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Patriarchal Tyranny: - The true origin of the three Abrahamic, Adam and Eve based religions; Judaism, and its two derivatives: Christianity and Islam.
- By Bahram Maskanian - May 09, 1989 - Last Edit and Update, March 2005
The horrifying barbarism of Judaism, Christianity and Islam religious manuals and history is a clear evidence of humanity's desperate need to form a new spirituality, which is based on common sense and ethical standards.
Mithra was a Persian savior. The worship of Mithra became common throughout the Roman Empire, particularly among the Roman civil service and military. The Mithraism and Christianity were competitors until the 4th century. Mithra believed to have been born on December 25. Mithra's birth was witnessed by shepherds and by gift-carrying Magi, or - the three wise men. - This was celebrated as the, - Dies Natalis Solic Invite. - The Birthday of the Unconquered Son. - Many followers believed that Mithra was born of a virgin. During his life, Mithra performed many miracles, cured many illnesses, and cast out devils. Mithra celebrated a - - Last Supper with his 12 Disciples. - He ascended to heaven at the time of the spring equinox, about March 21, the first day of spring.
The above story sounds uncannily similar to the story of Jesus, or ISSAH, his real name. Except Mithra and his religion took place over two thousand (2000) years earlier than ISSAH, or Jesus, which is a Greek name replacing his real name, meaning angel. - ISSAH or Jesus died due to natural causes three hundred (300) years before the Jews made him into a mythical religious figure and the Son of God, just like Mithra. -
Christianity is just a plagiarized religion, an exact replication of Mithraism, which was in existence over two thousand (2000) years earlier than Christianity.
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Now let's look at the much older Persian supernatural being: Mithra. The earliest known examples of Mithra worship date back over four thousand (4000) years ago into the Persian Empire. Mithra was the son of Ahura-Mazda, the divine God of the heavens.
Mithra and Ahura-Mazda were strong influences on early Babylonian beliefs. Along came the Zoroastrians in the 6th century BC who absorbed Mithra and Ahura-Mazda into their own culture where, - Ahura-Mazda - became the supreme holy God of goodness and - Ahriman - became the God of Evil.
Soon after this Zoroastrian / Babylonian takeover around 580-BC, the Babylonians were holding the Jews in captivity. The Jews were Henotheists at this time but became heavily influenced by the concept of one god of goodness and one god of evil.
Mithra was sent by the Father God down to Earth to confirm his contract with Man.
Mithra was born of a Virgin through - Immaculate Conception - He was born of Anahita, an immaculate virgin mother.
Mithra was born in a stable - We celebrate his birth on December 25th -.
Mithra was visited by wise men bearing gifts.
Mithra had 12 disciples - He was called the Messiah -.
Mithra was also the god of Darius, conqueror of Babylon, He was called - - Messiah - - or Christos by Jews during their Captivity.
Mithra made a (Contract) or (Covenant) with Man confirming an older contract with God - The Persian word Mithra literally means - - Contract. - -
Mithra celebrated a last supper with his disciples before his death.
Mithra died to atone for the sins of Man.
Mithra was resurrected on a Sunday.
Mithra ascended into Heaven to rejoin his Father.
Mithra will return to pass judgment on Man - He was known as the judger of souls -.
On judgment day, the dead will arise and be judged by Mithra.
Mithra will send sinners to HELL.
Mithra will send the faithful to HEAVEN.
On judgment day there will be a final conflict between Good and Evil - The forces of Evil will be destroyed and the saved will live in paradise forever -.
Mithra is part of a Holy Trinity the - (Father, Son, And Holy Spirit) -, that took human form.
Mithra is depicted as having a halo, (a circular band of light around his head).
Mithra followers drink wine and eat bread, which represent his blood and flesh.
Mithra followers are baptized.
Saturday and Sunday, the two (2) days of the week to rest and celebrate.
That is a whole lot of remarkable coincidences, all from thousands of years before ISSAH or Jesus was born.
The Holy book of Zoroastrian was called the Avesta of Zarathustra, (Zoroaster is the Greek word for the Persian - - Zarathustra - -). The Jews were well aware of this book.
Mithra worship declined with the arrival of the strong Zoroastrian philosophy of - - One True God - -. in the Roman Empire.
Mithra worship increased again and became very popular during the late Roman Empire... When did this happen? Yes. The first Century AD, another remarkable coincidence.
From what race did the mythical Jesus allegedly come from? - The Jews. - Who had already been influenced by the Mithra cult for centuries and have adopted many other Zoroastrian beliefs.
Who convened the Great Christian Council of Nicea in 325-AD? The Roman Emperor Constantine. Who did he worship before his conversion? Mithra!!!
The large number of similarities between the Persian / Zorastrian God Mithra and the Judeo / Christian Jesus are just too many to be mere coincidences... The two stories are just too much alike... even down to the gifts brought by the wise men to the stable for the infant Mithra, born of a virgin, the son of God, savior of mankind who died to save us from evil.
It is blindingly obvious that Christianity is just a plagiarization of the earlier Persian Cult of Mithraism. There is nothing original in the Christian belief system. It is all copied.
Christianity has always practiced this art of absorbing other people's beliefs and calling them their own.... Easter from the pagan festival of Eastre... High Mass, Sunday Sabbath, Holly and Ivy, Decorating trees, Monotheism, The Eucharist... All of it is taken from Mithra.
The bread disks that the Mithra worshipers ate during their Mass to symbolize the flesh of their God was marked with a cross, - - hundreds of years before it became a Christian symbol. - -
And finally, during the Roman Revival of the Mithraism Cult, where do you think the cult centered?
- - - On The One And The Same - Vatican Hill - in Rome - - - !
Christianity is a false religion with no doctrine of its own. All of its dogma, its rituals, its key characters, its very foundation is stolen from Mithraism.
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Well, as usual in the good old Christian fashion, Fanatic Christians deliberately fail to realize that,
Christianity is Mithraism. - The Christian religion is nothing but a plagiarized version of what EVERYONE claims to be pure mythology, therefore so is Christianity.
Even the artifacts have been positively dated to WAY earlier than Christianity, so NO, someone did not just - - Make Them Up. - -
Christianity is what was made up, then spread by a psychotic man called Paul, who had his - - Vision - - while on the road to Damascus. Paul's vision, has since been proven to have been the result of a - - Temporal Lobe Epileptic Seizure. - - For 20 years this delusional man thought the end of the world was coming each and every day he woke up.
Everything this irrational man wrote was while he believed that at any moment the end was coming. This is what Christian Fundamentalist consider - - Words to LIVE by - - instead quite obviously they were - - Words to DIE by, - - written by a psychologically impaired man.
Paul is the first Christian mullah, a figure largely responsible for bringing the Christian message to the Roman Empire. Paul was born a Roman citizen at Tarsus in Cilicia, the son of a Jew belonging to the tribe of Benjamin. He was known originally as Saul.
Paul was arrested while preaching and taken into custody near Troas. He was transferred to Rome and was beheaded in the Neronian persecution when he was 65 or 67 years old. His remains were buried on the road to Ostia.
Paul was instrumental in organizing the fundamentalist Christian Church. Through his disturbed psychotic writings he plagiarized and elevated Mithraism to Christianity.
Paul transformed a minor and obscure sect of Judaism, ISSAH's movement, by copying Mithraism, replacing Mithra with ISSAH and then calling him Jesus, a Greek name-meaning angel.
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A spiritual reinterpretation of Persian Mithraism was suppressed when Constantine I decided to transform Mithraism from a Persian originated religion into a Roman version. Pursuant to his command, historians changed the name from Mithraism to Christianity and ISSAH replaced Mithra and was named Jesus. Roman historians began plagiarizing a new book of lies. Soon after, Constantine I converted to Christianity in CE 312.
Constantine I was raised at the Eastern court of Emperor Diocletian. In 305 Constantius and Galerius succeeded Maximian and Diocletian as the Western and Eastern emperor, respectively. In 306 Constantius died at York, north of England. Soon after Constantine was acclaimed as the Western emperor by the Roman army.
Galerius, however, proclaimed Flavius Valerius Severus as the Western emperor. Maximian and his son, Maxentius, defeated Severus, who was replaced by Licinius. Constantine invaded Italy and killed Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge (312). Constantine and Licinius were now confirmed as the Western and Eastern emperors respectively.
In 313 they signed the Edict of Milan, extending tolerance to Christians throughout the Roman Empire. In 324 Constantine crushed Licinius and became sole ruler.
Constantine presided over the first ecumenical council of the Christian church at Nicaea (325), which condemned Arianism. In (330) Constantine rebuilt Byzantium as his capital, renaming it Constantinople, (today's Istanbul).
Constantine I centralized imperial power and minted a new gold coin, the solidus, that remained the basic unit of Byzantine currency for a thousand years. Above all, Constantine was responsible for the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
His commitment to Christianity was reflected in the building of the Church of the Holy Wisdom (the original Hagia Sophia), Constantinople, the first St. Peter's basilica, Rome, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem.
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Definition Of Faith:To have faith is to have confident belief in an unquestioned and unexamined set of mythical values, or trustworthiness of a divine power, an idea, or a symbol. - To believe in what does not rest on reason, logical proof, or material evidence. - A mental act, condition, or habit of placing trust and confidence in superstition. - Loyalty and mental acceptance, conviction in myths as the truth, actuality, or validity of something. - Faith is also the theological virtue defined as secure belief and allegiance with those who claim to represent God, trusting and acceptance of God's will. - A set of dogmatic myths, or beliefs, or opinion, or doctrine held as being true by a group of persons. - Faith is being sure of what we hope for, and to be certain of the existence of what we would never know.
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Thousands of years before the invention of monotheistic dogma, the doctrine and belief system manufactured by men, that there is only one God, the matriarch system of social governing flourished successfully and peacefully for as long as eight thousands (8000) years, according to Persian, Indian and Chinese history. Lugu Lake province in China today in the twenty-first (21) century is free from religion and communism, run by women based on the good old matriarch system of, No Wars, No Murder and No Rape.
Power hungry, greedy and sexually confused men invented the monotheistic dogma making this absurd claim that, GOD is a HE and he told Moses that he made Men in his own image. The Jewish manual, Old Testament is full of hateful, anti women, terrorizing, murdering commands, by far the scariest text written by men, placing women in a slave subservient position, it is obviously a counter offensive to overthrow matriarchy, replacing it with a brutal war mongering, war profiteering, rapist, and murderous patriarchy system. The patriarchy system brought us slavery, rape, sexism, racism, terrorism, imperialism, communism, fear, war, hate and religious fundamentalism, just to name a few. Other by products of patriarchy system is the huge environmental degradation humanity is suffering from all over the world today.
It must be noted that the Judaism theology including the Ten Commandments, was stolen from the Egyptian Book Of Death, obviously an Egyptian theology. Christianity was stolen from the Persian Mithraism, evidently a Persian theology, and finally, Islam’s, criminal manual, which is almost identical to the barbaric dogmas of Jewish manual, Old Testament, with the exception of a few names changed. It is no secret that Muhammad idealized Moses and that Muhammad's criminal genocidal conquests rivals those of Moses.
Besides of the true character of Moses, as stated and acknowledged in the Jewish manual, which is the most revolting as it can possibly be imagined. Moses clearly was the first of the so-called GOD Messengers who began the religious genocidal wars to conquer, plunder and advance the false pretences of religion; under the mask of all that is holy, committed the most unexampled atrocities that are to be found in the history of any nation on earth, of which I will state only one instance. When Moses and his Jewish army returned from one of their plundering and murdering excursions, the account goes on as follows:
- - And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp; and Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle; and Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the - thous ands, and captai commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him; but all the women-children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. - - (Chap. xxxi., ver. 13)
Muhammad did almost exactly the same, following Moses footsteps, using the same revolting doctrines and tactics to become the Islamic Emperor of the world, calling himself last god messenger. Through the same brainwashing methods Muhammad and his criminal army converted, subjugated and murdered the nonbelievers, followed by the plunder, enslavement and rape of the captive virgins of any age.
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MEN CREATED IN GOD'S IMAGE:Power hungry, greedy, psychotic, criminal and sexually confused MEN who preferred to live in caves on intimate terms with domesticated animals and small boys have invented the monotheistic dogma of the 3 Abrahamic, Adam and Eve based religions; Judaism and it’s 2 derivatives Christianity and Islam. These men have claimed that when no one was around, an image and a voice of a man told them, that GOD is a HE, and he has created MEN, in his own hideous image.
And if you, the reader, believe that, clearly your educational system has failed you.
The truth is that these psychotic pedophile men, based on many recorded historical facts, have created GOD, in their own horrible parasitic image and character, these men founded Judaism, the first of the 3 Abrahamic, Adam and Eve based religions and it’s religious manuals, to support their decadent idiotic claims. - They fabricated a patriarch image of GOD, to be a brutal war monger, war profiteer, rapist, slave trader / owner, racists, murderous, sexist, terrorist, fear and hate monger, imperialist and religious fundamentalist, as they, themselves were. - The absolute truth is that men throughout human history have perpetuated the 3 Abrahamic, Adam and Eve based religions; Judaism and it’s 2 derivatives Christianity and Islam mythical barbaric crap, only to maintain their own patriarchal criminal power and control over women and society.
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We all are well aware and familiar with the luxurious life style and the power of the patriarch religious mullahs representing the three (3) Abrahamic, Adam and Eve based religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These religious mullahs have been claiming that we, the humankind must sacrifice and are here only to Glorify God and obey HIM, - - which in reality, it means to Glorify the barbaric elitist mullahs and obey them as the self-proclaimed ambassadors and voices of the ultimate holy criminal, the murdering, sadistic, chauvinist, racist, sexist, anti-reason, blood thirsty masculine MALE GOD. - - A God so confused who fools but assures, - Jews, Christians and Muslims -, all, the very same nonexistence promised heaven above, only if they convert each-other to their faith, even if they had to kill them to go where it does not exist!!!
Religious mullahs and their fabricated belief system are responsible for most of the large scale genocidal wars, and today's, - Homicide Bombers, - Ethnic-Cleansing and mass systematic planned extermination of many nations, are all driven by the greedy barbaric mullahs. Even though many religious mullahs claim to be peaceful and against killing of the innocent, they promote extermination of those who do not believe in their myth by promising the stupid brainwashed followers / killers a special elitist treatment and status in the nonexistence promised heaven.
Religious competition between the three (3) Abrahamic, Adam and Eve based religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have robbed the humankind of an enormous amount of knowledge, wisdom, dignity and compassion, by killing those who dared to challenge the barbarism of religion and think differently. Humankind had suffered thousands of years setback and lost countless scientific advancements and wisdom due to the religious mullahs conducts of burning scientist, free thinking philosophers and millions of books to prevent humankind from finding out the truth. Religious mullahs brought us brutal torture, slavery, genocide, terrorism and religious wars, as did their bosses, the so-called GOD Messengers, sadly ever present in all of the so-called civilized and the not civilized nations on Earth, even today and have been for the most part of human recorded history, ever since the invention of religion by MAD MEN.
Fundamentalism of any kind and color is a big fatal mistake. No philosophy or religion ever had the answer and none ever will. Reality based on hallucination and assumptions is not reality. It's a myth. Theocracy pushing the public to be favorable toward a theoretical idea of one form or another will only bring us to where we are today and even worse, if we, the people continue on this self-destructive journey. The truth must be told about these barbaric widespread mythological beliefs. The deeply rooted hatred caused by mullahs for thousands of years must be openly and honestly discussed to remedied this old nasty wound, before we, the humankind are annihilated.
The three (3) barbaric Abrahamic, Adam and Eve based religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and their manuals of human slavery, subjugation, conquest, looting, murder and hate are humankind's problem all over the world, more dangerous and deadly than any weapons of mass destruction - WMD - ever invented. We must solve these deadly problems through conversation not confliction, by shedding the bright light of truth and common sense on Judaism, Christianity and Islam's criminal mullahs deceptive lies and their manuals.
Humanity has paid an extremely heavy price of time, blood and treasure in order to evolve, to reach, and gain the little wisdom that we have today. - We must realize that the destructive patriarchal extent of tribal religious supremacy wars for the past few thousand years have destroyed countless works of art, science books and the scientists who wrote them. - Undoubtedly humanity would have been in a much better place had it not been for the criminal atrocities of the tyrannical patriarchal religious men.
The scope of tribal religious supremacy wars is no longer limited to genocide, ethnic cleansing and burning down villages and towns on horse back anymore. We have now entered the age of religious Atomic Annihilation of our one, and only home, Planet Earth, and all of its inhabitants. The extremely dangerous and racist tribal supremacy if not stopped, it would stop all of us, the humankind.
- - I believe that religious duties consist of doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy, - my own mind is my own church - - Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason
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Sources: Book of Mithra, Book of Zoroaster, Avesta - History of Persian Empire, Prior to Islam - History of Roman Empire - The Three (3) Barbaric Adam & Eve Based Religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam's Manuals.
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You've no doubt heard the story before -- God speaks to one man, and gives him a message that will save all of humanity. That man goes out and, against all odds, shares that message with the people and converts many to his new religion. It hasn't happened to any of the trekkers yet, but if it's going to, I think we're in the right place.
Are we closer to God here, or are the people more spiritual than in other parts of the world? Is it in the water? Maybe it's the vast deserts, or the beautiful rugs. Why is it that so many influential prophets have come from the Middle East through the ages? There was Abraham who was born in what is now Turkey, and Jesus, of course, and then came Mohammed in Saudi Arabia.
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Not to be outdone, Persia has produced at least two similar "messengers of God," and two subsequent major religions. The first, named Zarathustra or Zoroaster, lived anywhere from 1500 BCE to 1200 BCE (depending on whose research you believe) and his religion, Zoroastrianism, strongly influenced Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The second Persian prophet, Bahá'u'lláh, started the Bahá'í faith here in the 1800s, and a lot of his teachings stem from Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. Since the revolution in 1979, when Iran became an "Islamic Republic" ruled by Muslim clergy, many followers of Zoroastrianism, and almost all of the Bahá'í, have left the country.
The Bahá'í faith, which we learned about back in Haifa, Israel, has five million followers worldwide and is still growing. Zoroastrianism, however, has fewer (some estimates say up to 150,000; other say less) and could be dying out. Still, in the big picture, Zarathustra has had a larger effect on the world.
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Expert Fact Did you know that Zoroaster is older than Moses?Dr. Badi Badiozamani is the author of "Iran & America: Rekindling a Love Lost" (soon to be published), is a scholar, journalist and expert on Iran. Before Zarathustra came along, the people of ancient Persia worshipped many gods. But Zarathustra's God, Ahura Mazda, the "Wise Lord," came down and told him to reject these "demons." For Zoroastrians, life is a battle between good and evil, and everyone -- man and woman alike -- is a warrior. The battle, however, is spiritual, not physical.
About 10,000 devout Zoroastrians live here in Yazd, Iran. Ateshkadé, the Zoroastrian fire temple, holds a fire that has burned for 1,530 years!
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"We believe that fire is a living thing," my new Zoroastrian friend Parvis told me. "So when a fire is made, it is important to remember, kind of like a birth certificate."
We were really fortunate to meet Parvis. He showed us around the fire temple and the old homes of his grandparents. The homes are built in the shape of a cross, to represent the four directions, a building custom which reminds me of ancient Native American religions and European pagan symbolism.
"Every time they (Zoroastrians) want to bless anything, they touch the four corners," Parvis explained. "All the prayers, they spread to the four corners. So a cross of equidistant sides with four dots is a very important symbol. In all of the Persian rugs you'll see the central medallion will be a cross. In the Mitraic religion you have hot cross buns way before in the Christian religion!" (Mitraism is a sect of Zoroastrianism that has spread to the West.)
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There are seven elements in Zoroastrianism that represent the one God. You can learn more about that in Kavitha's article, or go straight to the source: the holy book of Zoroastrians is known as the Avesta, and it was passed down orally for more than 1,000 years, until it was written down during the Sassanian dynasty in Iran, between the 3rd and 7th centuries CE. The oldest parts of the Avesta are the Gathas -- seventeen intricate poems supposedly written by Zarathustra himself.
After 10 years of getting NO converts, Zoroastrianism started growing, and eventually became the official state religion of Persia under the Sassanians, who controlled this area between 224 and 637 CE. Instead of the Islamic Republic of Iran, did they call it the Zoroastrian Kingdom of Persia? Well, it really doesn't matter, because once Mohammed brought Islam to the Arabs, they went out and conquered all of the Middle East, and Zoroastrianism went into decline. But despite Islam's hold on Iran, many of the traditions and customs date back to the Zoroastrian days.
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clergy - people involved in religious service (a priest, or an Imam, for example)subsequent - following in time, succeedingpagan - a person who has no religion, or whose beliefs predate Christianity, Judaism and IslamNow, Parvis told me, there is a large, thriving Zoroastrian community in Bombay, India, where they still leave their dead on the Towers of Silence. Whoah! We visited these desolate hilltop structures here in Yazd, where the local Zoroastrians used to leave their dead to be eaten by the vultures.
"Once a person dies," Parvis explained, "the fire of life is gone from them." Therefore, the body is polluting and shouldn't be buried in the earth or burned on the fire, two of the sacred seven elements. Cool!
THE ZOROASTRIAN CREED
Come to my aid, O Mazda (3).
I profess myself a Mazda-worshipper, a Zoroastrian, having vowed it and professed it. I pledge myself to the well-thought thought, I pledge myself to the well-spoken word, I pledge myself to the well-done action.
I pledge myself to the Mazdayasnian religion, which causes the attack to be put off and weapons put down; which upholds khvaetvadatha (kin-marriage), which possesses Asha; which of all religions that exist or shall be, is the greatest, the best, and the most beautiful: Ahuric, Zoroastrian. I ascribe all good to Ahura Mazda. This is the creed of the Mazdayasnian religion. (Note: Asha, which has been translated variously as truth, righteousness, world-order, eternal law and fitness, is a key concept in Zoroastrianism.)
Related LinksFrequently Asked Questions About Zoroastrianism
Traditional Zoroastrianism Home Page "When I die," I told Brian as we climbed the dusty hill, "I want my body to be eaten by vultures!" Brian thinks I'm weird.
Seriously, though, I've really enjoyed learning about the Zoroastrian religion. I like it that they believe in guardian angels, because we trekkers can really use them. I also like some of the quotes I've found from the Avesta, so I'll leave you with a parting inspirational scripture -- words to live by 'til the vultures come!
"A thousand people cannot convince one by words to the extent that one person can convince a thousand by action." (The Avesta, SDk6.e15)
Abeja
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