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Emerging evidence of colossal deception melting many myths

Religion creates a sickness that it says only it can cure.

The command "Love your enemies" was invented by Jews, the greatest haters there have ever been.

The truly great haters of the world have always been priests.

These people have a life-interest in making humankind sick.

Nietzsche had it nailed. Saul of Tarsus. The eternal story was written by a Jew.

"This was his moment at Damascus:  he comprehended that he needed the belief in immortality to deprive 'the world' of value, that the concept of 'hell' would become master even over Rome - that with the 'beyond' one kills life."

With this realization, the foundation of everything we have believed down through time begins to crumble.

This story consists of excerpts from Thomas Dalton's analyses of the origins of Christianity.

Nietzsche on the Jews

Nietzsche and the Origins of Christianity

[Editor's notes in brackets; otherwise it's either Nietzsche in quotes or Dalton without them.]

When the Western Empire, based in Rome, collapsed in the 5th century  a.d., the master morality collapsed with it. As the only real competitor, slave morality rose to take its place as the dominant ethical system of the West. And there it has remained for nearly two thousand years. In this sense, Nietzsche says, the slave has defeated the master, and become the new master.

[The Jews] were able to successfully pull off that inversion of values in which the slave eclipsed the master.  Partly for this very reason they have been able to sustain themselves as a distinct ethnicity through the millennia. They are hardened survivors; they are (relatively) pure; they know how to succeed.

The command 'love your enemies!' had to be invented by the Jews, the best haters there have ever been..." The (Judeo-) Christian commandment of love, Nietzsche thought, grew directly from the hatred of the enslaved Jews, as a kind of mask or cover.  Perhaps even more than this-as a kind of deliberate deception.  A 'bad hater' wears his anger on his sleeve, for all to see.  A 'good hater' hides it inside.  But the 'best' plots revenge using the very opposite-an image of divine love-as cover.  "Even if you think of us as enemies," the Jews might say, "love us anyway.  This is God's command."  This whole idea, only hinted at here, would lie dormant for some six years; it reemerges strongly in his 1887 masterpiece On the Genealogy of Morals.

"The Jews have brought off that miraculous feat of an inversion of values, thanks to which life on earth has acquired a novel and dangerous attraction for a couple of millennia. ...  Their prophets...were the first to use the word 'world' as a term of contempt.  This inversion of values...constitutes the significance of the Jewish people: they mark the beginning of the slave rebellion in morals."

"As is well known, priests are the  most evil of enemies-but why? Because they are the most powerless. From their powerlessness, their hate grows among them into something huge and terrifying, to the most spiritual and most poisonous manifestations. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests..."

"Let us briefly consider the greatest example. Everything on earth which has been done against "the noble," "the powerful," "the masters," "the rulers" is not worth mentioning in comparison with what the Jews have done against them: the Jews, that priestly people, who knew how to get final satisfaction from their enemies and conquerors through a radical transformation of their values, that is, through an act of the most spiritual revenge. This was appropriate only to a priestly people with the most deeply repressed priestly desire for revenge. In opposition to the aristocratic value equations (good = noble = powerful = beautiful = fortunate = loved by god), the Jews, with an awe-inspiring consistency, dared to reverse things and to hang on to that with the teeth of the most profound hatred (the hatred of the powerless), that is, to "only those who suffer are good; the poor, the powerless, the low are the only good people; the suffering, those in need, the sick, the ugly are also the only pious people; only they are blessed by God; for them alone there is salvation.-By contrast, you privileged and powerful people, you are for all eternity the evil, the cruel, the lecherous, the insatiable, the godless; you will also be the unblessed, the cursed, and the damned for all eternity!"

"In connection with that huge and immeasurably disastrous initiative which the Jews launched with this most fundamental of all declarations of war, I recall the sentence I wrote at another time-namely, that with the Jews  the slave revolt in morality begins..."  (I, sec. 7)

The means by which this revolt was carried out was-Christianity.  Christian 'love,' according to Nietzsche, is little more than the "triumphant crown" of the Jewish tree of hatred.  This love acted "in pursuit of the goals of that hatred -    victory, spoil, and seduction - by the same impulse that drove the roots of that hatred deeper and deeper...into all that was profound and evil" (sec. 7).  "What is certain," he adds, is that under the sign of Christianity, "Israel, with its vengefulness and revaluation of all values, has hitherto triumphed again and again over all other ideals, over all nobler ideals."

After some two thousand years, this process continues, slowly but surely:

"The 'redemption' of the human race [from the classical master values] is going forward; everything is visibly becoming Judaized, Christianized, mob-ized (what do the words matter!).  The progress of this poison through the entire body of mankind seems irresistible, its pace and tempo may from now on even grow slower, subtler, less audible, more cautious-there is plenty of time." (sec. 9)

Dalton surmises: Until we grasp this poisoning of modern man, we have no hope of liberating ourselves and attaining our higher destiny.

Because the goal was to convert and mobilize every available person, Jesus (God) must love all people equally.  Paul thereby negated one of the most ancient realities of human society - the hierarchy of rank among individuals - with his doctrine of a God that gives his blessing to all.

He also negated the existence and importance of ethnic and national differences and conflicts among different ethnic and national interests: All people are essentially the same in the eyes of God. All men have an immortal soul that can be saved, and thus are inherently equal:  "For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - Jews or Greeks [i.e. non-Jews], slaves or free - and all made to drink of one Spirit" (1 Cor 12:13); "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal 3:28).

In Nietzsche's paraphrase, "Everyone is the child of God...and as a child of God everyone is equal to everyone."  There could scarcely be a more pernicious lie than this, he argues.  If no one is worse than anyone else, then no one is better - no one can get better.  This is counter to the whole thrust of life and evolution, which is toward the greater, the higher, the more refined, the nobler.  But it is as necessary as it is destructive, if the masses are to be mobilized.

Thus emerged the slave morality of the Christians, out of the hatred and revenge of the Jews.  And it was all based upon lies:  the lie of equality, the lie of the miracle, the lie of the resurrection, the lie of God, the lie of Christian love.  It is so profoundly opposed to nature and the natural order of the world that it creates a deep sickness within humanity.  This "world of pure fiction" and its "hatred  of the natural...of reality!" actually has an interest in creating a sickness that only it can assuage:

"Christianity needs sickness just as Greek culture needs a superabundance of health - to make sick is the true, secret purpose of the whole system of redemptive procedures constructed by the church. (sec. 51)

"Christianity also stands opposed to every spirit that has turned out well; it can use only sick reason as Christian reason, it sides with everything idiotic, it utters a curse against the spirit, against the superbia of the healthy spirit...  [S]ickness is of the essence of Christianity.  (sec. 52)

"The sickly, the weak, the enfeebled, the ignorant, the repugnant - we know these are the essence of a Jewish-contrived Christianity because...Paul tells us:

"God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are... (1 Cor 1:27-28).

"This was the formula," says Nietzsche; under this sign, "decadence triumphed" (sec. 51).   This, in a single passage, contains the essence of Christian depravity and decay.

"Decadence is only a means for the type of man who demands power in Judaism and Christianity, the priestly type:   this type of man has a life interest in making mankind sick, and in so twisting the concepts of good and evil, true and false, as to imperil life and slander the world.  (sec. 24)

"In Christianity all of Judaism, a several-century-old Jewish preparatory training and technique of the most serious kind, attains its ultimate mastery as the art of lying in a holy manner.  The Christian, the ultima ratio of the lie, is the Jew once more - even three times a Jew."  (sec. 44)

Nietzsche closes Antichrist with guns ablaze:

Paul, the chandala hatred against Rome, against 'the world,' become flesh, become genius, the Jew, the eternal Wandering Jew par excellence.   What he guessed was how one could use the little sectarian Christian movement apart from Judaism to kindle a 'world fire'; how with the symbol of 'God on the cross' one could unite all who lay at the bottom, all who were secretly rebellious, the whole inheritance of anarchistic agitation in the Empire, into a tremendous power.  'Salvation is of the Jews.'  Christianity as a formula with which to outbid the subterranean cults of all kinds...and to unite them:  in this lies the genius of Paul.  His instinct was so sure in this that he took the ideas with which these chandala religions fascinated, and, with ruthless violence, he put them into the mouth of the 'Savior' whom he had invented...  This was his moment at Damascus:  he comprehended that he needed the belief in immortality to deprive 'the world' of value, that the concept of 'hell' would become master even over Rome - that with the 'beyond' one kills life.  (sec. 58)

The whole labor of the ancient world in vain...the whole meaning of the ancient world in vain!  Wherefore Greeks?  Wherefore Romans?  All the presuppositions for a scholarly culture, all scientific methods, were already there...  Everything essential had been found, so the work could be begun...  All in vain!  Overnight, nothing but a memory!  ...  [R]uined by cunning, stealthy, invisible, anemic vampires.  Not vanquished - merely drained.  Hidden vengefulness, petty envy become master.  Everything miserable that suffers from itself, that is afflicted with bad feelings, that whole ghetto-world of the soul on top, all at once.  (sec. 59)

Parasitism as the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anemia, of 'holiness', draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed - against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself. ...  I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great innermost corruption, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means is too poisonous, too stealthy, too subterranean, too petty - I call it the one immortal blot on mankind.  (sec. 62)

What an incredible feat:  to turn Europeans away from their own western heritage - a noble, life-affirming Greco-Roman culture - and toward a foreign, alien, decadent, Oriental worldview.  And it was done as revenge, out of hatred, and built upon lies.  An ancient religion - Judaism - born of falsehood and lies, creates another born of falsehood and lies.   It is done for reasons of power, control, wealth, and survival.  And the lie prevails.

By the early 100s, then, everything was in place.   All NT books were complete, and they created - literally created - an image of Christ that was compatible with the OT, and, more importantly, suited the larger purpose of winning allegiance from the masses.   The Pharisee Jews were not happy, because they understood that this Jesus was a false messiah, but they would come to accept the benefits of a Jewish Christ that could sway the public at large and undermine support for Rome.  The plan was brilliant, and by all accounts, it worked.  Christianity grew from being persecuted by Rome, to being tolerated under the reign of Constantine (306-337), to being installed as the official state religion by Theodosius in 380 - coincidentally, just 15 years before the disintegration of the Empire.

Of course, it is very difficult to know the extent to which Christianity was a causal factor in the collapse - many other forces were at work, including imperial overstretch, economic inflation, growing attacks by outside powers, barbarization of the Roman military, depopulation from recurrent plagues, environmental degradation, lead poisoning, and corruption within the leadership.  Notably, the first modern era account of Rome's collapse - Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1789) - was also the first to cite Christianity and Christian 'moral decay' as a leading cause; on this count Nietzsche was not original.  Scholars since Gibbon's time generally prefer some combination of the other factors.  But the actual cause is not really at issue here.  Christianity was certainly very influential during the period of decline, and it undeniably filled the void created when Rome finally collapsed in 476.  Even if Christianity was merely the opportunist of the time, Nietzsche's main contention holds.

"The Empire could withstand almost anything -  "but it was not firm enough against the most corrupt kind of corruption, against the Christians" (sec. 58).  They were the revolutionaries and anarchists, pulling on the great pillars of the Empire by draining it of its greatest strength, its system of values:

"The Christian and the anarchist: both decadents, both incapable of having any effect other than disintegrating, poisoning, withering, bloodsucking; both the instinct of moral hatred against everything that stands, that stands in greatness, that has duration, that promises life a future.  Christianity was the vampire of the imperium Romanum... (ibid.)

"The primary goal of the whole scheme:   benefit to the Jews and the Jewish state.  In this sense we have, on the whole, and in spite of periodic pogroms throughout the centuries, a tremendous success story for the Jewish people.  It cannot be anti-Semitic to point this out.  In fact it is to their credit that such a small and beleaguered people could achieve such influence in an uncertain and dangerous world.

Especially in recent times, Jews have profited immensely from public sympathy - a sympathy frequently rooted in Christian theology.  With Christianity, "we are among Jews":  Christ, the Virgin Mary, the Apostles, 'salvation is of the Jews' - even God is a Jew:

Hence:  to love Christ and to love God is to love God's chosen, the Jews - an ideal situation, if you're Jewish.   How much the easier to exploit the sympathies of the masses; to curry favor and gain support; to manipulate and mislead.  And as before, survey data show that the more Christian the nation, the greater its sympathy to Israel and Jews generally.

Dalton asks: I wonder if many Christians don't somehow know, deep inside, that their very faith is based on Jewish lies and resentment.  I wonder if they know they have been duped. There are also, perhaps, subconscious worries that, just maybe, other popular legends might also be fanciful exaggerations built on hatred and lies. When governmental and institutional leaders have proven themselves corrupt and unreliable, and occasionally outright liars, then one does not know whom to trust.

John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida and has an intense interest in matters of belief, because what people believe is what they do. http://johnkaminski.info/

Thomas Dalton, Ph.D., is the author of Debating the Holocaust <http://www.debatingtheholocaust.com/> and many other stories including the two used in this story, "Nietzsche and the Jews" and "Nietzsche and the Origins of Christianity" at the links listed above.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), according to the Stanford encyclopedia,  was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality. He believed in life, creativity, health, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond.