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Christian festivals,
Christmas and New Year's Eve
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Christian festivals, Christmas and New Year's Eve
(translated by Bence)
Most Christian festivals come from the Old Testament and
are therefore actually Jewish. So also the seven days of the week, because
according to the Bible God created the world in seven days and rested on the
last. The seventh was the day of the Lord and of course that could no longer
be the "Sabbath" (today Saturday) in the Christian worldview.
Christmas and New Year's Eve, but especially the
Christmas tree form a special category here. These have pagan origin.
Christmas is actually the beginning of the Saturnalia, this Roman festival
that lasted seven days, during which the slaves of the ancient empire were
free and could even scold their masters or owners. The end of this
large-scale entertainment was New Year's Eve. Probably you can only really
enjoy life as a pagan, life is simply too serious for a Christian. "Life
is a pagan joy!"
The Christmas tree, on the other hand, comes from
Germanic mythology. Here it was considered a symbol of fertility and was
taken up again, as it could not be totally prohibited, in the 16th and 17th
centuries and incorporated into the Christian process of events.
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Friday, 22 February 2019
Sunday, 20 January 2019
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Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo
vadis (translated by Bence)
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Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo
vadis (translated by Bence)
Henryk Sienkiewicz
describes the persecution of Christians at the time of Nero in his book
"Quo Vadis", for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize.
I don’t want to comment
on the literary value of the work, but rather go into the historical
background and examine the question of whether there was anything like
Christianity at that time.
After the destruction of Jerusalem
by Titus in 79 AD, many Palestinian Jews fled to various parts of the
then-known world, from Spain to India, from Central Europe to Ethiopia. They
were looking for a new home and many of them settled in Greece. And it was
precisely Greece with its cultural breeding ground that provided the basis
for a new religion.
Letters to the
Corinthians, the Galatians, the Ephesians, the Philippians, the Colossians,
the Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, or Philemon seem to me to be rather Greek.
And it was the time after the beginning of the great diaspora of the Jewish
people and the settlement of many of these refugees in Greece, where the New
Testament was written and thus Christianity was born.
Those, persecuted by
Nero's officials in 63, were certainly not what we call Christians or early
Christians. They were rather simply Jews who had made themselves unpopular
with the Romans by their behaviour of not wanting to participate in Roman
life, as the Romans expected them to do, and not worshiping the Roman emperor
as a god.
When will this lie
finally be rectified?
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Sunday, 6 January 2019
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Various Jesus
representations (translated by Bence)
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Various Jesus
representations (translated by Bence)
Jesus looks pretty fresh
and youthful in his late Roman toga. It was simply inconceivable for the
people, who were still too influenced by Roman culture, how the son of a god
could be so wretched, dirty, unkempt, uncombed, unshaven, emaciated and
unwashed.
Jesus, the apostles and
their symbols. Almost a pagan representation.
Only the Gothic Era,
which actually accomplished so much in architecture, made this miserable
figure out of him in its dark worldview. It is partly incomprehensible how
such a religion as life-denying as Christianity could conquer the world. One
should think that life is beautiful. And although it was never easy to
survive, one would have expected that people would enjoy their lives.
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Trinity (translated by
Bence)
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Trinity (translated by
Bence)
One of the ancient gods
was Uranus, the sky. His son Kronos overthrew him and cut off his genitals.
In this way, the former was no longer a man but only a ghost. The son of
Kronos in turn also overthrew his father. = The Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit. I should be greatly surprised if Christianity had not taken
everything from here.
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The seventh heaven
(translated by Bence)
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The seventh heaven (translated
by Bence)
The Greeks, like later the
Christians, believed in the reincarnation of souls. According to Plato, the
dead soul first had to go to the realm of the dead, drink from the River of
Oblivion “Lethe”, and after a while came back to the surface to start a new
life. This new life began with a chariot, drawn by a white and a black horse.
The white horse wanted to pull the car up, the black horse wanted to pull it
down. The soul was the driver and had to try to get as far as possible up.
There were seven different layers. The layers of slaves, women, peasants,
artisans, soldiers, merchants, politicians, philosophers, and finally the seventh
layer of the Gods, = the seventh heaven.
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Tuesday, 1 January 2019
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Did Jesus really exist?
(translated by Bence)
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Did Jesus really exist? (translated by Bence)
Jesus is said to have been born in Bethlehem in the year
zero and crucified around 33 AD. During this time, there are many stories in
the Bible about him having performed various miracles and spread his
teachings.
Why do we find references to these things only in the
Bible? Today, when we make historical-scientific statements, they are
generally accepted only if they are confirmed by several different,
independent sources. Why shouldn’t we do the same in this case?
What other sources confirm the existence of Jesus?
Flavius Josephus, a Jewish scholar who translated the 5 books of Moses and
other Hebrew writings fairly freely into Latin and then wrote down the
history of the Jewish people on his own to make them understandable to his
fellow Romans, was sharply condemned by a bishop in the 4th century, because
he had not mentioned Jesus. Another bishop fifty years later praised Josephus
for having mentioned Jesus. Probably the part about Jesus was later simply
inserted in his book.
Let's take just one example to get closer to it. A crowd
of two or three thousand Jews was marching to the Jordan, because some
self-proclaimed Messiah had promised to share the waters of the Jordan, as
God had done with the Red Sea at the time of Moses. Immediately, a Roman
legion was at hand, which dissolved this march. Now, when Jesus on a donkey
entered Jerusalem and the whole city gathered in the streets to greet him,
spreading palm leaves like a rug on his way, at least one legion would have
been instantly deployed to dissolve it, as well as other congregations
described in the Bible, because the Romans were always afraid of an uprising
in the occupied territories.
From a historical point of view, the existence of Jesus
mentioned in the Bible seems extremely doubtful.
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Zarathustra
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God and good, Gott and gut
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From Germanic Gods, Goddesses an Nymphs
to Christian heroes and Mary-fountains
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The origin of the angels
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