Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [153]
The church that slaughtered the heathen for worshipping false gods was itself guilty of worshipping false saints-which, sometimes, were even the same deities as those of the heathen. . .. The church never lost sight of practical common sense on one point, however; saints were leading sources of its income, thanks to the mandatory pilgrimage system, donations, and tithes.... The multitudes of phony or commercial saints are treated by modern Catholic scholars with a rather amused tolerance, as if the saint-makers' fantasies held something of the same charm as tales invented by bright children. It is rarely admitted that these fantasies were not intended to charm but rather to defraud. The saints were made up to earn money for the church, and many of the made-up saints are still doing so, for the church refrains from publicizing their spurious origins lest such publicity might disappoint the faithful-which, translated, means the donations might cease.73
St. Josaphat
In one of the more obvious of Christian deceptions, in order to convert followers of "Lord Buddha" the Church canonized him as "St. Josaphat," which represented a Christian corruption of the Buddhistic title, "Bodhisat." As Wheless says:
. . . the holy Saint Josaphat, under which name and due to an odd slip of inerrant inspiration, the great Lord Buddha, "The Light of Asia," was duly certified a Saint in the Roman Martyrology.74
Walker elaborates:
Medieval saintmakers adapted the story of Buddha's early life to their own fictions, calling the father of St. Josaphat "an Indian king" who kept the young saint confined to prevent him from becoming a Christian. He was converted anyway, and produced the usual assortment of miracles, some of them copied from incidents in the life story of Buddha. St. Josaphat enjoyed great popularity in the Middle Ages, an ironical development in a Europe that abhorred Buddhism as the work of the devil.75
St. Christopher
The beloved St. Christopher is another "Christian saint" who is a remake of an ancient god. As Massey states:
The well-known story of Christopher shows that he was a survival of Apheru, a name of Sut-Anup. It is related that he overtook the child-Christ at the side of the river Jordan, and, lifting him on his back, carried him across the waters. But all the while the wondrous child grew, and grew, and grew, as they went, and when they reached the other side the child had grown into the god. The genesis of this is the passage of the annual sun across the waters, which reaches the other side as the full-grown divinity.76
As has been demonstrated, many of the great biblical heroes have been the "Baals" or gods of other cultures remade, as have been the Christian saints. This religion-making business utilized every bit of "technology" it could muster, building upon centuries of such behavior and bringing it to perfection.
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3. Dujardin, 47-9.
4. Dujardin, 82-3.
5. A. Churchward, 353.
6. Walker, WEMS, 315.
7. Doane, 20 fn.
8. Higgins, 11, 15.
9. Doane, 22-23fn.
10. Hazelrigg, 49.
11. Walker, WEMS, 902.
12. Hazelrigg, 48.
13. Higgins, 1, 387.
14. Walker, WEMS, 5.
15. Graham, 125.
16. Graham, 111.
17. Hazelrigg, 14-15.
18. Walker, WEMS, 468.
19. Walker, WDSSO, 331.
20. Walker, WEMS, 890.
21. Graham, 147.
22. Graham, 146.
23. Walker, WDSSO, 441.
24. Walker, WEMS, 96.
25. Higgins, 11, 19.
26. Mead, DJL.
27. Time, 12/18/95.
28. Potter, 27-8.
29. A. Churchward, 292.
30. A. Churchward, 294-5.
31. Pike, 466.
32. A. Churchward, 322.
33. Massey, HJMC, 28.
34. A. Churchward, 300.
35. A. Churchward, 324-5.
36. A. Churchward, 325.
37. A. Churchward, 325.
38. Higgins, II, 634.
39. A. Churchward, 323.
40. Anderson, 106.
41. A. Churchward, 304.
42. Walker, WEMS, 677.
43. Doane, 51.
44. A. Churchward, 291.
45. Time, 12/18/95.
46. Higgins, I, 325.
47. A. Churchward, 260-2.
48. Higgins, 1, 329.
49. Dujardin.
50. Walker, WEMS, 676.
51. Dujardin, 82.
52. Robertson, 21-2.
53. Harris, 72.
54. Massey, HJMC, 105-6.