IT baffles my mind


[~*~]
Jackson Browne
in The Hague
tonight?
~*~
Many
have made a trade of delusions
and false miracles, deceiving the 'stupid' multitudes.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
The Bible did not arrive by fax
from heaven.
~*~
The Bible
{and all other 'holy' scripture}
is a product of man.
NOT of G*D.
The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds.
MAN created it as a 'historical' record of tumultuous times,
and it has evolved through countless translations,
additions and reversions.
~*~
And history
has never had a definitive version
of the Book.
~*~
SO:
we in myDi
just continue
'our' stories of our
human life near and far,
gathering pieces from here and there
in our own myDilives
and fairy tales from myDihistory, other people, times and places,
while mixing them with constantly, again & again, with
'our own' realities ...
~*~
Yeshua haMasjiach
was a historical figure of staggering influence,
perhaps the most enigmatic and inspirational 'leader'
the world has ever seen.
As the 'prophesied' Messiah,
HE toppled kings,
inspired millions and founded 'new' philosophies.
"As a descendent of the bloodlines of Solomon and David",
he possessed a 'rightful claim' to the throne
of the "King of the Jews"?
~*~
Understandably,
his life was recorded
by thousands of followers across 'the land'.
More than eighty gospels were once upon a time considered for
the 'new' Testament, and yet only a relative few
were chosen for inclusion -
Mattai, Mark, Luca & Yochanan
among them.
~*~


WHO
chose which
gospels to include?
~*~
That's
the fundamental irony of Christianity?
The "Bible", as we know it today,
was collated by the pagan Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
Hardly a Christian ...
HE was a lifelong pagan who was baptized on his deathbed,
too weak to protest?
~*~
In Constantine's day,
Rome's official religion was sun worship -
the cult of Sol Invictus, or the Invincible Sun -
and Constantine was its head priest.
Unfortunately for him,
a growing religious turmoil
was gripping
Rome.
~*~
Societies
all around the Mediterranean,
from Turkey to Brittain,
Egypt to Marocco, Greece to Germania,
and from Israel to Spain {a.o.},
were crumbling thru cruelty and slavery,
injustice and
'education' ...
~*~
And about three centuries
after the crucifixion of the 'rebel' Yeshu,
"Christ's followers" had multiplied exponentially
under the threat of destruction
& social chaos.
~*~
"Christians" and 'pagans' began warring,
and the conflict grew to such proportions that it threatened to rend Rome in two: so Constantine decided something had to be done.
In 325 AD, he decided to unify Rome under a single religion.
Christianity.
~*~
WHY
would a pagan emperor choose Christianity
as the {only} 'official'
religion?
~*~
WHY
would an 'illiterate' Arab who picked up traces of Jews & Christians,
hear 'voices' about 300 years later and 'try to conquer
the world'?
~*~
WHY
Jews were forced to spread all over the world
for more than 3000 years?
WHY DO
Christian ideas spread all over the earth?
AND WHY
Islam tries to
'take over'?
~*~
WHY we
can find so many very different kinds of Jews, Christians, Moslims, Buddhists, Hindoes, 'humanists', 'socialists' & 'communists'
wherever we go?
~*~
OR
those
who say:
WE
don't believe in
'anything'
OR
'something'?
~*~
Isn't it 'funny' &
very
strange?
~*~
I have to stop for now:
see you later ...
liefdesverdrietverliefd
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