Yeah this sounds a lot like bullshit. Especially how the beginning of the article talks about the discovery of "ancient confessions" but towards the end of the article it seem apparent that he got these confessions from reading between the lines (hardly an actual confession). Lets take some excerpts out of the article and give them a good look-see.
First off, lets take into account the his most intriguing discovery is a vague "sequence of parallels"/"sequence of events" that has somehow escaped every other theologian/biblical scholar/historian for the past 2,000 years. And he calls those vague parallels "clear evidence." Caution lights flash in my head.
By the way, did you know if you played Stairway to Heaven backwards there is a Satanic message. How could this go unnoticed in one of the most played songs of all time? Well it's because many of the parallels are conceptual or poetic, so they aren't all immediately obvious. After all, Satan did not want the average believer to hear what he was doing, but he did want the alert listener to hear it. An educated Satanist in the ruling class would have recognized the musical game being played.
......Just thought you should know about that "clear evidence" when you play the song backwards.
Puzzle literature that was meant to be solved by future generations? Oh...my.....Flying Spaghetti Monster! Quick! Someone call Nicolas Cage! I smell another National Treasure movie!
On a serious note though, why would the Roman government be proud of Jesus Christ? If what Atwill says is true, when they first created this fake religion the idea was to just get some Jews to calm down. They couldn't have had any idea that their fake religion would explode to the massive one it is today. So why would they allude to something that at the time, wasn't really a big deal? Why would the want credit for something that was in reality completely miniscule during their lifetime?
And then there is the website. First off the fact that there is a website about this specific "historical" topic seems sketchy. After all if I Google the Gulf of Tonkin, covertwar.com doesn't pop up at the top of my list. There are however links to educational sources about the topic. But anyways, lets go to the home page:
Quote:Atwill's most intriguing discovery came to him while he was studying "Wars of the Jews" by Josephus [the only surviving first-person historical account of first-century Judea] alongside the New Testament. "I started to notice a sequence of parallels between the two texts," he recounts. "Although it's been recognised by Christian scholars for centuries that the prophesies of Jesus appear to be fulfilled by what Josephus wrote about in the First Jewish-Roman war, I was seeing dozens more. What seems to have eluded many scholars is that the sequence of events and locations of Jesus ministry are more or less the same as the sequence of events and locations of the military campaign of [Emperor] Titus Flavius as described by Josephus. This is clear evidence of a deliberately constructed pattern. The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories, but especially on the biography of a Roman Caesar."
First off, lets take into account the his most intriguing discovery is a vague "sequence of parallels"/"sequence of events" that has somehow escaped every other theologian/biblical scholar/historian for the past 2,000 years. And he calls those vague parallels "clear evidence." Caution lights flash in my head.
Quote:How could this go unnoticed in the most scrutinised books of all time? "Many of the parallels are conceptual or poetic, so they aren't all immediately obvious. After all, the authors did not want the average believer to see what they were doing, but they did want the alert reader to see it. An educated Roman in the ruling class would probably have recognised the literary game being played."
By the way, did you know if you played Stairway to Heaven backwards there is a Satanic message. How could this go unnoticed in one of the most played songs of all time? Well it's because many of the parallels are conceptual or poetic, so they aren't all immediately obvious. After all, Satan did not want the average believer to hear what he was doing, but he did want the alert listener to hear it. An educated Satanist in the ruling class would have recognized the musical game being played.
......Just thought you should know about that "clear evidence" when you play the song backwards.
Quote:Atwill maintains he can demonstrate that "the Roman Caesars left us a kind of puzzle literature that was meant to be solved by future generations, and the solution to that puzzle is 'We invented Jesus Christ, and we're proud of it.'"
Puzzle literature that was meant to be solved by future generations? Oh...my.....Flying Spaghetti Monster! Quick! Someone call Nicolas Cage! I smell another National Treasure movie!
On a serious note though, why would the Roman government be proud of Jesus Christ? If what Atwill says is true, when they first created this fake religion the idea was to just get some Jews to calm down. They couldn't have had any idea that their fake religion would explode to the massive one it is today. So why would they allude to something that at the time, wasn't really a big deal? Why would the want credit for something that was in reality completely miniscule during their lifetime?
And then there is the website. First off the fact that there is a website about this specific "historical" topic seems sketchy. After all if I Google the Gulf of Tonkin, covertwar.com doesn't pop up at the top of my list. There are however links to educational sources about the topic. But anyways, lets go to the home page:
![[Image: CovertMessiah.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=caesarsmessiahdoc.com%2FEvents%2FCovertMessiah.jpg)
