Jesus or Marx?

If none of the Bible is true (or you don’t believe it to be true) then all you have left is “social policies.” To put it another way, “Why should I believe in anything you say or purport to represent if all you have is ‘social policy’?”

Indeed. If Neumayr’s reporting is fairly accurate, the Catholic Church continues to morph into a bland NGO.

That's exactly what Orwell showed in 1984, especially O'Brien's lectures to Winston Smith.  "A boot on the face of man -- forever."  The only question is the degree to which O'Brien's vicious sadism reflects the norm among radical leftists.  Certainly Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Guevara, and Pol Pot all fit that description.  Most of the others are probably just indifferent to people, which I think is the case with Maduro.

It has been 500 years sibs the last reformation perhaps it is time for another, but not only Catholic, but catholic across the Christian board. As I understand cannon law there is no prohibition for a lay person to be elected Pope. 

I have been going through some book marks I made in Durant's "Caesar and Christ." Here is something Durant had to say about Christ.



Some interesting observations there. One could say many revolutionaries over the centuries have seen things the way Durant has described them, i.e. Christ as only a great moral teacher, and tried to bring about heaven on earth. Each attempt has resulted in less-than-perfect results, which is not to be wondered at. Durant, and the modern religious fanatics all seem to forget that Christ understood that mankind was not perfect and could only achieve the salvation which man searches for, through faith in and obedience to God. Trying to achieve earthly utopias through unsound doctrine is not something for which one should hold out high expectations.

More from Durant on Christianity.




This puts the lie to the evil origins of Christianity and what it stands for. Perhaps they should be teaching this in history classes. 

In my world view Christianity has never been about the difference between Jews and Christians but between the Jewish and Christian vs the pagan. Christianity came along when the pagan worlds of Rome and Greece had fallen in disrepute among the common people. The elites had left belief in the ancient gods way behind for almost a 1000 years. You can find elements in the plays of Sophocles, Euripides and even Homer. There is a certain tongue in cheek to their works that suggest the gods are just not as important as they used to be. Thus, playing up to the gods was just propaganda for the masses. 

The one thing we can depend on is that people hate a vacuum in religious practice. Temple Judaism could not, and would not, seek out converts. The pagans were in decline and along comes a religious practice that offers the tribal pagans a replacement for the traditional tribal world view. 

For the 1st century pagan, eternal life was tied to the continued existence of the tribe. Thus, individuals were expendable, but would live forever as long as the tribe existed. Destroy the tribe and the existence of all the members over history died with the last member. We find evidence of this world view even in North American Indians. Chinese ancestor reverence is also an offshoot of early pagan beliefs. 

Christianity, as implemented by Paul and many other apostles offered eternal life to the individual pagan without the tribe. In fact it was the instrument that destroyed the tribe. We can find evidence of this with Christianization of the Vikings in the 9th century. Also the slow destruction of Druids and Celts in England and France. The old gods became obsolete and with their fall so did the tribe become obsolete.

Today we find that the elites have left G-d and worship a new tribalism and new deities, science, progress, and government. These are nothing but new names for the old pagan gods. The question we must ask--if the elites jump off this bridge will the people follow? A culture that answers yes, is doomed to death, destruction and dismemberment.