Jesus Christ? It is the biggest lie ever told.

Jesus Christ? It is the biggest lie ever told.
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> This is what controversial American biblical scholar Joseph Atwill
> thinks about the ‘son of God’ who is said to have created the first
> Christian communities.
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> Atwill, who wrote a book ‘Caesar’s Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to
> Invent Jesus’ will be in the United Kingdom this weekend for a
> conference in Holborn, central London.
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> According to the US professor, the story of Jesus Christ was invented
> by the Caesars as propaganda to control and enslave the poor, who were
> threatening the stability of the Roman Empire.
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> In evidence, he says there are striking similarities between the story
> of the Emperor Titus told by the historian Josephus and the Gospels,
> claiming the latter was based on the former.
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> And he points out the Emperor Constantine, who introduced Christianity
> to the empire, also brought into law the feudal system, where peasants
> became little better than slaves to rich overlords. The system thrived
> during the Medieval era in Europe and traces of it survive to this
> day.
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> Constantine is considered a Christian hero, but those laws demonstrate
> he was really an evil tyrant.
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> If Atwill’s evidence is correct, the Catholic and Protestant Churches,
> and the whole of Christianity, which has caused so much pain to the
> LGBT community all over the world, would be founded on a lie.
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> On Saturday (19 October), Atwill will present his theory in London.
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> ‘Christianity may be considered a religion, but it was actually
> developed and used as a system of mind control to produce slaves that
> believed God decreed their slavery,’ he says.
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> And his book, which is set to become a bestseller, will be launched in
> the UK as well.
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> The news made the headlines in Italy, where the LGBT community is
> mostly made of atheist or anti-Church men and women.
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> Commenting on the news, which appeared on the online edition of the
> newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, dozens of LGBT people said gays and
> lesbians had been cheated for centuries.
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> A reader wrote: ‘I’ve already known, my priest is a liar.’ Another
> added:‘Now LGBT people can raise their voices. The church is a fraud.’
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> Atwill’s theory is one of the many Bible conspiracy theories.
> According to these theories, secret societies, mystery schools and
> other religions created the story of Jesus Christ in order to have one
> state religion only.
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> It is unlikely any of them will lead to the immediate dismanteling of
> the Christian churches.
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> And even if the Jesus story was a partial or entire invention, it
> doesn’t necessarily question the central belief of people of faith –
> that there is a benign deity and we should love our neighbors.
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> But it may free people to accept those parts of the Bible which are
> well fitted to modern society and question or reject the dogma used to
> persecute millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other
> people around the world.
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> More:
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> http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/jesus-christ-biggest-lie-ever-told181013#
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