Contents Updated: Thursday, March 02, 2000
Jesus is the Christian god. The only reason that the Hebrew God as Father is still remembered is because of the Bible, which preserves in fixed form the Jewish scriptures and depicts the Son as totally loyal to his father. Without this, the father would have gone the way of Ormuzd and Zeus, replaced by the son—Mithras, Apollo, Jesus—as the god to be worshipped by the masses.
Jesus, who in the gospels clearly and explicitly denied he was god, has been worshipped as God Incarnate for 2000 years. Furthermore Jesus preached that obedience of the laws of Moses were essential to salvation, saying that nothing of them should be changed—yet the church has abandoned them. A mish-mash of Pagan ideas and festivals have been attached to the base of the Jewish scriptures with their idea of God's plan for his people. Jesus has been honoured with the pre-Christian title of the Incarnate Word and the prehistoric role of the Sun of Righteousness—the crucified divine man. Since God had cursed those who were crucified, Jesus was rejected by later Jews but welcomed by Pagans who loved dying and resurrected gods such as Osiris, Tammuz, Dionysus, Hercules, Orpheus and many others.
The triumph of Christianity was assured when Constantine, pressed by his army largely of the ignorant underclass that Christianity appealed to, and his civil service who had noticed that the church hierarchy assiduously modelled itself on and supported the Roman state, unenthusiastically made Christianity the state religion. He was not to become a Christian himself until years later, just before his death.
Christians have accepted literally that Jesus said he was the Good Shepherd and the Truth when he could only have said: Saith the Lord: I am the Truth, and so on. Jesus was an Essene and their sine qua non was humility. Neither as a Jew nor as an Essene could Jesus have claimed for himself what was rightly God's.
One of the problems with Christianity is that it has been predicting an immediate end to the world for 2000 years, leaving any true believer with little incentive to do anything about the world as it is. They are taught to despise the world as evil and with no future because of the expected supernatural intervention of God. The actions of Christians and similar believers in transcendental gods will bring about the end of the world, but not in the way they imagine.
Now that we can see that the world is showing distinct signs of collapsing under the strain of human irresponsibility, we have a strong incentive to ignore Christian pessimism about the world and to do something to stop its decay. Zarathustran eschatology, artificially foisted on to Jews and thence gentiles, is a totally inadequate way to view the world as it suffers. We have to realise that we are giving the world burdens it cannot bear. Should we enslave and neglect our mother in this way?