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The Sin (German Die Versündigung) is an 1880 oil on canvas erotic art painting by the renowned German artist Heinrich Lossow (1843–1897) [1, 2, 3].
The painting depicts a hypocritical Catholic monk engaged in what may be rape, molestation, or patriarchal domination but appears to be consensual copulation (fornication) with a cloistered Catholic nun through an iron gate meant to keep them separated, achieved by using an athletic sexual position; the painting uses the chiaroscurotechnique to contrast its two subjects [4].
While little is known of Lossow's formal motivation, the painting is believed to have been a response and thematically linked to the Vatican's secret affair called the Banquet of Chestnuts.
(Sculpt Stone) European sculpture in NY shows cannibalism of children?
KKK active in Spain? No, they're Catholics
The anonymous Catholic monk in the painting is sometimes suspected to be Cardinal Cesare himself [4].
The painting caused shame and humiliation as it exposed Church hypocrisy and corruption. There was an uproar in the Vatican, plus significant controversy and outrage in Germany due to its explicit nature and anti-clerical content [6].
Lossow was formally condemned by the Catholic Church [7, 8] for airing the Church's dirty laundry and speaking out of school about the goings on in the administrative heart of the holy Church.
The location of the disappeared artwork is now unknown, but it is believed to be in private ownership [7, 8, 4], possibly rotting in the vast Vatican Archives, a kind of early Smithsonian system for hiding away inconvenient artifacts and specimens that contradict official narratives. More: The Sin (Lossow)
Christianity (particularly the most popular form of it, i.e., Roman Catholicism) unravels; thank Goodness for Barry Spinoza.
What you need me to be, I'll be.
(Spinoza Forever) Amsterdam, 1677: Scholar and investigative researcher Benedictus de Spinoza (Baruch Spinoza) discovered multiple lines of compelling evidence for Jesus Christ's paternity and found out who his real biological father was -- not Joseph, not a deified virgin birth.
It was all documented then covered up. The Jews knew who he was and who his father and family were. Jews condemned Spinoza, and the Christian Church denounced and excommunicated Spinoza for spilling the beans of a covered-up truth.
Jewish texts because people knew him at the time before Caesar's Messiah became a Roman psyops to control the population of a growing empire, one acceptable to Gentiles as well as Jews.
A Roman record of Jesus's execution still exists — and it challenges three Gospel details: The earliest non-Christian historical sources include Tacitus, Josephus, Philo of Alexandria, and there's archeological evidence. The Roman historical record can be compared with the Gospel narratives surrounding Jesus's torture crucifixion. There are three major details where these accounts diverge, including the historical portrayal of Pontius Pilate, the political nature of crucifixion torture under Roman law, and the absence of extraordinary events in Roman records. Let's examine multiple historical sources side by side and consider how different authors, cultures, and purposes shaped the stories that have come down to us. Inspired by Spinoza's method of reading scripture through historical inquiry, this episode encourages open-minded investigation, critical thinking, and respectful discussion.
Construction of myth of Jesus, who was born in occupied Palestine
Yeshu Ben Pantera (named in the Babylonian Talmud). Biological father: Roman Centurion Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera, Roman soldier of the first Cohort of Arches, station between Years 6-9 CE. Mother: Young (15?) Jewish girl with an awkward imperial pregnancy on her hands. St. Paul never mentions any virgin birth. The great shame was that Mary was assaulted, violated by a soldier.
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I need Jesus to be the forgiver of sin
"Jesus Christ" was a human creation for power and imperial control. That is why the largest religion in the world is Universalism (spelled Roman Catholicism).
Jesus was transformed from a wise Jewish (likely JuBu) philosopher to a "God" in the Greco-Roman sense of "god" that people were accustomed to.
This necessitated an astrotheological "virgin birth" or something extraordinary to distinguish Jesus (a "son of god" or devaputra, lit. "offspring of heavenly devas") from mere humans ("sons of men").
Need confirmation by a contemporary biblical scholar?
Jesus was the invention of a Roman emperor named Julius Caesar. Atwill breaks ground to reveal "Caesar’s Messiah," making him out to be the savior of the world commanded from on high so that everyone would accept imperial rule.
This is the key to a revolutionary understanding of the origin of Christianity, explaining what the New Testament is, who the real Jesus is, and how Christ's "second coming" already occurred.
The clues leading to these startling conclusions are found in the writings of the first-century Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, whose Wars of the Jews is one of the only historical chronicles of this period.
Closely comparing the work of Josephus with the New Testament Gospels, Caesar’s Messiah demonstrates that the imperial Romans directed the writing of both.
Their purpose: to offer a vision of a “peaceful Messiah” [Maitreya come again] who would serve as an alternative to the revolutionary leaders who were rocking first-century Israel and threatening Rome.
Similarly, Caesar’s Messiah rocks readers' understanding of Christian history when it reveals that Jesus was a fictional character portrayed in four Gospels written by Romans not Christians.
The Flavian Signature edition adds Atwill’s latest discoveries of numerous parallel events in sequence, which ultimately reveal the identity of the true authors of the Christian Gospels.
Spinoza's ancestors, who were crypto-Jews, faced persecution during the Portuguese Inquisition, including torture and public displays of humiliation.
In 1597, his paternal grandfather's family left Vidigueira for Nantes and lived outwardly as New Christians [27], which in Spain might be referred to as conversos, eventually transferring to Holland [28]. His maternal ancestors...and his maternal grandfather was a merchant who drifted between Judaism and Christianity [30].
Baruch Spinoza was a Jew, not any kind of atheist.
In 1675, a Jewish friend and possibly a former pupil of Spinoza named Albert Burgh wrote to Spinoza, repudiating his teachings and announcing his own conversion to the Catholic Church.
Burgh attacked Spinoza's findings and views as expressed in the Theological-Political Treatise and tried to persuade him to embrace Roman Catholicism.
In response, Spinoza...wrote an angry letter mocking the Catholic Church and condemning all religious superstition [117]. More
Anyone not convinced should read Forged about the writing of what Christians today call "the Bible" by Prof. Bart D. Ehrman. Yeah, but who is Ehrman?
Dr. Bart Ehrman, Ph.D., is an American biblical scholar whose research focuses on the historical Jesus, the textual criticism of the New Testament of the Bible, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He is a distinguished professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author or editor of more than 30 books, including six NY Times bestsellers, and the creator of nine lecture series with The Great Courses.
Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
I bow to thine empty Roman torture device and think what I get out of it. Thanks, God!
He reveals which books in the Bible’s New Testament were not passed down by Jesus Christ’s disciples but were instead FORGED by other hands—and he explains why this centuries-hidden scandal is far more significant than many scholars are willing to admit.
A controversial work of historical reporting in the tradition of Princeton Prof. Elaine Pagels, Marcus Borg, and John Dominic Crossan, Prof. Ehrman’s Forged delivers a stunning explication of one of the most substantial—yet least discussed—problems confronting the world of biblical scholarship.
In this provocative work of biblical criticism, Prof. Ehrman separates history from tradition to reveal:
Ancient Forgery: Which New Testament books were written by anonymous authors who lied about their identity? Why does this scandal matter for modern faith?
Historical Methods: Techniques biblical scholars use to detect pseudepigraphyis how we can know who really wrote the books of the Bible.
Early Christian Conflicts: How internal debates and struggles with outsiders led different groups to create documents in the names of apostles like Peter and Paul (a Jew named Saul) to authorize their own views.
Lost Scriptures: An eye-opening look at non-canonical texts like the Gospel of Peter and 3 Corinthians, and what they tell us about the world of biblical forgery. More
If the Christ is the "Anointed One," what is that oil with which he, Jesus (and various apostles), was anointed? He is not an earthly king the way Emperor Constantine's Roman Empire might have us believe, but he was initiated into the "mysteries" of an entheogenic cult (spiritual community) that made him realize his (and our) divinity.
(Primeval Archives and Primeval Mythology) Gnostic Jesus is one of the most mysterious and controversial figures in early Christian history. [The other prominent figure was "Saint Paul" (Saul of Tarsus), who actually invented the Pauline "Christianity" people follow today.
Hidden within the discovered library of Nag Hammadi, a trove of ancient manuscripts uncovered in Egypt in 1945, are teachings that reveal a radically different message from the Jesus most people today think they know.
These forgotten writings -- including the lost Gospel of Thomas, the Secret Book of John, and the Gospel of Judas -- suggest that Jesus did not come to create a religion, but to awaken humanity through gnosis, the direct knowledge of the divine within.
According to Gnostic teachings, the material world is a prison created by a flawed and genocidal deity (the Demiurge Yaldabaoth/Yahweh) and lower cosmic rulers called Archons, while the True Divine Source, the real GOD (the Monad), exists beyond the physical universe.
Why were these liberating texts declared "heresy" and ordered to be destroyed by politically and financially motivated early church leaders?
What did Gnostic Jesus actually teach about reality, the soul, and spiritual awakening? This video explores the hidden philosophy of Gnosticism, the secrets of the Nag Hammadi library, and forbidden ideas that were saved by being buried for over 1,600 years.
Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek γνωστικός, Gnōstikós, "having knowledge," Koine Greek ɣnostiˈkos) is a collection of religious and philosophical systems that fully developed by the mid-second century among sects of early Christianity and other faiths [1, 2].
It is not a homogeneous tradition or "religion," but an umbrella term used by modern scholars to describe diverse groups and belief systems with shared characteristics [3].
These diverse Gnostic groups emphasized personal experiential spiritual knowledge (gnosis) above the authority, the traditions, and the proto-orthodox teachings of organized religious institutions [4].
Sethianism: Sethians (Greek Σηθιανοί) were one of the main currents of Gnosticism during the 2nd-3rd century AD, along with Valentinianism and Basilidianism. It originated as a fusion of two distinct Hellenistic (Greek) Judaic philosophies influenced by Christianity and Middle Platonism [1]. More
The Gnostic worldview distinguishes between a hidden, uncorrupted Supreme Being (the Monad, "the One") and a flawed Demiurge ("Craftsman," Creator) responsible for creating this material reality.
Gnostics hold that this material existence is evil and believed the principal element of salvation was direct knowledge of the supreme divinity, attained via mystical, esoteric insight.
Many Gnostic texts instead of dealing in concepts of "sin," "guilt," "repentance," and "imperial control," but with dispelling illusions and gaining enlightenment, direct knowing-and-seeing [5]. More
Abraxas, Adam kasia, Adam pagria, Aeons, Anima mundi, The Apocryphon of John, Archons, Barbelo, Demiurge, Divine spark, Five Seals, Gnosis, The Lost Gospel of Judas, Kenoma Luminary, Manda, Mary Magdalene, Monad, Ogdoad, UthraWorld of Light, World of Darkness, Yaldabaoth
"Rapture's Delight" is the ninth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series American Dad! It originally aired on the Fox TV network in the United States on Dec. 13, 2009 [and remains one of the funniest and most satirical takes the show dared to make]. This episode centers around CIA Agent Stan and his housewife Francine's life after the vast majority of the church, including their children Hayley and Steve, are raptured ("taken up"), leaving everyone else Left Behind. When Stan begins to blame Francine for not getting into heaven, Francine ends their relationship and befriends a man whom she later finds out to be Jesus Christ. Francine becomes his bride, leaving Stan behind to participate in the showdown at Armageddon. More
"The Rapture" is a Christian eschatological ("end-times") belief held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of a magic event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, together with Christians who are still alive, will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord [who might be in a spaceship] in the air" [1, 2].
I don't want to be left behind with all the sinners!
Many different timelines have been asserted that tie to ideas of a seven-year "Great Tribulation": pre-tribulation [3], mid-tribulation, pre-wrath, and post-tribulation raptures; and to a thousand-year age of Messianic rule: millennialism, pre-millennialism, post-millennialism, a-millennialism, and preterism [4, 5].
The origin of the term extends from translations of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the Christian Bible, which uses the Greek word harpazo (Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω), meaning "to snatch away" or "to seize."
The idea of a rapture as it is defined in dispensational premillennialism is NOT found in historic Christianity. It is a relatively new doctrine, originating from the 1830s.
Why was I left behind, not good enough?
Most Christian denominations, and the numerically largest, do NOT believe or subscribe to "rapture theology" and have a different interpretation of the aerial gathering described in 1 Thessalonians 4 [6].
They do NOT use "rapture" as a specific theological term, nor do they generally subscribe to the dispensational theology associated with its use [7].
Instead, most Christians typically interpret "rapture" in the sense of the elect (the saved) gathering with Christ in Heaven directly after the Second Coming. They reject outright the idea that a large portion of humanity will be "left behind" (like the very profitable, fearmongering book series depicts) on Earth for an extended tribulation period after the events of 1 Thessalonians 4:17 [6, 8]. More
Orthodox Christianity vs. Gnosticism Explained | Prof. Jiang
(Prof. Jiang MasterClass) June 27, 2026: UNITED STATES Professor Jiang Xueqin explores two very different ways of interpreting Christianity. First, the traditional (orthodox) understanding of the Bible: Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and Jesus.
Then the lecture moves into alternative esoteric interpretations drawn from historical mystical traditions, discussing ideas such as hidden knowledge, apocryphal texts, Nephilim narratives, the Gnostic Monad [GOD, Brahman], and symbolic readings of creation.
This video presents historical and philosophical interpretations for discussion and education not established historical fact or theological endorsement.
TOPICS COVERED:
— Orthodox Christianity and Biblical Covenants
— Hidden Interpretations and Esoteric Traditions
— Mind Creates Matter
— False God Theory and Jesus
— Paradise Lost and Hidden Meaning
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The Roman Empire REMOVED the "True" Jesus to control Christians
(Prof Jiang Explains) June 25, 2026: Mainstream Christianity doesn't want us to know the real Jesus (Y'shua, Kristos, the Anointed One, Saint Issa, Isa).
Discovered in 1945, the [Lost] Gospel of Thomas reveals a radically different Jesus whose teachings were suppressed by the Roman-backed Catholic ["Universalist"] Church.
This ancient text exposes a profound truth: the divine spark resides within each of us, making us all "sons of the living [sky] father," directly challenging hierarchical church control.
Prof. Jiang Xuehin delves into these revolutionary teachings, drawing parallels to Plato's Allegory of the Cave and other ancient wisdom [and ancient Gnostic] traditions.
Jesus' true message wasn't about blind faith or external salvation. It was about inner knowledge, self-mastery, and the rejection of material intoxication.
He saw organized religion and the pursuit of worldly power as distractions, keeping humanity from recognizing its own inherent divinity and interconnectedness.
Uncover the shocking truth behind the "official" narrative. Learn why Jesus opposed the religious authorities of his time and taught that seeking knowledge, even if it means questioning established "gods," is the path to true fulfillment and spiritual awakening.
This clip will change everything viewers thought they knew about the foundations of Christianity and our place in the universe.
Matteo Ricci, Latin Matthaeus Riccius (Oct. 6, 1552–May 11, 1610) was an Italian Catholic Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions.
He created the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, a 1602 world map written in Chinese characters. In 2022, the Apostolic See declared its recognition of Ricci's heroic virtues, thereby bestowing upon him the honorific of venerable [1]. Ricci arrived at the Portuguese settlement of Macau in 1582, where he began his missionary work in China.
He mastered the Chinese language and writing system.
The West's Vatican will rule China!
He became the first European to enter the Forbidden City of Beijing in 1601 when invited by the Wanli Emperor, who sought his services in matters such as court astronomy and calendrical science.
He emphasized parallels between Catholicism and Confucianismbut opposed Buddhism.
He converted several prominent Chinese officials to Catholicism. He also worked with several Chinese elites, such as Xu Guangqi, in translating Euclid's Elements into Chinese as well as the Confucian classics into Latin for the first time in history. More
LAO TZU (Romanized "the Old Boy," Chinese Laozi, 老子, Pinyin Lǎozǐ) was a legendary Chinese philosopher and sage traditionally credited with writingThe Book of Changesor Tao Te Ching (Pinyin Dào Dé Jīng), one of the foundational texts of Taoism.
Traditional accounts identify him as Li Er, born in the 6th century BC in the state of Chu during China's Spring and Autumn period (c. 770–c. 481 BC). He is said to have served as the royal archivist for the Zhou court.
CONFUCIUS, born Kong Qiu, was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Much of the shared cultural heritage of the Sinosphere originates in the philosophy and teachings of Confucius [1].
His philosophical teachings, called Confucianism, emphasize personal and governmental morality, harmonious social relationships, righteousness, kindness, sincerity, and a ruler's responsibilities to lead by virtue [2].
He considered himself a transmitter for the values of earlier periods, which he claimed had been abandoned in his time... More
Taoism (pronounced Daoism) is a philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China and is a major influence on Zen. It emphasizes harmony with the Tao (道).
With a range of meanings in Chinese philosophy, translations of Tao include "Way," "Road," "Path," or "Technique," generally understood in the Taoist sense as an enigmatic process of transforming ultimately underlying reality [2, 3].
Taoist thought has informed the development of various practices within the Taoist tradition, including forms of
A common goal of Taoist practice is self-cultivation, a deeper appreciation of the Tao, and a more harmonious existence [with nature].
Taoist ethics [that blended until they are thought to be of Buddhist origin in Zen] generally emphasize virtues of effortless action, naturalness, simplicity, and the three treasures of compassion, frugality, and humility.
Taoism is a distinct tradition with its own scriptures, priestly lineages, and ritual systems, but it has long been closely intertwined with Zen and Chinese folk religion, and the boundary between them is often fluid in practice [5].
The core of Taoist thought crystallized during... More
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