Is Jesus a Historical Fact?

I don't know if there was a "Historic Jesus;" but, if there was, I am pretty sure some of his followers made up stories about him.  Consider this, no record has ever found in the "Holy Lands" that mention a person by the name of Jesus. This is odd in as much as there are plenty of written records from that period by the Hebrews and Romans, but not one word about this person they feared and loathed so much as to put him to death in such a ceremonial procession as claimed by Christians.

Not one word written about the large number of people who gathered to listen to him. You would think that some sort of written record about the concern of the political powers about an insurrection brewing. His miracles are so profound that someone would have recorded them in some official record that would have survived all these years.

The Romans and Hebrews were very good at keeping records and even with so many being lost or destroyed over the centuries, the wealth of available documents that cover so many, even mundane, problems of the Roman Empire; but not one word about a man named Jesus or any statement about such a person doing what he is said to have done.

Even the authors of the original text of the "New Testament," which are missing, are unknown. Even the adoption of the gospels by the Catholic Church was centuries after this person supposedly lived and made all these profound statements. The very origins of Christianity as a distinct faith and of the practices of that faith are lacking, until the written records of Catholic church was organized much later.

If a "GOD" came to earth to form a new religion because the religion this GOD had created millenniums prior through Abraham was not working as planned, why not inscribe his new commandments in stone, as he did with Mosses? After all, Jesus is suppose to be GOD in a human form, except the Mormons claim he is a completely distinct and separate individual who is the actual biological son of this all powerful GOD. If God is so powerful, why didn't he just tell the Jews to get their shit together as he had commanded prior. Why impregnate a married, but virgin, girl so he can reappear to the people in order to give them new commandments about life?

From the time of his birth, which is well written about that day in the writings authored a century or more after this supposed immaculate conception and the birth that just so happens coincides with the births of many pagan and mythological Gods~, but nothing written for 30+ years after his birth about him. This is GOD growing up in a human body, from infancy, childhood and a young adult? Then suddenly he is on the scene making waves in society. Is it that he doesn't obtain the powers until he turns 30?

It is assumed that Jesus, being a faithful Jew, Israelite, attended Temple, participated in the Passover Seder celebrating when he, Jesus who is God, commanded Mosses to leave Egypt and prepare unleavened bread for their travels and put the mark of blood from a sheep over the door so that the Angel or Destroyer tasked with killing the first-born of Egypt would "pass over" them. Supposedly he attended Rabbinical School and it was stated he was an actual Rabbi who gave service in the temple. 

Even during his time, children and young adults would be required to attend Rabbinical School to learn the theology of their faith. Then suddenly at the age of 30 something happened that forced him to start a new religion that will be called Christian and he has handed down new laws and rules to be followed and if you don't then you will go to hell? A concept that before was not contemplated or part of the Jewish-Israelite religious doctrine. An he decided to have himself killed for the supposed sins of his children and/or brothers and sisters, even those who have not even been born on this planet and who could not have committed any sins yet; BTW what are the sins anyway? At that time there were only ten engraved in stone. But even those stones are not to be found. Even fragments of them as Mosses supposedly threw them at the idol and they shattered. He needed some anger management help.

So now this God/Jesus wants every living person to commit their life and possessions to this new representation of him, God, as Jesus the Christ, (the Messiah, a savior who will come to deliver God's chosen people) by them forsaking all their freedoms and independence as an individual. 

These new followers of this new representation of God must now commit to being a slave unto this Lord, (Lord is a term for a master over the peasantry who were enslaved to the owner of all the property for which they work on and for; a feudal superior: in medieval Europe, a powerful land- or property-owner, with authority over an area, castle, or community, e.g. the lord of a manor, landlord. Such power was granted by a grant deed of the property and the authority to control it issued by the monarch to the Lord). Now wouldn't you want to know why this all mighty and powerful entity needed to go through a physical childhood in order to then preach his demands upon the people of these new laws they  must follow to be saved in some fashion? 

If he can create the entire universe, all living things to include humans, why not just create an adult human body to occupy and immediately go about informing everyone about who he is and what they must do to return to that place in the sky that he resides after they die? After all he created Adam and Eve who were fully adult aged humans that didn't have to come from a physical birth from a female "human" and go through infancy to childhood to adulthood, right? If they did, who gave birth to them and who took care of them from birth to adulthood? That has never been answered. And if there were only two of them, then all the others after them were begat by incest. There is not other way. But if incest is wrong, then why use it, since he was so powerful and could create anything he wanted?

But one can say that when this new religion got organized, it spread by force with great violence and intimidation like a wildfire and much like a wildfire, destroying so much in its path.

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~ The celebration of December 25th goes all the way back to ancient Babylon.

According to ancient Babylonian tradition, Semiramis (who eventually became known as the goddess Astarte/Asherah/Ashtoreth/Isis/Ishtar/Easter in other pagan religions) claimed that after the untimely death of her son/husband Nimrod (yes she was married to her own son), a full grown evergreen tree sprang up overnight from a dead tree stump. Semiramis claimed that Nimrod would visit that evergreen tree and leave gifts each year on the anniversary of his birth, which just happened to be on December 25th.

This is the true origin of the Christmas tree.

Why is Rick Santorum Pining for the Pilgrim/Theocrat days?

American history regarding Church and State.



This is a great show by Thom Hartmann.

Here is Rick Santorum on CNN regarding his prior statements about gays:

Please note that he makes the claim that religious sins or moral rules should not be in public policy, then he states that because the Catholic Church states that homosexuality and gay marriage is immoral and a sin, that public policy should prohibit them from marring. Complete contradiction in statements. So which is the truth?
 

Here is Rick Santorum attacking Ron Paul about Paul's idea that each state should determine what marriage is, even though he believe that marriage is between a single man and a single woman.



Rick Santorum attacks scientists as immoral people:
Stop federal funding of scientific research that may save lives or gain new knowledge about the universe and the world we live in. It's OK if there is private funding, but not tax money because some people find it objectionable....



This guy is completely nuts and wants to live in a period 400 years ago.

Our past Roosevelt Presidents Views On America

President Franklin Roosevelt - Democrat 

President: Teddy Roosevelt  - Republican

Mitch McConnell Banking On American Amnesia

February 3, 2012

By Justin "Filthy Liberal Scum" Rosario

That Republicans pretend history started the day Barack Obama was sworn in as president is nothing new. Their entire platform for the last three years has been based on denouncing the deficit they created while blaming Obama for it. And it mostly worked. The 2010 election was a referendum on the government’s out of control spending. Specifically, the spending done by the GOP. But that didn’t matter to conservative voters. It was all Obama’s fault and that was that.

Never one to let a successful tactic go, the Chief Obstructionist in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, has recently taken to making the wild claim that not only did President Obama have a fully compliant Congress for two years but that they rubber stamped everything he asked for. TPM reports:

The White House has “been trying to pretend like the President just showed up yesterday, just got sworn in and started fresh,” McConnell declared Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “In fact, he’s been in office for three years. He got everything he wanted from a completely compliant Congress for two of those three years… We are living in the Obama economy.”

First to explain what Cloture Motions are: When there is a debate on a particular bill, the members will vote to terminate the debate and move on to voting on the actual bill, this vote is called the Cloture Motion Vote. However, when a party evokes a filibuster, that being continuous debating, but in reality it is just one party talking on anything, even at times reading the names in a phone book or some long novel, just to keep the debate open. It doesn't have to pertain to the bill. The opposition party to that filibustering will put forth a Cloture Motion to cut off the filibuster, but it requires 60 votes to terminate the filibuster. If the cloture vote does not close debate, then they continue filibustering or the party that presented the bill to the floor can withdraw the bill to end the debate. The filibuster was intended to counter any excessive use of power by the majority in the Senate, but has now become common by the minority party, mainly the Republicans, to require a super majority of 60 votes on nearly every bill presented on the floor for debate and just the mere threat of a filibuster has caused many bills not be present to the floor for debate and/or actual vote on the bill.

That’s a most…interesting interpretation of the last three years. Let’s take a closer look at that:

The 111th would the “rubber stamping” Congress McConnell is referring to. That almost, but not quite, record breaking amount of filibusters would be, what, exactly? Bills that Obama didn’t want passed? In reality, Obama only had a full sixty votes for eight months of the 111th Congress. Between Al Franken’s victory being contested as a means of denying Democrats the key sixtieth seat and Scott Brown winning Ted Kennedy’s seat due to a sloppy and lazy campaign run by Martha Coakle, there was a filibuster proof majority for only a short time. Al Franken was sworn in July 7, 2009 while Scott Brown was sworn in February 4, 2010. Eight months. You’d be surprised how many people, including liberals (especially liberals), can’t do the basic math involved.

But even during those eight months, when the GOP was helpless before the monolithic juggernaut of liberalism, Obama still didn’t get everything he wanted. Why? Because of Joe Lieberman and the blue dog Democrats. I don’t necessarily blame the blue dogs. They’re Democratic Senators in traditionally Red states and if they’re doing their job correctly, they will reflect the values of their constituency. Of course, every now and then you just have to vote for what’s right regardless of what kind of propaganda Fox has been feeding your voters. Lieberman, on the other hand, threatened to join the Republicans in filibustering his own party which is unheard of. Why he has been allowed to retain his place in the caucus is a mystery to me. I would have kicked him out in a heartbeat and stripped him of his committee chairmanship. Even more so after the mid term elections when he became unnecessary. But that’s just me. Then again, he campaigned for John McCain so he should have been banished long before the health care debate in the first place.

Whatever the case may be, only a simpleton would believe McConnell’s whopper of a tale of Obama getting “everything he wanted from a completely compliant Congress for two of those three years.” It didn’t happen. Further, Obama didn’t even try to make that happen. Much to the annoyance of the firebagger left, Obama did not act like an emperor but more like a community organizer. He sought to build consensus and was open (a little too open, perhaps) to compromise. Which is exactly what he campaigned on. Instead of working with the president and the majority party, the GOP decided that they would take the unprecedented step of forcing a 60 vote requirement for almost every piece of legislation and certainly all major pieces. The minority party took the country hostage. How this translates into a “fully compliant Congress” is unclear.

One quick note on Obama’s critics on the Left who insist he rule by executive order or simply run roughshod over the GOP: First, executive orders can be overturned by the next president. for instance, ending DADT by executive order means it can be reinstated by executive order. Having it overturned by Congress means it has to be passed again from scratch. Good luck with that. So which is the more permanent solution? Second, we spent years complaining, and legitimately so, that Bush ran the country like a king. Why in the world would we want to do the same? The ends do not justify the means. That is not to say that we shouldn’t hold Obama accountable for capitulating to the GOP when he could have fought harder, but do it like adults and not by stamping your feet and holding your breath (or withholding your vote). That helps no one but the GOP.

Which brings us back to Mitch McConnell and his latest Big Lie. The closer we get to the election, the more you will here this particular line of bullshit. It is of paramount importance to the GOP election strategy that not only the economy not improve (or, by the grace of Republican Jesus™, get worse) but that Obama be fully responsible with no input from the Republican Party at all. In keeping with their victim-hood meme, they need to act as if they were helpless bystanders, powerless to stop the misguided policies of a socialist president bent on destroying Capitalism, Mom and Apple Pie.

We have eight months to counter this kind of garbage but shouting the truth from the rooftops. The GOP is the party of No Ideas, No Solutions and No Compromise. And that’s a lack of change you can believe in.