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The Christian Bible

taking divine revelation for their divine
Savior believed it true But we Will not an
alyze the book IN detail. Its moral teachings
are not above the times in which they We're
written and clearly show God in human
form, vascilating, vengetul, repentant, and
grossly partial.
The New testament was composed by au.
thors OF whom no knowledge eXtant. The
Gospels were written by proselytes from ira
dltlons hundred or more years after the
death OF Jesus, and show every mark OF the
fabulous in their composition. That accord
ing to Matthew, relates a story OF the mirac-
ulous conception and birth OF Jesus, which Is
closely copied from the ancient story or
Buddha written SIX hundred years before
and well known at that time throughout the
east. The remarkable feature of this abnor-
mai incident was the profound secrecy in
which it was kept. The only witnesses being
unknown shepards, to whom it was revealed,
and who after worshipping him vanished into
oblivion, and a bevy of wise men from the
East came with gifts for him and vanished,
who they were, and where they came from
is not stated. The improbable story of the
slaughter of the children is clearly taken
from the story OF Buddha, no mention of it
is made in any history of the times, and
no allusion to it is made by the mother or
father of Jesus. Subsequently some thirty
years after the neighbors of the family well
knew Jesus, his father and mother, brothers
and sisters, and denied bis divine pretentions
to Messiahship, as did all him fomiy, with no
pretenson OF knowledge of his divine origin;
about which Joseph and Mary were equally
silent. From the gospels we learn that he
went up to Jerusalem with his followers, some
nve thousand, who were with him on the
mount, armed, as we learn from Luke who
with shouts of hosannoh, son of David, and
King OF the Jews, took possession of the Tenn
pie and turned out its occupants which in
the eyes of the Jews was sacrilege deserv
ing death: After holding the Temple for some
days he was driven out, and went into hid
ing where he was apprehended by the treach-
cry of one of his disciples, and the Jews
had no authority to execute him, he
turned over to the Roman Governor, Plate,
tried and executed for making himself King
of the Jews.
From those incidents, and the story of his
resurrection, was subsequently built up by
Paul, religion that has been the curse Of
Europe, and stultifed the thinking world up
to the present day. The resurrection myth
Is founded on the shallowest foundation con
ceivabe, as has been set forth in any vol
ume. The origin of supernatural conceptions.
After his execution it is declared he appeared
to woman proselyte, who did not know him
till he declared himself and subsequently his
disciples declared they saw him, and that he
"iouhe ~ uays, curing WHICH time ne
had the carnal propensity to eat What his long
tarrying after his resurrection was for is not
explained, he neither said nor did anything
to advance his cause, and kept carefully out
of sight of all but his adherents; he finally
assembled up to heaven and disappeared in
a cloud, thus showing that the writer of the
story thought heaven was permanent
place located above the stable earth, in which
God resided; all of which modern science has
showing the fabulous character
of tho wbola story