Commentaries on Hebrew and Christian Mythology by Parish B. Ladd

Author:Parish B. Ladd
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: The Truth Seeker Co.
Published: 1895-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

And we may here say that these pagan miracles come down to us just as weir authenticated and supported as do those told in the Bible. They rest upon the same foundation, supported by the same class of evidence, and that foundation is a myth. The Jews and Christians undoubtedly found it easier to borrow and select from a large stock of old, stale, well-believed pagan miracles, than to invent new ones.

The Christian mythologists, being forced by the abundance of evidence to admit that all the religions of the world, like their own, claim to rest on divine revelations, finally fall back on borrowed miracles as a dernier resort to sustain a crumbling fabric.

The only genuine miracle ever performed by Christ was in selecting one man out of twelve, who could read and write. As to dreams and prophecies, the ancients had a large stock, and they were as well fulfilled as those related in the Bible.

The fine-spun but conflicting and contradictory gospel narratives of the conception, birth, and life of Christ have been by Baur, Strauss, Renan, Bauer, Greg, and others completely exploded.

The Christians will here meet us and say, even assuming that Christ was only a man, he was a wonderful teacher, he taught many valuable things. If we should concede all which has been said of him in this respect to be true, our answer will be, that all of these things had been said and taught by others long before Christ lived. The Jewish Sabbath, even the very name, was borrowed from Egypt, Chaldea, Babylon, and Assyria, as herein before stated. And as to the Christian Sunday, as before shown, it was borrowed from pagan Rome.

The great Chinese philosopher Confucius taught his people to do unto others as they would be done by, nor was this any new idea originating with the Chinese. It is a natural instinct, a faculty possessed by all good men. And as for the devil, the mountain, and the kingdom story, that was borrowed from a Persian legend, where, as before stated, the devil took Zoroaster up into a mountain and offered him the kingdoms of the earth if he would forsake his religion. Substantially the same legend existed as to Buddha. Many things said to have been taught by Christ are absolutely impractical, and others, if carried out, would place us back into a state of barbarism.

The World Without Christianity

The question here arises, whether the world would not be better off if Christianity had never existed? This depends on whether the church and its people have done more good than harm to the human race. The Christians and their church have left a record of their doings, and by this they must stand trial. Let us examine the record as it has come down to us.

Rome at the Time of the Origin of Christianity

At the time of the birth of Christianity, Rome was the world, and the world was Rome. Its vast empire was bounded on the west by the

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