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By Dan Green Just about everything imaginable has been either said or suggested about the biblical figure presented to us as Mary Magdalene. That much we can agree. The most favoured and recent of the many hypothesis is that she was the partner of the historical and biblical figurehead Jesus carrying his child and along with that the continuation of a Holy Bloodline. This Mary figure, who after the biblical account where she was the first to visit the tomb of the rising Christ, simply vanishes from record yet warrants becoming an object of character assassination by the Catholic Church and added to their tarnishing of all things female by virtue of Original Sin propaganda and inventing us the lie that she was a prostitute. This enigmatic Mary must have been a potent female in particular, an actual spiritual Teacher who had a following whose importance may well have been thought better removed in order to satisfy a preferred emphasis on a male Jesus figure to cater for the deep-seated homosexual tendencies that have now been brought to light by the exposure of systematic and covered up Catholic Church child abuse in both USA and Ireland and suspected in many other countries if not all where Catholicism is rooted. That the figure of Mary Magdalene may well have been far more important in history than we could have imagined, eclipsing that of the male Jesus storyline as it is told, may well be one of the better secrets held in relation to her and the mystery attached to Rennes-le-Chateau. Is her connection with blood – menstruation – the one thing a male church hierarchy loathed, to menstruate being ‘men’s true hate’? Was this enigmatic Mary considered such a threat that she was physically removed from accurate recordings of history that would displease the Church, preferring an empha ...

Deur: Waldor Ek het in die reeks “Dawid se Slingervel of Die Hamer van Thor” daarop gewys dat die grondlegging, en die hele geskiedenis van die Christen geloof, nie die ‘Woord van God’ kan wees nie. Die basis van my réde is dat die legio valshede en weerspreking wat dwarsdeur die Bybel gedy, nie vereenselwig kan word met ‘n Onberispelike, Alomteenwoordige, Almagtige Skepper God nie. Verder is die prinsiepe daarin vervat moreel onaanvaarbaar. Ek glo dat ek die moontlikheid van “Dawid se Slingervel” empiries uitkanselleer het. Verder het ek in die heel eerste artikel dit baie duidelik gestel dat ek met die alternatief - “Die Hamer van Thor” - nie na ‘n letterlike ‘Thor’ verwys nie maar na die: “...prinsipiële verteenwoordiger van die Aries religieuse begrip en moraliteit – die mitologiese verpersoonliking van die Nordiese karakter.” Daarmee bedoelende, die dieper waardes en betekenis agter die mitologiese verhale. Die Ou Testament is op die beurt die mitologie van die Israeliete en is soos enige mitologie, ‘n verpersoonliking van hulle psige omdat dit ontspring het uit hul moraliteit - soos waar dapperheid en heroïsme daarin gesien word om ‘n klip te slinger wanneer jy uitgedaag word vir ‘n tweegeveg met swaarde, ...

TWO CONFUSED STORIES IN THE GOSPELS Jesus Christ has captured the imagination of millions of people around the world for almost 2,000 years. Few people know that he represents something far different, and the following chapters unravel an entirely new story about the circumstances surrounding the birth and emergence of the Christian religion. In order to cover this ground, it is necessary to consider the New Testament stories from a different perspective. By stripping away their supernatural elements, the earliest Church writings relay a confused skeletal outline of the lives of two separate men. This work unravels those stories and shows how the New Testament came into being and what it really is. Until now, this aspect of the Gospel story has never been fully developed; and by coordinating new information with surviving records, a reconstruction of the probable course of events that resulted in Christianity today is presented. ...