http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/intellect.html
Charles Guignebert, Professor of History of Christianity in the Sorborne:
“...we find in it no abstractions, no theories concerning man, life, the world of God, in short, not the slightest interest in rational and objective knowledge. He observes the world and quite simply records his impressions in what he says.
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“When he feels himself opposed by a doubt, he makes no attempt to refute it, for there is nothing for him to say. He neither argues nor discusses, proves nor confutes; he knows the truth and he utters it, and when he realized that it is not believed he grows angry and depressed.”
Now, back to Marvin Harris:
“The logic of his growing popularity drew Jesus forward into increasingly dangerous exploits. Before long, he and his disciples set out to missionize Jerusalem, the promised capital of the future Holy Jewish Empire. Deliberately invoking the messianic symbolism of the Book of Zechariah, Jesus rode through the gates mounted on a donkey (or possibly a pony). Sunday School teachers claim that Jesus did this because it signified an intention to ‘speak peace unto the heathen.’ This ignores the overwhelming military-messianic significance of everything else in Zechariah. For after Zechariah’s messiah appears, lowly and riding on an ass, the sons of Zion ‘devour and subdue’… and become ‘mighty men which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in battle… because the Lord is with them and the riders on horses shall be confounded.’
“The lowly figure on the ass was not a peaceful messiah. It was the messiah of a small nation and its apparently harmless prince of war, a descendant of David, who also rose from apparent weakness to confound and subdue the enemy’s horsemen and charioteers. The heathen were to have peace—but it was to be the peace of the long-awaited Holy Jewish Empire. That at least is how the crowds who lined the way understood what was happening, for as Jesus passed by, they shouted: ‘Hosanna! Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed be the Kingdom of our Father David that is coming!’” (Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches, Marvin Harris, 185-186)
Jesus and Paul, as recorded in the New Testament, both make it very clear that the “Second Coming” and the “End of the World” were supposed to occur soon—within the first century CE (just as the Essenes believed the Romans would fall and the Kingdom of God would be established within this time period). This did not occur. Their prophecies failed. That Christianity was able to survive 2 thousand years despite the fact that it was based on clearly failed prophecies shows that its learned clergy have been true masters at the art of distraction and slight of hand.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl16.htm
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/kingdom.html
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