Torture and Burning: Why is the Christian God Bloodthirsty?
Abstract
Is there any meaning in the Christian God being tortured to death on the cross? Is it meant to show to Christians what they should not do? Or is it meant to demonstrate what they should do?
The only acceptable religion for man is the one that will teach him first of all to recognise, love and passionately serve this world of which he is the most important element.
Is there any meaning in the Christian God being tortured to death in all the brutality that Mel Gibson depicts in The Passion of the Christ? Some of us, as children, thought it was meant to show to Christians what they should not do. They said he was the God of love who urged everyone to love each other to cure the never ending bloody strife between people. His own cruel death showed exactly what he meant.
Why then do Christians not notice this simple message?
• They have committed worse atrocities than did their own God’s tormentors. •
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Dr John G Jackson, in Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth writes: According to the Chaldean historian Berosus, there was a religious festival celebrated annually in ancient Babylon, known as the Sacaea. The duration of the fete was five days, and for that length of time servants and masters exchanged places in society, the servants giving orders and the masters obeying them. The king temporarily abdicated the throne, and a mock-king called Zoganes reigned in his place. But after the five days were over, the mock-king was dethroned and scourged, and then either hanged or crucified. An eminent Egyptologist has noted that:
The victims of these human sacrifices were generally crucified, or else killed and then “hung on a tree”, until the evening. In this regard it is interesting to notice that in Acts the writer mistakenly speaks of Jesus as having been slain and then hanged on a tree, as though this were a common phrase coming readily to his mind; and the word “hanged” is frequently used in Greek to denote curcifixion.
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