius had also executed a number of the Pisos and their allies. But Arrius Piso and others of the Piso family were left along with many of their allies. Then, as a Roman general Arrius Piso was very nearly captured and/or killed many times when he came to the Temple and various meetings with the Pharisees for the purpose of trying to persuade them to go along with him and his allies to change over to his new religion. He could have been easily killed then and that would have probably been the end of that part of the war and much of the later escalation of the war may not have ever happened.

In addition to this, Arrius Piso was nearly killed when his horse fell on him. It did not kill him, but it did crush his leg and made him 'lame' in that one leg. The extent of his injury and recovery is not known for certain at this time. Then, at the Pass of Beth Horon, he was ambushed by his Jewish enemies (the Pharisees) and was nearly caught and killed there. He was truly the cat with nine lives! In every battle that he was in, HE was the 'prize' that was sought by his enemies. It was known to his enemies that it was vital to stop him from ever doing what he had planned to do—and that was to enslave all of humanity other than royals into a perpetual ignorance and to 'dumb' down the common persons with rhetoric so as to enslave them with rhetorical ideologies.

(13) Genetic Testing
This is what we think will be the final indisputable proof regarding this. As we stated, the authors of 'history' claimed to be persons other than who they really were and the same was true of those who were emperors (as well as both earlier and later royalty). We also said that 'saints' were close relatives of these same persons. These things can be verified now with genetic testing. In fact, we are certain that in time, enough of this sort of evidence will be compiled to show just how accurate our reconstructed genealogy of these persons really are—and we are very anxious to see this! Because we have followed various 'rules' in order to reconstruct their family tress, 'rules' that were made and left by those very persons!

For instance, they left hints and clues to follow in order to find the facts that would help a person to make those reconstructions. One instance comes to mind and that is of the emperor Constantine's claims of descent from 'Claudius'. He means, of course, the emperor Claudius II 'Gothicus'. We have examined this in very fine detail and have concluded that this was only possible in ONE way. And because that is the case, that IS his actual and true descent from Claudius II 'Gothicus'.

However, to find that line of descent a vast knowledge of many things that may otherwise seem unrelated must be known. And, you have to know the line of descent of Claudius II Gothicus as well. This is not at all 'easy' and it IS very easy to make mistakes when reconstructing these lines of descent. It was made difficult on purpose.

Bear in mind that these persons did not have to work for a living, they did not have television and had little else to do but to make these 'amusements' for themselves and their other royal relatives. Being an ancient author was like being 'in' on a long, long standing perpetually running 'inside joke'. And it was treated seriously and as a 'duty', but one that the authors could not help but have 'fun' with as they created their works.

And if, after reading this, any reader suddenly felt the urgent need to puke, I would understand that too....

 

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Presumably this thesis would garner a number of critiques all around and one should consider them when reflecting on the veracity of this book's claims.

In the context of the Empire during this time, the Romans viewed Christianity as the solution to all the brewing violence wrought upon by divisive religious camps. There's also the added incentive for the Romans having the chance to mock the rebellious Jews in their faces by using their own sacred texts and the expectation for some prophesied Messiah along the way. Remember that with the Jews being their conquered subjects, the Romans viewed themselves rightful heirs to the Jewish religious system, making it out as fully subject to their own will. All of these give us enough sense why Constantine came up with this tiny bit of solution:

The Emperor (Constantine) then instructed Bishop Eusebius to compile a uniform collection of new writings "bound together as one" … Eusebius was to arrange for the production of "fifty sumptuous copies … to be written on parchment in a legible manner, and in a convenient portable form, by professional scribes thoroughly accomplished in their art…."

"Make them to astonish," ordered Emperor Constantine…. (Which leaves a question begging to be asked: are the Pisos among those aforementioned scribes? This appears to be the inescapable conclusion.)​

And one should also take into account how the history of the founding of Christianity, especially from the mouths of the prominent Christian fathers, reveal that this book's claims strike nearly at the heart of the matter.

Eusebius

We shall introduce into this history in general only those events which may be useful first to ourselves and afterwards to posterity—(Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 8, Chapter 2)​

Eusebius ... was Bishop of Caesarea from AD 315 to 340. He wrote many books, including the Ecclesiastical History. This is now very hard to come by as it makes the startling revelation that even in those days the available history of the birth of Christ was extremely scant—J. Mendum (Revelations of the Anti-Christ)

St. Jerome

When we translate the Hebrew into Latin, we are sometimes guided by conjecture—Saint Jerome (AD 340-420. Translator of the Vulgate or Latin Bible)

How it may be lawful and fitting to use falsehood as a medicine, and for the benefit of those who want to be deceived—(Twelfth Book of Evangelical Preparation)​

John Chrysostom

...Do you see the advantage of deceit?...

For great is the value of deceit, provided it be not introduced with a mischievous intention. In fact action of this kind ought not to be called deceit, but rather a kind of good management, cleverness and skill, capable of finding out ways where resources fail, and making up for the defects of the mind...

And often it is necessary to deceive, and to do the greatest benefits by means of this device, whereas he who has gone by a straight course has done great mischief to the person whom he has not deceived—(Treatise On The Priesthood, Book 1)​

Ignatius Loyola

We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides.​

Martin Luther

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them—(Cited by his secretary, in a letter in Max Lenz, ed., Briefwechsel Landgraf Phillips des Grossmüthigen von Hessen mit Bucer, vol. I.)​

Incidentally I happen to allude to the thesis forwarded by this book when I posted here at SB the following:

The only reason Christianity became the dominant religion is because the Roman Empire adopted it. Great organizers and utilitarians that the Romans were, they saw in the Old Testament, which lends itself greatly to a marauding interpretation, mighty opportunity to expand their territories and influence, while the New Testament they saw as a formidable sedative to keep the subjugated people meek and manageable—that is, as a way for subdued nations and classes all over the face of the earth to have some measure of pittance for their miserable existence and make them docile and submissive for later conditionings. The Old Testament they viewed as the master credo, the New Testament as the subject gospel, exhorting the conquered subjects not to seek earthly contentment in the current life anymore, but to seek it in the next one instead.

After all, not all people could be masters at the same time, could they? If the first principle, that of physical conquest, failed them in their search for world dominion, then surely the second—spiritual conscription—should secure it for eternity. For the Romans who had been looking for a way to master the world ahead of Alexander the Great's vision—of one world system, if not government—Christianity was heaven-sent elixir indeed in that direction, a twofold approach whose probability of failure was almost close to nil given the immense resources of the Empire of that time.​

 

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This is just too much, even for me, but I'll leave with these:

• Abelard Reuchlin - The true authorship of the New Testament
• Roman Piso - Piso Christ: A Book of the New Classical Scholarship
• David Icke - And the Truth Shall Set You Free: The 21st Century Edition
• Joseph Atwill - Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus: Flavian Signature Edition
• The Piso Family and the Story of the Bible

"The New Testament, the Church, and Christianity, were all the creation of the Calpurnius Piso family,
who were Roman aristocrats.

The New Testament and all the characters in it—Jesus, all the Josephs, all the Marys, all the disciples, apostles,
Paul, and John the Baptist—are all fictional."
Abelard Reuchlin
from The True Authorship of the New Testament

"How well we know what a profitable superstition
this fable of Christ has been for us."
Pope Leo X (1513-1521)
Tony Bushby
from The Bible Fraud
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The Piso Family of Rome: What History and Archaeology Tells Us About Them

• They were perhaps the oldest, grandest, most established of the Roman aristocracy, tracing their roots even to the times of Alexander the Great, who incidentally was the first to dream of one universal government, one universal culture: did the Pisos appoint themselves missionaries of Alexander's vision and held on to it and pushed for its adoption unto the age of the Roman Empire?
• The family included such famous people as Cleopatra, the Ptolemys, Pythagoras, Flavius Josephus, and the Roman Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasiani
• They are known as some of the most brilliant, most intelligent, and most cultured aristocratic family even among Rome’s elite society.
• They possessed—perhaps possess still now—some of the most magnificent, opulent personal libraries of Europe, even sponsoring or serving as patrons of some of history’s most brilliant literary geniuses, like Philodemus.

source: the herculaneum library latest developments

 

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HELL: By the Power of Fear Shall I Bridle You

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Resource Update: A Well-Known Book, The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, is added for contextual comparative purposes with the original material.

All are available in the first page.

 

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The Rise of Inequality in the Human Race
Are we, fundamentally, an egalitarian species or a fiercely competitive one? Or are we perhaps so flexible that we can be equally at home in either kind of society?

Evolutionary biology casts considerable light on this question. Start with the fact that our species has spent more than 90 per cent of its existence living in highly egalitarian bands of hunter-gatherers. There is no room in this nomadic existence for the accumulation of property, and hence no great differences in material possessions.

It was only when the first humans started farming, around 10,000 years ago, that it became possible for one person to accumulate many more possessions than another. Farmers are sedentary and can therefore store property in buildings, and stake a claim to land by building walls. Farming is also more efficient than hunting and gathering, so a division of labour can develop. Some grow enough food to support other people who have nothing to do with food production, such as artisans, soldiers, priests and kings. Inevitably, those who do not produce food end up far richer than those who do. Kings skim off the surplus production in the form of taxes and use it to finance armies, palaces and temples. Priests spin yarns about tithing to justify all this robbery in exchange for an income of their own. In just a few thousand years — a blink of an eye in evolutionary terms — humans have gone from living in small egalitarian bands to large-scale sedentary societies with extreme levels of inequality. MORE

Today we talk of very small groups of men orchestrating events and monopolizing about 99% of the resources of the world and leaving the morsel of 1% of these global resources to 99% of the global population. Whence came these men, and whence came the idea of supercontrol? Of a tool of manipulation that binds the forsaken 99% to their ignominy of existence?

Look no further than the way the superelites of the old Roman Empire spin the yarn about religion to control the peoples it has conquered and subjected to its rule. A tragedy that has survived thousands of years to this day....

The Mighty Romans Strike Gold
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Ancient Confession Found: 'We Invented Jesus Christ'

"Atwill asserts that Christianity did not really begin as a religion, but a sophisticated government project, a kind of propaganda exercise used to pacify the subjects of the Roman Empire. "Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah, were a constant source of violent insurrection during the first century," he explains. "When the Romans had exhausted conventional means of quashing rebellion, they switched to psychological warfare. They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system. That's when the 'peaceful' Messiah story was invented. Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to 'give onto Caesar' and pay their taxes to Rome...."" MORE

 

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Historicity of Christ

The average Christian minister who has not read outside the pale of accredited Church authorities will impart to any parishioner making the inquiry the information that no event in history is better attested by witness than the occurrences in the Gospel narrative of Christ’s life. He will go over the usual citation of the historians who mention Jesus and the letters claiming to have been written about him. When the credulous questioner, putting trust in the intelligence and good faith of his pastor, gets this answer, he goes away assured on the point of the veracity of the Gospel story. The pastor does not qualify his data with the information that the practice of forgery, fictionizing and fable was rampant in the early Church. In the simple interest of truth, then, it is important to examine the body of alleged testimony from secular history and see what credibility and authority it possesses.

First, as to the historians whose works record the existence of Jesus, the list comprises but four. They are Pliny, Tacitus, Suetonius and Josephus. There are short paragraphs in the works of each of these, two in Josephus. The total quantity of this material is given by Harry Elmer Barnes in The Twilight of Christianity as some twenty–four lines. It may total a little more, perhaps twice that amount. This meager testimony constitutes the body or mass of the evidence of ‘one of the best attested events in history.’ Even if it could be accepted as indisputably authentic and reliable, it would be faltering support for an event that has dominated the thought of half the world for eighteen centuries.

But what is the standing of this witness? Not even Catholic scholars of importance have dissented from a general agreement of academic investigators that these passages, one and all, must by put down as forgeries and interpolations by partisan Christian scribes who wished zealously to array the authority of these historians behind the historicity of the Gospel life of Jesus. A sum total of forty or fifty lines from secular history supporting the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, and they completely discredited!

Who is this king of Glory pp. 258-259

 

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Piety and Dreams Sire a Godman
Beliefs created the Man, not the Man beliefs

Was Jesus, like Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar, a real historical figure to whom legends and myths became attached? Or, rather, like Huckleberry Finn or Sherlock Holmes a purely fictional character, passed off as a genuine personage or later historicized by other hands?

Perhaps the choice is not quite so clear cut: a person (perhaps several) were certainly in the mind of Mark Twain and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when they constructed their heroes. Twain drew inspiration from his own life. Doyle modelled much of the character of his detective on his own professor of medicine, a Dr Joseph Bell. Did that make Sherlock Holmes any less of a fiction? (Interestingly, Holmes's trademark “deerstalker” hat is never mentioned in Doyle's stories and the drop-step pipe was the contribution of actor William Gillette years later. That's how myths grow.)

With Jesus, most people feel more comfortable with the 'historical kernel' approach. It is intuitively satisfying to think that someone was behind the towering legend. We do, after all, have Christianity, and it is hard to give credence to the idea that someone "just made-up" Jesus Christ and then managed to convince anyone else to believe that he had lived and died. In fact, one can reach the conclusion that "there must have been a Jesus" without any research at all, which of course is what most people do.


Common Error

And yet, this "common sense" approach, though convenient, is a trap, a misapprehension condoned and encouraged by the priestly cohorts. They are happy to debate and discuss their hero's claims to deity ('a matter of faith') but want us all to accept Jesus of Nazareth as an historical fact. For them, the negation of that "fact" has cataclysmic implications and therefore they resist that possibility with every means within their grasp.

And yet Gods do fall, as the ruins of Upper Egypt and Greece eloquently testify. Was there ever a Horus or an Apollo? It scarcely matters if some shadowy figure was ever consciously in the mind of the original priests who concocted the fables. The Olympian gods ruled for two thousand years and the Egyptian deities for twice that time.

No one "just made-up" Jesus. If we step around the centuries of fabrication and glorification which informs everyone's perception of Jesus Christ and closely examine the two hundred year gestation period of the current Lord and Saviour we can see a perfectly plausible and, indeed, convincing process by which, upon the legacy of earlier times and from piety and scripture alone, the Christian godman emerged into the light. Beliefs created the man; the man did not create the beliefs...

 

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Ten Reasons Humans Created Religion
By Karen L. Garst | 27 November 2015
Faithless Feminist

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1. To make sense of their world
Humans are meaning-seeking beings. They want answers to questions: why did the sky erupt in fire? Why did the sun go dark? Why did my newborn daughter die? And the list goes on. For many of these occurrences, early humans felt pure terror. Even when we know what causes an earthquake today, it still causes fear and alarm for those affected. So how do we make sense of these events? Early humans created an explanation by positing the notion of some kind of a supernatural entity that was angry at them. Many of the early deities, not surprisingly, were sky gods—they lived “up there” and rained down fire and calamities on the humans living below. To appease these deities—to make them less angry—people developed practices such as animal and human sacrifice as well as other rituals. As Robert Wright explains, humans tried “to raise the ratio of good to bad.”[1] As our knowledge of our world grew, primarily through science, we learned that events such as eclipses are predictable and that the universe is immeasurably vast. As this happened, the sky god moved from the physical sphere to a more spiritual one. Unfortunately, some religions today have mired themselves so deeply in their stories, that they have become oblivious to new discoveries in science, with some believing that the earth was created in 4004 BCE because of the calculations of the 17th century Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland), James Ussher.[2] 39% of Americans recently polled believe that the earth was created less than 10,000 years ago.[3]

2. To provide for a sense of belonging
Humans are not the only species on this planet that operate within social groups. They are also not the only ones that show empathy. Barbara King writes about the youngest son of Flo, an ape, who was unable to cope with his mother’s death. He stopped eating and died 3 1/2 weeks after his mother. The roots of our dependence on others go deep.[4] Most scholars believe the word religion comes from the Latin word religare, which means to bind fast. While the word bind has both positive and negative connotations, it indicates something that holds people together. Modern religion has a myriad of activities that provide cohesion for a group: stories that trace the history of a culture, rituals such as communion, music in many forms, and ceremonies that cover virtually every aspect of life from birth to death. The negative aspects of the word to bind also come into play with the practices of some religions, such as disfellowship in the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon), which banishes members from their families and friends when they leave the church.

3. To seek help in their endeavors
Imagine a Paleolithic cave. It is a refuge from a harsh environment. Evidence of fires near the entrance show where the people lived, ate, and gave birth. Female figurines, often with pregnant bellies, are mostly found in this area. In the back of the cave, one finds the wall paintings of animals, such as those at Lascaux in France. Some of these paintings show evidence of being painted over multiple times. This is the space for the hunters and the shaman. What can they do to assure success in the hunt? Does the shaman lead them in incantations? Does he perform another type of ritual? Shamans, as studied in existing cultures, are the first religious “experts.” It is likely they existed in the Paleolithic era as well. As Robert Wright explains, shamans are a crucial first step in the emergence of organized religion. They move the group from a “fluid amalgam of beliefs about a fluid amalgam of spirits and what religion came to be: a distinct body of belief and practice, kept in shape by an authoritarian institution.”[5] The shamans gave the hunters hope that they would be successful. Given the fact that even today we only notice when a good result comes from religious efforts such as prayer (and forget all those times when it does not), it is not surprising that the hunters became reliant on the shamans.

4. To unify diverse people
It is believed that hunter-gatherer groups were more or less egalitarian. As small groups, they were fairly homogenous. When our hunter-gatherer ancestors developed agriculture, they became more sedentary. Instead of wandering small bands, these tribes coalesced into larger entities. Undoubtedly, there was great diversity among these tribes who may have had little contact with others. Religion, with all that comes with it, can unify a group. As an example, as people came to the Nile, they brought their individual tribal gods with them in the form of a mascot or tribal fetish.[6] As the country unified these diverse groups, a more cohesive theology developed to worship Ra, the sun god, who also became the symbolic father of the Pharaoh.[7] Unity also makes it easier to defend one’s ground, which became a necessity once agriculture developed. It is always easier to fight “the other” when your leader is telling you that they don’t believe in your god. We see this today as ISIS attracts people from diverse nations to fight all who do not believe as they do. In some ways, nothing has changed.

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5. To instill order
Settling in villages requires some type of order. The larger the community, the greater the need for a set of codes or laws to not only guide behavior, but to provide punishment for those who refuse to obey. Religion helped provide that. The very first laws were discovered in Elba (modern-day Syria) and date from 2400 BCE.[8] More well-known is Hammurabi’s (1792-50 BCE) code, carved on a stone tablet (and now in the Louvre in Paris), whose purpose is stated clearly from the beginning—“Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak; so that I should rule over the black-headed people like Shamash, and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind …”[9] The Ten Commandments, which is found in two versions in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy and formed the basis of Jewish law, came much later around 1000 BCE. In Judaism, it was the Levites who served as priests in the temple. As priests, they served to enforce the rules and norms of the state. Temples were indeed the first statehouses. All of these examples, of course, predate any notion of separation of church and state.

6. To create a compassionate practice
Neanderthal, a precursor to modern humans, lived from 400,000 to about 40,000 years ago.[10] A skeleton, referred to as Shanidar I, shows an individual that had clearly been disabled long before his death.[11] Others must have cared for him in order for him to survive. This is probably the first evidence of a compassionate practice in a social group. Later on, virtually all civilizations adopted some form of the Golden Rule including most religions. Native American Spiritually says it this way: “All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.”[12] Jainism states: “In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.”[13] The Yoruba, an ethnic people in Nigeria, have one of my favorite renditions: “One going to take a pointed stick to pinch a baby bird should first try it on himself to feel how it hurts.”[14] If we are going to live together, we need to be mindful of how we treat each other. Unfortunately, our history shows that this does not always apply to those outside our tribe, our ethnic group, or our nation. In fact, religion has been used to engage in wars, subordinate women, condone slavery, and justify genocide in spite of the lofty precepts of the Golden Rule.

7. To create stories that tell the history of a culture and its people
The Egyptian Pyramid Texts are the first recorded stories that can be called the basis of a religion. They date from the third millennium BCE, contain a creation myth and introduce one of their gods, Osiris.[15] Another early text from the second millennium BCE that many believe influenced the biblical writers is the Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish. It describes the victory of god Marduk over the goddess Tiamat. While scholars disagree on the date of its origin, it predates the Bible. The Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible is an amazing creation in and of itself. Written, edited, and compiled over a several hundred-year span, it contains not only a creation story, the description of a god, but the history of a people. It is truly remarkable that more than 2,500 years later, some Jews still follow the dictates of Leviticus including dietary restrictions. One would think that the similar elements in these stories would lead to the classification of mythology for all of them. However, when Edith Hamilton’s book on mythology was taught in my high school class, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were not included. I find it interesting that religious people so easily dismiss the beliefs of others as myths, but refuse to examine their own stories in that same light.

8. To provide hope for a life after this one
Neanderthal graves show the earliest evidence of intentionality.[16] Shells are placed in the eye sockets, red ocher is used to paint the bones, and objects undoubtedly belonging to the deceased are placed in the grave. Becoming aware of one’s own mortality was undoubtedly frightening. In the harshness of early humans’ lives, the lure of an afterlife must have been overwhelming. Many religions posit some type of afterlife. Egyptians mummified their dead and filled the tombs of the rich with grave goods because they believed that the physical body would be needed in the afterlife. Later on, religious views of the afterlife took on a more spiritual nature. Even later still, the notion of hell came into play. Both of these concepts allowed religious institutions to control their followers. But ask yourself, how did that work out for the Egyptians? We now dissect their mummies. Do you really need the promise of an afterlife and the threat of hell to live a good life on Earth? Why is it that the least religious countries such as Norway and Sweden have the most generous social programs while the Christian Republican candidates for president want to cut funding for Planned Parenthood that provides needed health services for poor women?

9. To explain evil
Human beings have always done evil things. From the earliest skeletons ever discovered, there are examples of man-made injuries. Today, one only has to listen to the first five minutes of a newscast to hear the latest murder, rape, or other criminal act. While the Old Testament talks about Satan, he is an adversary directed by god. It is only in the New Testament and later Christian writings that Satan is developed into the personification of a supernatural evil being who tempts man. The presence of an evil entity in a book that talks about an all powerful god is a bit hard to fathom. Why didn’t god just do away with Satan? If he is omniscient and all powerful, certainly that would have been a choice. Christian apologists like to use the notion of free will to explain the presence of evil. However there is no free will involved in being infected with the plague or in a newborn baby that dies shortly after it is born.

10. To feel good
Valerie Tarico writes that “Worship practices, music and religious architecture have been optimized over time to evoke right brain sensations of transcendence and euphoria.”[17] Standing in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, I can attest to those sensations: the beauty of the Rose Window with all of its shimmering colors as the light filters through and the vibrations from the massive pipe organ pumping out an old hymn. Imagine what it felt to the hungry poor masses as they entered this place of worship in the 14th century shortly after it was completed. I will wager that virtually everyone raised in a faith can attest to Tarico’s explanation. For my part, I can still sing from memory the Christian hymns I learned as a child. When my brother was still alive, he, my sister, and I would break out into the hymn “God’s Word is Our Great Heritage” which the youth choir sang as it marched triumphantly down the center aisle of Trinity Lutheran Church in Bismarck, North Dakota.

From Neanderthal to the present day, we have tried to explain why we are here on this earth and what is our purpose. It is not surprising that religion helped us cope. But it is time to examine whether we would be better off letting go of this mythology and focusing on the grave problems we and our planet face. We can’t afford to brush off climate change with “God has a plan” or excuse tragedies with “There must be a purpose” or “They are in a better place, in heaven.” These words will just not move us forward to make the changes we need to make to improve the lives of those who suffer and to leave this planet in a better place for our children and grandchildren.

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Karen Garst holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. She has worked as a field representative for the Oregon Federation of Teachers and has served as executive director of the Oregon State Bar. She is compiling a book of essays by women atheists. She blogs at faithlessfeminist.com.

[1] Robert Wright, The Evolution of God (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 2009), 32.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
[3] http://ncse.com/rncse/30/3/americans-scientific-knowledge-beliefs-human-evolution-year-
[4] Barbara King, Evolving God: A Provocative View of the Origins of Religion (New York: NY: Doubleday, 2007), 32.
[5] Wright, 31
[6] Don Cupitt, After God: The Future of Religion (New York: NY, Basic Books, 1997), 6.
[7] Ibid.
[8] http://www.ushistory.org/civ/4c.asp
[9] Ibid.
[10] http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-neanderthalensis
[11] http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/shanidar-1
[12] Valerie Tarico, Trusting Doubt (The Oracle Institute Press: Independence, VA, 2010), p. 248.
[13] Ibid.
[14] Ibid.
[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Texts
[16] Barbara King, Evolving God: A Provocative View of the Origins of Religion (New York: NY: Doubleday, 2007), 117.
[17] John Loftus, editor, The Christian Delusion (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2010), 54.

 

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Harvard's First Century History and the Origin of Christianity
by John Duran, Harvard University Press

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This book was written to tell how and why the Roman Piso Family wrote the New testament. The Jews, who were tired of being ruled over by the Roman Aristocrasy, were led in their third great revolt against Rome since 6 C.E., in 60 C.E., by Benjamin the Egyptian of the Pharisaic Party. Though they were defeated by the Romans, the Romans knew that something had to be done. So, about the year 60, certain people were getting together a plan to regain control of the Jewish masses. Seneca the Rhetorician, Lucius Piso, Gaius Piso, and their relatives figured to give the Jews a new rhetorical religion. Lucius Piso, with assistance from Seneca, wrote ’Ur Markus’ there abouts that year. They had much planned around this new religion. With this first book, they had hoped to start a new Messiahonic Jewish religion.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Though the Aristocratic Jewish hierarchy i.e., the Herodians, were anxious to regain control of the masses through this new religion, Nero had not approved of it. Nero’s mistress was pro-Jewish (meaning ’humanistic’), and he wanted to avoid war with the Jewish zealots (Pharisees), but most of all he was angry because this side of his family had undertook this without his knowledge or approval. What happened was in 65 C.E., they conspired against Nero. One of the conspirators turned informer. ’Milichus’ told Nero who the chief conspirators were, and Nero quickly retaliated, ordering the deaths of Seneca and Gaius Piso among others. Nero spared Gaius Piso’s son Arrius, but sent him to Syria to serve in exile. Arrius Piso commanded Syria, gathered forces and support, and instigated war with the Pharisees.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The Jews were not buying his Uncle’s story, his father was dead, Nero didn’t approve of it; so, Arrius’ Uncle adopted him, and therefore became the father of the person that would play Jesus. They figured to destroy the Jews, and build Romanized Judaism - without the Jews! And they would even use Nero to help do it. Until Nero got wise to what they were doing. Nero ordered his apparently faithful General (and relative) Corbulo to commit suicide. In 66 C.E., Nero exiled Arrius Piso again, for trying to start war with the ’Jewish zealots’ in order that Nero would back him in his attempt to destroy the Temple in Jerusalem. This time Arrius was exiled to the Roman province of Pannonia in central Europe, away from Syria and the Jews. Arrius Piso had Epaphroditius, Nero’s slave, to kill Nero for him in 68.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Galba became Emperor (Galba was a direct descendant of Augustus Caesar, and father of Otho). Galba named Licinianus Frugi Piso as his successor instead of his son Otho. Galba was overthrown in that same year by his son Otho, who was overthrown by another family member Vitellius. Vitellius was the father-in-law of Julius Gnaeus Agricola. Agricola was the father-in-law of Justus Piso, Claudia Phoebe, Domitia Paulina 1, T. Flavius Clemens, and Cornelius Tacitus! It was Arrius Piso himself who succeeded in defeating Vitellius, thereby securing Rome for Vespasian. Vespasian, in turn helped Arrius to destroy the Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 C.E.

Vespasian already had his son Titus laying siege on Jerusalem, so Arrius could go with his legions to finish up the job. But they weren’t finished with the Jews yet. For Arrius, it was fairly clear sailing from here; for he, and the Flavian side of his family owned the entire known world! He inherited title to all of the books in the Ptolemic Library in Alexandria, Egypt. Circa 100 B.C.E., the total of books in the Ptolemic Library was over half a million. Arrius also had all of the books in Judea and he started gathering up books in Rome so that he could re-write history. Once he had obtained all the books he could, either by buying them or confiscating them, he burned all but certain books. He jokes about this in Acts 19:19.

The Pisos maintained a barrage of slave scribes to churn out propaganda against the Jews. While the first books of the New Testament were only mildly giving inferences against the Jews, the New Testament became increasingly anti-Semitic. Arrius Piso wallowed in rhetorical devices. He played the part of his enemies by writing as Josephusand at the same time historicizing the Jesus character whom he was also playing. Both Josephus and the New Testament are full of names and allusions to relatives and ancestors. They wanted us to be able to re-construct their lineage and the parts in which they played in the great battle.

Gaius Piso, who was put to death (by suicide) by Nero was the father of Arrius Piso. When Arrius’ father died, his Uncle Lucius (Gaius Piso’s brother), married his mother Mariamne (Arria the Younger). Arrius’ mother was the daughter of T. Flavius Sabinus 2 (Vespasian’s brother) and the Elder Arria. So, Arrius (Josephus) was already a Flavian! But wait, other ’historians’ mention ’Christ’ or ’Christians’ don’t they? Let’s take a look at them. Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, and Suetonius. Tacitus was married to Flavia Domitilla 3 after T. Flavius Clemens was killed by Domitian.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]I think that Tacitus was the son (or half-son) of Nerva (a form of ’Nero’), and a cousin of Trajan (and thereby also a nephew of Otho). If so, then his mother was Otho’s sister Ulpia Plautia Domitia and Trajan’s first wife was Tacitus’ sister Ulpia, afterwards, Trajan married Arrius Piso’s daughter Claudia Phoebe Pompeia Plotina. Pliny was a friend of Arrius’ and had already been related to the family before he married Arrius Piso’s granddaughter - Calpurnia! And Suetonius was Arrius Piso’s grandson by Claudia Phoebe and her first husband Rufus. Later, Suetonius became the Emperor Antoninus Pius.

Oh yes, and let’s not forget that other fellow who could have been Josephus’ son (and was!), Justin Martyr. Justin Martyr was Arrius Piso’s son, Fabius Justus Calpernius Piso. All of the knowledge that humanity would have had to enable it to get past the stumbling block of Christianity was lost when Arrius Piso burned it. After doing so, Arrius and his family went about building a whole new world centered around Christianity! They synthesized ideologies for the masses, while they themselves were above the laws that they made.

They did things secretly to enhance their epistemological capacities, while stifling that of the masses. Humanity had already known that the Earth revolves around the Sun, instead of visa versa.

But the family was busy setting the clock of wisdom back for the masses. Arrius Piso’s grandson who was the brother of Suetonius/Antonius Pius, wrote as Ptolemy and held our knowledge of astronomy back 1800 years. His real name was Flavius Arrianus, and he also wrote as Arrian and Appian. Within the following pages, I will give profiles of the various family members along with genealogical charts showing lineage and their respective places within the family.

Originally, it was agreed to by the family that Christianity would only last a certain amount of time and that all should be eventually revealed, but then they realized that if they told the masses how they’d been fooled, there’d be an uprising and the family members who were ruling would be subject to the wrath of the masses, instead of visa versa. So, Antoninus Pius was careful to treat the masses kindly, lest they found out, and would kill him and his family.

But I want you to know that what doesn’t come through in the references that I may cite; is the familiarity that I have with the people, motives, psychology, environment, writing style, rhetoric, and everything else that I know about the writings, time, and people that we are examining. This, you have to confirm for yourself. And that is the hard part, because I don’t want to say; "Look, I know this, just take my word for it." So, what do I advise you to do? Study, and be objective. Learn how to learn. Leave behind superstition and confusion, learn to see what you really are, be happy in the many better things that you will be able to give society - for, in this, the best things will begin with you!

Another thing that ought to raise your suspicion is the illusion that is put out to the general public of how long ago it was that the New Testament was written, and that the people of that time were stupid, and that there is little left to us from that time. I will show where to look. When they went about destroying books, they kept Aristotle, not because of their descent from him alone, but because his rhetorical ’logic’ was consistent with the ’teachings’ of Christianity. Also, there were many books that they could not entirely destroy. Even what was written by their own family was censored by excluding it from the canon if it too boldly hinted at the synthesis of Christianity.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]And in 364, the Council of Bishops assembled in Laodicea and agreed to omit ’Revelations’. In 370, it was re-instated in the catalog by Bishop Epiphanius. But five years later, Bishop Gregory Nazianzen omits it again. And in 380, Bishop Philastrius omits the Revelation from his canon. Why would they want to omit ’Revelations’? It’s the perfect ending to the Jesus story, but it contained more hints and allusions concerning the authorship of the New Testament than any other book. It contained the famous reference to 666, the mark of the beast, and it had checking numbers, etc. These things will be shown to you and explained in the following chapters.

I hesitate to say exactly how the Jews of today fit into this, except that I hope that after reading all of what I have to say here that you will understand. It was noted by Abelard Reuchlin that the dots under the Hebrew letters helped aid in alluding to the Pisos. In the Talmud, there are many allusions to the Pisos and what they did. This is why the Jews are the Chosen People. They are the witnesses to what the Pisos did. That is the true reason for the continuance of their religion. They used it as an excuse to hide and save this information in order that Christianity may someday come to an end, thereby giving Beth Hillel (Humanism) another chance. In the Talmud, we find references like; "The Horse (ippos, Piso) wrote Matthew," and "Rabbi Joseph (Josephus) wrote Matthew." When you have read this book, these seemingly obscure remarks will start to make sense, and you will see why the Jews went through all of the things that they did (Ref. ’Jewish Expressions on Jesus’, Weiss Rossarin, KTAV Publishing House, New York, 1977).

The literature of the Jews hold much of what is needed to unravel ’the mystery of the Gospels’. That is, that the Pisos wrote them! Though the Jews lost the war with the Romans, many of them knew what the Romans were doing with these ’Gospels’. Much of this information was kept, but hidden. It is present within the Jewish customs, tradition, literature, commentaries, holidays, and prayer books. Most notably, in the first Babylonian (Jewish) prayer book, the ’Amram Gaon’, and later in Parthia in the ’Saadia Gaon’.[/FONT]
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Walang kabuluhan ang maghanap ng walang hanggang karunungan sa isip ng tao na may hangganan.

 

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Walang kabuluhan ang maghanap ng walang hanggang karunungan sa isip ng tao na may hangganan.

Ganyang-ganyan ang attitude ng simbahan nung panahon ng Dark Ages. Wag magtanong, sumunod lang. Kung walang sumuway sa kanila, tiyak na lugmok pa rin ang sangkatauhan ngayon. Iresponsable masyado ang attitude na to. Kaya nga dapat mas higit nating pag-igihan ang ating kaalaman para may maipasa tayong mabuti sa susunod na henerasyon at maging higit na handa sila sa mga pagsubok sa hinaharap, hindi parating pikit mata lamang sa dikta ng mga mapang-aliping mga institusyon.

 

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Ganyang-ganyan ang attitude ng simbahan nung panahon ng Dark Ages. Wag magtanong, sumunod lang. Kung walang sumuway sa kanila, tiyak na lugmok pa rin ang sangkatauhan ngayon. Iresponsable masyado ang attitude na to. Kaya nga dapat mas higit nating pag-igihan ang ating kaalaman para may maipasa tayong mabuti sa susunod na henerasyon at maging higit na handa sila sa mga pagsubok sa hinaharap, hindi parating pikit mata lamang sa dikta ng mga mapang-aliping mga institusyon.

Kahit ngayon, meron pa rin nyan, okay lang na lumaking may belief di natin kasalanan yun, kasalanan lang pa di mo na kinuwestyon itong mga bagay na pinag lulunok sayo nung bata ka pa dahil hindi ka pa marunong mag isip.

 

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Kahit ngayon, meron pa rin nyan, okay lang na lumaking may belief di natin kasalanan yun, kasalanan lang pa di mo na kinuwestyon itong mga bagay na pinag lulunok sayo nung bata ka pa dahil hindi ka pa marunong mag isip.

True. And how do you deprogram such minds?

Three hundred years had placed religion in such a high position in the social milieu of the Philippines. People look up to it for many things pertaining to their lives, further fostering the critical mass of belief in it. Only education and some economic uplift would have the chance of truly challenging it. Only these two could really break free the chains that have been institutionalized in the country.

Sa Europe they're way past the critical stage of lifting the veils of ignorance. Living museums na lang ang karamihang churches ngayon dun. Swerte sila freely available ang critical information sa kanila, and it started early with the works of such persons as Dupuis, Voltaire, and all those minds of the Enlightenment. Satin relatively Dark Ages/Medieval Ages pa rin, though there are now some hope appearing in the horizon. Let's hope....

 

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The Inner Circle
I am only the third person to write about this publicly. The reason? It is extremely dangerous. Most of the world as we know it, is based firmly upon the idea and acknowledgement of a Christian god. There is only a small portion of people who know what I’m about to explain in this book - they are called the ’Inner-Circle’ and they consist of people with both good and not-so-good intentions. Some proclaim themselves to be Christians even though they know the origin of Christianity. Some are Scholars, Popes, Evangelists, and rulers of countries.

The first person to write about this publicly was Bruno Bauer. His work pointed to the Romans as the authors of the New Testament, and most specifically, Josephus. His best book on the subject was probably ’Christ and the Caesars’ (’Chrestus Und Die Caesaren’) published in Berlin in 1877. As far as I know, there are not as yet any translations of this book in English.

The second person to write about this subject publicly is Abelard Reuchlin, who in 1973 started piecing together his theory that the Romans who wrote the New Testament were mentioned and alluded to in Jewish history and tradition. Abelard is fluent in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Yiddish. He also knows Latin and Greek. Abelard wrote the first edition of his ’The True Authorship of the New Testament’ in 1979. A second edition was written in 1986 (This 2nd edition was a 27 page booklet).

And I started my research in 1971, when I was 11. I got started by wondering about the meaning of the numbers in the Bible. By 1979, I had reached the conclusion that Josephus was the inventor of Jesus. I abandoned my study of the subject for years. Then, in 1985, I started again briefly only to abandon the subject again. One year passed, and once again, I was hot on the trail of the Pisos. In 1986, I got a hold of a copy of ’The True Authorship of the New Testament’ and began comparing it to my own studies. Early in 1987 (March), I wrote a pamphlet titled ’Ipso facto Piso’, which originally consisted of only 18 pages. Since then, I have written several pamphlets, each of which were meant to be chapters of this book.

This book will take you on a quest or journey to find the origin of Christianity. Once the true origin is found, the ’mystery’ of the Gospels will be revealed. By writing this book, I may be letting the cat out of the bag, I may even be spilling the beans! The history that even the best of scholars today rely upon is the ’history’ of the Roman side (the winning side) of the war. There was history written by those who were being destroyed by the Romans - the Jews! But hardly anyone but the Jews themselves ever read it. Until you’ve heard both sides, you haven’t heard any!

- JOHN DURAN
1990
SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
Box 227, Pomona, CA 91769


FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS WAS A PEN NAME OF ARIUS CALPURNIUS PISO

The author explains the many pen names used by the Pisos in both their public and their secret Christian writings. And he explains the code systems used. Two thousand years ago no copyright system existed. Therefore the Pisos inserted codes and allusions which represented themselves, to insure that no later author could claim their work. The code system which the Pisos used included sounds, animal allusions, and three basic numerical code systems: Greek small numbering, large numbering, and the sequence system. These were all refinements of Pythagorean "mathematics."

THE INNER CIRCLE - MANY OF THE WORLD’S GREAT SCHOLARS, POET LAUREATES, WRITERS, POLITICIANS, DICTATORS, THEOLOGIANS, CHURCH LEADERS KNOW THE GREAT SECRET. SHOULDN’T YOU!!

If you would join a club, why not the most exclusive club that has ever been?! The Inner Circle writers who have known some of this information have included:

BOCCACCIO
BACON/SHAKESPEARE
CERVANTES
RABELAIS TOLSTOY
MILTON
SPENSER
TENNYSON
THACKERAY
KIPLING
THE BROTHERS GRIMM
STEVENSON
POE, BURNS
BROWNING
NOYES
LEWIS CARROL
A. CONAN DOYLE
VERNE
BAUM,
TOLKIEN
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The booklet explains how this information has been used by religious leaders to control events on a human level.

 

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Doesn’t it seem at least slightly suspicious that the New Testament should be written at a time when Rome was at war with the Jews? And that the public ’history’ that we have from the time is from the winning side. The Roman side!

This is the chronological account of not only how history was re-written, but also why the New Testament was written, and by whom, and how, and for what purpose. This tells the real history of biblical times between 19 CE and 192 CE.

First, know that there is a hidden war going on, it is now in progress, and it is the result of the conspiracy that was initiated back in the first century CE.

A partial list of the original conspirators include:

• Lucius A. Seneca
• Galba
• Pliny the Younger
• Lucius Calpernius Piso * (Caesoninus)
• Arrius Calpernius Piso (aka Flavius Josephus)
• Vespasian
• Titus (Vespasian’s son)
• Justus Calpernius Piso (aka Justin Martyr)

The same name as the Lucius Piso whose daughter married Julius Caesar—Lucius Calpernius Piso Caesoninus. That earlier Lucius Piso was in fact, also a Caesar! He was Julius Caesar’s father’s brother (That’s right, his uncle!). And Lucia Calpernia Piso was his first cousin. Marc Antony was Julius Caesar’s 2nd uncle.

Now, I will fill you in on some of the pertinent factors and motives of the time. There were many battles fought between the Romans and the Jews, on the field, and on paper—as propaganda.

Why? Well, for one thing, the Roman aristocratic way of life was at stake. It was one in which slavery played a major part. The Roman way of life was one based on power and control; the control of other people. The Jewish way of life was not tolerant of slavery, because it went against the humanistic teachings of Hillel the Pharisee. After the death of King Herod, the Herodian Priests were losing control of the Jewish masses, because of this new Pharisaic Party of Humanistic Jews.

Philippians 3:12 "Be all of you subject one to another, having your conversion ’honest’ among the Gentiles"​

At first, they tried to give this new religion to the Jews (new wine in old bottles), but when the Jews wouldn’t accept it, they went to give it to the Gentiles (new wine in new bottles), and destroy the Jews. The proportion of Jews (Jewish Beth Hillel, zealots/Pharisees), in the Roman empire by the late 50’s CE was over 20%. As humanistic Jews, they were a threat to the Roman way of life, i.e., aristocratic. So, a few conspirators in the hierarchy decided to give the Jews a new religion - Christianity.

They synthesized this new religion, and based it upon the already existent Jewish religion, and using the Jewish books, they customized it to fit the Roman way of life.

The New Testament books were written after the supposed fact, so that it was easy for them to be self-fulfilling. The first ’Christian’ book written was ’Ur Marcus’, which was the proto- type for the book ’Mark’ that was written by Arrius Piso.

’Ur Marcus’ was written by Lucius (Lucillius) Calpernius Caesoninus Piso in about the year 60 CE. (Perhaps closer to the year 62 CE.) Even theologians agree that chronologically ’Mark’ would come before ’Matthew’. The main conspirators at this time included: Seneca, Galba, Lucius Piso, Gaius Piso, and Seneca’s nephew ’Lucan the Poet’. Arrius Piso was 28 years old in 65 CE.

The book ’Ur Marcus’ was given to the Jews, who soon rejected it. Of course, they maintained a company of their own private slaves which they used as scribes to make copies of their books to distribute to the masses, after which the slaves were killed. This practice was copied after the Egyptian Pharaohs’ practice of killing the slaves who worked on the inner-chamber of the Pyramids. For, these slaves also worked on the inner-circle of the ’triangle’ (the new trinity). Next, the book ’Ur Marcus’ was given to slaves and gentiles, who bought it hook, line, and sinker.

This new group of followers were called ’Gentile Christians’, or non-Jewish Christians. In 66 CE, Arrius Piso deliberately provoked the Jewish revolt so that he could pave the way to destroying the Temple because the Jews were not accepting his Uncle’s story ’Ur Marcus’, which was intended to pacify the Jews.

About the year 70, Lucius Piso wrote another book called ’Ur Matthias’ (the two books that went to the Logia, ’Ur Marcus’ and ’Ur Matthias’ were written by Lucius Piso). Lucius Piso died in the year 73 CE, that was when Arrius Piso inherited his works.

By the year 70, Arrius Piso and Titus’ army had destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem. Somewhere between the year 70 and 75, Arrius Piso rewrote his Uncle’s books and gave his Uncle’s fictional messiah the name ’Jesus’. It was Arrius Piso who thought to name the character ’Jesus’, because it was Joseph (Josephus) who was the father of the fictional Jesus in the story. Now, when writing the books of the New Testament, Arrius borrowed the characteristics for his characters from earlier prototypes. The character for Jesus and even the concept of the trinity, was borrowed from the already ancient Egyptian equivalent of the Holy family.

• Osiris/Joseph - the father who is a lesser god than the son
• Isis/Mary - the virgin mother
• their son Horus, who was the equivalent of Jesus ( they even made a ’Horus-Caesar’ as a joke in Egypt, Ref. ’The Nile’, Emil Ludwig, pg. 417 )

Also, some of the characteristics used to create the Jesus character and some of the ’sayings’ that they used, were borrowed from Hillel the Pharisee. This was all too obvious to the Jews, and especially to the Rabbis of the day who, for the most part, were relatives (descendants) of Hillel (Beth Hillel). These same were also relatives (distant?) of the Pisos, for they also were 'descendants of King David.'
to be continued...

 

[kyriekhix]

This is one good read. KUDOS!

 

[Stormer0628]

This is one good read. KUDOS!

Thank you. More to come on this topic, so watch out for updates.