| Christianity and the slave control solution By the beginning of the reign of the first Roman Emperor named Constantine the Roman nobility was living in constant fear of another armed uprising of their slaves like that which has been led by the slave Spartacus in 73 BC. Their slaves now constituted over 90 percent of the population and almost all of the military was being wasted just keeping this slave population under control. On top of that, the secretive and clandestine Jesus movement was stealing them away in large numbers, smuggling them over the borders at the frontiers of the Empire to freedom. The Legions could not spare any more troops to foray across the borders and capture more slaves to replace those who had been helped to escape by the Jesus anti-slavery movement. The Roman nobility greatly admired the Jews for their loyalty to their roots and wished for something similar that they could impose on their slaves. They recognized that the philosophy which bound Jews together was in reality a form of slavery, and surmised that that kind of thing could be mastered and packaged for their own slaves. One definition of slavery is that it is simply an absence of any ability to make choices, and the Jew's religion seemed to make all their choices for them, without complaint or revolt. The Roman's definition of slavery included this definition within it's own more important definition, which was forcing one person to work for the riches of another. So they set their political theoriticians to working on the problem, using the Jew's religion as the base model and modifying it to fit the requirements of the Romans for absolute control of their slaves. The first requirement of this new "religion" was that it had to nullify and exterminate the Jesus anti-slavery movement. Nothing was really known about the slave Jesus except word-of-mouth carried down through 300 years, but "Jesus saves" had become the two most important words known to the slaves within the Empire. Jesus therefore had great importance to the slaves. In addition, the cross was the most important symbol of terror that was already hanging over the heads of the slaves, the method of their death if they were disobedient. The new religion's philosophy had to include great real and imagined terror as well as promises of great rewards which would never actually materialize. They gave great emphasis to terror because they had already realized the effects that terror had rhat led to the paralyzing of a person's self movation abilities. Removing self motivation, leaving only the element of obedience was a requirement for slave control. So they looked at Judaeism and plotted a way that it could be exported to control their slaves, modified for their purposes. In their society, all authority flowed from one man, so they had to have a man who gave the authority for the non-Jews to be incorporated into their version of this religion. Jesus was already a hero to the slaves, but they knew little of who or what he had ever been They were simultaneously going to ban all the other religions currently in vogue, and wanted to make thr transition to the new state-sponsored universal religion as easily as possible, so they incorporated into their new universal religion characteristics of most of the other religions. Isis was the man-god. Athena was the mother god. Zeus was all-powerful, and so on. They chose Jesus to be their combination man-god and Zeus, all powerful. They had an insidious purpose for choosing Jesus. Choosing Jesus as their man-god made possible their scam for neutralizing the Jesus anti-slavery movement. To accomplish this on a universal scale, they had to abolish chattel slavery where a "lord" held a legal paper title of ownership of another human known as a slave. They had to do this in a manner that caused the slaves to continue to serve the same functions as they had in the past, work until their deaths for the riches of their masters, but no longer had anywhere to 'escape' to nor a chattel-holding master to rebel against...So god became their new "Lord", the "Lord God Almighty", the new master of all of the slaves from which there was no escape and from which unimaginable punishment was received for the slightest disobedience or infraction of the rules of the religion. The Jews were in reality a rather small insignificant group of people who lived in the deserts north of Egypt who claimed to be the descentants of the followers of a former Egyptian prince named Moses. They were mostly traders, with many charlatans, hustlers, scam artists, and so on in their midst. They made enemies easily, and had suffered the wrath of those whom had declared themselves to be their enemies many times. Their life on the whole had never been easy. They had developed a self promoting legend of a "savior" who would someday become their powerful leader and save them from all of their many enemies who has imposed such suffering on them down through the centuries. They called this anticipated leader the "Christ". When the Roman theoritcians came across this tale, they realized that it fit the role they planned for Jesus in their new religion, where legions of losers needed a hero or god to worship, but a hero or god that would never lead them out of their slavery. A hero for losers, a hero that never urged ambition, but made obedience the path to the great rewards that would be promised but never delivered. Rewards that would only be received after death. (cont'd) NEXT PAGE |