I still hear the myth repeated that "scientists" proved the ancient city of Sodom was in fact destroyed by a meteor, and this therefore became the basis of the Sodom & Gomorrah legend in the Bible. But that never happened. The science has been proved fraudulent. And those "scientists" were Christian creationists all along.

The only evidence (as opposed to mere assertions) presented for the claim was that some scattered micromaterials that underwent high heat were recovered at the site—but not in any concentration or quantity as would entail a total destruction of the city.

In other words, all they found was evidence of ceramic and smelting industries. There was no other evidence. But of course Christian propagandists are still using this claim to promote their beliefs—without any mention of it having been debunked.

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"Jesus Spoke Aramaic, Not Hebrew"

The reason why Jesus was often quoted in Aramaic, such as in Matthew 27:46, is because it had become the lingua franca of the Near East, gradually replacing Hebrew as the everyday spoken language among Jews after the Babylonian exile in the 6th century BCE.

Even major Jewish works, such as the Mishnah, Talmud, Zohar, and many ancient ritual recitations such as the Kaddish, are at least partially written in Aramaic, and the modern Hebrew alphabet in fact derives from the Aramaic alphabet.

To argue that Jesus was not a Jew—despite all Biblical evidence proving he most definitely was, even though he never actually existed [1][2][3]—simply because "he spoke Aramaic, not Hebrew" is therefore utterly and fundamentally flawed.

Also, "Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea," making him indeed a Judean, and "Judean" and "Jew" were both referred to as ioudaios, making the terms interchangeable.

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The Last English King To Die A Pagan

In 661, the Jutes on the Isle of Wight underwent forced baptism during King Wulfhere of Mercia's invasion. However, after Wulfhere returned to Mercia, the Islanders swiftly deconverted until 686, when Cædwalla, the Christian King of Wessex, invaded and seized control of the island.

Their King Arwald, the last English king to die a Pagan, was killed in battle, and his successors were baptized before their execution. The majority of the inhabitants were annihilated and replaced by Christian West Saxons. Those who remained were coerced into accepting baptism and adopting the West Saxon dialect, and the Isle of Wight ultimately became part of the Kingdom of Wessex.

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The Viking Age, coincidentally, began only 11 years after the Massacre of Verden in 782, where Charlemagne ordered the beheading of 4,500 Saxons for their resistance against the Franks during a thirty-year campaign to Christianize the Saxons—known as the Saxon Wars—who were allies to the Danes. This led to the Saxons losing their entire tribal leadership and were now governed by Frankish counts appointed by Charlemagne.

It would be rather naïve to believe that the Scandinavians did not see the spread of Christianity and its empires as a major threat, which could very well have been the instigator of their raiding endeavors. However, this perspective is often ignored and we're told that it was due to nothing but a desire for wealth rather than preemptive self-defense.

And, on top of that, the Viking Age did not end until Scandinavia was largely Christianized in 1066, due to conversions of—and by—their kings. Most notably Olaf I and Olaf II.

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A common claim is that "we have more evidence for Jesus than for Alexander the Great." However, this is not even remotely the case.

For Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE), we have a good amount of contemporary evidence:

• We have coins that were minted from around 333 BCE up until the 2nd century CE, which depicts images of him wearing a lion's skin, symbolizing his connection to Heracles.

• We have the Alexander Sarcophagus (commissioned c. 332 BCE), which is decorated with bas-relief carvings of Alexander, along with scrolling historical—and mythological—narratives.

• We have the Alexander Chronicle (331–323 BCE), which is a Babylonian clay tablet inscription describing key battles and military campaigns led by Alexander.

• We have the Priene Inscription (c. 330 BCE), which contains a letter attributed to him where he granted privileges to the city of Priene (modern Turkey).

And the list goes on.

For Jesus, however, we have zero contemporary evidence.

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Evidence Of Jesus?

The tweet is entirely correct. The annotations, however, clearly are not.

The works of Tacitus and Josephus are not evidence, nor is Lucian of Samosata's, which was merely a satirical commentary on the late 2nd century Christian community written about 140 years after the alleged crucifixion.

The Bible books are not historical documents. We can't even prove the existence of Moses, let alone confirm everything else, such as the historicity of King Solomon or the earthquakes in Jerusalem that were strong enough to split stones.

And there are plenty of scholars who doubt that Jesus existed. Here is a list of 43 examples.

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The Importance Of Pre-Christian Customs

Halloween is rooted in an annual Celtic pagan festival called Samhain that was then appropriated by the early Catholic Church some 1,200 years ago.

The importance of pre-Christian customs to people’s lives apparently wasn’t lost upon the early Catholic Church. Pope Gregory I, also known as St. Gregory the Great, who headed the Church from A.D. 590 to 604, advised a missionary going to England that instead of trying to do away with the religious customs of non-Christian peoples, they simply should convert them to a Christian religious purpose.

The old beliefs associated with Samhain never died out entirely. The powerful symbolism of the traveling dead was too strong to be satisfied with the new, more abstract Catholic feast honoring saints.

Instead, the first night of Samhain, October 31, became All Hallows Day Evening, the night before the saints were venerated. That name eventually morphed into Halloween.

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The Very Last Word In The Bible

Amen, the very last word in the Bible, could well have begun as a Pagan word. Yet Christians, Jews and Muslims end their prayers, Scripture readings, and hymns by saying Amen as an expression of concurrence.

From old Egyptian texts we can see that people regarded the sun as the emblem of the Creator. They called the sun Ra, and all other gods and goddesses were forms of the Creator. One of these gods was Amen; a secret, hidden and mysterious god named variously Amen, Amon, Amun, Ammon and Amounra.

So Amen was originally the name of a Pagan god, who was considered a form of god the Creator. But he was certainly not considered the same One and Only God who Abrahamic religions worship now.

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"Was Jesus a Jew? Of course, Jesus was a Jew. He was born of a Jewish mother, in Galilee, a Jewish part of the world. All of his friends, associates, colleagues, disciples, all of them were Jews. He regularly worshipped in Jewish communal worship, what we call synagogues. He preached from Jewish text, from the Bible. He celebrated the Jewish festivals. He went on pilgrimage to the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem where he was under the authority of priests... He lived, was born, lived, died, taught as a Jew."

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"Christian" Family Values

Many seem to be under the impression that European family values arose from Christianity—despite verses such as Matthew 10:35-38. However, this is easily disproven. For example, referring to the Germanic tribes, highly noted Roman historian Tacitus stated in Germania (c.a. 98 CE):

Of learning and of any secret intercourse by letters, they are all equally ignorant, men and women. Amongst a people so numerous, adultery is exceeding rare; a crime instantly punished. In truth, nobody turns vices into mirth there, nor is the practice of corrupting and of yielding to corruption, called the custom of the Age.

Better still do those communities, in which none but virgins marry, and where to a single marriage all their views and inclinations are at once confined. To restrain generation and the increase of children, is esteemed an abominable sin, as also to kill infants newly born. And more powerful with them are good manners, than with other people are good laws.

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The Gospels are not history; they are religious propaganda, contradictory, exaggerated, and mythical. The earliest Christian writings, the letters of Paul, are silent about the man Jesus: Paul, who never met Jesus, fails to mention a single deed or saying of Jesus (except for the ritualistic Last Supper formula), and sometimes contradicts what Jesus supposedly said. To Paul, Jesus was a heavenly disembodied Christ figure, not a man of flesh and blood.

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The Crusaders Did Not Save Europe

The Crusades were far more devastating to Europe than to the Middle East. People seem to be under the impression that they played a significant role in the Arab-Byzantine Wars (7th-11th century), but those had already largely concluded when the First Crusade (1096-1099) was launched to "retake" the "Holy Land."

After gaining and losing territory repeatedly, the Crusaders shifted their focus in the 13th century and started to Christianize the Baltic Old Prussians (during which those who refused to be baptized were subjugated, killed, or exiled), sack Constantinople (after slaughtering its Roman Catholic inhabitants), massacre Cathars at Béziers (killing nearly every man, woman, and child in the town)—and the list goes on.

While the Crusaders were annihilating their fellow Europeans—destroying European cities and ancient works—the Mongols ended the Islamic Golden Age by sieging Baghdad in 1258.

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Your Faith Is Futile

Paul said that "if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile" (1 Cor 15:17)—underscoring the significance of the resurrection within Christian theology and serving as a reminder of the pivotal role this event plays in the foundation of Christianity. Unfortunately for Christians, the resurrection never happened.

There are no contemporaneous accounts of the event in non-Christian sources, nor is there any physical evidence—no remains, no artifacts, nothing. The (anonymous and inconsistent) Gospels—which are the primary sources of the resurrection story—were written several decades later and, just like Paul, never even met Jesus.

All we have are mere Chinese whispers attributed to Jesus' alleged disciples who—even if they had ever existed—would've had obvious theological motivations to propagate the story, which no discerning mind should even consider to be substantial evidence for such an extraordinary claim.

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"I regard Christianity as the most fatal and seductive lie that has ever yet existed—as the greatest and most impious lie... I decline to enter into any compromise or false position in reference to it—I urge people to declare open war with it."

— Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power)

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Well said. I just can't be bothered with all the pretending anymore.

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