And all three were speedily apprehended and executed, both
Galileans by crucifixion.

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Also a lie. Jesus preached for three years with no trouble from the Romans. He was also friendly to Roman officers, and healed the slave of one of them.  

Personal qualities aside, Jesus of Nazareth was, like his predecessors, a political agitator engaged in liberating his country from the foreign oppressor. There is even considerable evidence that he entertained an ambition to become king of an independent Judea.

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He claimed, or his biographers later claimed for him, descent from the ancient royal line of David.

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More jew lies. The Talmud itself says, ADMITS, that His mother, Mary, was a descendant of King David.

Jesus and Mary by Adolf Hitler, 1911

But his paternity is somewhat confused. The same writers who traced the origin of his mother’s husband back to the psalmist-king also pictured Jesus as the son of Jehovah, and admitted that Joseph was not his father.

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A scandal that was none at all, except to a person or group known for a filthy imagination. An angel tells Mary that God will make her pregnant.

Then he informs Joseph of this fact so he will not break the engagement, supecting her of being unchaste and adulterous.

It seems, however, that Jesus before long realized the hopelessness
of his political mission and turned his oratorical gifts and his great
popularity with the masses in quite another direction. He began preach
ing a primitive form of populism, socialism and pacifism. The effect of
this change in his program was to gain him the hostility of the substantial, propertied classes, the priests and patriots generally, and to reduce his following to the poor, the laboring mass and the slaves.

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After his death these lowly disciples formed themselves into a com 
munistic brotherhood.

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A sermon their late leader had once delivered upon a hillside summed up for them the essence of his teachings, and they made it their rule of life. It was a philosophy calculated to appeal profoundly to humble people. It comforted those who suffered here on earth with promised rewards beyond the grave.

It made virtues of the necessities of the weak. Men without hope in the future were admonished to take no thought for the morrow.

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Men too helpless to resent insult or injury were taught to resist not evil. Men condemned to lifelong drudgery and indigence were assured of the dignity of labor and of poverty.

The meek, the despised, the disinherited, the downtrodden, were — in the hereafter — to be the elect and favored of God. The worldly, the ambitious, the rich and powerful, were to be denied admission to
heaven.

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The upshot, then, of Jesus’ mission was a new sect in Judea. It was
neither the first nor the last. Judea, like modern America, was a fertile
soil for strange creeds. The Ebionim — the paupers, as they called them – selves — did not regard their beliefs as a new religion. Jews they had been born, and Jews they remained.

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Again mendacity from Ravage. The Ebionim were a small sect of Jewish Christians who, as Wikipedi says, “regarded Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah while rejecting his divinity and his virgin birth^[2] and insisted on the necessity of following Jewish law and rites. Their name suggests that they placed a special value on voluntary poverty.”

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The teachings of their master were rather in the nature of a social philosophy, an ethic of conduct, a way of life. To modern Christians, who never tire of asking why the Jews did not accept Jesus and his teachings, I can only answer that for a long time none but Jews did.

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Again an assertion that Ravage pulls out of thin air. Very early on, Gentiles were accepting the faith of jesus.

To be surprised that the whole Jewish people did not turn Ebionim is about as intelligent as to expect all Americans to join the Unitarians or the Baptists or the Christian Scientists.

In ordinary times little attention would have been paid to the ragged brotherhood. Slaves and laborers for the most part, their meekness might even have been encouraged by the solider classes. But with the country in the midst of a struggle with a foreign foe, the unworldly philosophy took on a dangerous aspect. It was a creed of disillusion, resignation and defeat. It threatened to undermine the morale of the nation’s fighting men in time of war.

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This blessing of the peacemakers, this turning of the other cheek, this
non-resistance, this love your enemy, looked like a deliberate attempt to paralyze the national will in a crisis and assure victory to the foe.

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So it is not surprising that the Jewish authorities began persecuting the Ebionim.

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Again he calls the Christians “Ebionim,” though they were a sect that the early Church Fathers rejected. The Ebionim also rejected most of the New Testament.

Their meetings were invaded and dispersed, their leaders were clapped into jail, their doctrines were proscribed. It looked for awhile as if the sect would be speedily wiped out. Then, unexpectedly, the curtain rose on act three, and events look a sudden new turn.

Perhaps the bitterest foe of the sectaries was one Saul, a maker of
tents. A native of Tarsus and thus a man of some education in Greek
culture, he despised the new teachings for their unworldliness and their remoteness from life.

A patriotic Jew, he dreaded their effect on the national cause.

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The “national cause” of Saul was the Jews ruling the world.

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A traveled man, versed in several languages, he was ideally suited for the task of going about among the scattered Jewish communities to counteract the spread of their socialistic, pacifistic doctrines.

The leaders in Jerusalem appointed him chief persecutor to the Ebionim.

He was on his way to Damascus one day to arrest a group of the sectaries when a novel idea came to him.

In the quaint phrase of the Book of Acts he saw a vision. He saw as a
matter of fact, two. He perceived, to begin with, how utterly hopeless
were the chances of little Judea winning out in an armed conflict against the greatest military power in the world.

Second, and more important, it came to him that the vagabond creed which he had been repressing might be forged into an irresistible
weapon against the formidable foe. Pacifism, non-resistance, resignation, love, were dangerous teachings at home. Spread among the enemy’s legions, they might break down their discipline and thus yet bring victory to Jerusalem.

Saul, in a word, was probably the first man to see the possibilities of conducting war by propaganda.

He journeyed on to Damascus, and there to the amazement alike of
his friends and of those he had gone to suppress, he announced his conversion to the faith and applied for admission to the brotherhood.

On his return to Jerusalem he laid his new strategy before the startled
Elders of Zion. After much debate and searching of souls, it was adopted. More resistance was offered by the leaders of the Ebionim
of the capital. They were mistrustful of his motives, and they feared
that his proposal to strip the faith of its ancient Jewish observances and practices so as to make it acceptable to Gentiles would fill the fraternity with alien half-converts, and dilute its strength.

But in the end he won them over, too. And so Saul, the fiercest persecutor of Jesus’ followers, became Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles.

And so, incidentally, began the spread into the pagan lands of the West of an entirely new Oriental religion.

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Completely wrong. Key Christian doctrines: life after death, the immortality of the soul, the Messiah, God versus the Devil, heaven and hell, divine judgment at death and the importance of free will were all Aryan doctrines stolen from Zoroastrianism. The values of love, forgiveness, humility, generosity and serving others were also the exact, diametrical opposite of Judaism and Jewish behaviour as the world has come to know it to its regret. 

Unfortunately for Paul’s plan, the new strategy worked much too well.
His revamped and rather alluring theology made converts faster than
he had dared hope, or than he even wished.

His idea, it should be kept in mind, was at this stage purely defensive. He had as yet no thought of evangelizing the world; he only hoped to discourage the enemy.

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Agains Ravage is pulling a claim out of thin air, to avoid a more vulgar phrase.

As a top scholar, Larry Hurtago, wrote in his  2005 work entitled “Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity,”

by the prestigious Eerdmans publishing,

“Paul saw himself as…a salvation-historical figure in his own right,” [and one] who was “personally and singularly deputized by God to bring about the predicted ingathering (the “fullness”) of the nations (Romans 11:25).”

Some modern theologians also hold that the teachings of Paul differ markedly from those of Jesus as found in the Gospels…..Some have even gone so far as to claim that, due to these apparent differences in teachings, that Paul was actually no less than the “second founder” of Christianity (Jesus being its first).^[189][190]

Paul is viewed as the originator of the idea that the cross of Jeuss saves us from sin, that Jesus is God, that we are sinful because of Adam and Eve eating an apple in th Garden of Eden, and that another person, Jesus, can pay for our sins and get us into heaven by dying, and that even after murdering Jesus, the Jews are “still” God’s Chosen People.

Among the critics of Paul the Apostle was Thomas Jefferson, a Deist, who wrote that Paul was the “first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus,” a view shared by the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, who wrote War and Peace.

 

What this meant was to say that now the supposed covenenant of Yahweh with the Jews at Mount Sinai was changed.

Yahweh, as Laurent Guyénot says, had orginally been just the tribal god of the Jews, but now he was raised to creator of the whole universe, all otehr gods were called demons, and all the Gentiles were supposed to worship Yahweh. Yahqweh was now a very nice god, and he sent his son Jesus to earth and arranged for his murder to pay in full for all the Gentiles’s sins so Yahweh would accept them.

So a Jew rules the universe, and his son saves the world. Therefore, the Gentiles should worship the God of the Jews. This doctrine, as the very common Jewish saying goes, is obviously “good for the Jews.”

With that accomplished [i.e. “discouraging the Roman enemy”], and the Roman garrisons out of Palestine, he was prepared to call a truce.

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This is pure drivel. Ravage is claiming that Saul actually thought that the Romans would instantly become pacifists, lay down their arms, and leave Judea, a nonsense unworthy of further comment.

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But the slaves and oppressed of the Empire, the wretched conscripts, and the starving proletariat of the capital itself, found as much solace in the adapted Pauline version of the creed as the poor Jews before them had found in the original teachings of their crucified master.

The result of this unforseen success was to open the enemy’s eyes to what was going on.

Disturbing reports of insubordination among the troops began
pouring into Rome from the army chiefs in Palestine and elsewhere.
Instead of giving the imperial authorities pause, the new tactics only
stiffened their determination.

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I took Latin for years, studied Roman history for years, and also read Edward Gibbons, and yet I have never once heard that Christianity caused any legions to revolt or mutiny.

Rome swooped down upon Jerusalem with fire and sword, and after a fierce siege which lasted four years, she destroyed the nest of the agitation (70 a.d.). At least she thought she had destroyed it.

The historians of the time leave us in no doubt as to the aims of Rome. They tell us that Nero sent Vespasian and his son Titus with
definite and explicit orders to annihilate Palestine and Christianity
together.

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To the Romans, Christianity meant nothing more than Judaism militant, anyhow, an interpretation which does not seem far
from the facts.

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Again, wrong. Christian and Jewish values are polar opposites, as love differs from hate, spirituality from materialism, humility from arrogance, and forgiveness from vengeance.

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As to Nero’s wish, he had at least half of it realized for him. Palestine was so thoroughly annihilated that it has remained a politi-
cal ruin to this day.

But Christianity was not so easily destroyed.

Indeed, it was only after the fall of Jerusalem that Paul’s program
developed to the full. Hitherto, as I have said, his tactic had been merely to frighten off the conqueror, in the manner of Moses plaguing the Pharaohs. He had gone along cautiously and hesitantly, taking care not to arouse the powerful foe. He was willing to dangle his novel weapon before the foe’s nose, and let him feel its edge, but he shrank from thrusting it in full force. Now that the worst had happened and Judea had nothing further to lose, he flung scruples to the wind and carried the war into the enemy’s country.

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Literally any Bible scholar of  any school will tell you this is ridiculous. Saul did not start preaching his twist on Christianity to the Gentiles only after the Roman crushing of Jerusalem in AD 70. He began converting Gentiles

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The goal now was nothing less than to humble Rome as she had humbled Jerusalem, to wipe her off the map as she had wiped out Judea.

If Paul’s own writings fail to convince you of this interpretation of
his activities, I invite your attention to his more candid associate, John.
Where Paul, operating within the shadow of the imperial palace and
half the time a prisoner in Roman jails, is obliged to deal in parable and veiled hints, John, addressing himself to disaffected Asiatics, can afford the luxury of plain speaking. At any rate, his pamphlet entitled “Revelation” is, in truth, a revelation of what the whole astonishing business is about.

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Ravage next interprets the famous image of the Great Harlot of Babylon as being the Roman Empire, when the exact opposite is the case. Babylon is the Jews themselves! As you listen to Ravage’s words, do they not fit Jewry a hundred times more than Rome?

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Rome, fancifully called Babylon, is minutely described in the language
of sputtering hate, as the mother of harlots and abominations of the
earth, as the woman drunken with the blood of saints (Christians and
Jews), as the oppressor of “peoples and multitudes and nations and
tongues” and — to remove all doubt of her identity — as “that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”

An angel triumphantly cries, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen.”

Then follows an orgiastic picture of ruin. Commerce and industry and maritime trade are at an end. Art and music and “the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride” are silenced. Darkness and desolation lie like a pall upon the scene.

The gentle Christian conquerors wallow in blood up to the bridles of
their horses. “Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles
and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.”

And what is the end and purpose of all this chaos and devastation?
John is not too reticent to tell us.

For he closes his pious prophecy with a vision of the glories of the
new — that is, the restored — Jerusalem: not any allegorical fantasy,
I pray you, but literally Jerusalem, the capital of a great reunited king-
dom of “the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.”

Could any one ask for anything plainer?

Of course, no civilization could forever hold out against this kind of
assault. By the year 200 the efforts of Paul and John and their succes-
sors had made such headway among all classes of Roman society that Christianity had become the dominant cult throughout the empire.

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Two incredibly counterfactual claims:

1. John, the reputed author of the Apocalypse or Revelation, was extremely anti-Jewish, and in fact the Jews object to his gospel, the Gospel of John, more far more than those of Matthew, Mark and Luke. It is in the Gospel of John, in chapter 8, verse 44, that we find the renowned passage where Jesus says to what are called “the Jews”:

2. Christianity was far from being “the dominant cult in the empire” by AD 200, and in fact a full century later,by AD 300 it is estimated that only 10% of the empire was Christian.

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Meantime, as Paul had shrewdly foreseen, Roman morale and discipline had quite broken down, so that more and more the imperial legions, once the terror of the world and the backbone of Western culture, went down to defeat before barbarian invaders.

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There is no evidence for this. Rome declined due to the assassination of several good emperors, attacks by powerful Germans and Iranians, and also basic things like lead-contaminated drinking water, which reduced fertility. 

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In the year 326 the emperor Constantine, hoping to check the insidious malady, submitted to conversion and proclaimed Christianity the official religion. It was too late.

After him the emperor Julian tried to resort once more to suppression.
But neither resistance nor concession were of any use. The Roman body politic had become thoroughly worm-eaten with Palestinian propaganda. Paul had triumphed.

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add Guyenot , toledo

This at least is how, were I an anti-Semite in search of a credible
sample of subversive Jewish conspiracy, I would interpret the advent of a modified Jewish creed into the Western world.