After coming to see the bible as a collection of myths and legends, I feel a sense of aversion whenever I come across blogs or comments that still hold on to the idea of Jesus
as a historical figure, and talking about sin and hell. In my mind, I
was basically cursing and swearing at such religious ideologies.
I actually think it is very normal to react like that. To me, this belief system is unfortunately not only based on ancient
mythology, but also creates divisions among people, discriminating against those people who do not profess to follow "
Jesus", and propagating the illusion of separation.
That's the reason I
have decided to read the book "Who was
Jesus
- fingerprints of the Christ" by D.M. Murdock. It was
written by the same author whose books were used as a basic resource to
produce the movie "Zeitgeist", which sought to debunk the whole
Jesus hoax. My curiosity
has been stirred to want to find out more about how the whole
Jesus myth came about, and what motivated the early century writers to come up with such a compelling
myth.
My conclusion for now is that it was meant to serve the purpose of
rebelling against the Roman authority back then. It would no longer
serve that purpose in our day and age.
People are awakening, and leaving the
institutional church for good. Hence, evangelical preachers are getting
nervous. Even progressive christians appear to be making last ditch
attempts to "save" the idea of a historical
Jesus,
and tries to make him the ruler of everything through their latest
books and blogs. But the truth be known, the Source or Divine, as I
understand it, is beyond any label or
myth or
name. As long as people are attached to a person or deity or ideology or
label, they are still bound in some ways to pledge allegiance to a
particular group or dogma or denomination. This mindset goes against the
grain of universal love and unity and brotherhood.
