[split] "Christianity makes me afraid."

[Matt1]

Its also important to note that Christianity as we received it came from the Roman State Government, which as far i am aware was a dictatorship. It wasn't until i believe 300 years after the accepted death of Christ that it became the official state religion of Rome. They had different councils to decide what books to include and which books to exclude, or to put it in another way, the parts of the text that would benefit the Rome Government.

Its interesting that the Gnosistics who are said to follow the direct teachings of Christ say that the God in the old testament is in fact the demiurge , who is viewed as the originator of evil. After the fall of Roman came the dark ages and only the clergy could read or write for the most part, so you could only hear the views of the Church rather than read it for yourself. Even when people could read the book for themselves, it was the standardized Kings Jame version if i recall. Another point that's interesting is that in the Hebrew texts you have different names for god such as the elohim, Jah, Yahweh etc which all got standardized as simply god in the Latin/English translations.

Many people believe it is also tied in with another sun worpship cult, that's really just a revamped style of paganism. With Jesus being the Sun and the 12 disciples being the 12 houses of the zodiac and the resurrection being the progression of the equinox. With the sun stopping on the 21st of December on the winter solstice only to start its movements again after 3 days on the 25th, until the full awakening on Easter. Which in turn comes from the word Ishtar who was a Goddess of fertility, i guess it makes sense why the Rabbit and the egg are the symbol for Easter hehe.