Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [214]
Furthermore, in order to pass off this doctrine of submission, there had to be inculcated a fervent belief in the "One God," such that it would be believed he had sent a messenger, prophet, son or other representative. This belief in an omnipotent supernatural being has not been difficult to sell, since it has existed from virtually the first moment man became cognizant of his surroundings. However, as Margaret Sanger said, "No God, no Master," and numerous freethinkers over the centuries have noted how the concept of an all-powerful, all-controlling god is used to create despotism, tyranny and fascism, which is, in the end, the motive for creating Christianity. Anderson describes the foundation of Christianity and its results:
The Romans at that time were the worst of pagans or idolaters; but knowing well the power of state religion, strove to make from their original sun worship a religion which should embody Trinity; and so from the story of Buddha and Osiris, Isis and Horus, and the zodiacal signs, clothed the stories in new garments, and personified the sun into a living man, and the moon into a virgin mother, and the cross 4 as the life-saving symbol, and then forced the slaves of Rome by sword and wild beast, by inquisition and torture and auto-da-fe, to acknowledge as truth that which their souls abhorred; forcing them to teach this to their children, established that abomination, the confessional, making spies and traitors in every household till, sinking deeper and deeper in despair and forced ignorance, generation after generation dared no longer even to think their soul was their own and given by God, but were led to believe that God the Father damned them from the beginning and delivered them over to the devil, to be saved (no matter how abominable their crimes) by this man called the Son of God ... In fact, the whole story is incomprehensible; and as no one could explain it, the priests when questioned at once forbid such sacrilege as questions; and "It is a mystery" sufficed to stay all inquisitive mind 540
And Wheless says:
Thus was the ultimate merger and total identity of Paganism with "the new Paganism called Christianity" finally established by law and Imperial policy of "One State and One Religion," to which conformity was enforced by laws of confiscation and death; all the other religions of the Empire were fused by fire and sword into a bastard Christianity.41
It was unquestionably these selfsame Roman authorities who put into the mouth of the fictitious Paul the exhortations that Christians obey the authorities "in everything." The honor that he exhorts them to give "to whom honor is due" is, of course, due to the Emperor, as are the taxes Paul also tells his followers to hand over. It makes little sense that Paul and other Christians would be persecuted as claimed if they were obeying these injunctions. Why would the authorities seize and execute Paul, when he was preaching to the Romans that they should give their money to, and obey in everything, those same authorities? And why would Paul then grouse about being held prisoner, when he told his followers to submit to the authorities, for they are "from God?"
Furthermore, Christ himself is made to exhort his followers to despise "mammon," i.e., money, and to "render it unto Caesar." When sought for his sage advice by Roman soldiers, John the Baptist tells them to "be contented with their wages" (Luke 3:14). This injunction against money by the "rebellious" Jesus and his cohorts served the state and its religion very nicely, since it was they who ended up with the money. Such exhortations by "Jesus" beg the question as to why an omniscient