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1  Forum / Religion / Bible scholar: Story of Jesus Christ was ‘fabricated to pacify the poor’ on: 11-10-2013 12:32 PM

A controversial American biblical scholar is set to make his first appearance in London next week to present a discovery that he claims proves the story of Jesus Christ was invented as a system of mind control to enslave the poor.

Joseph Atwill, who is the author of a book entitled ‘Caesar’s Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus’, asserts that Christianity did not begin as a religion, but was actually a sophisticated government propaganda exercise used to pacify the subjects of the Roman Empire.

At the ‘Covert Messiah’ conference, to be held at the Conway Hall in Holborn a week on Saturday, Mr Atwill will present his theory that the New Testament was written by first-century Roman aristocrats and that they entirely fabricated the story of Jesus Christ.

Outlining his ideas in a blog posting on his website Mr Atwill writes: “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.”

Mr Atwill says that acts of insurrection by Jewish sects, who were awaiting the arrival of a so-called ‘warrior Messiah’ in Palestine, were a perpetual problem for the Roman Empire and that after the Empire had exhausted all traditional means of dealing with the problem they resorted to psychological warfare.

“They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system,” Atwill told PRWeb.com

“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.”

Mr Atwill continues: “Although Christianity can be a comfort to some, it can also be very damaging and repressive, an insidious form of mind control that has led to blind acceptance of serfdom, poverty, and war throughout history.

To this day, especially in the United States, it is used to create support for war in the Middle East.”

Elsewhere, Mr Atwill also writes: “In fact he [Jesus] may be the only fictional character in literature whose entire life story can be traced to other sources. Once those sources are all laid bare, there’s simply nothing left.”

Atwill says he made his discovery when while studying the New Testament alongside the ‘War of the Jews’ by Josephus – the only surviving first-person historical account of first-century Judea.

Mr Atwill claims that he began to notice a sequence of parallels between the two texts.

“What seems to have eluded many scholars is that the sequence of events and locations of Jesus ministry are more or less the same as the sequence of events and locations of the military campaign of [Emperor] Titus Flavius as described by Josephus,” Atwill claims.

“This is clear evidence of a deliberately constructed pattern”, he continues.

“The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar.”

Richard Dawkins, the English evolutionary biologist and author, well known for his anti-religion views, yesterday tweeted a link to the press release advertising the event in London.

However, he later tweeted: “RT doesn’t imply endorsement. I’m not qualified to judge Atwill’s thesis. Just thought it might be worth a look.”

Mr Atwill’s theory is simply one of a number of what are known as Bible conspiracy theories.

These theories commonly include the suggestion that secret societies, mystery schools and other religions used the fictional story of Christ to unify the Roman Empire under one state religion.

SOURCE: LetsGist.com
2  Forum / Celebrity Talk & Discussions / The Entrepreneurial British Nigerian, Ms Jumbo Features in Evening Standard on: 20-07-2012 12:55 PM
The Entrepreneurial British Nigerian, Ms Jumbo Features in Evening Standard
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/CharleneyJumbo" target="_blank">Charlene Jumbo[/url], the young founder and manager of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/charlene.jumbo" target="_blank">Cakes and Tarts[/url] is featuring in todays edition of the Evening Standard as prelude to her modelling duties as the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Martini/app_314018985345019?app_data=105" target="_blank">Face of Martini[/url]. Grab a copy if you live in London.

Charlene has made it past the first round of the Face of Martini competition on Facebook by topping the UK. the second round closes in few days where even more votes would move her closely to the next round. Follow this link to vote Charlene for Face of Martini: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Martini/app_314018985345019?app_data=105" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/Martini/app_314018985345019?app_data=105[/url]

Cakes and Tarts gave away 150 Cupcakes yesterday. Look out for them today in the Royal Exchange, Bank as they give out more.
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-2435" title="cakes and tarts" src="[url]http://letsgist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/cakes-and-tarts.jpg" alt="" width="432" height="206" />[/url]</p>
3  Forum / Sports / Re: Is Mourinho Making Sense: Messi’s 50 goals were worthless on: 23-05-2012 05:30 PM
I understand your point but C Ronaldo has cored more from penalty than Messi this seaon
4  Forum / Sports / Is Mourinho Making Sense: Messi’s 50 goals were worthless on: 23-05-2012 05:05 PM
I read on LetsGist that Mourinho says Messi's 50 goals are useless. Come on guys, is it just me that is thinking he doesn't know what he's saying? Fine, they won the league but Messi's goals have helped him break lots of records personally, Barcally and even Champions leagally
5  Forum / Autos / New Porsche: Greenest & Fastest Car on: 23-05-2012 04:58 PM
It’s the supercar set to please both petrolheads and the green lobby. Porsche has released images of its new 201mph 918 Spyder which is set to be more economical than a Toyota Prius.

It will be able to accelerate from 0-62mph in less than three seconds – making it faster than most supercars on the road.

But it is also going to be as attractive to the green lobby as it is the Top Gear audience thanks to some incredible eco-statistics.

Porsche claim the 918, which is a ‘plug-in hybrid’, will be capable of 94mpg – making it twice as economical as a 1.6-litre Ford Focus.


6  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Re: A Nigerian shot in London for wearing Barrack Obama T- Shirt. on: 23-10-2008 12:40 AM
Quote from: lonelysnow on 10-10-2008 09:09 PM
Quote from: Freddiewit on 10-10-2008 08:49 PM
SOURCE please; this is too short a report to be factual. More so, how come it never came up in the papers? I read 3 london newspapers daily.
A link have been sent to u were u can read it
Thanks bro, I've not been here in a while. Just found the link.
7  Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Re: A Nigerian shot in London for wearing Barrack Obama T- Shirt. on: 10-10-2008 08:49 PM
SOURCE please; this is too short a report to be factual. More so, how come it never came up in the papers? I read 3 london newspapers daily.
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