Edmund Burke was a committed Whig during the American Revolution. He was very effective. When the French Revolution came, as every historian knows, he had change of heart. What history doe snot mention is that the King gave Burke a lifetime income of fifteen hundred pounds a year, a staggering sum in those days, to make that change. So Burke wrote “Reflections on the French Revolution” for that lifetime income.
But historians quote “Reflections on the French Revolution” as objective. You can make a LIVING analyzing “Reflections.” You cannot make a living just pointing out that the man was bribed.
We have the same problem with Jesus. Most sermons use massive quotes from the Old Testament. Talking about the Golden Rule requires THOUGHT. Quoting some long name of an obscure Old Testament figure makes it look like you really did your homework.
Jesus, too, was bribed. His payoff was his life. After he had reduced the whole basis of Judaism, the Ten Commandments, to two commandments, after he had violated the Sabbath because he was who he was, he said he had NOT come to replace the Old Law. On that one sentence the whole of the last billion sermons about the Old Testament has been based.
You don’t mention that Burke was bribed if you want to make a living at history. You don’t mention what would have happened to Jesus if he had NOT said the Old Testament was still completely valid. Catholicism bases its major credos on a few sentences in the Matthew Succession. Its opponents base their whole Judeo-Christian bit on that one sentence of Jesus.
Catholics make more sense. If Jesus had NOT said what they base THEIR credo on, he would not have been stoned to death on the spot. He had already been crucified when he said it. But the entire Judeo-Christian bit is based on what Jesus said when he would have been murdered on the spot had he said anything else.
Theologians and historians have “professional objectivity.” That means that their total misstatements of reality are predictable.
#1 by shari on 01/30/2007 - 4:38 pm
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Don’t you mean that, “If jesus had Not said what they base their credo on, he WOULD have been stoned to death on the spot” ??
#2 by AFKAN on 01/31/2007 - 7:24 pm
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The “Law” has been misinterpreted as the Noahide Laws – the one the goddamn JEWS really believe in, which supercedes the Ten Commandments – the Ten Commandments themselves, the various Commandments, laws, and ordinances.
There are Rules, and then there are The Reasons For The Rules.
All of these “Laws” have a spiritual foundation in loving God,m and loving other people as they should be loved – i.e.; being worthy of correction, if possible, and removal from the social order, if not. Remember, there were no jails or prisons in a nomadic society…
All of these “Laws” ultimately derive from a spiritual principle that has been removed from Christianity in its transformation into the demonic perversion of JUDAEOChristianity.
That principle is referred to a karma, the Law of Spiritual Cause and Effect.
Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of the materialistic conception of “The Law” – with Christ, Mankind was no longer bound to the material conception of “The Law” – an exclusively materialistic definition of karma – and thus, all of the limits that required a materialistic interpretation of “The Law” has been fulfilled with “THE WAY” back to “THE Father.”
Remember, was Man created for the Sabbath, or the Sabbath created for Man?
And, after Man had outgrown the legalistic rituals, and the matters of Form no longer fulfilled their spiritual purpose, should the matters of Substance manifest in new Form, and should the new wine require new wineskins?
It might be useful to view Christianity as the fulfillment of what Zoroastrainism foreshadowed, and get away from this demon-inspired goddamned JEWISH nonsense.
Another doctrine that was expunged by the hook-nosed Satanists and their servants is reincarnation. Again, we are not speaking merely of a materialistic (i.e., Satanic, JEWISH) model of reincarnation.
Remember, one of the requirements for the return of the Messian was the “return” – the reincarnation – of Elijah (Elias). At the Last Supper, Jesus pointed to one of his disciples and said. Behold, this is Elias, returned.”
The Disciples could not comprehend what they had been told…
But that’s for another time.