Man created god(s) out of his imagination and lack of understanding of the universe.

â?¢ There never was just one Christianity. Out of the milieu of religiosity that infected the Roman world, dozens of competing and conflicting Jesus/Sun-god/Mystery cults emerged.

â?¢ Nothing in the 'Christian message' was original. It was a vulgarised paganism, debased by religious intolerance. The early Christian sects attacked each other as energetically as they attacked pagans.

â?¢ The composite 'Jesus Christ' character â?? god, man, king, carpenter, conqueror, peace-maker, dispenser of justice, advocate of love â?? was assembled to try and unify a fragmented and fractious messianic religious movement.

â?¢ The first believers in Jesus maintained he was an ethereal spirit, much like other sky/sun-gods. Only later did he acquire a human death, a human life and finally a human birth.

â?¢ The original Mary was not a virgin. The idea was borrowed from pagan goddesses.

â?¢ The barbarian tribes that overran the weakened Roman Empire were, for the most part, Christianized; the forces that opposed them, pagan.

â?¢ The Church expropriated the resources â?? both human and material â?? which might have defended Roman civilization. While an indolent army of clerics lived on the state, the impoverished legions degenerated into a peasant militia.

â?¢ Once a particular Christianity â?? hierarchical and authoritarian â?? became wedded to the Roman state, it became a force of brutal repression. This so-called 'orthodoxy' suppressed and persecuted its 'heretical' opposition.

â?¢ A triumphant Christianity was the active agent in destroying knowledge and access to learning. An ignorant and impoverished population was more readily subjugated by Princes of the Church.

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