It’s hard to believe in the present day, but yes, it’s true, there are still a lot of Christians out there in the world. According to some estimates, they number around 2.4 billion or about 30% of humanity. In terms of sheer numbers, the US technically has the most: about 245 million, representing around 75% of the country—although many of these undoubtedly are so weakly religious (“Christmas and Easter Christians”) that they would barely pass any theological litmus test. The next three largest Christian populations are hardly an honor roll (Brazil, Mexico, and Russia), and the countries that, percentage-wise, are the most Christian, are mostly laughable: East Timor, Armenia, New Guinea, Haiti, and Paraguay, among the Top Ten.

Obviously, there is a huge variety in specific beliefs among these millions of Christians. The World Christian Encyclopedia infamously notes that, globally, there are some 33,000 “distinct denominations” of the Church, including 242 Catholic, 9,000 Protestant, and over 22,000 “independent.” We can only imagine the variation in beliefs among these groups—and of course, only one (at most!) can be right. I’d hate to pick the wrong one! (Do I hear, “Going to hell,” anyone?)

But presumably they all must share at least a few core beliefs, simply in order to call themselves Christian. We can guess what these might be: (1) there exists a personal, moral God who loves us; (2) believers will prosper in the afterlife and non-believers will suffer; and (3) Jesus is the son of God and humanity’s redeemer and personal savior. Likely there are others—the Bible (or at least part of it) is the word of God, the Gospels (whichever ones we include) record Jesus’ life and teachings, and so on—but I will set these aside for now). Here I will focus on “the Man”: Jesus of Nazareth (or is it Jesus of Bethlehem? Those darn Gospel writers can’t seem to keep their story straight.

First, I should note that there is a high likelihood that no such man ever existed. We can say this with confidence because there is no—literally, zero—contemporaneous evidence for his existence, either as a miracle-working Son of God, or even as a rather ordinary rabbi. We can understand the latter case—most ordinary rabbis from 2,000 years ago are lost to history—but not the former. If Jesus was anything close to the miracle-worker that the Bible describes, there would be a mountain of testifying evidence: documents, carvings, engravings, letters, etc. And these would exist from his followers, his skeptics, his critics, and the Romans who ruled the region. There would be a vast and well-documented account of a man who walked on water, raised the dead, healed with a touch, calmed storms, and fed thousands with “five loaves of bread and two fish.” These testimonies would all date to the time of his alleged ministry, roughly, 27 to 30 AD. And yet, from that time period, we have… nothing.

In fact, nothing even close. In fact, nothing for literally decades. According to conventional dating, the earliest reference of any kind is in the letters of Paul, the earliest of which—Galatians and First Thessalonians—date to around 50 AD, two full decades after our man got crucified. The rest of Paul’s letters, intermixed with a few fraudulent ones attributed to him, appear between 50 and 70 AD, by which time (a) Paul had died, and (b) the Jews were defeated in Jerusalem by the Romans, and their temple destroyed.

Only then did some other Jews—presumably followers of Paul—decide to write about Jesus’ life and sayings in their “gospels.” The gospel writers are formally anonymous; we know nothing about who they are, their motives, or the circumstances. The names attached (Mark, Matthew, Luke, John) mean nothing; it would be like saying “Bob’s Novel” or “Joe’s Cookbook.” But based on textual evidence, scholars can roughly date the Gospel of Mark to around the year 70; Matthew and Luke to 85; and John to 95. We can only imagine how much veracity they contain, given that they claim to quote Jesus precisely and cite details of his life, 40, 50, or 60 or more years after his death. The obvious answer is: not much!

The likeliest conclusion to this mess is that the Jew Paul and the anonymous Jewish gospel writers made it all up: that there was no miracle-working Son of God, no virgin birth, and no resurrection. They did so, not for fame or money, but because they believed that promulgating a pro-Jewish, anti-Roman theology would aid the Jewish cause. (Pro-Jewish, because the Christians are to worship the Jewish God, the Jewish rabbi Jesus, and the Jewish ‘virgin’ Mary; anti-Roman, because “the worldly powers” of Rome are a manifestation of Satan and must be defeated.[1]) And in the end, it did. Judeo-Christianity flourished, ideologically defeated Rome, and then took up residence in Rome itself. “Without doubt, Rome has been conquered,” as Nietzsche said.[2]

But to the point: Although there is no direct evidence for either a miracle-Jesus or a rabbi-Jesus, I suspect that some such man by that description did live, and die, in Judea. And the reason is simply this: Since Paul and friends claimed something as true—a miracle-Jesus—that certainly did not exist, and that they knew did not exist, they were liars. Whether they were ‘noble’ liars or malicious liars, I will leave to another time. But liars they were. And any lie works best with a kernel of truth. Therefore, I consider it likely that an ordinary mortal, the rabbi Jesus, did live, likely did agitate on behalf of the oppressed Jews, and likely did get himself crucified—end of story.

So let’s assume that a mortal Jesus did exist. What, then, do we know about him? Virtually nothing for certain. Apart from a few tidbits from Paul, literally everything that we think we know about him comes from the highly-dubious four Gospels; there simply is no other source. And in the Gospels, we find a striking claim: Jesus was a Jew.

“Wait a minute!” says the Christian, with alarm. “Jesus can’t be a Jew! He’s the original Christian—the ur-Christian, we might say. He can’t possibly be a Jew!” Indeed—many Christians, both in the past and today, have attempted to argue that Jesus was a non-Jew, a Gentile, even an Aryan. They seemingly cannot bear the thought that their beloved Savior might be a Jew, and that therefore they must worship a Jew. And yet, all the evidence says he was.

In fact, the evidence suggests that Jesus was a double-Jew: ethnically and religiously.[3] Let’s first see what it says in the Gospels themselves (which Christians must believe!).

Start with his mother, the “virgin” Mary; she clearly was a Jewess. Mary was a blood relative of Elizabeth, of the tribe of Levi (Luke 1:5, 1:36). When Jesus was born, she, along with Joseph, “performed everything according to the [Jewish] law of the Lord” (Luke 2:39). And she and Joseph attended Passover services in Jerusalem “every year” (Luke 2:41). Since Mary was a Jew, this alone makes Jesus a Jew (on the orthodox reading) because Jewishness is matrilineal, being passed along by the mother; if you are born of a Jewess, you are a Jew.

What about Jesus’ father? Let’s set aside the nonsense about God being his father, which is nothing more than regurgitated Homeric mythology about demi-gods on Earth. Joseph was of the “House of David,” as Luke (1:27) informs us. And as noted above, Joseph rigorously followed Jewish law and attended Passover annually. He was clearly an observant Jew, and (presumably) the biological father of Jesus.

Paul obviously thought Jesus was a Jew. In the early Galatians (4:4) he says that Jesus was “born under the [Jewish] law,” and in Romans (9:5), he declares his own Jewishness (“my kinsmen by race…are Israelites”), adding that “of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ.”

Likewise, the Gospel writers clearly viewed their Savior as a Jew. Jesus is repeatedly called ‘rabbi’.[4] He was circumcised (Luke 2:21) and celebrated Passover (John 2:13). The Gospel of Matthew opens with these words: “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.” Even the non-gospel Hebrews remarks that “it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah” (7:14). Jesus regularly attended the local synagogue (Luke 4:16). He himself told the people that he came “to fulfill the [Jewish] law and the [Jewish] prophets” (Matt 5:17). And of course, everyone thought of him as “king of the Jews” (Matt 2:2; John 19:3).

It could hardly be clearer: both by genetic heritage and according to his evident beliefs and practices, Jesus was a Jew. He was a biological Jew—surely embodying all those wonderful Jewish phenotypical characteristics—and he was a religious Jew.

The few Christians willing to engage with this issue and to defend a non-Jewish Jesus typically offer one of two responses. First, “Jesus was from Galilee, and Galilee was a Gentile stronghold.” But this is a persistent myth, propagated by those averse to the notion of a Jewish Jesus. Over 100 years ago, E. W. Masterson wrote of a “Jewish Galilee,” one that was “hemmed in on all sides by hostile [Gentile] neighbors”.[5] More recently, we now have such works as The Myth of a Gentile Galilee (2002) by Mark Chancey, who acknowledges the stubborn idea but notes “how little data there is to support such a claim [of a Gentile Galilee].” Archeological evidence from Nazareth is scarce, but what we do have shows “evidence for Jewish inhabitants at several sites, [but] very little evidence for Gentiles.” Of the major, nearby town of Sepphoris, evidence of Gentiles is “extremely limited” during Jesus’ life; by contrast, says Chancey, there is “ample evidence” of Jews there at that time. In sum, while not denying that some Gentiles lived there, evidence for them is “practically invisible”; and as a confirmation, Chancey notes that Gentiles “are not prominent in literary discussions of Galilee either”.[6]

Despite all this, some on the dissident-right, such as Internet bad-boy Andrew Anglin, who, despite his trenchant and humorous critiques of Jews, periodically displays his (apparently sincere) Christianity, occasionally railing against those who dare assert that Jesus was a Jew. Nick Fuentes dodges the question when put to him, saying “Jesus fulfills the law” and that the Jews “who remain” held on to “old sacrifices and old ways of doing things,” ultimately becoming “Talmudic Jews.” Obviously Jesus had no chance to become a Talmudic Jew, given that the Jerusalem Talmud was not written until the 300s (in Galilee!) and the Babylonian Talmud not until the year 500. Thus, despite the evidence, both men cling to their myth of a Gentile Jesus even as they (rightly) condemn Jewish domination and corruption in present-day society.

The second defense one occasionally sees is both contorted and confused: that the teachings of the Old Testament represent “true” religion and that the Hebrews deviated from this true path, degenerating into a rabbinical and ultimately Talmudic Judaism. But Jesus, they say, adhered to the true, original teachings, to the Law and the prophets—later to be called “Christianity”—thus putting him into conflict with the fallen and erroneous Jews. This essentially admits that Jesus was an ethnic Jew, but that, implicitly, it is irrelevant. Furthermore, it overlooks the fact that the Talmud, and later documents like the Shulchan Aruch, are elaborations on Old Testament teachings, not deviations from it.[7] But the main point is that simply because Jesus (the Jew) had (alleged) conflicts with other elite Jews, this does not mean that he wasn’t an ethnic Jew, and it doesn’t mean that he adhered to any “true” religion distinct from Judaism.

The Consequences

The implications of this short exposé are devastating for Christians and Christianity. Given the total lack of corroborating evidence, we can say with certainty that the miracle-man Jesus did not exist; therefore, Christianity is a farce and the Gospels are at least half fiction. If they contain even a shred of truth, then Jesus was an ordinary Jew whose life mission was to validate Old Testament prophecies and “fulfill the Law,” thus saving his fellow Jews from the evil Romans. In this case, Christians need to admit that they are worshipping a long-dead ordinary Jew who has no ability whatsoever to “save their souls.” Finally, in the case that there was no Jesus character at all, then Paul and the Gospel Jews are flat-out liars and need to be viewed with total contempt.

Any way we look at it, it’s bad news for Christians. Under any plausible scenario, they have been duped into believing in a long-dead Jewish rabbi and his fake sayings—all constructed, years after the fact, by a handful of Jews interested in undermining the hated Romans, and indeed all Gentiles.

“But what would we do without Jesus?” cry the believers. How about this: Build your life and your worldview around basic, universal, and age-old ethical ideals; defend and protect the Earth, which sustains all life; defend human dignity against corrupters, liars, and deceivers; work toward a transparent, human-scale society; spend time with your children and grandchildren; and celebrate the accomplishments of human creativity and the human spirit without yielding to Judaic nonsense.

Just for starters.

Chainsaaw Joe

This entire screed is rubbish… the Apostles of Jesus Christ all lived as poor men who gave their lives (and were murdered) for spreading the truth about Jesus Christ. Even the Romans wrote about the miracles He performed. See you at the Judgment Day.

Van Rensselaer Porter

What is wrong with you atheists that you feel you need to attack others’ beliefs? Does it make you feel smarter? You proselytize your faith more than religious people do.

Van Rensselaer Porter

Hypocrite. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19PMWQucyh/?mibextid=oFDknk

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Jim Kennedy

Viva Cristo Rey! Christ is King!

Fred Frank

There are no Roman records of Christian ANYTHING, until Tacitus in AD 116. If the Apostle Paul existed, no Roman, Greek or Jew noticed him in his lifetime, that we have record of. Ditto for Jesus, outside whatever embryonic cult.

Philo Of Alexandria lived at exactly the same time as Jesus, was a renowned expert on everything Jewish in the eastern Mediterranean, representing the Jewish community in Alexandria and even in a delegation to the Emperor Caligula, writing at length about the area and the Israelite religion. Dying in AD 50 after writing 50 works on various subjects that we can still read today, he never wrote one word about a Jesus miracle worker who was crucified.

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John De Nugent

There is some truth here, but also some egregious error. For example, on Galilee, it is in Hebrew literally “Galil ha goyim,” meaning “the District [“Galil” in Hebrew] of the Gentiles.”

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And the early Roman Christians were led by Peter, one of Jesus’ first and most notable disciples, and he obviously knew what Jesus looked like. In the catacombs outside Rome, the persecuted Christians met, and they painted Jesus. Voilà:

John De Nugent

I must say that I find it highly ironic that Thomas Dalton, of all people, who himself translated “Mein Kampf” into English, and very well indeed, insists that Jesus either never existed or if He did, He was just a jew, a rabbi of no note, and that He performed no miracles. (I say this while having great respect for Dalton in other matters.)

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This directly contradicts Adolf Hitler, the author of “Mein Kampf,” whom presumably Dalton respects as an important thinker and leader, having taken the trouble to translate his massive book, which I have read twice (in the German language in which I am 100% fluent, and in English).

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In Hitler’s earlier work, his “Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin,” written with his mentor, Dietrich Eckart (a publication on which I am an expert, and which Dr. Wm Pierce translated, a booklet promoted by the NSDAP’s Eher Verlag publishing house) Adolf Hitler shows great reverence for Jesus, and this was not just to pander to the Catholic vote in Bavaria and to other Christians.

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In fact, in private, and off the record, 15 and 20 years later, and in the books which Hitler read that were found by the US Army in his personal libraries at the Berghof and in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin,

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Hitler also showed reverence for Jesus and fascination with Him, with one book on Jesus full of penciled underlinings, exclamation marks, and side notes. Why would Hitler do this for a nobody rabbi?

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Author Timothy Ryback wrote on this subject of Hitler’s reverence for Jesus in a long “Atlantic” magazine article and in a full-length book.

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Going back to Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin,” Hitler favorably notes Jesus’ denunciation of Judaism, he refers to the visceral jewish hatred for Jesus in the Talmud, and he states that Jesus had to be at least half-Aryan.

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https://johndenugent.com/happy-128th-birthday-adolf-hitler-your-conversation-with-your-mentor-dietrich-eckart-on-bolshevism-from-moses-to-lenin/

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Adolf Hitler also says that Christianity would be a good faith if and only if purged of ALL jewish and Old Testament elements, which of course the highly influential second-century “heretic” Bishop Marcion also felt.

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Hitler and Eckart also said that Saul/Paul rejudaized Christianity as a means to get Gentiles to revere the jews as the Chosen People of God and to worship the jews’ deity. They also criticized Martin Luther, though not too harshly given the devoutly religious times he lived in, for only going halfway on the jews, writing in 1544 “Against the Jews and Their Lies,” yet keeping around for Christians the very jewy, gory, twisted, and anti-Gentile Old Testament.

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Also, the Talmud was NOT written down centuries later, but was started around AD 100. This was within the lifespan of the sons of those same Pharisees who had known, hated, and framed Jesus for treason to Pilate, goading the Roman governor to kill Jesus. (Once the Temple had been destroyed, in AD 70, Judaism morphed into a religion of studying scriptures, hence the Old Testament, and commenting on them, hence the Talmud.)

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I really wonder how Dalton explains that the Talmud, full of the vilest insults against Jesus, ipso facto concedes that He did exist — and also that He did perform miracles. In fact, the Tall Mud mentions and denounces a rabbinical student who, having fallen deathly ill, prayed to Jesus (the supposedly disgusting blasphemer), which,  tha Talmud admits, saved his life.

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The shocked rabbis told the young man that he should have chosen to simply die instead of praying to that wicked man boiling in hot feces in hell.

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There is actually a middle ground on Jesus, which is the view of Hitler and Eckart, and I am bringing this view back to life,  Jesus unjewed.

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I will add that Dalton comes across as a scoffer at the very idea of anything supernatural. This was emphatically NOT the view of the very Adolf Hitler whom Dalton otherwise respects. Hitler genuinely believed in divine Providence, “die Vorsehung” in German, which meant then as now GOD. (Side note: My ancestor, Thomas Angell, helped found the actual city of Providence in Rhode Island in 1636, with the name selected to honor God as the Great Provider of opportunities and freedoms in a fertile new land.)

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And Hitler cited a miraculous event in the trenches during WWI as evidence of God (or angels) and of miracles. While eating lunch with comrades, he suddenly heard a voice saying “Get up and move NOW!” He complied without hesitation, ran around the corner of the trench — and an enemy artillery shell landed, obliterating all his comrades.

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I had a conflict with Dr. Wm Pierce, whom I in most things highly respected, a  man for whom I worked very actively 1981-84. It was over the fact that unlike Pierce, Hitler was not only NOT an atheist, NOT a materialist and NOT an adherent of scientism, but was in fact both publicly and privately a vehement foe of atheism, materialism and scientism.

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In fact, as Chancellor he banned in 1933 all atheistic groups in Germany, then called “Free Thinkers” (“Freidenker”), and gave a speech proudly proclaiming: “I have crushed atheism.” AND in 1936 he ordered that the SS punish any member who spoke derisively of the person of Jesus or claimed that Jesus was a jew. (But SS men were allowed to continue privately to denounce and reject any kind of Judeo-Christianity.)

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Dalton et alia should finally get on the same page as Hitler about this if they say they revere the man, and stop agreeing with the libtards, marxists, leninists and stalinists — and the half of American jewry who say they are atheists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_atheists_and_agnostics) on the delusion that religion is only the opium of the people, and that only uneducated little old ladies believe in God, the afterlife, and in miraculous anomalies.

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In the Third Reich, they would have been arrested by order of the Führer and Reich Chancellor, Adolf Hitler.

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Hitler actually believed that an Aryan messiah would come, and in her autobiography Leni Riefenstahl goes into this.

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Adolf  Hitler believed that salvation — going to a much better place at death — came via reincarnation, and improving ourselves in each life — and that each life is something which we freely and bravely choose to have.

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JESUS taught that we should ask both God and those whom we have wronged for forgiveness and then actually make the commitment to change our hearts, ours thoughts, our words and, most of all, our deeds.

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Saul, however, invented the macabre idea that Jesus’ crucifixion murder was actually a sacrifice, just as in the jewish temple, a sacrifice that appeased an angry Yahweh and magically cancelled our sins without effort. Then we go forever to heaven as eunuchs and strum forever on harps.

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The notion that we have just one life and then are judged for eternity is jewish, and a lie. And it gives rise to other absurd lies.

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However, in rejecting judeo-christianity, the true religion of Jesus and Adolf cometh nigh, because I am here to do it, and because, as we all can clearly see, we cannot come to power again via the political path — but we MUST come to power!!! 

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In fact, we will see if even the jew-pandering Trump is ALLOWED to win at the ballot box. Will the jews steal his victory again, or will they just kill him? I read a report that a domestically based hit team was out there, seeking to shoot down Trump’s campaign jet with an anti-aircraft missile like the shoulder-fired Stinger.

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But we CAN gain power the way the Ayatollah Khomeini did for Shiite Islam.

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He went from exile in faraway Paris to supreme power in Iran. His movement still rules his country 44 years later, and it is more powerful than ever, now that the big boys, Russia and China, are arming and backing it, doing this to spite the hated US jew government.

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We can still win. We must win, and it is our will to take our power back from genocidal  jewry.

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