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Dying In The West?
Posted October 4, 2005
Organiser
October 09, 2005
By M.S.N. Menon
Christianity is dying in the West. But it is springtime for Christianity in
Asia and elsewhere. A Paradox? No. The Pope himself says so.
According to Pope Benedict, "there is no longer evidence in the western world
for a need of God, even less of Christ."
Dear Hindu reader, are you listening? Do you know the implications of what he
says? Perhaps not. But you should know-Christianity is in decline in the West
because the West is ashamed of the Christian God Yahweh, who used to drink
human blood, and it is flourishing in Asia because Asians are still under the
spell of religion.
But how is one to account for the loss of faith in Jesus Christ? Because there
is increasing evidence that he never existed, because it is now discovered that
the life of Jesus was built on lies by St. Paul.
What is more, Yahweh has remained a jealous God, a God who rewarded and
punished. And he was too closely associated with the Jewish race to become a
God of mankind.
Today we have about 100,000 monographs on Jesus Christ. But we know almost
nothing about the man! His life was deliberately kept a secret by the church.
And St. Paul created a Jesus to suit his own objectives.
But are there other records to go by? Very few. Most were destroyed by the
church. Pliny, the younger, mentions a sect called Christians, but never of
Jesus Christ. Jesus does not even appear in the book of the Jewish historian
Josephus, called Jewish Antiquities (published in 93 a.d.). The Jewish writer
Justus lived in Tiberias, where Jesus was supposed to have lived often. But,
he, too, never mentions the name of Jesus. Philo of Alexandria, another
contemporary of Jesus, was a specialist on Jewish sects. But he too never
mentions the name of Jesus. It is clear from all these that perhaps Jesus never
lived, and if he lived at all, he was an insignificant person. It was St. Paul
who built up the Christ figure. But today very few are willing to accept the
Jesus Christ of St. Paul.
It is this lack of proper evidence of his life and work, which made Ian Wilson,
author of Jesus: The Evidence conclude: "There is scarcely a crumb of
information to compel a belief in Jesus' existence." Rudolf Bultmann, the
greatest New Testament theologian of the 20th century, almost said the same
thing. Ernest Kasemann, a specialist on the New Testament at the Tubingen
University, says of the research on the life of Jesus: "One is overwhelmed by
how little of the accounts about Jesus in the New Testament can be called
authentic!
So, what passes for "Christianity "is the work of St. Paul. William Nestle, a
Church historian, writes: " Christianity is the religion founded by St. Paul.
It replaced Christ's gospel with a gospel about Christ."
Modern theologians and researchers in religious history believe that the
Central tenet of salvation through the death and suffering of Jesus has been a
deliberate misinterpretation by Paul. He is also the author of anti-feminism in
Christianity. He says:" It is good for a man not to touch a woman." Which is
why Mary Magdalene was made into a prostitute. Paul is also the author of the
concepts of Original sin and Trinity. In short, Paul produced a totally
distorted message of Jesus. The trouble with the Bible, says Professor,
Whitehead, “has been its interpreters, who whittled down that sense of
infinitude into finitude...and the first interpreter of the New Testament was
the worst-Paul. True, Paul put Jesus on a pedestal and saved Christianity from
being branded a minor Jewish sect.
If one is not sure about the existence of Jesus, what about the various claims
made by the church on behalf of Christ? There is no evidence that Jesus died on
the cross. A commission of Bishops (of York and Canterbury), after 16 years of
research, declared that the Bible story of the crucifixion and resurrection of
Christ was incorrect.
Similarly, a book based on a study by seven of Britain's foremost theologians
said that Christ was neither divine nor an incarnate. Among the distinguished
theologians, who authored the book was Prof. Canon Maurice Wiles, Professor of
Divinity at the University of Oxford. They said; "The historical Jesus never
presented himself as incarnate."
Then, what is left of Christ and Christianity? Very little. Which is why the
West is in no need of Christ. What is more, Darwin had already demolished the
foundation of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve (Genesis).
The entire edifice of Christianity had thus fallen. But the empire of the
church and its vested interests are so powerful they can withstand any
adversity. "Pesudo-Christianity," says George Bernard Shaw, "was and will be
fact-proof."
If Christianity is thus dying in the West, it cannot live and flourish in the
East. Can it? It is for you Hindus to decide.
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