CJ Werleman - Jesus Lied - He Was Only Human: Debunking The New Testament

JESUS LIED - HE WAS ONLY HUMAN

DEBUNKING THE NEW TESTAMENT

CJ WERLEMAN

Dedicated to Christopher Hitchens

The Ninth Commandment - Exodus 20:16

Shortly following the release of my first book, God Hates You. Hate Him Back, I received a number of emails from Christians. While not all received were of the burn in Hell you scum of Satan kind, many were. Here is just one example:

CJ, why write the biography of a God you dont believe in? Why tell people to hate something that you believe is non-existent? Isnt this just as meaningful as Leprechauns Hate You. Hate Leprechauns Back? You dont see Christians writing about non-belief!

My reply to that kind of statement is that first of all, I am utterly enthralled by religion, all religion! I am constantly surprised, shocked and perplexed that anyone can feel indifference to the most important philosophical questions of all time, the questions that religion purport to answer: What is the meaning of the human existence; and how did we get here?

These are questions that, I believe, are responsible for religious belief and are ultimately the questions that drive the modern fields of science to ever-greater heights and depths.

My overall objective, as an anti-theist, is to demonstrate that your average Sunday churchgoer has a complete misunderstanding of the particular God they believe in. In their minds, their God is a god of mercy, love, and compassion. A characterization that is ultimately due to Bible illiteracy, charismatic preachers and historical ignorance.

My aim, therefore, in writing God Hates You. Hate Him Back was to bring the Bible back to the people, so to speak, to remind them of who God really is. God, as depicted in His own Bible, is a vindictive, capricious, baby killing, genocidal, merciless, ethnic-cleansing, alpha-male, misogynistic sky-bully. I believe, based on reader and critic reviews, I achieved that aim that indeed the God of Abraham, if in the unlikely event he were more than imaginary, is a complete and utter asshole, and certainly a deity worthy of our disdain rather than praise.

Furthermore, I am convinced more than ever that Isaac Asimov, Russian born American author, blew bible-based superstition away with a metaphorical 12-gauge, when he wrote:

In an idealistic sense, my goal in writing my first book, was to increase public cognition of Gods depraved behavior and malevolent attitudes, at least by our 21st century standards. Ultimately, I wanted to play a small part in providing North America with another nudge on its continued trend in moving away from belief in the God of Abraham, just as the rest of the western developed world appears to be doing.

It is my dream that America, within the next half-century, will look increasingly like the nations of Scandinavia. It is in these nations that belief in any kind of God is confined to less than 30% of their respective populations, resulting in countries such as Sweden, Norway, and Denmark enjoying the fruits of living in societies ranked highest by the United Nations, at least in terms of societal health. (Societal health measured by such metrics as: crime rate; adult literacy; affordable housing; gender equality; teen pregnancy; and access to education).

There was a time when religion ruled our lives; we refer to that period of time as the Dark Ages.

It preceded the Period of Enlightenment, which marked the beginning of the end for religions relevancy in governing its people. In more modern times, we have seen what the theist worldview looks like, a world where the laws of God are enacted. It looks like Taliban ruled Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

Monotheistic religions, the ones written by men (yes, men only) who believed the shovel to be emergent technology, dresses itself up as a magic potion for today and tomorrows problems. It does this by holding a venerated rear view mirror to ancient times and the moral judgments of bronze aged men. The sixty-six books of the Bible, and the confusing contradictory rambles of the Koran, are less of a guide to modern man for spiritual or moral direction than any number of quasi pop-psycho-babble titles found on our bookshelves today. This includes such entrepreneurial self-styled B.S. gurus as Deepak Chopra, Anthony Robbins, or Dinesh DSouza. These gentlemen are slick in their ability to sprinkle scientific and psychological vernacular to confuse you into believing their revelations to be profound. In other words, people still buy bullshit and a lot of it!

Sam Harris places ancient sky-god religion in context of its relevancy to the modern world so eloquently in his book End of Faith:

Harris further contends that if the above all-humanity memory loss were to occur, then our relearning of all things of relevance would place the Bible and Koran on the shelf next to Ovids Metamorphoses and the Egyptian Book of the Dead and Dr Seuss Green Eggs and Ham.

This now brings me to my objective in writing this book, Jesus Lied. He Was Only Human. As mentioned above, my primary focus of my first book was to remind the world that the God of the Bible is a villainous old sod. While I gave a summary of all sixty-six chapters of the Old and New Testament, word space and theme prevented me from taking an in depth analysis of the proclaimed Son of the Creator, Jesus bring my enemies before me and slaughter them Christ (Luke 19:27).

Ive written this book as analysis of the New Testament, including an examination of the origins for Christianity; how the Christian Bible came into being; who wrote it; the contradictions and irreconcilable discrepancies of the Gospels; and Pauls domineering influence in shaping the Christian.