Secret_History

144 The Secret History of the World
Dr. Robert Kehl writes in Die Religion des modernen Menschen:
Most believers in the Bible have the naive credo that the Bible has always existed
in the form in which they read it today. They believe that the Bible has always
contained all the sections, which are found in their personal copy of the Bible. They
do not know - and most of them do not want to know - that for about 200 years the
first Christians had no ‘scripture’ apart from the Old Testament, and that even the
Old Testament canon had not been definitely established in the days of the early
Christians, that written versions of the New Testament only came into being quite
slowly, that for a long time no one dreamed of considering these New Testament
writings as Holy Scripture, that with the passage of time the custom arose of
reading these writings to the congregations, but that even then no one dreamed of
treating them as Holy Scriptures with the same status as the Old Testament, that
this idea first occurred to people when the different factions in Christianity were
fighting each other and they felt the need to be able to back themselves up with
something binding, that in this way people only began to regard these writings as
Holy Scripture about 200 AD.
Further on, we will look at the creation of the Bible as it really happened, but for
now, let us just say that in examining this process, we find nothing of the “Holy
Ghost” in there. That’s the plain fact, and a lot of people in the “business” of
religion know it.
Nevertheless, our institutions of higher learning generally have a special faculty
allotment for the teaching of theology, financed by the taxpayer, whether Christian
or Jew. One assumes that the students who study this theology are also given
exposure to other studies, such as math, languages, science, and so forth. The
question then becomes: what kind of strange distortion, what incomprehensible
corruption takes place in the minds of human beings, so that they so completely
separate their academic knowledge from what they hear preached at them from the
pulpit? What kind of brainwashing can so effectively cause the simplest of facts to
be forgotten?
How does this happen? It is literally staggering to a logical, intelligent human
being that the fairy tale of the Bible - as God’s word - has endured so long. There
is nothing to which we can compare this in the entire seven thousand years of
human history of which we are aware. Calling it all a “pack of lies” seems rather
harsh, but it is increasingly evident that it is certainly intentionally misleading,
and, in that case, what shall we call it?
How about COINTELPRO?
Christian theologians claim that the teachings of Jesus (which is the established
religious dogma) are unconditionally valid. Rudolf Augstein asks, “...With what
right do the Christian churches refer to a Jesus who did not exist in the form they