The God Who Wasn't There

[RedAnarchist]

Youtube - Part One (http://youtube.com/watch?v=zLqqGy2SqmM)

Anyone else seen this video? I thought it was quite interesting, but maybe was too rushed, although the use of old film was a good idea.

[Colonello Buendia]

personally i thought it was a bit wierd and it didn't seem to have a point, Was it aginst christianit or was it just an account of what happened? :huh:

[Iron]

i'm with cccp9000, it was anti-christian but seems... kinda made with a christian undertone. intresting find though

[jasmine]

In 1999 a book called "The Jesus Mysteries" was published. I think this is the source of this and other videos. The book was written by two Gnostics. Their research has been used unreferenced to discredit official Christianity without paying much attention to the point of their book - to explain that the original christians were Gnostics who wrote the gospels as initiatory symbolic texts.

Jesus as an historical figure almost certainly didn't exist and the cobbling together of a literalist religion at least 150 years after his supposed death was almost certainly a political act, as was the acceptance of christianity by Rome a little later.

The authors are Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy. If you want to know more about this read the book. You don't have to accept their spiritual beliefs to find their research interesting - and this is real research and not Da Vinci Code nonsense.

[luxemburg89]

Jesus as an historical figure almost certainly didn't exist

Jesus was a very popular name at the time. In my opinion there were thousands of crackpots going round saying they were the son of Dog (whose name was mispelt in the bible as 'God' :P ). A good number happened to be called Jesus and they were all rolled into one and put in a big book by some other crackpot years later. From the oppressive heirarchy that the bible advocates stemmed Feudalism, and Feudalism gave birth to a child called 'Capitalism' - it was a very ugly child and oppressed all the other children :D

[jasmine]

From the oppressive heirarchy that the bible advocates stemmed Feudalism

So without the Bible we would never have had feudalism and so capitalism could never have existed and there would have been no marxism and no anarchism and wait ... think about it ... revolutionaryleft.com would never have existed ... so we couldn't have had this exchange without ... the Bible.

Either all things are connected or all logic is circular or the Bible is the cause of every event in the last 2000 years. Didn't Ted Haggard say something similar?

[Coggeh]

Some people don't know when to just go "and if that happened does it mean .. ah fuck it "



Personally i blame the schools ... =\