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| "Tell me about it. I've been a blond white dude for, like, 2,000 years." (bizarro.com) |
(BBC/Security Science) "Jesus Was A Buddhist Monk (BBC documentary), the "lost" years in India.
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| What the hell?! Rome rules! |
(TheTraveler edited by WQ) It's true, Jesus was a Buddhist monk. Read his teachings in "A Course in Miracles." They are very similar to Buddhist teachings. Christians have been misled by the Roman Empire's church (Catholicism or Universalism), which used Christianity as a form of imperial government-control, when in truth Jesus wanted to liberate humankind from suffering. Jesus was a spiritual scientist much like the Buddha. MIND is the creator of all things, as the Buddha teaches (Dhammapada, Verse 1). This is the "Father in heaven" to whom Jesus refers, not some mythical emperor man with a white beard on a cloud.
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Reza Aslan (amazon.com)
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| Rebel Jesus, not Roman myth |
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the “Kingdom of God.”
The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established [imperial Roman] order that he was captured, tortured, and executed as a state criminal trying to overthrow the government.
Within decades after his shameful death, his followers would call him "God."
Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Prof. Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor.
Within decades after his shameful death, his followers would call him "God."
Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Prof. Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor.
Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be Messiahs [Maitreyas] wandered through the land, bearing messages from God. This was the age of zealotry -- a fervent nationalism that made resistance to the Roman occupation a sacred duty incumbent on all Jews. More
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