The Gospel According to Ronald

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The Matriarchal, Libertarian

Gospel

of Jesus according to Ronald

2013 by Ronald Thomas West.

For profit & mass paper media redistribution prohibited


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Introduction

Jesus was a man who never claimed to be the son of god

according to the best available scholarship (the scholarship of TheJesus Seminar)

That he was an extraordinary man is without dispute, insofar as the

majority view of those who actually believe he existed. My own

belief in the historical Jesus (as opposed to the the Christ

invented by St Paul and adopted by the church) is based entirely on

circumstantial evidence. What had convinced myself is precisely

what had convinced Thomas Jefferson, when Jefferson had stated:

The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and

doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and

such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of

other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause,

to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the

New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it haveproceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of

the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those

parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills. -Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson went on to compile his Jeffersonian Bible in an attempt

to separate the diamonds from dunghills in the New Testament,

so as to give the reader some idea of what Jesus might have

actually taught. But I have gone much farther; considering Jesushad to deal with the prejudices of his era, my thesis is, were he

alive today he would moreover be overwhelmed by the prejudices

of this eras make-believe Christian religion created around his

name, if certainly not his life and teachings in fact. So I put words

on Jesus lips that he might or might not have said, perhaps what


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he sometimes would not dare say on account of the prejudices of

his era, because what eventually became the modern church (of all

sects) had adopted a scripture rife with words put on Jesus lips to

create a necrotic fear-mongering institution that has enslaved the

minds of a large part of the world we live in. My attitude is: letspuncture the fear and let the rotten aroma out of what has been

heaped on the name of a man history knew as Jesus.

When creating The Gospel According to Ronald, I had used

Jesus teaching in the Gospel of Thomas as the underlying

foundation. The reason for this is, The Gospel of Thomas appears

to have escaped church editing and censorship which accompanied

the suppression of the Gnostics. Also (Im laughing as I type this

sentence) there can be no claim I have tampered with Christian

scripture, because the Gospel of Thomas never made into the

Bible.

The original inspiration for this work dates back to my thirty years

life with Native Americans of the Northern Plains, as elder

teachers from that culture had told myself on more than oneoccasion, Before the Christians, we lived the teachings of Jesus. It

was after the Christians arrived, our people became greedy and

violent. This makes perfect sense, because the Christians give

little attention to what Jesus had actually taught; rather preferring

the rules-bound St Paul who invented a murdered Christ who

supposedly died for sins the historical Jesus has nothing to do with.

In the end, Christian blood salvation with giving yourself to the[fantasy murdered] Lord is abdicating responsibility for ones

personal life. This widespread, necrotic social phenomena, is

undoubtedly something the historical Jesus would have

condemned.


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These following are secret sayings the historical Jesus spoke, as

dreamt up by Ronald. Oh, but Jesus actually DID say something

very close to much of what follows Ive merely amplified it

from a Native American point of view. And going to the native

humor, it was a fun thought to entertain the possibility of claimingthis following had been found engraved in an ancient mound Id

looted like Indiana Jones, and start a new religion. Hey! It worked

for the Mormons

This is a tribute to a wise man from long ago, a gifted teacher and

healer who is almost certainly the most lied about man ever to have

walked our planet. We can do better. Im trying here.

The Gospel of Jesus According to Ronald

Jesus said "Whoever solves these riddles will not taste death."

"Dont stop looking just because you discovered something.Search until what you discover disturbs you. With the disturbing

discovery, come a marvelous understanding and ability to deflect

those who would rule you"

"If the hypocrites who rule say to you, 'Man should go to the sky,

the birds will speak something differently to you. If they say to you

Man belongs under the sea,' the fish will revile you. What is

important is within you and only after grasping this, will you grasp

your surroundings.

When you know the inside, then you can know the outside, and

you will understand that you depend on a living clock. But if you

do not first know what is inside, you cannot know what is outside."


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"The wise old people understand a little child is more cognizant to

the truth; whereas you became fooled with the image you project.

How did this come to be? You must ask yourself. For there will be

many losers who know only one fate."

"When you cannot know what is in front of your face, what is

hidden from you will be doubly concealed. Yet there is nothing

hidden that cannot be revealed

"Dont be stupid and do those things that will make you look and

feel bad, because the wise will see through you. To be truly blind

is to fool yourself, imagining only you will know something."

"When you eat, what you have eaten becomes yourself. And what

would eat you, will become you as well. What will you take from

and give to life? You should be careful of what you eat.

The greedy take all of the fish, the wise return many fish to the

sea. When the peoples numbers are as the fish were of the sea,

will you wish you had not been greedy? Pay attention to this!

One person who understands the one half, is worth more thansixty who do not, and one who understands the whole of it, is

worth more than any village of people who live in ignorance.

"For when one should set the world on fire, should not one wait

and be certain all is ashes?"

"Be certain your world will one day be ashes because the dead do

not authentically walk and the truly living have no cares. Here is a

riddle; the four in the two must become but one. Are you not each

female and male? So what must happen when you marry?

"Associate with those who reject self-importance."

"I cannot be your teacher if you make me a god."


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And Jesus took Ronald and withdrew, giving him secrets. When

asked [after] what had been said by Jesus, Ronald replied "You

will hate me, but you must know or perish. Jesus told me Whatcurses Man is men. What curses woman is Man. What curses

oneself is oneself. Reject the misunderstanding of Adam, for the

snake told the truth and the woman brought no harm upon us.

Then we shared an apple."

Jesus said "If you practice humility for the sake of appearance, you

can only harm your spirit. To give as a hypocrite is worse than to

give nothing. To pray as a hypocrite is worse than no prayers at all.Accept yourself and be grateful. Hypocrisy is the defiler of all, for

a good spirit cannot abide the company of a hypocrite."

"When you have understood these things, become humble."

"When an inferior understanding claims the unseen, real wisdom

will be misconstrued, hated, even greatly reviled, and much

conflict will arise, for is not ignorance its own progenitor?

"And so I give to you things you have not seen to now, what had

become the unknown to the human heart. Beware of him who will

revile it."

The disciples said to Jesus, "How will our end come?"

Jesus answered "There was never any beginning and there will be

no end; old things will pass and new things will be known. What

this will mean to you is for yourselves to determine."

"Blessed are those who remember this understanding from their

time in the womb, for the living stones will reveal their knowledge

to them. What is inside yourself will be inside your child. Do not

fail a child, for the penalty is severe. Who wills a child to become a


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vapor? But if you only will look, there are many vapors, the

careless creating the careless. Woe unto the careless.

The disciples said to Jesus, "What is Heaven like?"

He said to them, It is a place where there is no illusion of self.

Magdalene said to Jesus, "What do your disciples know?"

Jesus answered, A day will come when masses of men will die of

thirst for want of a cup. The weakest of mine will know a stream

where one can kneel to drink with cupped hands. The greatest will

know a mountain spring and prostrate oneself with gratitude.

Magdalene was nursing his child and Jesus said to his disciples,

Because this woman has blessed me with love, this child knows

from birth what none of you can you can know except with great

labor.

They said to him, "Then must we become children?"

Jesus said to them, "When the four in the two have become one,when the outside is indistinguishable from the inside, when the left

knows the right intimately, and when male and female are become

androgyny, only then will you enter the now. And you must to

survive, for you are a part of all that you can know, and all that you

can know is a part of you."

His disciples demanded, "Show us this place!"

Jesus answered "There must be light within a light. Dispel thatwhich is dark in yourself and find yourself there."

"Love those who are truly worthy and in this way love yourself."


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"You see yourself in the eye of another. What kind of person

would you be? For what you are is what you must discover in

another. Nurture love in yourself so that you may find love

nurtured in those you discover to be your friends. If you do not

starve to death what is inferior in your surrounding, you will notfind the blessed reality. If you do not know beauty in your

associations, you cannot know love."

"Consider the difficulty of a good spirit to walk among the drunk

and the dead. This cannot go on indefinitely, therefore act on

correcting oneself, before it is too late."

"I marvel at how Mans mind has come into poverty."

"Where there are three people living correctly, there you will find

divinity. Whether there are two or one, I look for myself there."

"No prophet is recognized in his hometown, because people have a

past memory of this person but this memory is not the person

today; it is the same when people cannot be healed by those they

have known, for they are caught in the past and cannot overcome

and believe. When a known one has not shared the others journey,one has not grown with and no longer knows that person. The

prejudice of memory is great and detrimental to perception."

"So when building your mind, make it like a home on a hill, where

there is no flood to sweep it away. Do not be caught in the

canyons, but bring your sight to where you may see what is on the

horizon. What you will see can be shared, this way anyone who

cares to, can know. How can it do any good to put a lamp in thecloset, behind closed door? Avoid the trap of the blind leading the

blind, is it not assured both must come into peril? How many are

the blind who believe they see!"


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"With sight you will be a strong person, do not believe a crippled

elder, slow of gait, is worthless. What might they see that you

cannot? For the mind may become the greatest of eyes."

"When you have found yourselves, do not worry for tomorrow, foris not that which rules our nature greater than any plan we can

make? When did reality care for anything necessitated by your

vanity? I assure you, this was never the case.

His disciples said, "How do we find you?"

Jesus answered, "When you can be naked like little children who

hate clothes, and are without shame, you will have found what you

need. You must throw out your insecurities like clothes that are too

constricting, to find yourself. If I let you become dependent on

me, you will have learned nothing."

"Hypocrite religions serving ignorance and wealth [and their

clerics promoting blood sacrifice] had taken the keys of knowledge

and long since lost them. They know not the way themselves and

they do not want you to know the way. You must fly above these

venomous snakes, as would a dove. Tithe nothing of yourself tothis evil.

"A windstorm blew down a grove of trees. But that tree which had

stood alone, was unharmed. For when one comes to depend on

deeply rooted principles, challenges may be met bravely. And

whoever has surrendered vanity to a greater reality, will know a

superior reward."

"Be observers. "

His disciples said to him, "Who are you, to know these things?"


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Jesus answered "I am the one who listens to the water, the trees,

the stones and the moving air. If the birds bless me with a message,

who will deny it? Are you not listening of your own accord?

"Some might damn their fathers justifiably. But those who give noallegiance to their mothers, cannot prosper. Did she not nurse

you? Else how would you be here? Only ingrates despise women

with crass behaviors, and ingrates cannot know the Mystery."

"Honor her that suckled you, even to the present day, for did she

not make it possible that you might draw every breath? What she

had given remains with you to this moment. With this good, you

are able to discover good and if you are able to discover good, youbring greater good into this world."

"From Adam, through the prophets, to the greatest of men in any

moment, none is so great as those among you able to become

worthy as a small child. The little children do not know hypocrisy

and a small child knows how to be genuinely grateful.

"Do not be two-faced."

"If two will work in peace, they will say to a mountain, 'Move and

it will move."

"Those who have come from the knowledge will find a return to

the knowledge."

We have come from the light, let us return there.

We are movement and stasis.

His disciples said to him, "When will there be rest for the dead?"

Jesus said, "There is no rest for the dead, they walk among you."


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His disciples said to him, "The prophets spoke of you."

Jesus said, "The prophets also walk among the dead."

His disciples said to him, "is circumcision useful?"

Jesus said, "No."

"Are not the poor blessed with humility? Theirs will be a greater

satisfaction. For the rich burn with anxiety that is unnatural."

"Whoever has loved a dead body in the person of vanity, has their

necrotic reward. The Mystery tolerates these inferior people only

for a moment. This moment is as a moment one does another task.

"Happy is that person who has worked to accomplish learning the

Mystery, for this is authentic life."

"If you cannot live in the now, you cannot live in the future."

Dont be like a carcass that is eaten. Do not jealousies eat you?"

"Be at home within."

Salome said, "Who do you think you are? You behave as though

this were your own house!"

Jesus said to her, "My house is my presence. Should I not be

comfortable?"

Salome answered, "Now, I believe you."

Jesus said to Salome, "The Mystery will find you worthy."

A rich mans plans were meticulously laid, but he died the night

before he could bring them off.


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Feed the street people."

Rich bankers will not respect your money.

"A humble man rebuilds from the rubble of the devastated rich."

"Associating with vanity will yield you nothing."

"It is a blessing if you are persecuted for the good, because you

will have remembered you can live with your conscience."

"If you have known hunger, you can know gratitude."

"What is inside you, can save you or kill you."

"To discover the Mystery is to have a shoddy house destroyed.

After, you will know how to build intelligently."

Someone said "Tell my brothers to divide my father's possessions

with me."

Jesus said Why should I do this?"

Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said to them "Remember to

mind your own business."

"Do not grow more than you need to harvest, for that day might

come you seek water to irrigate and there will be none."

"There are many suitors for a beautiful woman, but only one shall

prevail. So it is to know the Mystery, many will seek but few willfind, because the many only know convention."

To know the Mystery is to conserve what is valuable. Will you

eat your money, when there is no food?


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"Be light over all other things, to know what is inside a hollow

tree, to see your way in a cave.

"Why be like a reed knocked down in the wind? Do not behave as

your rulers."

A woman in the crowd said to him, "Blessed are the womb that

bore you and the breasts that fed you."

Jesus said to her, "It is true, blessed are those who have known the

Mystery from the beginning, for there will be others who will wish

a womb had not conceived and breasts had not suckled them."

"Whoever has come to know our world has discovered illusion,

and whoever has penetrated illusion, is immortal."

A wise man who refuses to give council, will have saved no one.

A man who renounces power can save himself."

"To be safe within yourself is to be truly warm. To be truly warm,

one must love."

"A light within, is in the eye."

"If you can only look happy in the mirror, all is fear!"

"Adam came from great power but he died, as must all who

embrace the illusion"

You are model of the universe, how important that you set theexample! Let the fox have its den, do not disturb the birds nest."

"If you care only for your body, the soul cannot prosper."

"Take only what is yours and surrender what is not"


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"The cup you drink from is no different to yourself."

"Master your infirmities and you will know peace."

They said to him, "Who are you? Why should we believe?"

Jesus said to them, "Do you know your own hand, what it

conceals? I did not bring you here, so why would you listen, except

that you would wish to know something? Seek and you will find,

but to seek, you cannot conceal what is in your hand. If I give what

is sacred to pigs, do you believe they will appreciate it? Do not be

like the clerics.

"If you slap a melon just so, you will know if it is good."

"Be generous."

To know the Mystery requires a woman. Her knowledge is such,

she can grow and give life. What man among you can do this? But

if you will learn her intelligence, I swear to you anything is

possible, and this is how a man enters into real knowledge.

The Mystery is like a woman who was carrying a child. While

walking along her labor began, and she stopped to give birth in the

shelter of an Aspen grove. She didn't know it; but she had been

blessed. When she put the child to her nipple there was a great

peace in the quaking leaves. Blessed is any such child!

The mystery is like a person who must kill someone powerful.

While at home he drew his sword and thrust it into the mirror to

destroy self-image. Thus he killed the powerful one.

The disciples said to him, "Your brothers and your mother are

standing outside."


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Jesus said "Those here who destroy self-image are my brothers and

my mother.

They showed Jesus a gold coin with the Emperors inscription and

said to him, "The Emperor demands taxes from us."

He said to them, "Give to the Emperor his vanity and give to me

only what is mine, for the sake of the mother who gave me life

"Damn the Evangelists! They are like a dog guarding a long dead

body. Do not seek people out with your knowledge, rather let them

seek you"

"Be happy when you know from which direction the attack will

come, you can be certain the arrow will miss."

They said to Jesus, "Come, let us pray, let us fast."

Jesus said, "What have I done? Rather, when the lie has been

banished from your hearts and minds, let us feast. For whoever

knows the sacred androgyny will be called the child of a whore by

the lie. But when you make the two into one, you will be blessed ofEve, and when you say, 'Mountain, move it will move."

The mystery is kind to the those who slept on the mountain, for

the dream came and the angel loved them.

"Whoever drinks from a sacred womans mouth will become like

her; I became that person, and hidden things are revealed."

The mystery is a hidden treasure in each of you but you cannotknow it until you have searched.

"Let one who has found the success and become wealthy, renounce

success."


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"The heavens are ordered after those who have found what is truly

beautiful, and their presence is immortal."

"Damn those who depend only on the soul. Damn those that

depend only on the body. You must be titans on this Earth."

His disciples said to him "When will the Mystery be revealed?"

Jesus replied "It will not come by waiting for it. Rather, the

Mystery is spread out upon the earth, and you don't see it."

Peter said to Jesus "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve

immortality."

Jesus said "That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! Will you

ever learn anything? I expect not.

*

Jesus is almost certainly the most misrepresented man in history.

'The Christ' is established in scholarship as an invention [lie] by the

so-called St Paul, adopted by the church, and smears the reputation

of the historical Jesus by adapting Greek paganism rites that turned

animal sacrifice into the Christian ritual human sacrifice and

cannibalism known as 'Communion.' Any rational person who will

like to know the history behind these facts need only look into the

research of 'The Jesus Seminar.'

For Paul, the Christ was to be understood as a dying/rising lord,

symbolized in baptism (buried with him, raised with him), of the

type he knew from the Hellenistic [Greek] mystery religions. In


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Pauls theological scheme, Jesus the man played no essential

role.

St Paul was never taught by Jesus and in fact never even met him.

All of St Pauls information concerning Jesus was 2nd hand at bestor anecdotal. St Paul was not present at Pentecost. Jesus disciples,

likely to a man, refused to meet with St Paul, a man they resolutely

despised and mistrusted, a fact Paul complained of. Any claim of a

relationship of St Paul to St Peter is highly questionable and Peter

was the least reliable of Jesus disciples after Judas. Jesus was

constantly annoyed with Peter according to the gospels and the

idea Jesus would found his church on Peter were words put in

Jesus mouth by people with a political agenda, after the fact ofJesus life:

Eighty-two percent of the words ascribed to Jesus in the gospels

were not actually spoken by him according to the Jesus Seminar.

And recalling specifically:

In Pauls theological scheme, Jesus the man played no essentialrole

Think about it. In Pauls theological scheme, Jesus the man

played no essential role.

That could also be stated what ever Jesus had taught was

irrelevant to Paul (if for no other reason than Jesus had never

taught Paul, a man he never knew.) St Pauls inventions

concerning Jesus, adopted by the church and incorporated into the

Bible have in fact largely supplanted the teachings of the authentic

Jesus according to the scholars of the Jesus Seminar:

The church appears to smother the historical Jesus by

superimposing this heavenly figure on him in the creed: Jesus is


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displaced by the Christ, as the so-called Apostles Creed makes

evident.

St Paul, inventor of The Christ was a self-anointed Apostle, that

is to say he took it upon himself to claim his membership amongthe disciples of Jesus. Paul NEVER KNEW JESUS.

The contrast is startling between the two. The mystic Jesus was a

tolerant man. The Greek language and Roman citizen Paul was

intolerant, rules obsessed & misogynist, whereas Jesus was none of

these and had great respect for women.

The teaching of Paul versus Jesus creates a contrast so great, itwould require to be a Christian:

1) Choosing between one or the other or:

2) A life in denial

In effect, the church has, since its organization under the Roman

Emperor Constantine, and its subsequent scripture consideredimperatively sacrosanct, demanded faith be founded on belief in a

lie.

Jesus had taught not to make a show of your religion, fasting, faith

or prayer (Do not be like the hypocrites) but instead to express

your faith modestly and communicate through prayer in private.

Paul taught organized worship in public. And it is in this public

scene of Paul the entire public prayer teaching of Paul falls apart:

On top of inventing The Christ, when organizing public prayer in

a twisted caricature of Pentecost, Paul had to come up with

speaking in tongues, and then Paul had to invent interpreters for

the otherwise unknown languages. Sorry folks, but neither was

the case at the original Pentecost as described in the Acts of the


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Apostles at which Paul was not present. At the Pentecost, no one

needed interpreters and the languages spoken were known

languages. It did not remotely happen in any way similar to what

Paul had taught. And the people who primarily follow Pauls

teachings, do not remotely resemble anything close to the lived andtaught example of Jesus.

Jesus himself stated:

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to

pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be

seen by others .. But when you pray, go into your room, close the

door and pray to your Father, who is unseen .. And when you pray,do not keep on babbling like people who think they will be heard

because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father

knows what you need before you ask him.

It is claimed that Paul, when traveling to Damascus to kill

followers of Jesus, something he was keen to do, was blinded by a

light identifying itself as Jesus. St Paul had later written Satan is

the author of all lies and The Devil masquerades as the Angel ofLight.

This begs the question: who did Paul meet on the road to

Damascus? It was not the Jesus who gave the Sermon on the

Mount because Jesus never came back and said Paul was right

and I was wrong.

It is pretty easy to see St Paul counterfeited the phenomena of

Pentecost he could not duplicate. This is a dichotomy the Church

has played down for the past 1,700 years, or that is since two

mutually exclusive sets of ideas had been incorporated into what

had to become a schizophrenic religion with people from the same

faith always on both sides of any major issue.


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Paul had said Jesus return was imminent -that is any day- not

still waiting after 2,000 years, he got that wrong too.

The scholars of the Jesus Seminar state:

Jesus taught that the last will be first and the first will be last. He

admonished his followers to be servants of everyone. He urged

humility as the cardinal virtue by both word and example. Given

these terms, it is difficult to imagine Jesus making claims for

himself-I am the son of God, I am the expected One, the Anointed-

unless, of course, he thought that nothing he said applied to

himself.

Jesus was a great man, not a hypocrite. Those who follow his

Sermon on the Mount live intelligent lives, contrasted to;

everywhere you see people following the teachings of the liar Paul

whod introduced the The Christ and worship of Jesus murder

and related ritual cannibalism called communion, ideas Paul took

from animal sacrifice in Greek Paganism. Consequently you see

organized Christian religions murder in the name of love while

pursuing narcissistic intolerance, hate, violence and/or destruction.

A gesture of respect to the authentic, historical Jesus would be to

reject Pauls Christ and explicitly condemn any reference to

Jesus' so-called 'sacrifice' claiming his blood had been shed to

'save' people, the most perverted belief ever to contribute to the

collective madness of Western civilization infecting the world. I've

yet to meet a Christian professing this Greek pagan blood sacrifice

based 'salvation' open to reason and learning, insofar as

understanding how much harm these sort of archetype myths do in

relation to perverting the minds of children and desensitizing

people to human slaughters on a grand scale.

Talk about pornography. If human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism

as base foundation for a culture do not make a pornographic


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culture, I can't imagine anything that does.

It's time to practice a bit of common sense and simply create a

social scene where these images are not welcome and let people

wonder what it might be like to live 'beyond the pale' or be'tempted' so to speak, to discover the possibilities when they are

willing to step beyond the fear mongering and necrotic bonds of

ignorance. We live in a literate world now, perversions of history

should no longer serve as instrument of superstition created by the

power corrupt to control people through fear.

There is no healthy rationale to provide hospitality to any being

harboring such absolute social poisons the image of blood sacrifice

entails. I certainly don't need it in my life.

Jesus should not be associated with hate mongering and

mainstream Christian dogma is chock full of invented hate, this

evil is not limited to the religious right. From the misogynist story

of 'The Fall' to Cain and Abel requiring blood sacrifice to God, it

just goes on and on.

It's time to acquire sanity, reject Pauls Christ, quit ritually killing

and eating Jesus and genuinely healthy people would want no

associations with people who do that. Particularly the people who

push the idea Jesus tortured to death was a good thing (as though

on a billboard) but consider; are those who quietly celebrate this

killing and eating of a human being any better?

Much better would be to appreciate those things Jesus had actually

said condemning hypocrisy and living simply, living with humility,

indeed Jesus lessons can teach people to save themselves, thosepeople who pay attention to what he had actually said; as opposed

to the many inventions put on the lips of Jesus by institutions

dedicated to control through fear-


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The scholars of The Jesus Seminar state:

The first step is to understand the diminished role the Gospel of

John plays in the search for the Jesus of history. The two pictures

painted by John and the synoptic [Matthew, Mark, Luke] gospelscannot both be historically accurate.

The Fellows of the Seminar were unable to find a single saying

[in John] they could with certainty trace back to the historical

Jesus.

The words attributed to Jesus in the Fourth Gospel.. ..are the

creation of the evangelist for the most part..

Words borrowed from the fund of common lore or the Greek

scriptures are often put on the lips of Jesus.

The evangelists frequently attribute their own statements to

Jesus.

We know that the evangelists not infrequently ascribed Christian

words to Jesus-they made him talk like a Christian, when, in fact,

he was only the precursor of the movement that was to take him asits cultic hero.

Jesus rarely makes pronouncements or speaks about himself in

the first person. Jesus makes no claim to be the Anointed, the

messiah.

The historical Jesus was a healer/teacher having nearly nothing to

do with ANY modern church teaching, church hate mongering

actually, and a reasonable person should be able to see the good inJesus teaching has been buried by the invention of Pauls Christ.

To be an Anti-Christ would be to stand against the necrotic

fantasies and lies organized religion has used to bury the authentic

Jesus truth, and truth is a good thing.


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The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and

doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and

such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of

other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause,

to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In theNew Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have

proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of

the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those

parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills. -Thomas Jefferson

Indeed, were it necessary to frighten people away from any

investigation into the fraud all of organized Christian religion had

perpetrated in the name of the authentic Jesus, it would require theinvention of a terrifying boogey man, that is the Anti-Christ, to

frighten people away from truth, when in actuality opposition to

the lie of The Christ would be a blessing. Indeed the church has

labeled the very idea of opposition to the lie of The Christ as a

very evil incarnate, when an Anti-Christ would truly be a

blessing.

Lets reject Pauls Christ, do away with ritual human sacrifice,

take Jesus down from the cross, and keep him off the cross, that

very cross which should long since been consigned to the rubbish

heap of history; for the simple sake of mental health, and our

national sanity-

"Experience witnesses that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of

maintaining the purity and efficacy of religion, have had a

contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal

establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been itsfruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the

clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition,

bigotry and persecution -James Madison


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On Christian holidays, people would do well to celebrate the

authentic Jesus, a great teacher & healer, with a toast to any Anti-

Christ opposed to the lies put on Jesus lips, in an act of overcoming

superstition, bigotry and persecution..

..considering Jesus lived example and teaching, as opposed to St

Pauls fantasies, empirically meet the definition of Anti-Christ

There is but one question remaining for those who would believe

in the authentic Jesus what would you call yourselves? Because

it certainly cannot be Christian.

About the Author

I am not a believer, nor am I agnostic or atheist. My faith is

pragmatic truth, kindness, respect inclusive of nature, and certainly

I am no respecter of science driven technology and associated

necrotic religions using those technologies creating the armaments

set to destroy our world. I consider I am but a cell in the incredible

mystery of our creation and am determined to be a healthy cell &anti-body in the present malignant expression of humanityRonald Thomas West

ronaldthomaswest.com

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The Gospel According to Ronald