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  Msg#: 3                                            Date: 04 Nov 96  02:34:17
  From: Ric Carter                                   
    To: Corena Usher                                 
  Subj: Christianity
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 CU> I am a Christian and would welcome talking to anyone about Jesus. 
 CU> I really do mean anyone!  Let me know if you want to talk!
 CU> Corena Usher, Jesus freak 

Jeshua was a leader in the Jewish Revolt, a long-standing violent
movement aimed at ridding Israel/Judah/Palestine of the dominant
outsiders [Romans, Hellenes, Armenians, etc] and their puppets
and collaborators, such as the Hasmodean [Herodian] dynasty and
the Saduccee [Temple priest] faction.  Jeshua was executed by the
Romans in the way they dealt with rebel leaders - crucifixion, a
method they learnt from the Gauls during their long wars.

While leading a band of Zealots [terrorists] and Iscariots [short-
sword assassins], Jeshua was also involved in the Pharisee [worker-
rabbi] movement, again aimed at reducing the power of the Temple
Priests and moving Torah study and worship from Temple to synagogue
and shul and home.  This was the focus of the shift from Hebraic
to Judaic culture, a shift hastened by the Romans' destruction of
Jerusalem and the Temple, and by waves of dispersion [diaspora].

Jeshua also left a body of "wisdom sayings", based on earlier
Mesopotamian and Greek and Jewish proverbs.  [Other sayings were
added to his core teachings by later followers].  Jeshua can thus
be seen as a warrior-poet, rather like Mao TseTung or Jose Marti.

Saul/Paul was a torturer and death-squad leader who attempted to
infiltrate the Jewish Revolt.  The Nazorene group [led by James,
Jeshua's brother], distrusted this tormentor-turned-convert; they
sequestered him two years, then sent him on a mission to raise
arms and funds from Hellenic Jewish communities to support their
movement.  Instead, he invented Xianity and proselytized Jews and
gentiles alike, diverting support from the Revolt.  Returning to
Jerusalem, the Nazorenes and their followers nearly lynched Saul;
he fled back to the Romans and apparently disappeared into some-
thing like "protective custody".  The myths of Saul's execution
in Rome are not supported by any documentation.

The Nazorenes, and those Xians organized by Saul, Barnabas and
others, formed an uneasy alliance of communities, now called the
"early church".  Many heresies and factional fights split them
into Graeco-Roman and Semitic/Eastern factions, as well as others
[Arians, Nestorians, etc] now extinct.  The Graeco-Roman factions
wrote texts aimed at attracting Graeco-Romans by white-washing
the violent fundamentalist terrorist origins of their movement.

When Xianity became the State Religion of the Roman Empire, the
xian Imperial Wizards scrambled Jewish Scriptures to produce the
OT, and selected/edited their spin-doctored accounts of Jeshua
and various Epistles to produce the NT texts.  [Around CE 1000,
feeding millennialist frenzy, the Gospel of Barnabas was dropped
from NT canon and replaced by Apocalypse/Revelation, that great
fantasy that's so bedeviled Xianity ever since.]

Xianity is constantly schisming, and each sect spins-off new
factions.  Around CE 500 the Semitic/Asian [Syrian Succession]
Church schismed from the European [Roman Succession] Church.
Around CE 1000 Eastern [Orthodox] Churches split from the Roman
[Catholic] Church.  Around CE 1500 Protestants likewise schismed
from Catholicism [and themselves fragmented into many sects].
This history seems to show that we can expect another major
schism in the Roman Church around CE 2000 - Real Soon Now.

Thus goes the true history of Jeshua and Xianity.  Yow.

 Rev.RN Carter, ULC


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