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Don’t transfer your wrath onto Steve!

I have been reproducing most of the text of the article ‘The Holy Hook’. ‘Christianity without the Old Testament?’ is the last section of that essay by Laurent Guyénot. It consists of 900 words. I don’t want to reproduce it here but you can read it in The Unz Review. In that last section, Guyénot […]

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Axiology Christendom Dominion (book) Liberalism Tom Holland

Western values are Christian values

by David Lindsay Tom Holland has written a superb overview [Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World] of the impact of Christianity on the West. He argues we in the West are moored to our Christian past and our morals and ethics derive from Christianity. Holland believes that Christian values permeate Western culture and […]

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The Holy Hook, 5

by Laurent Guyénot Christianity as controlled opposition ‘Inside every Christian is a Jew,’ stated Pope Francis. That is the simplest and the deepest truth about Christianity. Most Christians are not aware of this Jew inside them, yet he commands a large part of their worldview. Meditating on this truth can be a mind-opening experience, radiating […]

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The Holy Hook, 4

by Laurent Guyénot How Christianity reinforced Jewish alienation Also to consider is the effect that the Christian sanctification of the Jewish Tanakh has had on Jews themselves. It has discouraged Jews from questioning their scriptures and freeing themselves from their psychopathic god. Any Jew who questioned the divine inspiration of the Torah was not only […]

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The Holy Hook, 2

  by Laurent Guyénot   The Old Testament as Israel’s Trojan Horse In pre-Christian times, pagan scholars had shown little interest in the Hebrew Bible. Jewish writers (Aristobulus of Paneas, Artapan of Alexandria) had tried to bluff the Greeks on the antiquity of the Torah, claiming that Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Socrates and Plato had been […]

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The Holy Hook, 1

  Editor’s note: With the subtitle of ‘Yahweh’s Trojan Horse into the Gentile City’, this essay by Laurent Guyénot was published, complete, on May 8, 2019, in The Unz Review.   Is the Church the whore of Yahweh? I concluded an earlier article [‘Zionism, Crypto-Judaism, and the Biblical Hoax’ —Ed.] by what I regard as […]

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How Yahweh conquered Rome, 5

by Laurent Guyénot   The Jesus question: How fake is the Good News? I regard Barbiero’s book as a fruitful attempt to solve the mystery of how the Jews created Christianity and made it the Roman religion. But it certainly doesn’t give the full story. Much happened in the next three centuries that needs to […]

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How Yahweh conquered Rome, 4

by Laurent Guyénot   The foundation of the Roman church under the Flavian dynasty In 70, newly proclaimed emperor Vespasian and his son Titus brought to Rome about 97,000 Jewish captives (Josephus, Jewish War vi, 9), as well as members of the Jewish nobility rewarded for their support in the war in Judea—Josephus being the […]

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How Yahweh conquered Rome, 1

Editor’s note: With the subtitle ‘Christianity and the Big Lie’, this 12,400-word essay by Laurent Guyénot was published in The Unz Review at Christmas 2020. It will be republished here, excerpted, in five parts.   ______ 卐 ______   The People of the Lie Primo Levi, Italian author of If this is a man (1947)—‘a […]

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The Jesus Hoax, 6

CHAPTER 6: TAKING STOCK, LOOKING AHEAD Let’s take stock at this point by briefly recapping the central facts. The oldest existing Bible dates from the year 350; as we move backward in time from there, our confidence in the actual text diminishes significantly—some parts being much more uncertain than others. Expert consensus is that the […]