The story of Christ revised and corrected

Umberto Minnella 1996  " La croce sullle spalle Finchè mondo è mondo"

Jesus was born in Palestine a few years before or after his birth. Historians are not really sure of the date, and the conventional one from which we begin to count the years of the Christian era is probably not exact.

Still a child, he is presented to the priests of the temple, probably to follow the religious school as we still do with the school for child in the christian countries. The Priests perceive his early intelligence and therefore probably make him enter the priestly school and up to 30 years heremains within the religious community of the Essenes. Who were they? They were a fundamentalist and ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, which, however, differently from the Pharisees and the like, preaches a non-belligerence with the rulers, leaving and delegating to the future Messiah the task of revenge and liberation. However, Jesus goes beyond non-belligerence and becomes the first theorist of non-violence and, as Gandhi will do about 2000 years later, he wants to push his people to free themselves without violence.

He therefore goes out of the monastic structures in which he had been until then and begins his preaching towards the Jewish people, the small people, not the priestly structures that exercised nominally religious power, but in fact also political as long as this did not enter into conflict with the rules of Roman power.
During the monastic life he learned the notions of medicine that normally form the basis of the knowledge of these structures (think of the later pharmacology exercised by the Christian monks, which has still come down to us in their elixirs, or to the shaman, religious leader but also ' medicine-man' ). A great natural miracle worker and with an exceptional charismatic capacity, he is able to fascinate and be followed by a multitude of humble and uncultivated people who amplify his actions to the point of making them supernatural. He probably already knew the state of coma, that is, state of apparent death, and Lazzaro's guided awakening appears as a resurrection. A large logistic capacity that makes him predict and anticipate the procurement of food for his followers then becomes the miracle of the multiplication of fish and bread. Thus other natural phenomena but then unknown are interpreted as myuraculous, such as hysterical paralysis or the phenomenon of thermal inversion *

But this charismatic capacity that increases the number of his followers every day begins to worry those in power, not the Romans who see only the religious aspect about which they are not interested, but the senate of the priests (the 'whitewashed sepulchres') who see exposed their interests and the lies with which they exercise power .
The priests then accuse Jesus of wanting to become king in front of the Romans, that is, of presenting the thing as a political fact in view of a possible insurrection for independence, the only thing that the Romans could not have tolerated, so that they might take responsibility for his death. In this case, a possible condemnation of the Romans could also have been presented to the Jewish people as a religious interference. So then (in their plans) perhaps the people would not have tolerated it and could even have rebelled and in any case would have increased the separateness between the common people and the Roman structure to the advantage of a greater power of the senate itself.

Then one evening, after the normal convivial dinner that the Essenes used to keep every Saturday, during which the highest in power was to wash the feet of the subject monks and share the bread by breaking it for them, Jesus was arrested and taken in front of the Roman governor: Pontius Pilate
He was not a sucker and he knew well how to do his job. His task was to avoid revolts by the Jews, and by his informants and by the conversation with Jesus he is convinced that he was not a revolutionary but another of the many religious preachers frequent among the Jews. But above all he understood the danger and did not get involved in the design of the priests.
He then fulfills Jesus and makes it clear and obvious to all (by washing his hands, a way to communicate it to a non roman speking people) that it is not the responsibility of the Roman state but an internal controversy within the Jewish religious structure.

Priests are therefore forced to act directly. They try Jesus and condemn him to death, after trying to ridicule and demean his image in front of the people (it is not by chance that he is executed together with thieves, to make him look like a simple common criminal. In fact they propose the exchange with Barabbas, and the Jews, or better the claque organized by the priests, free Barabbas).

He dies, irreparably.

The Apostles, Mary and her second son ** James, and other close collaborators are dismayed. How to prevent what he preached from being lost in the void?
Someone has an idea. His body is transferred, the boulder that closes the tomb is moved and this one left open (or even the priests could have done it to prevent it from becoming an object of worship). So they begin to spread among the people who normally followed Jesus the story of his appearance and his ascension to heaven.

The Church is born, on a lie.

That this is the most probable story can be supported by a fundamental question: why did Jesus, who always sought the widest possible adhesion to the people, regardless of the caste to which those who followed him belonged (Maddalena was an ex-prostitute), after a preaching of three years, for the apotheosis chooses to involve only a few people and not all the people of his followers? The only possible logical answer is that the apotheosis has not been there at all. And the testimony of Thomas (the skeptical one who believes only in what he sees and touches) appears as an attempt (even if quite naive) to make credible in the eyes of others what the apostles are affirming.

Jesus Christ certainly remains one of the most important figures of all humanity. His was the greatest revolution of thought in history. But he was a man, as a Christian sect had already supported in the past (but also by Muslims). Sect then silenced by the Catholic church with the extermination of its followers.


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* Thermal inversion more known as 'mirage'. It is a very frequent phenomenon in the summer visible in particular on roads as well as in the desert or in warm areas (like in Italy) during very hot hours .
The very strong solar radiation heats the surface of the ground to rather high temperatures, which in turn heats the air close to a few decimetres of distance so that a sort of hot bubble is formed below the colder air. The light coming from the sky as it passes through areas of different density of air is diverted along its path by refraction until it returns toward our eyes. In this way it seems the reflection of the light of the sky on a water area and thus our brain interprets it.

If therefore the position of Jesus was on the overheated edge of the lake it could seem to those who were even not too far away that he was with his feet just barely in the water of the same lake and therefore walked on its surface without sinking.


** From the writings of the time there was some brothers of Jesus, in particular James who in the first moments directs the Christian community. Mary's virginity therefore seems to be non-existent, for this reason the Protestants deny it. But however it may be, medicine has found normal and real cases of virgin women who become pregnant. As a result of a contamination in erotic games, even without penetration, or due to a small penis of the male so with insufficient penetration to tear the hymen or because 'ejaculatio precox' sickness of the male, it can happen that a small part of sperm is able to enter the vagina and a spermatozoon (one is enough and more are rejected) succeed  to fertilize the egg.

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