The Bible.
As the Old Testament was originally written without vowels, the Lord
only knows what it meant. The best the copyists could do was to make a
good guess at the meaning, or supply whatever vowels suited their
purposes.—See Ency. Brit. 3-64.
Moses was a magician, a thief and a murderer according to the Bible, a
fakir who foisted upon the Hebrews a magnificent system of priestly
plunder. In pursuance of Moses pretence that the world was created in
six days, and that their god El or Bel or Baal rested on the seventh, he
commanded the people to refrain from labor on that day and go to church,
so that he would have frequent opportunities to pick their pockets. The
story of Moses’ birth and secretion in an ark of bulrushes was taken
from the Babylonians, where it was applied to King Sargon, according to
tablets excavated at Babylon.
The great, learned and profound Irenaeus says that there must be four
gospels because there are four winds of heaven. This is a fair sample of
the logic of theologians. The fact is, there are four gospels because
those four jumped from the floor onto the table at the council of Nice.
There was at that time so much doubt as to what alleged sacred writings
were inspired by God, that the delegates put them all together under the
communion table one night at the close of the session, and agreed that
those that got up on top of the table during the night should be
considered as inspired, and those that were too weak to get up on the
table should be stamped as the work of the Devil.
“Many of the bishops in these councils were ruffians and were followed
by crowds of vicious supporters, who stood ready on the slightest excuse
to maim and kill their opponents.”—Keeler’s Hist. of the Bible. Tichenor
says that “they decided all holy questions by a vote or a knock-down
fight. It is doubtful if any of them drew a sober breath during the
entire proceedings.” Millman says that “they fought in the streets and
much blood was shed.”—Millman’s Hist. Christianity. “What these drunken,
fighting, ignorant, pagan priests declared to be received from God, that
is what is taught as Divine to-day. To this day they cram their
abominable lies of devils and damnation into the brains of little
children. The miserable, crazy creeds of Christendom were concocted by
these brawling pagan priests, and their poison still pollutes the souls
of men. Fire all the gods of all the creeds into the melting pot, and
out comes the brazen face of Mammon.”—Tichenor.
Another reason why there are four gospels, according to Irenaeus, was
because the Cherubim had four faces. But he thus calls attention to the
fact that Christianity was spawned in the sties of paganism, as the Jews
took the four beasts of the Cherubim, the bull, the lion, the eagle and
the man, from the idolatrous Babylonians. And the four Evangelists
adopted the four beasts as their totems and placed their beastly images
on the four gospels. The Maya Indians and the Mexicans worshipped the
same four idols of the four quarters of the heavens.—Ency. Brit. 12-823.
The priests of the Ojibways wear the horns of the bull and sacrifice to
the dragon or great serpent (Mary) that wears on its head the crescent
moon. They also worship the eagle and the Tree of Life. The Ojibway
picture writing shows that the Indian Adam and Eve had the same
disgraceful scandal in the garden of Eden. See “Indians,” Ency.
Americana.
It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana (alleged to be the original of
Paul and Christ) came through a medium and said: “Nine epistles were
made a present to me by Pharaotes, a Satrap of Taxila, between Babylon
and India. These epistles contained all that is embraced in the present
epistles claimed to have been written by Paul. Further, I retired to the
Isle of Patmos in 69 and 70 A. D. and wrote in a trance state an almost
identical story with that attributed to St. John. The Christian Gospels
were all preached by me at Jerusalem, Ephesus, Philippi, Rome, Antioch,
Alexandria and Babylon, and in all those countries I healed the sick,
cured the blind and raised the dead. The original of the four gospels I
obtained at Singapore. They treated of the four stages of the life of
Buddha.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 21.
Moses and God were mad at the Midianites because the Jews had entered
into the tents of the Midianite ladies and worshipped Baal Poer, from
which ensued a plague among the Congregation of the Lord. Num. 31-18.
And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded, and slew
all the males and took all the women and children captive. Moses was
wroth because they had saved all the women and children, and ordered all
the males among the children to be killed and all the females to be
turned over to the soldiers for outrage. And he ordered all the women
murdered except the virgins, of whom 16,000 went to the soldiers and
16,000 to the people, but the soldiers and the people were compelled to
pay of these into the storehouse of the Lord 3200 in tithes. “And the
priests laid with the virgins at the door of the Tabernacle.” Such a
monstrosity of iniquity, such a fiend incarnate from the shades of Hell
is the senior member of the firm of Moses and the Lamb.
The history of Moses is copied from the history of Bacchus, who was
called Mises by the Egyptians. Like Moses, Bacchus was born in Egypt, he
sojourned on Mt. Sinai, he passed through the Red Sea on dry land, he
was a lawgiver and wrote the laws on two tables, he was found in a box
that floated on the water, he smote a rock and wine gushed forth, and
Bacchus was worshipped and these deeds of his sung in Egypt, Phenicia,
Syria, Arabia and Greece before Abraham’s day.—Doubts of Infidels, 31.
The account of creation as given in the Bible has been found on tablets
in the ruins of Nineveh, written in a language that was dead and buried
before the Jews ever existed. In this Persian cosmogony the name of the
first man was Adomah, and of the woman Hevah.
The Greeks said miracles for fools. Paul boasts of lying for the glory
of God and catching converts with guile. Chrysostom said: “Great is the
force of deceit.” St. Hermas, an Apostolic Father, said that he always
lived in dissimulation and affirmed a lie for truth to all men.— Doubts
of Infidels, 78.
You will see that the Bible is dedicated to King James, and that he is
canonized in the dedication, probably because he kept fifty mistresses
and was in the habit of becoming beastly intoxicated without
provocation.
The only real revelations received by the priests and prophets of any
religion were spirit messages, and the Lord only knows whether these
were from God or the Devil, from good or bad spirits. In fact it is
claimed by some spiritualists that all the good spirits are in Heaven
with God and can’t get out. In other words, they are in limbo, while
those that were not so good are at liberty to visit the loved spots and
fond friends of earth and indulge on the astral in their favorite
pastimes, whether it be a prayer meeting or a poker game. This is
purgatory, the next story above Hell, which is the earth.
Gibbon said that Eusebius was a consummate liar. The Gospel of Matthew
and the Epistle to the Hebrews were his work, taken from the lives of
Christna and Apollonius and the records of the Essenes and some of the
Jewish and Phenician legends.
A Coptic version of the life of Apollonius in the possession of the
monks of Seville, Spain, about 1458, was placed in the hands of Juan
Hermonez for translation. In the margin was a Latin translation, in
which the name of Apollonius had been changed to John among many other
falsifications. The Latin translation was almost identical with the
Gospel of St. John. When Hermonez called the attention of the Superior
to these changes, he was seized and thrown into a dungeon, in which he
was allowed to starve and rot.
The Bible has been too much neglected, due, no doubt, to the general
impression that, being religious, it must be dry. Far from it. For
instance: Elohim, the gods, made the light and days and nights four days
before they made the sun. They made a firmament, probably of metal, to
divide the ocean above from the ocean below, and had windows in it, so
that they could open them and drown the inhabitants of the earth
whenever they got drunk and needed a little diversion. And they stuck
the sun, moon and stars in the metal firmament, which revolved around
the earth.
When the serpent was not working, he was coiled around the Tree of Life
telling Eve in snake language what luscious fruit the tree bore. For
this interference with the plans of the gods, they made the serpent
crawl on his belly. He had been crawling on his back.
Moses and his first assistant fakir, Aaron, destroyed all the horses and
cattle in Egypt by a murrain, and then, as Pharaoh still had a stiff
neck, they destroyed them all again by hail. Then, as Pharaoh still had
trouble with his neck, they killed all the first-born of Egypt, both men
and cattle. Then the Israelites fled, and Pharaoh hitched up his horses,
that had been killed three times, to his six hundred chariots and
pursued the chosen of God, who had pinched all the jewelry of the
Egyptians. The Bible is full of these delightful stories from beginning
to end. If you have conscientious scruples against reading the Bible,
you will find them attractively set forth in Le Brun’s Doubts of
Infidels.