Christianity Is Unconstitutional

(Conspiracy Nation, 05/22/08) – In “The Passover Plot” (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/PassoverPlot.html), Conspiracy Nation reported “hearsay evidence that Jesus was alive in 45 A.D.” What happened to Jesus after he escaped or survived crucifixion? Where did he flee? “Conspiracy Nation is looking into the post-crucifixion scenarios,” offered this publication at the time.

In “Jesus After The Crucifixion” (Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, 2007), Graham Simmans (1919-2005) delves into the escape of Jesus possibilities. Simmans spent many years excavating sites in Egypt seeking to understand Christian communities in the time-frame of the early church. He was also author of other books on such subjects.

The likely place for Jesus to have fled after he “rose from the dead” would have been Egypt. Simmans (op. cit.) goes into how, earlier, as a child, Jesus had been taken there by Joseph and Mary. These are “the lost years” of Jesus, from infancy to about the age of 12. Jesus was therefore familiar with the territory and knew potential hideouts.

Rome wanted Jesus dead. He would have been on Rome's “Ten Most Wanted” list. He had made fools of Rome by escaping execution and being seen walking around. Imagine if Timothy McVeigh was being seen still. The U.S. government would want McVeigh dead or alive, and preferably dead.

A mysterious person in connection with “The Passover Plot” was Joseph of Arimathea. He provided a private tomb. Otherwise, Jesus would have been thrown into a mass grave. A private tomb was necessary for secretly reviving Jesus after his ordeal. A secret “back door” to the tomb assisted the scheme. The Gospel of Peter, discovered in 1886, reveals that Joseph of Arimathea was a close friend of Pontius Pilate. Pilate had a dilemma. Jesus had not broken any laws, but some powerful Jews wanted him dead. There was civil unrest, which undermined Roman authority. Simmans claims Pilate stalled for time by putting Jesus in prison for 3 months. A solution to the dilemma was worked out. The Roman soldier who speared Jesus on the cross did so in a purposeful way, just beneath the third rib, so as to relieve pressure and prevent suffocation.

Simmans gives a concise explanation of Christianity, “in a nutshell.” Jesus had been more political than religious, connected with the Essenes, the ideological wing of the Zealots and Sicarii. Later, St. Paul developed a philosophical system which glossed over the politics and emphasized ideas palatable to Roman authority and more comfortable to common Greek beliefs. It was St. Paul who conceived the “Original Sin” idea. Not only were “Adam and Eve” guilty, but this guilt was passed down to their descendants. This is contrary to the spirit of the U.S. Constitution. Article III Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution condemns something called "corruption of blood." This is a barbaric legal concept whereby guilt of ancestors is passed to innocent descendants. So, in a sense, Christianity is unconstitutional.

However, as a philosophical/psychological approach to “the guilt complex,” St. Paul's system is not too bad. Guilt is attributed to some long-gone ancestor. A scapegoat (Jesus) has taken away the guilt, thereby solving “the guilt complex.” Author Rene Girard, in his books, goes into these themes of guilt and sacrifice. Humans had been sacrificed to Moloch. Then a substitution, goats and sheep, were offered to appease the “God.” In the St. Paul guilt-relief system, “God” himself becomes the sacrifice and solves the “guilt complex.”

On Capitol Hill yesterday, a similar “offering to Moloch” was attempted. The truer cause of rising gas prices is extremely expansionist monetary policies. For some reason, though, the “Federal” Reserve is sacred. So, a substitute victim was put in place of the “Federal” Reserve, to appease the guilt. Whether oil companies are acceptable to Moloch remains to be seen.

Reportedly, in the Nag Hammadi Codices, in the “Apocalypse of Peter,” Jesus states, “They crucified another one.” Jesus likely fled to Egypt. But Rome was relentless. Spies and informers were everywhere. Jesus would have to have fled Egypt as well. Where did he go? Ireland? France? Conspiracy Nation is looking into the subject of Rome's “most wanted man.”

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