Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [19]
Wheless also calls Justin Martyr, Tertullian and Eusebius "three luminous liars."18 Keeler states, "The early Christian fathers were extremely ignorant and superstitious; and they were singularly incompetent to deal with the supernatural." Larson concludes that many early bishops "like Jerome, Antony, and St. Martin, were definitely psychotic. In fact, there was scarcely a single Father in the ancient Church who was not tainted with heresy, mental aberration, or moral enormity."19 Thus, deceiving, mentally ill individuals basically constitute the genesis of Christianity.
Of their products, Wheless further remarks:
If the pious Christians, confessedly, committed so many and so extensive forgeries and frauds to adapt these popular Jewish fairy-tales of their God and holy Worthies to the new Christian Jesus and his Apostles, we need feel no surprise when we discover these same Christians forging outright new wonder-tales of their Christ under the fiction of the most noted Christian names and in the guise of inspired Gospels, Epistles, Acts and Apocalypses.... 20
He continues:
Half a hundred of false and forged Apostolic "Gospels of Jesus Christ," together with more numerous other "Scripture" forgeries, was the output, so far as known now, of the lying pens of the pious Christians of the first two centuries of the Christian "Age of Apocryphal Literature" ... 21
Wheless also reports the Protestant Encyclopedia Biblica as stating, "Almost every one of the Apostles had a Gospel fathered upon him by one early sect or another."22
Doane relates the words of Dr. Conyers Middleton on the subject of biblical forgery:
There never was any period of time in all ecclesiastical history, in which so many rank heresies were publicly professed, nor in which so many spurious books were forged and published by the Christians, under the names of Christ, and the Apostles, and the Apostolic writers, as in those primitive ages. Several of these forged books are frequently cited and applied to the defense of Christianity, by the most eminent fathers of the same ages, as true and genuine pieces.23
Wheless demonstrates how low the fathers and doctors of texts were willing to stoop:
... If the Gospel tales were true, why should God need pious lies to give them credit? Lies and forgeries are only needed to bolster up falsehood: "Nothing stands in need of lying but a lie." But Jesus Christ must needs be propagated by lies upon lies; and what better proof of his actuality than to exhibit letters written by him in his own handwriting? The "Little Liars of the Lord" were equal to the forgery of the signature of their God-false letters in his name, as above cited from that exhaustless mine of clerical falsities, the Catholic Encyclopedia ICE].24
Indeed, Christian tradition pretends that Christ was extremely renowned even during his own time, having exchanged correspondence with King Abgar of Syria, who was most pleased to have the Christian savior take refuge in his country. Of course this story and the silly letters alleged to have been exchanged between the two are as phony as three-dollar bills, illustrating the ridiculous mendacity to which historicizers had to resort to place their invented character and drama at this time.
Furthermore, the forgers were not very skilled or conscientious, such that they left many clues as to their underhanded endeavors. As Wheless states, "... the Hebrew and Greek religious forgers were so ignorant or careless of the principles of criticism, that they `interpolated' their fraudulent new matter into old manuscripts without taking care to erase or suppress the previous statements glaringly contradicted by the new interpolations."25
We have established the atmosphere of the foundation of Christianity: conspiracy, forgery and fraud, the result of which are its sacred texts, falsely alleged