Who was this?

WHO WAS THIS? Holes pierced in his feet … a hole in the top of one foot, just above the toes, where the nail was inserted in the act of crucifixion.  Savior __________ atoned for the sins of a grief-stricken world by “pouring out his blood as a propitiatory offering” while stretched upon the cross.But Before the crucifixion :  “he soon became surrounded by many earnest followers, and the people in vast multitudes followed him, crying aloud, ‘This is indeed the Redeemer promised to our fathers.’” His pathway was thickly strewn with miracles, which consisted in healing the sick, curing lepers, restoring the dumb, deaf and the blind, raising the dead, aiding the weak, comforting the sorrow-stricken, relieving the oppressed, casting out devils, etc. He come not ostensibly to destroy the previous religion, but to purify it of its impurities, and to preach a better doctrine. He came, as he declared, “to reject evil and restore the reign of good, and redeem man from the consequences of the fall, and deliver the oppressed earth from its load of sin and suffering.” His disciples believed him to be God himself, and millions worshiped him  …. There is more: 1. His miraculous birth by a virgin. 2. The mother and child being visited by shepherds, wise men and the angelic host, who joyously sang, “In thy delivery, O favored among women, all nations shall have cause to exult.” 3. The edict of the tyrant ruler ______, ordering all the first born to be put to death. 4. The miraculous escape of the mother and child from his bloody decree by the parting of the waves of the River ________ to permit them to pass through on dry ground. 5. The early retirement of ________ to a desert. 6. His baptism or ablution in the River _________…. 7. His transfiguration at ________, where he assured his disciples that “present or absent, I will always be with you.” 8. He was anointed with oil by women. 9. …fish story is told of him — his disciples being enabled by him to catch large draughts of the finny prey in their nets. Many of the precepts uttered by ___________display a profound wisdom and depth of thought. For a list of them Click on the Christianity page above and slide to the end. Here is one of the final ones: Above all things, cultivate love for your neighbor. WHO WAS THIS?   This was Chrishna (Krishna) of India, who according to tradition was crucified approximately 1200 B.C. Incidentally, he had a “virgin” birth, either by a hair of the Hindu God Vishnu entering his mother’s womb, or in another version of the myth, God Vishnu himself entering her womb.How is this for religious intolerance? Rabbi Yaacov Perrin said, “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.” Muhammad married a 6 year old girl. Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism had 24 wives, one was 14 years old. Christ story is based on other myths (Chrishna of India and Mithra of Persia). The story of Moses is patterned after the story of Sargon the Great. Major religions have SCRIPTURES that support intolerance, violence and even war.At Amazon.com, take a look at my book “A Spell on All Their Houses, How Religious SCRIPTURE and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence, and Even War”  Includes Mythical and Forged Religious Origins. Not in the Book, but interesting: Christianity adopted the cross later on. Early Biblical texts claim that Christ was crucified by a stake, not cross: The church did not adopt the cross until about the 6th century (New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p. 475). The word ‘cross’ was later substituted for the word ‘stake’ in the rewriting of the Christian text (Crosses In Tradition, W.W.Seymour N.Y. 1898). Christian archives record that the general use of the crucifix became ratified at the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 680 (Canon 82). The council decreed that ‘the figure of a man fastened to a cross be now adopted’. This new church logo was later confirmed by Pope Hadrian I (772-792)