Presentation of the controversial new discovery
Atwill
will be appearing before the British public for the first time in
London on the 19th of October to present a controversial new discovery:
ancient confessions recently uncovered now prove, according to Atwill,
that the New Testament was written by first-century Roman aristocrats
and that they fabricated the entire story of Jesus Christ.
His presentation will be part of a one-day symposium entitled “Covert Messiah” at Conway Hall in Holborn.
Although to many scholars his
theory seems outlandish, and is sure to upset some believers, Atwill
regards his evidence as conclusive and is confident its acceptance is
only a matter of time. “I present my work with some ambivalence, as I do not want to directly cause Christians any harm,” he acknowledges, “but
this is important for our culture. Alert citizens need to know the
truth about our past so we can understand how and why governments create
false histories and false gods. They often do it to obtain a social
order that is against the best interests of the common people.”
The beginning of Christianity
Atwill
asserts that Christianity did not really begin as a religion, but a
sophisticated government project, a kind of propaganda exercise used to
pacify the subjects of the Roman Empire. “Jewish sects in Palestine
at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah, were a
constant source of violent insurrection during the first century,” he explains.
“When the Romans had exhausted conventional means of quashing
rebellion, they switched to psychological warfare. They surmised that
the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to
create a competing belief system. That’s when the ‘peaceful’ Messiah
story was invented. Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged
turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to ‘give onto Caesar’
and pay their taxes to Rome.”
[Jesus Christ] may be the only fictional character in literature whose entire life story can be traced to other sources
Was Jesus based on a real person from history?
“The short answer is no,” Atwill insists, “in
fact he may be the only fictional character in literature whose entire
life story can be traced to other sources. Once those sources are all
laid bare, there’s simply nothing left.”
Atwill’s
most intriguing discovery came to him while he was studying “Wars of
the Jews” by Josephus [the only surviving first-person historical
account of first-century Judea] alongside the New Testament. “I started to notice a sequence of parallels between the two texts,” he recounts.
“Although
it’s been recognised by Christian scholars for centuries that the
prophesies of Jesus appear to be fulfilled by what Josephus wrote about
in the First Jewish-Roman war, I was seeing dozens more. What seems to
have eluded many scholars is that the sequence of events and locations
of Jesus ministry are more or less the same as the sequence of events
and locations of the military campaign of [Emperor] Titus Flavius as
described by Josephus. This is clear evidence of a deliberately
constructed pattern. The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip
to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman
Caesar.”
How could this go unnoticed in the most scrutinised books of all time?
“Many
of the parallels are conceptual or poetic, so they aren’t all
immediately obvious. After all, the authors did not want the average
believer to see what they were doing, but they did want the alert reader
to see it. An educated Roman in the ruling class would probably have
recognised the literary game being played.” Atwill maintains he can
demonstrate that “the Roman Caesars left us a kind of puzzle literature
that was meant to be solved by future generations, and the solution to
that puzzle is ‘We invented Jesus Christ, and we’re proud of it.'”
Is this the beginning of the end of Christianity?
“Probably
not,” grants Atwill, “but what my work has done is give permission to
many of those ready to leave the religion to make a clean break.We’ve
got the evidence now to show exactly where the story of Jesus came from.
Although Christianity can be a comfort to some, it can also be very
damaging and repressive, an insidious form of mind control that has led
to blind acceptance of serfdom, poverty, and war throughout history. To
this day, especially in the United States, it is used to create support
for war in the Middle East.”
According
to Core Spirit, Atwill encourages skeptics to challenge him at Conway
Hall, where after the presentations there is likely to be a lively
Q&A session. Joining Mr Atwill will be fellow scholar Kenneth
Humphreys, author of the book “Jesus Never Existed.”
source:naij.com
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