In article , "Doug Kanter"
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Do you know there's proof that Jesus was a Jew?

1) He thought his mother was a virgin.

She was a Jew. Jewishness is inherited exclusively through the mother,
never through the father. Thus Jesus was a Jew. I wasn't aware that even
Christians doubted that one!

2) His mother thought he was god.
That's that! :-)

Christianity is judaized Tamuz worship. I don't believe anywhere in the
Christian testament does Mary say she gave birth to a God. Paul, who never
met Jesus, seems to have been the first person who ever promoted Jesus as
a God, & he grew up in a town where Tamuz worship predominated; despite
Paul's first-rate rabbinic education he was still influenced by the
paganism that surrounded him in his childhood in Tarsus.

The life of Jesus was one of a peasant reform rabbi who taught that God is
in all of us, that we are ALL his children, not just Jesus his child; that
He is known through good works of worshippers toward the poor & the
orphaned, not through adoration of the teacher.

He also taught that he didn't give a shit about gentiles but was born
among Jews to serve exclusively Jews. Jesus disliked gentiles & called
gentiles "dogs" when telling the SyroPhoenician woman he came exclusively
to instruct his own people. Perhaps a bit of a bigot, sure, which makes
it all the more comical that only gentiles worship him now. It was not
until he was dead that people began saying he rose from the grave with a
completely different story. The resurrected Jesus did say to go forth two
by two & convert the gentiles. This contradicted all his teachings in
life. The living Jesus whom Mary had raised thought gentiles were dogs, &
Jesus lived not as a heretic pretending to be the messiah but as a rather
pleasant rabbi & showman full of lovely little fables.

If Josephus's testimony is to be credited, the real inheritor of the
teachings of Jesus was his brother James, who was stoned to death on the
Temple steps, & the teachings of an authentic Jesus died with James. What
has been handed down through the judaized paganism of Paul is in essence
Tamuz worship. Other elements of Christianity may have been handed down
through Mary Magdalene who claimed special teachings from angels of the
tomb & was first to receive teachings from the ressurected "Christ," & her
thread of christianity was a Gnosticism that seems to have borrowed a
great deal from Phrygian Cybele worship, making Jesus the new Attis. ANd
since she purportedly knew Jesus before AND after his mortal life, she'd
know best, though the Roman church squashed that early on.

So what survives is Paul's Tarsusian paganism which he cleverly imposed on
a Jerusalem martyr he never met except in a fever dream quite some while
after the fellow was dead. No living follower of the authentic teachings
of the historical rabbi Jesus has existed in this world since the stoning
of James. To the historical Jesus his deification would be the worst sort
of blasphemy. As for me, I think Tamuz worship is nifty, no matter if you
change his name to Attis, Mithras, Dionysios, or Jesus. It ain't my faith,
but like any faith it should be judged by the works it inspires, not by
whether or not its mine or yours.

I spent an afternoon with a very culty brain-fractured & pretty young
woman who was a member of a fundamentalist congregation & was active in
some oddball fundy group called the Daughters of Job. I began
deprogramming her & it was great fun, as the more deeply one has to
advertise their faith the weaker it actually is, & even the
brain-fractured have this instinct to actually THINK now & then. I could
see a light returning into her placid but zombified visage, & if I'd been
a guru who just wanted to change her programming rather than rid her of
it, I think I could've brought her home with me to keep. But at the end of
the day she cried out "You're the devil come to tempt me!" & fled back to
her cult. What a fun day that was.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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