Doug PollardThe Christ Myth (LINK)
July 27th 2008 04:14
Christ is not an original figure - he's a patchwork of dozens of earlier myths.
He was not the first God to be born to a virgin or to die and be resurrected.
Check out Pagan Origins of Christ Myth for the full facts of how early Christianity borrowed and absorbed stories from pre-existing religions.
St Paul never met Christ: he was a closeted self-hating homosexual who converted to Christianity as a means of escaping his inner demons - check out Bishop John Shelby-Spong for an analysis.
The saints were created by bishops taking over shrines belonging to local gods and spirits and rechristening them.
And the bible is not one book - it's a patchwork of oral traditions and later writings pulled together by a Vatican committee, which decided which myths were 'in' and which myths were 'out'. Not written by God - stitched together by a committee of bishops.
So let's have less of this 'inerrant word of God' stuff and some decent historical/biblical/literary scholarship here instead of all this fact-free emotion, please.
What the Bible is, is a wonderful collection of stories from an ancient time embodying some useful wisdom - if it's taken in context - rather like Aesops fables, or Brothers Grimm. Or if you want something more useful and modern, the works of the Blessed Stephen Sondheim.
Bless.
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