Thrash

Hercules was a demi-god. The son of Zeus and a human mother, he showed miraculous powers from birth. After a series of terrible trials and tribulations, eventually he is raised to Mount Olympus as an immortal God equal to the other deities. A cult of Hercules-worship sprang up around the ancient world in the time just before J.C. Amongst the Greek heroes, Hercules alone had no grave, because it was understood that a demi-god is 'sky-born' (not wholly of this earth, not an actual person) and who ascends up to heaven's summit as an immortal, without dying.

http://posthuman.tv/

Any being whose father is a Sky God and mother an earthling, who has supernatural powers, and eventually after many trials ascends as a fully formed DEITY without a grave and is worshipped as a cult is a "demi-god" NOT a person. Cite Hercules. There is a MASSIVE DECEPTION at the heart of Christianity in denying that JC is a demi-God and really lived.

How can there be a "second coming" of Jesus since there was never any first coming?

My suspicion is the "return of Jesus" myth was based on the Maitreya Prophecies of the Future Buddha, which are found in all three main Buddhist traditions. If Jesus had already saved anyone then no need for him to return!

http://posthuman.tv/

Luke 11:23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: "Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division."

Jesus did not come to bring peace, but division.

Is Jesus peaceful?

12:52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. (12:52-53)

"The father shall be divided against the son."

Jesus prophesies that families will be divided because of him and his teachings. Sadly, this is one prophecy that has been fulfilled.

12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

http://posthuman.tv/

Luke 11:45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.

11:46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/lk/11.html#23

The Massacre of the Innocents is an episode of infanticide by the King of Judea, Herod the Great, that appears in the Gospel of Matthew Matthew 2:16-18. But modern biographers of Herod mostly deny the event took place.[4] Some other scholars hold the minority view that the massacre actually happened; or that Matthew thought it had.[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Innoc...

If it is just fiction doesn't that totally invalidate the Gospel accounts?

The Lords of Avaris, David Rohl

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter

against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Matthew 10:35

Matt. 10:21 The brother shall deliver up the brother. The rest of the family

shall turn upon their own kindred who accept Christ, and become their bitter

enemies. This has been fulfilled thousands of times in every age.

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for

his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even

for his life, he may not be my disciple.

Luke 14:26

http://bible.cc/luke/14-26.htm

According to Mark, Jesus' ability to exorcise demons had a lot of people upset,

including his parents. Like the scribes, they thought he was possessed by the

devil; so they tried to get him under control.

This is understandable. Exorcism defines what sorcerers do and is forbidden in

the Old Testament (Deut. 18:10). His healing miracles did not prove he was

empowered by God; they convinced his audience he was empowered by the devil. If

Jesus was caught doing this during the Witch Mania, they would have burned him

on the stake.

20and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.

21And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for people were

saying, "He is beside himself."

22And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by

Beelzebul, and by the prince of demons he casts out the demons."(Mark 3:20-22)

http://extropia.net/ - synopsis

http://steve-nichols.com/ - video docu with Prof Richard Gregory & Rupert Sheldrake.

http://posthuman.tv/ - applications

If reincarnation is true that certainly is the case.

And even if God exists, how do we know that we didn't die and arrive here?

http://posthuman.tv/

All we can or will ever see is "nature" even the far-distant stars, or far-interior of our own consciousness. Does it make sense to say something is supra- or "outside of nature"?

http://enochia.net/ - Book of the Interior Stars

Nature seems to contain all the answers, why would we want to look outside of it?

http://posthuman.tv/

http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-...

http://posthuman.tv/

"Even if the information about Asherah were fresh, I'm not sure we'd hear many

foundations rocking. The nature of faith is that it requires, well, faith. If

you're a devout Christian, it doesn't matter how much evidence a BBC Two

documentary presents of other gods and supernatural consorts; you don't believe

in them. You believe in the one true God, and that's that. So what if ancient

Israelites worshipped more than one god, and thought that God had a wife? You

don't. They were wrong, you're right. Your faith isn't likely to be weakened by

historical evidence to the contrary, any more than it's likely to be weakened by

atheist rhetoric from Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens.

Diverting though it may be to examine ancient texts and archaeological finds, as

Dr Stavrakopoulou did, there isn't much point trying to attack a religion using

facts, because a religion isn't built on facts. It's built on truth, or at least

what its followers believe to be truth. And they'll go on believing it no matter

how many foundations or bases Dr Stavrakopoulou attempts to shake or undermine.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8398...

God-Have-a-Wife-review.html

http://posthuman.tv/

http://extropia.net/