The Shrouded Beast

Religions are the epitome of disinformation, but they do inadvertently outline the contours of that which they obscure.

If the general claims of religion are to be considered rationally, mainly that gods exist and reincarnation is a possibility, then one has to consider the possibility that Homo Sapiens is a genetically modified species of unknown origin, most probably of extraterrestrial origin. The existence of gods, which are essentially immortal beings, (originally presenting as people), with the ability to offer immortality, is at least evidence of an information advantage being exercised.

For a pre Judeo-Christian example of the miracles described in the Bible, look up the story of Jamadagni, Renuka and their sons. It illustrates a man-god with the power to bring people back to life, with or without the memories of their previous lives.

If the general claims of religion are true, then it is the conspiracy of conspiracies that ultimately orders this world, and a life to live is the ultimate commodity. This presupposes that there is a physiological mechanism for the reincarnation of an individual, not in the same body, but as a new person—to literally be born again, (in heaven if you were allowed to keep your memories).

The story of Jesus the Christ is interesting in this context because he was offering forbidden information about the process to his followers.

As for who he actually was, I believe that he must have been Antipater II, the first born son of Herod the Great—the man-god of the ancient Jews, who had him nailed as an adult to the intersection of mundanity and divinity as a warning to usurpers.

I imagine that Antipater, knowing that he was going to inherit Herod’s throne, began to tell people what his kingdom was going to be like. That didn’t go over well with religious authorities who got the Roman authorities involved and insisted that Herod have him executed.

It’s the only actual event from that time period involving a “king of the Jews” who was sacrificed by his father for the sake of power. It explains the authority Jesus had as a child, and it explains the information gap in the life of Jesus between childhood and adulthood: Antipater was banished with his mother, Doris, from Herod’s court for most of his life.

I propose that the person responsible for the turn of events that led to Antipater’s execution was Costobar, the husband of Salome, who also was executed by Herod. The Bible story remembers him as John the Baptist. Perhaps the root of the conflict was a competition between the followers of the Idumean deity, Qos, and the followers of Yahweh, who were willing to oversee the destruction of their own Temple over it.

Not only was the Temple actually destroyed, but there was indeed a schism in Judaism that led to a new religion, (that Rome eventually gained control over).

Look at all of the people who were involved. It is the juiciest nonfiction story of that time.

Christianity is a product of the long and bloody process of Iron Age information control. It can also be called Roman Judaism. My fundamental assumption is that there’s nothing in the Bible that can be relied on factually, and that is by design. I imagine it as a story that people heard that was gradually, over centuries, “corrected” through violence and cooption to become the myth we know today. The point was very much to deflate the political power of the actual story and turn it into a vehicle for control.

The Romans succeeded in mythologizing the facts out of the story and turning it into a religion of superstition, but they were not able to change the contender’s focus on eschatological fulfillment, or sully the exquisitely sapient character of its tragic messiah.