Jesus Christ Superstar? Not for Christians.
Have over a billion Roman Catholics been fooled into following a religion based on an important false premise?
I grew up as a rigorous Roman Catholic: Catholic elementary school, head altar boy, President of the CYO, generous volunteer, Angelus bell ringer, etc. Even after entering the adult world, I was once trustee of a local Church here in Park Slope. Meanwhile, I became quite disillusioned with something I heard in Church every time I went, and that was the Priest stating that we were all sinners and Christ died for our sins. First of all, I don’t consider myself a sinner, and second. If Christ died for our sins, why were we made to feel guilty and asked to repent every time we went to Church? Was that the glue which held the Church together? Well, the Priests had many spins on why the original dying for our sins wasn’t enough and I became nauseated by the whole thing. I just couldn’t believe in this concept. Well, lo and behold, a recent discovery has shown me that I had been right about my rejection of this concept, although the Church will never accept this.
About 10 years ago a stone with writings on it dated to the first century BC was discovered and purchased by a collector. Since then, many scholars have studied the stone and some important discoveries were made.
The stone, referred to as Gabriel’s story, refers to the struggle between Israel and Rome and refers to Simon, who was apparently killed in the first century BC, when these struggles were happening. On the Stone, the concept of rising 3 days after death was to show the success of justice over evil, and predated the Resurrection of Christ.
The conclusion from the Stone was that The Last Supper shows that Christ’s mission was to be put to death by the Romans so that his blood would be shed to bring redemption to Israel, not to be shed to atone for the sins of people.
Now that I ostensibly have been proven right, I might return to participate in the good activities of the Church, if they would only admit the truth. I am not holding my breath.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5087&em&en=28e25c3c87821bc2&ex=1215489600