The invention of Jesus Christ is something that has been long accepted by many scholars, former Christians, and others for a long time now. There have been many scholars in the black community and other who have come out with these claim showing historical theft in the supposed life of Christ, but there are still many who still believe in the so-called Savior.

However, now there are Europeans making these claims. Unfortunate as it sounds, but is true, many African Americans will not accept something until Europeans and the Western world puts their stamp of approval on it. Well, that day is here.

American Biblical scholar Joseph Atwill will be appearing before the British public for the first time in London on the 19th of October to present a controversial new discovery: ancient confessions recently uncovered now prove, according to Atwill, that the New Testament was written by first-century Roman aristocrats and that they fabricated the entire story of Jesus Christ. His presentation will be part of a one-day symposium entitled “Covert Messiah” at Conway Hall in Holborn (full details can be found athttp://www.covertmessiah.com).

Atwill asserts that Christianity did not really begin as a religion, but a sophisticated government project, a kind of propaganda exercise used to pacify the subjects of the Roman Empire. “Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah, were a constant source of violent insurrection during the first century,” he explains. “When the Romans had exhausted conventional means of quashing rebellion, they switched to psychological warfare. They surmised that the way to stop the spread of zealous Jewish missionary activity was to create a competing belief system. That’s when the ‘peaceful’ Messiah story was invented. Instead of inspiring warfare, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and encouraged Jews to ‘give onto Caesar’ and pay their taxes to Rome.”

Was Jesus based on a real person from history? “The short answer is no,” Atwill insists, “in fact he may be the only fictional character in literature whose entire life story can be traced to other sources. Once those sources are all laid bare, there’s simply nothing left.”

Atwill goes on to make his case, which is a very interesting one, but again this is nothing new. In fact, there are many, many similar deities that have the story line of Christ. The kicker is they all pre-date Jesus, which has always cast a large shadow of skepticism.

Here are just a few of them:

Buddha

Krishna

Odysseus

Romulus

Dionysus

Heracles

Glycon

Zoroaster/Zarathustra

Attis of Phrygia

Horus

As if this wasn’t enough, there are many, many more that could be pointed to. However, I don’t believe the list above or Atwill’s evidence will be enough to garner consideration by many Christians that they might have been duped their entire lives.

What do you think?

Source: http://uk.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11201273.htm