History Written by The Victors History is written by the victors. That being the case, imagine for a moment if Nazi Germany had been the victors of World War Two, and thus had written the history books that we in The United States grew up with. Our perceptions of Adolph Hitler would be vastly different than they are now. Hitler would come across as a good guy, while Roosevelt would be the villain. A history of that war, written by Nazis, would be vastly different than one written by who really won the war. Christians admit to this principle in real life, yet they turn around and claim that somehow their own history, compiled and edited entirely by one Christian sect out of several- the sect that won that ancient ecclesiastical war- this text compiled by the victors of that pissing contest is somehow pristine and pure as the driven snow. Face it: if the Gnostics, or the Montanists, or the Arians, or the Ebionites or the party of James had won the power struggle, the resultant "New Testament" would have looked radically different, and modern Christians would just as arrogantly as they do now, assume that the New Testament they hold in their hands is the way that "God" intended it to be. Ignorance really is bliss sometimes, at least when it comes to religion. Free Speech The only way the victors of any power struggle could even hope to write an objective and accurate account of the history that made them the victors, is if that society practiced free speech. That is why America has been able to write histories of our world conflicts that are of a higher quality than those written by communist Russia or China or North Korea or Iraq. State controlled historians just don't have the liberty to tell the full truth. The fact that ancient Christianity did NOT practice free speech is therefore evidence enough that their official history (i.e. The New Testament) should be as trustworthy as history written by communists or any other form of dictatorship. The ancient Christians of the Roman Empire practiced book burnings and campaigns against books that would shock most Americans. At one point, the mere possession of a book on the Christian shit list would automatically result in the death penalty for the owner of the book. Given this repressive atmosphere, this hatred of free speech, how in hell could an objective and accurate history ever be written??? Liberal -vs- Conservative Even within the same denomination, one group of Christians would never trust the other to write an objective, fair history. Would liberal Catholics / Baptists / Mormons trust ultra conservative Catholics / Baptists / Mormons to write the official history of their denomination? We all know the answer: hell no!!!! Many Christians would not trust other Christians for even the time of day. This being the case, it should be obvious that the ancient Catholic Christians who edited the New Testament should be granted little trust by the Protestant Christians of today. A Culture of Deceit The vast majority of histories and revelations written before the New Testament was compiled were judged to be bogus and fraudulent by the ancient Christians themselves. There was no shortage of fiction parading as fact- if anything, the fiction outnumbered the fact. The stack of books that didn't make it into the New Testament vastly outnumbers the stack of books that did. So given the atmosphere of frauds and fraudulent history which bred all these so-called apocryphal writings, it would be unlikely that any really accurate histories could ever have been written. When all the ancient historians, while writing their histories, were swimming in a brown shitty cesspool of deceit, it is unlikely anything "pure as the driven snow" would emerge. The best that could be hoped for would be some that contain less errors than others. Respect for the truth and an accurate account of history were not high on the priority list. Conclusion The gospel was preached to convert people. Period. It was never meant to be an objective non-biased history. Given the general lack of integrity and trust among the early (and current) Christians for their fellow Christians, there are ample reasons to suspect the New Testament is less than perfect.
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