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The Matriarchal, Libertarian
Gospel
of Jesus according to Ronald
2013 by Ronald Thomas West.
For profit & mass paper media redistribution prohibited
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Introduction
Jesus was a man who never claimed to be the son of god
according to the best available scholarship (the scholarship of TheJesus Seminar)
That he was an extraordinary man is without dispute, insofar as the
majority view of those who actually believe he existed. My own
belief in the historical Jesus (as opposed to the the Christ
invented by St Paul and adopted by the church) is based entirely on
circumstantial evidence. What had convinced myself is precisely
what had convinced Thomas Jefferson, when Jefferson had stated:
The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and
doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and
such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of
other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause,
to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the
New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it haveproceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of
the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those
parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills. -Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson went on to compile his Jeffersonian Bible in an attempt
to separate the diamonds from dunghills in the New Testament,
so as to give the reader some idea of what Jesus might have
actually taught. But I have gone much farther; considering Jesushad to deal with the prejudices of his era, my thesis is, were he
alive today he would moreover be overwhelmed by the prejudices
of this eras make-believe Christian religion created around his
name, if certainly not his life and teachings in fact. So I put words
on Jesus lips that he might or might not have said, perhaps what
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he sometimes would not dare say on account of the prejudices of
his era, because what eventually became the modern church (of all
sects) had adopted a scripture rife with words put on Jesus lips to
create a necrotic fear-mongering institution that has enslaved the
minds of a large part of the world we live in. My attitude is: letspuncture the fear and let the rotten aroma out of what has been
heaped on the name of a man history knew as Jesus.
When creating The Gospel According to Ronald, I had used
Jesus teaching in the Gospel of Thomas as the underlying
foundation. The reason for this is, The Gospel of Thomas appears
to have escaped church editing and censorship which accompanied
the suppression of the Gnostics. Also (Im laughing as I type this
sentence) there can be no claim I have tampered with Christian
scripture, because the Gospel of Thomas never made into the
Bible.
The original inspiration for this work dates back to my thirty years
life with Native Americans of the Northern Plains, as elder
teachers from that culture had told myself on more than oneoccasion, Before the Christians, we lived the teachings of Jesus. It
was after the Christians arrived, our people became greedy and
violent. This makes perfect sense, because the Christians give
little attention to what Jesus had actually taught; rather preferring
the rules-bound St Paul who invented a murdered Christ who
supposedly died for sins the historical Jesus has nothing to do with.
In the end, Christian blood salvation with giving yourself to the[fantasy murdered] Lord is abdicating responsibility for ones
personal life. This widespread, necrotic social phenomena, is
undoubtedly something the historical Jesus would have
condemned.
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These following are secret sayings the historical Jesus spoke, as
dreamt up by Ronald. Oh, but Jesus actually DID say something
very close to much of what follows Ive merely amplified it
from a Native American point of view. And going to the native
humor, it was a fun thought to entertain the possibility of claimingthis following had been found engraved in an ancient mound Id
looted like Indiana Jones, and start a new religion. Hey! It worked
for the Mormons
This is a tribute to a wise man from long ago, a gifted teacher and
healer who is almost certainly the most lied about man ever to have
walked our planet. We can do better. Im trying here.
The Gospel of Jesus According to Ronald
Jesus said "Whoever solves these riddles will not taste death."
"Dont stop looking just because you discovered something.Search until what you discover disturbs you. With the disturbing
discovery, come a marvelous understanding and ability to deflect
those who would rule you"
"If the hypocrites who rule say to you, 'Man should go to the sky,
the birds will speak something differently to you. If they say to you
Man belongs under the sea,' the fish will revile you. What is
important is within you and only after grasping this, will you grasp
your surroundings.
When you know the inside, then you can know the outside, and
you will understand that you depend on a living clock. But if you
do not first know what is inside, you cannot know what is outside."
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"The wise old people understand a little child is more cognizant to
the truth; whereas you became fooled with the image you project.
How did this come to be? You must ask yourself. For there will be
many losers who know only one fate."
"When you cannot know what is in front of your face, what is
hidden from you will be doubly concealed. Yet there is nothing
hidden that cannot be revealed
"Dont be stupid and do those things that will make you look and
feel bad, because the wise will see through you. To be truly blind
is to fool yourself, imagining only you will know something."
"When you eat, what you have eaten becomes yourself. And what
would eat you, will become you as well. What will you take from
and give to life? You should be careful of what you eat.
The greedy take all of the fish, the wise return many fish to the
sea. When the peoples numbers are as the fish were of the sea,
will you wish you had not been greedy? Pay attention to this!
One person who understands the one half, is worth more thansixty who do not, and one who understands the whole of it, is
worth more than any village of people who live in ignorance.
"For when one should set the world on fire, should not one wait
and be certain all is ashes?"
"Be certain your world will one day be ashes because the dead do
not authentically walk and the truly living have no cares. Here is a
riddle; the four in the two must become but one. Are you not each
female and male? So what must happen when you marry?
"Associate with those who reject self-importance."
"I cannot be your teacher if you make me a god."
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And Jesus took Ronald and withdrew, giving him secrets. When
asked [after] what had been said by Jesus, Ronald replied "You
will hate me, but you must know or perish. Jesus told me Whatcurses Man is men. What curses woman is Man. What curses
oneself is oneself. Reject the misunderstanding of Adam, for the
snake told the truth and the woman brought no harm upon us.
Then we shared an apple."
Jesus said "If you practice humility for the sake of appearance, you
can only harm your spirit. To give as a hypocrite is worse than to
give nothing. To pray as a hypocrite is worse than no prayers at all.Accept yourself and be grateful. Hypocrisy is the defiler of all, for
a good spirit cannot abide the company of a hypocrite."
"When you have understood these things, become humble."
"When an inferior understanding claims the unseen, real wisdom
will be misconstrued, hated, even greatly reviled, and much
conflict will arise, for is not ignorance its own progenitor?
"And so I give to you things you have not seen to now, what had
become the unknown to the human heart. Beware of him who will
revile it."
The disciples said to Jesus, "How will our end come?"
Jesus answered "There was never any beginning and there will be
no end; old things will pass and new things will be known. What
this will mean to you is for yourselves to determine."
"Blessed are those who remember this understanding from their
time in the womb, for the living stones will reveal their knowledge
to them. What is inside yourself will be inside your child. Do not
fail a child, for the penalty is severe. Who wills a child to become a
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vapor? But if you only will look, there are many vapors, the
careless creating the careless. Woe unto the careless.
The disciples said to Jesus, "What is Heaven like?"
He said to them, It is a place where there is no illusion of self.
Magdalene said to Jesus, "What do your disciples know?"
Jesus answered, A day will come when masses of men will die of
thirst for want of a cup. The weakest of mine will know a stream
where one can kneel to drink with cupped hands. The greatest will
know a mountain spring and prostrate oneself with gratitude.
Magdalene was nursing his child and Jesus said to his disciples,
Because this woman has blessed me with love, this child knows
from birth what none of you can you can know except with great
labor.
They said to him, "Then must we become children?"
Jesus said to them, "When the four in the two have become one,when the outside is indistinguishable from the inside, when the left
knows the right intimately, and when male and female are become
androgyny, only then will you enter the now. And you must to
survive, for you are a part of all that you can know, and all that you
can know is a part of you."
His disciples demanded, "Show us this place!"
Jesus answered "There must be light within a light. Dispel thatwhich is dark in yourself and find yourself there."
"Love those who are truly worthy and in this way love yourself."
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"You see yourself in the eye of another. What kind of person
would you be? For what you are is what you must discover in
another. Nurture love in yourself so that you may find love
nurtured in those you discover to be your friends. If you do not
starve to death what is inferior in your surrounding, you will notfind the blessed reality. If you do not know beauty in your
associations, you cannot know love."
"Consider the difficulty of a good spirit to walk among the drunk
and the dead. This cannot go on indefinitely, therefore act on
correcting oneself, before it is too late."
"I marvel at how Mans mind has come into poverty."
"Where there are three people living correctly, there you will find
divinity. Whether there are two or one, I look for myself there."
"No prophet is recognized in his hometown, because people have a
past memory of this person but this memory is not the person
today; it is the same when people cannot be healed by those they
have known, for they are caught in the past and cannot overcome
and believe. When a known one has not shared the others journey,one has not grown with and no longer knows that person. The
prejudice of memory is great and detrimental to perception."
"So when building your mind, make it like a home on a hill, where
there is no flood to sweep it away. Do not be caught in the
canyons, but bring your sight to where you may see what is on the
horizon. What you will see can be shared, this way anyone who
cares to, can know. How can it do any good to put a lamp in thecloset, behind closed door? Avoid the trap of the blind leading the
blind, is it not assured both must come into peril? How many are
the blind who believe they see!"
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"With sight you will be a strong person, do not believe a crippled
elder, slow of gait, is worthless. What might they see that you
cannot? For the mind may become the greatest of eyes."
"When you have found yourselves, do not worry for tomorrow, foris not that which rules our nature greater than any plan we can
make? When did reality care for anything necessitated by your
vanity? I assure you, this was never the case.
His disciples said, "How do we find you?"
Jesus answered, "When you can be naked like little children who
hate clothes, and are without shame, you will have found what you
need. You must throw out your insecurities like clothes that are too
constricting, to find yourself. If I let you become dependent on
me, you will have learned nothing."
"Hypocrite religions serving ignorance and wealth [and their
clerics promoting blood sacrifice] had taken the keys of knowledge
and long since lost them. They know not the way themselves and
they do not want you to know the way. You must fly above these
venomous snakes, as would a dove. Tithe nothing of yourself tothis evil.
"A windstorm blew down a grove of trees. But that tree which had
stood alone, was unharmed. For when one comes to depend on
deeply rooted principles, challenges may be met bravely. And
whoever has surrendered vanity to a greater reality, will know a
superior reward."
"Be observers. "
His disciples said to him, "Who are you, to know these things?"
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Jesus answered "I am the one who listens to the water, the trees,
the stones and the moving air. If the birds bless me with a message,
who will deny it? Are you not listening of your own accord?
"Some might damn their fathers justifiably. But those who give noallegiance to their mothers, cannot prosper. Did she not nurse
you? Else how would you be here? Only ingrates despise women
with crass behaviors, and ingrates cannot know the Mystery."
"Honor her that suckled you, even to the present day, for did she
not make it possible that you might draw every breath? What she
had given remains with you to this moment. With this good, you
are able to discover good and if you are able to discover good, youbring greater good into this world."
"From Adam, through the prophets, to the greatest of men in any
moment, none is so great as those among you able to become
worthy as a small child. The little children do not know hypocrisy
and a small child knows how to be genuinely grateful.
"Do not be two-faced."
"If two will work in peace, they will say to a mountain, 'Move and
it will move."
"Those who have come from the knowledge will find a return to
the knowledge."
We have come from the light, let us return there.
We are movement and stasis.
His disciples said to him, "When will there be rest for the dead?"
Jesus said, "There is no rest for the dead, they walk among you."
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His disciples said to him, "The prophets spoke of you."
Jesus said, "The prophets also walk among the dead."
His disciples said to him, "is circumcision useful?"
Jesus said, "No."
"Are not the poor blessed with humility? Theirs will be a greater
satisfaction. For the rich burn with anxiety that is unnatural."
"Whoever has loved a dead body in the person of vanity, has their
necrotic reward. The Mystery tolerates these inferior people only
for a moment. This moment is as a moment one does another task.
"Happy is that person who has worked to accomplish learning the
Mystery, for this is authentic life."
"If you cannot live in the now, you cannot live in the future."
Dont be like a carcass that is eaten. Do not jealousies eat you?"
"Be at home within."
Salome said, "Who do you think you are? You behave as though
this were your own house!"
Jesus said to her, "My house is my presence. Should I not be
comfortable?"
Salome answered, "Now, I believe you."
Jesus said to Salome, "The Mystery will find you worthy."
A rich mans plans were meticulously laid, but he died the night
before he could bring them off.
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Feed the street people."
Rich bankers will not respect your money.
"A humble man rebuilds from the rubble of the devastated rich."
"Associating with vanity will yield you nothing."
"It is a blessing if you are persecuted for the good, because you
will have remembered you can live with your conscience."
"If you have known hunger, you can know gratitude."
"What is inside you, can save you or kill you."
"To discover the Mystery is to have a shoddy house destroyed.
After, you will know how to build intelligently."
Someone said "Tell my brothers to divide my father's possessions
with me."
Jesus said Why should I do this?"
Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said to them "Remember to
mind your own business."
"Do not grow more than you need to harvest, for that day might
come you seek water to irrigate and there will be none."
"There are many suitors for a beautiful woman, but only one shall
prevail. So it is to know the Mystery, many will seek but few willfind, because the many only know convention."
To know the Mystery is to conserve what is valuable. Will you
eat your money, when there is no food?
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"Be light over all other things, to know what is inside a hollow
tree, to see your way in a cave.
"Why be like a reed knocked down in the wind? Do not behave as
your rulers."
A woman in the crowd said to him, "Blessed are the womb that
bore you and the breasts that fed you."
Jesus said to her, "It is true, blessed are those who have known the
Mystery from the beginning, for there will be others who will wish
a womb had not conceived and breasts had not suckled them."
"Whoever has come to know our world has discovered illusion,
and whoever has penetrated illusion, is immortal."
A wise man who refuses to give council, will have saved no one.
A man who renounces power can save himself."
"To be safe within yourself is to be truly warm. To be truly warm,
one must love."
"A light within, is in the eye."
"If you can only look happy in the mirror, all is fear!"
"Adam came from great power but he died, as must all who
embrace the illusion"
You are model of the universe, how important that you set theexample! Let the fox have its den, do not disturb the birds nest."
"If you care only for your body, the soul cannot prosper."
"Take only what is yours and surrender what is not"
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"The cup you drink from is no different to yourself."
"Master your infirmities and you will know peace."
They said to him, "Who are you? Why should we believe?"
Jesus said to them, "Do you know your own hand, what it
conceals? I did not bring you here, so why would you listen, except
that you would wish to know something? Seek and you will find,
but to seek, you cannot conceal what is in your hand. If I give what
is sacred to pigs, do you believe they will appreciate it? Do not be
like the clerics.
"If you slap a melon just so, you will know if it is good."
"Be generous."
To know the Mystery requires a woman. Her knowledge is such,
she can grow and give life. What man among you can do this? But
if you will learn her intelligence, I swear to you anything is
possible, and this is how a man enters into real knowledge.
The Mystery is like a woman who was carrying a child. While
walking along her labor began, and she stopped to give birth in the
shelter of an Aspen grove. She didn't know it; but she had been
blessed. When she put the child to her nipple there was a great
peace in the quaking leaves. Blessed is any such child!
The mystery is like a person who must kill someone powerful.
While at home he drew his sword and thrust it into the mirror to
destroy self-image. Thus he killed the powerful one.
The disciples said to him, "Your brothers and your mother are
standing outside."
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Jesus said "Those here who destroy self-image are my brothers and
my mother.
They showed Jesus a gold coin with the Emperors inscription and
said to him, "The Emperor demands taxes from us."
He said to them, "Give to the Emperor his vanity and give to me
only what is mine, for the sake of the mother who gave me life
"Damn the Evangelists! They are like a dog guarding a long dead
body. Do not seek people out with your knowledge, rather let them
seek you"
"Be happy when you know from which direction the attack will
come, you can be certain the arrow will miss."
They said to Jesus, "Come, let us pray, let us fast."
Jesus said, "What have I done? Rather, when the lie has been
banished from your hearts and minds, let us feast. For whoever
knows the sacred androgyny will be called the child of a whore by
the lie. But when you make the two into one, you will be blessed ofEve, and when you say, 'Mountain, move it will move."
The mystery is kind to the those who slept on the mountain, for
the dream came and the angel loved them.
"Whoever drinks from a sacred womans mouth will become like
her; I became that person, and hidden things are revealed."
The mystery is a hidden treasure in each of you but you cannotknow it until you have searched.
"Let one who has found the success and become wealthy, renounce
success."
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"The heavens are ordered after those who have found what is truly
beautiful, and their presence is immortal."
"Damn those who depend only on the soul. Damn those that
depend only on the body. You must be titans on this Earth."
His disciples said to him "When will the Mystery be revealed?"
Jesus replied "It will not come by waiting for it. Rather, the
Mystery is spread out upon the earth, and you don't see it."
Peter said to Jesus "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve
immortality."
Jesus said "That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! Will you
ever learn anything? I expect not.
*
Jesus is almost certainly the most misrepresented man in history.
'The Christ' is established in scholarship as an invention [lie] by the
so-called St Paul, adopted by the church, and smears the reputation
of the historical Jesus by adapting Greek paganism rites that turned
animal sacrifice into the Christian ritual human sacrifice and
cannibalism known as 'Communion.' Any rational person who will
like to know the history behind these facts need only look into the
research of 'The Jesus Seminar.'
For Paul, the Christ was to be understood as a dying/rising lord,
symbolized in baptism (buried with him, raised with him), of the
type he knew from the Hellenistic [Greek] mystery religions. In
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Pauls theological scheme, Jesus the man played no essential
role.
St Paul was never taught by Jesus and in fact never even met him.
All of St Pauls information concerning Jesus was 2nd hand at bestor anecdotal. St Paul was not present at Pentecost. Jesus disciples,
likely to a man, refused to meet with St Paul, a man they resolutely
despised and mistrusted, a fact Paul complained of. Any claim of a
relationship of St Paul to St Peter is highly questionable and Peter
was the least reliable of Jesus disciples after Judas. Jesus was
constantly annoyed with Peter according to the gospels and the
idea Jesus would found his church on Peter were words put in
Jesus mouth by people with a political agenda, after the fact ofJesus life:
Eighty-two percent of the words ascribed to Jesus in the gospels
were not actually spoken by him according to the Jesus Seminar.
And recalling specifically:
In Pauls theological scheme, Jesus the man played no essentialrole
Think about it. In Pauls theological scheme, Jesus the man
played no essential role.
That could also be stated what ever Jesus had taught was
irrelevant to Paul (if for no other reason than Jesus had never
taught Paul, a man he never knew.) St Pauls inventions
concerning Jesus, adopted by the church and incorporated into the
Bible have in fact largely supplanted the teachings of the authentic
Jesus according to the scholars of the Jesus Seminar:
The church appears to smother the historical Jesus by
superimposing this heavenly figure on him in the creed: Jesus is
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displaced by the Christ, as the so-called Apostles Creed makes
evident.
St Paul, inventor of The Christ was a self-anointed Apostle, that
is to say he took it upon himself to claim his membership amongthe disciples of Jesus. Paul NEVER KNEW JESUS.
The contrast is startling between the two. The mystic Jesus was a
tolerant man. The Greek language and Roman citizen Paul was
intolerant, rules obsessed & misogynist, whereas Jesus was none of
these and had great respect for women.
The teaching of Paul versus Jesus creates a contrast so great, itwould require to be a Christian:
1) Choosing between one or the other or:
2) A life in denial
In effect, the church has, since its organization under the Roman
Emperor Constantine, and its subsequent scripture consideredimperatively sacrosanct, demanded faith be founded on belief in a
lie.
Jesus had taught not to make a show of your religion, fasting, faith
or prayer (Do not be like the hypocrites) but instead to express
your faith modestly and communicate through prayer in private.
Paul taught organized worship in public. And it is in this public
scene of Paul the entire public prayer teaching of Paul falls apart:
On top of inventing The Christ, when organizing public prayer in
a twisted caricature of Pentecost, Paul had to come up with
speaking in tongues, and then Paul had to invent interpreters for
the otherwise unknown languages. Sorry folks, but neither was
the case at the original Pentecost as described in the Acts of the
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Apostles at which Paul was not present. At the Pentecost, no one
needed interpreters and the languages spoken were known
languages. It did not remotely happen in any way similar to what
Paul had taught. And the people who primarily follow Pauls
teachings, do not remotely resemble anything close to the lived andtaught example of Jesus.
Jesus himself stated:
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to
pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be
seen by others .. But when you pray, go into your room, close the
door and pray to your Father, who is unseen .. And when you pray,do not keep on babbling like people who think they will be heard
because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father
knows what you need before you ask him.
It is claimed that Paul, when traveling to Damascus to kill
followers of Jesus, something he was keen to do, was blinded by a
light identifying itself as Jesus. St Paul had later written Satan is
the author of all lies and The Devil masquerades as the Angel ofLight.
This begs the question: who did Paul meet on the road to
Damascus? It was not the Jesus who gave the Sermon on the
Mount because Jesus never came back and said Paul was right
and I was wrong.
It is pretty easy to see St Paul counterfeited the phenomena of
Pentecost he could not duplicate. This is a dichotomy the Church
has played down for the past 1,700 years, or that is since two
mutually exclusive sets of ideas had been incorporated into what
had to become a schizophrenic religion with people from the same
faith always on both sides of any major issue.
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Paul had said Jesus return was imminent -that is any day- not
still waiting after 2,000 years, he got that wrong too.
The scholars of the Jesus Seminar state:
Jesus taught that the last will be first and the first will be last. He
admonished his followers to be servants of everyone. He urged
humility as the cardinal virtue by both word and example. Given
these terms, it is difficult to imagine Jesus making claims for
himself-I am the son of God, I am the expected One, the Anointed-
unless, of course, he thought that nothing he said applied to
himself.
Jesus was a great man, not a hypocrite. Those who follow his
Sermon on the Mount live intelligent lives, contrasted to;
everywhere you see people following the teachings of the liar Paul
whod introduced the The Christ and worship of Jesus murder
and related ritual cannibalism called communion, ideas Paul took
from animal sacrifice in Greek Paganism. Consequently you see
organized Christian religions murder in the name of love while
pursuing narcissistic intolerance, hate, violence and/or destruction.
A gesture of respect to the authentic, historical Jesus would be to
reject Pauls Christ and explicitly condemn any reference to
Jesus' so-called 'sacrifice' claiming his blood had been shed to
'save' people, the most perverted belief ever to contribute to the
collective madness of Western civilization infecting the world. I've
yet to meet a Christian professing this Greek pagan blood sacrifice
based 'salvation' open to reason and learning, insofar as
understanding how much harm these sort of archetype myths do in
relation to perverting the minds of children and desensitizing
people to human slaughters on a grand scale.
Talk about pornography. If human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism
as base foundation for a culture do not make a pornographic
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culture, I can't imagine anything that does.
It's time to practice a bit of common sense and simply create a
social scene where these images are not welcome and let people
wonder what it might be like to live 'beyond the pale' or be'tempted' so to speak, to discover the possibilities when they are
willing to step beyond the fear mongering and necrotic bonds of
ignorance. We live in a literate world now, perversions of history
should no longer serve as instrument of superstition created by the
power corrupt to control people through fear.
There is no healthy rationale to provide hospitality to any being
harboring such absolute social poisons the image of blood sacrifice
entails. I certainly don't need it in my life.
Jesus should not be associated with hate mongering and
mainstream Christian dogma is chock full of invented hate, this
evil is not limited to the religious right. From the misogynist story
of 'The Fall' to Cain and Abel requiring blood sacrifice to God, it
just goes on and on.
It's time to acquire sanity, reject Pauls Christ, quit ritually killing
and eating Jesus and genuinely healthy people would want no
associations with people who do that. Particularly the people who
push the idea Jesus tortured to death was a good thing (as though
on a billboard) but consider; are those who quietly celebrate this
killing and eating of a human being any better?
Much better would be to appreciate those things Jesus had actually
said condemning hypocrisy and living simply, living with humility,
indeed Jesus lessons can teach people to save themselves, thosepeople who pay attention to what he had actually said; as opposed
to the many inventions put on the lips of Jesus by institutions
dedicated to control through fear-
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The scholars of The Jesus Seminar state:
The first step is to understand the diminished role the Gospel of
John plays in the search for the Jesus of history. The two pictures
painted by John and the synoptic [Matthew, Mark, Luke] gospelscannot both be historically accurate.
The Fellows of the Seminar were unable to find a single saying
[in John] they could with certainty trace back to the historical
Jesus.
The words attributed to Jesus in the Fourth Gospel.. ..are the
creation of the evangelist for the most part..
Words borrowed from the fund of common lore or the Greek
scriptures are often put on the lips of Jesus.
The evangelists frequently attribute their own statements to
Jesus.
We know that the evangelists not infrequently ascribed Christian
words to Jesus-they made him talk like a Christian, when, in fact,
he was only the precursor of the movement that was to take him asits cultic hero.
Jesus rarely makes pronouncements or speaks about himself in
the first person. Jesus makes no claim to be the Anointed, the
messiah.
The historical Jesus was a healer/teacher having nearly nothing to
do with ANY modern church teaching, church hate mongering
actually, and a reasonable person should be able to see the good inJesus teaching has been buried by the invention of Pauls Christ.
To be an Anti-Christ would be to stand against the necrotic
fantasies and lies organized religion has used to bury the authentic
Jesus truth, and truth is a good thing.
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The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and
doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and
such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of
other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause,
to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In theNew Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have
proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of
the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those
parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills. -Thomas Jefferson
Indeed, were it necessary to frighten people away from any
investigation into the fraud all of organized Christian religion had
perpetrated in the name of the authentic Jesus, it would require theinvention of a terrifying boogey man, that is the Anti-Christ, to
frighten people away from truth, when in actuality opposition to
the lie of The Christ would be a blessing. Indeed the church has
labeled the very idea of opposition to the lie of The Christ as a
very evil incarnate, when an Anti-Christ would truly be a
blessing.
Lets reject Pauls Christ, do away with ritual human sacrifice,
take Jesus down from the cross, and keep him off the cross, that
very cross which should long since been consigned to the rubbish
heap of history; for the simple sake of mental health, and our
national sanity-
"Experience witnesses that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of
maintaining the purity and efficacy of religion, have had a
contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal
establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been itsfruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the
clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition,
bigotry and persecution -James Madison
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On Christian holidays, people would do well to celebrate the
authentic Jesus, a great teacher & healer, with a toast to any Anti-
Christ opposed to the lies put on Jesus lips, in an act of overcoming
superstition, bigotry and persecution..
..considering Jesus lived example and teaching, as opposed to St
Pauls fantasies, empirically meet the definition of Anti-Christ
There is but one question remaining for those who would believe
in the authentic Jesus what would you call yourselves? Because
it certainly cannot be Christian.
About the Author
I am not a believer, nor am I agnostic or atheist. My faith is
pragmatic truth, kindness, respect inclusive of nature, and certainly
I am no respecter of science driven technology and associated
necrotic religions using those technologies creating the armaments
set to destroy our world. I consider I am but a cell in the incredible
mystery of our creation and am determined to be a healthy cell &anti-body in the present malignant expression of humanityRonald Thomas West
ronaldthomaswest.com