My Responses to Claims that Jesus Married Mary Magdalene and of Atheism's War on Christianity

My Responses to Claims that Jesus Married Mary Magdalene and of Atheism's War on Christianity

Portrait of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, where Mary Magdalene was borne witness to Jesus' Resurrection, 15th Century by Titian

Post by The Revolution.

Having never read this document but knowing well it is divergent with other apocryphal accounts that include her marriage to John the Baptist, I will never take this seriously since this account was first located in Britain and secondly did not include a Greek or Latin translation from the Aramaic, in which the Apostles' accounts were each recorded in Greek under first St. Paul (nee. Saul of Tarsus) and later his protege and the first pope, St. Peter. As a Christian as well as a historian with a political science degree, much can be stated as to the ambiguity of such claims.

The Gospels of Jesus were recorded in Greek and Latin sermons of the Apostles and His crucifixion verified by Roman records under Pontius Pilate to have, in fact, transpired, while scientists again are reneging on whether the Shroud of Turin is really not that upon which Jesus was wrapped after further tests continue to conflict with the disputed data or prior carbon dating tests. To date, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been located that pre-date Jesus and in fact, St. Peter, credited with serving as the first pope or the Bishop of Rome through his association with St. Paul (Saul of Tarsus, which Tarsus was a Greek village occupied by Rome), were both directly connected. The matter that Noah's Arc may well have been located in Turkey on Mount Ararat will confirm The Old Testament's account to be true and that the account of this latest attempt to describe Jesus and Mary Magdalene's relationship was in an Aramaic document located in Britain likely nearby the Domesbury book, coinciding at some time perhaps before or after the victory by William the Conqueror over King Harold at Hastings as depicted along the Bayeux Tapestry. As Roman legions constructed aqueducts and Hadrian's Wall in Britannia in approximately 122 BC and which the empire was still occupants of the Isles as Jesus was believed to have been crucified by Pilate in approximately 32 AD, the empire was present even during the time of its republican predecessor. No mention of Mary Magdalene's relationship with Jesus aside from her discipleship was ever divulged by the Apostles, and there are divergent accounts of Magdalene even to the point of ambiguity to her identity in the New Testament Apocrypha which you may read briefly below, including that she married John the Baptist. She is considered to be the second most important female presence in the Gospels behind the Virgin Mary. In a traditional marriage, the wife will always be supreme in her husband's life over the mother. Jesus is The Son of God, not of the flesh of man like Muhammad, in which the Qur'an disputes Jesus as being The Son as well as ever being crucified and instead, to have been Allah's (God's) slave, while proclaiming the people of The Book to have been lied to about Isa's divinity, which is Arabic for Jesus, as the Qur'an and its Hadiths were not written until at some point after 1500 AD. It is believed Muhammad was born around 560 AD and would therefore not have ever coincided with any Apostle record in Greek or Latin. For those deriding why Christianity as early as 1054 AD experienced a series of schisms which initiated first in the division of Catholicism into Eastern Orthodoxy and in the 16th Century with the Reformation, politics and human interpretation mix very badly with interpreting any doctrine of divinity that does not intermingle with humanist comprehension. This is why Islam can claim that 160 or more verses commanding violence under Sharia law as prescribed by Muhammad are unequivocal and absolute since Muhammad was a man and not the son of Allah, but his prophet who interpreted a manifestation as he claimed to have been the recipient of an epiphany or perhaps the hallucination of what would transpire into 1,400 years of the apocalyptic conquest for jihad as directed by a bloodthirsty mad man. He is still far deadlier than Hitler or any communist due to connecting himself with a false god not of either Judaism or Christianity in order to kill all who to this day refuse to acknowledge his absolutism by "voluntary submission". To be Christian is to give one's life to Christ voluntarily; to fail to convert to Islam means certain death or facing being taxed the jizya alongside institutional persecution.

To atheists who hate the vision of The Cross while celebrating the nearly-complete recognition of Islam as a official state established faith under Sharia law, Jesus will always hate your sins as well as all that have ever been committed, but He will always love the sinners. Communism failed in part because millions of people died attempting to practice their faiths, particularly Christianity in the Soviet Union as well as Judaism, because it thwarted the omnipotence of the state under totalitarianism, and which is still occurring in the People's Republic of China today with the slaughters of more Tibetan Buddhists as well as Christians whose churches continue to be bulldozed and its followers arrested for the same reason; not coincidentally, the Soviet empire that embraced atheism collapsed beneath the weight of men who postured as gods, and Cuba today recognizes Roman Catholicism as a legal religion with more than 52% of its citizens identifying themselves as such, no longer mandating secularism. Jesus is a Savior advocating peace through love, not submission under the penalty of beheading as the only choices for a voluntary conversion, in which "submission" is the direct English transliteration for the Arabic term "Islam".

The Grand Mosque in Mecca.

How ironic that the bulk of modern scientific theories were not derived by atheists who believe to be intellectually superior to all humans who are not, but by the likes of Christians as Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Gregor Mendel, Rene Descartes, while even the love child of secular lore Charles Darwin struggled his entire life with his scientific theory of natural selection through evolution (which in the time he had to spend aboard the HMS Beagle, could never have been proven as an absolute truth given thousands of years of observation would have been necessary in order for empirical evidence to be witness), and the faith he renounced but multiple times flirted with returning to his youth's roots. Key philosophers as St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther who decried the Vatican's employment of indulgences to supersede the Grace that God begets all to be necessary to ascend to Heaven, Niccolo Machiavelli, Sir Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and Edmund Burke, Soren Kierkegaard and C.S. Lewis who served as major foundations for Western civilization's philosophical plancks were all Christian. Legend even states that upon Darwin's death that he repented before a witness, which continues to be disputed, and to reflect upon his writings and activities will corroborate that his intellectual foundation was unstable because his soul never settled into reconciling it with the blind faith he was taught to observe as a young man. To consider even Christian scientists and philosophers comprise of a plurality of the world's greatest minds to be wrought with illogic by generalizing an entire faith predicated under the bigotry comprised by a stereotype is not only a fallacy at best, but false in that those who reside in China still are vastly illiterate among the peasantry aside from the doctrinal teachings the Chinese Communist Party requires as if they are catechisms, or how under Mao Zedong, who enjoyed a godlike reverence, resulted in his ideological fanaticism slaughtering a recorded estimate of 72 million working in collectivized labor units in rural countrysides under the atheist principle that through communism may the utopian vision of man be realized. The problem laid in of course the poorly conceived plan during the Great Leap Forward that through defertilizing the soil due to over tilling, excessive deforestation and even killing sparrows due to their annoyance, famine plagued the nation and through executions, 40 million likely died. From 1966 through Mao's death ten years later from what atheism never cured in ALS, the Cultural Revolution engaged under blind faith in the man history recorded to be known as "the Great Helmsman" killed perhaps an additional 11 million, which cannot be quantified by numbers along. When atheist governments under communism relied upon a Joseph Stalin archetype as well who became the god of the Soviet Union through his cult of personality, millions perished to serve him even as decades later it was learned that communism engaged in its diffusion through a social Darwinist principle derived under Thomas Malthus of depopulating the masses. Ironically, abortions through Margaret Sanger's advocacy of eugenics as the medical science of genocide founded by Galton nearly a century before are socialist principles of devout humanists, to kill "the unfit", "human weeds" and "morons", to eliminate blacks and Jews, Slavs and yes, eventually Christianity and its gift to the world, the capitalism Marx renamed that he so despised, she did so in order to justify her voracious debauchery even as she married wealthy men so that she could pursue her evil initiatives. For a woman who made her fortune engaging in such horrific acts as her direct influence on Adolf Hitler's own eugenics program through their mutual colleague Dr. Ernst Rudin, few along the atheist lunatic fringe under socialism's founding principle take offense at accusations of racial targeting, always citing to the compassion it bestows unto the poor. Considering how the Bolshevik Leon Trotsky despised Sanger upon meeting her due to her love of capital wealth as a communist, atheism is the most religious faith manufactured in human history by social subversives who only through anarcho-capital measures could the cause of revolution be achieved under mob violence by a vastly illiterate sans culottes Parisian populace. Consider how the wealthy Jacobins under Maximilien Robespierre centrally-planned and manufactured its own pagan religion in the attempt to mobilize the masses in old cathedrals, it stands to reason - a trait that never has graced atheism's modus operandi that through man's own finite designs will they ultimately meet their predestination of their final failures - that had the Ancien Regime not been eliminated at its most crucial element at the First Estate, the Roman Catholic Church, the peasants of the countryside would at least had the opportunity to read The Bible, thereby nullifying the lesson the left-wing's first experiment failed by after the Reign of Terror and later the Directory upon the coup d'etat which brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power. It is not a coincidence then that he employed the Vatican as his centerpiece to consolidate his authoritarian principles since totalitarianism during the Revolution failed on the sole principle of "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" that was defined under false pretenses by men designing to become gods, because he employed in stealth the Revolution's spirit which failed due to the inherent flaw of absolute power corrupting absolute.

Why else, then, did Rousseau and later Marx and Engels fear over all Christianity but barely paid attention to Judaism and Islam? Why has every society who forced out the right to worship ultimately failed as the cries of their oppressed peoples yearning to pray toppled the atheist Soviet Union? Why now has Cuba permitted religious freedom even as it remains officially a secular state in the post-Soviet world? And why again, my atheist antagonizers, do you seek to ban Christianity, but have barely attacked Islam and are promoting the rise of Satanism globally even as your own movement has erected its own churches as if its own religion? Hypocrisy precedes the imperfections latent within mankind because they will lead by virtue of our deaths alone to our accomplishments one day being forgotten, advanced through new technologies or even that we will become regarded as fools. Only God can be the absolute, while the hubris of the megalomaniacs who espouse atheism in order to become gods on Earth simply fade into sea as if a setting sun. So far as I see, the manifestation of materialism has never been explained even as today, atheism continues to delve into its own demise by embracing an intelligent design without true knowledge of its state. When asking how what transformed a vacuumed void into the state of nature, the law of thermodynamics as part of Einstein's theory of relativity only states that by man's capacity, matter can be neither created nor destroyed. If you cannot explain why even the theory of a man born a Jew never explored the manifestation of existential materialism, the fundamental truth continues to pervade that no scientific discovery will ever be an absolute positive since they never graduate beyond the postulation of theories without one day being revisited upon contradiction. As religion cannot be explained either, the difference is in this: a supreme, omnipotent being will always have an Alpha and Omega tale, forever tell you it creates and destroys all and will describe in detail what you can only comprehend because science never will. To transform atheism from a principle of nihilism and the state of void into its own religion is not only hypocritical, but the manner of trying to legitimize whatever foundation you have as if a house divided that is collapsing, and why the new atheist religion that stands for nothing but man's mechanizations is threatened by Christianity over all others because its follows know that the faith never will die while atheist societies always do. Even the Big Bang and black holes are being disputed again, so if empirical evidence is impossible to prove those theories, why bother persecuting the Christian messengers of God who understand their shortcomings? To continue arguing only for the sake of agreeing with me is the irony of all ironies since atheists always follow their passe scientific cliches that that which is not perfect or physically seen cannot exist due to human perfection, over which science proves time and again to be the hallmark of its inherent imperfect principles.

Post by Glenn Beck.

This morning, I received updates on more and more replies that continue to grow more bitter by the day. They comprise of both sides of this debate, both atheists and Christians, who are virulently defending their positions. To the best of my ability, I have endeavored to maintain a level approach to my points, but I am sorely disappointed not so much in the atheists' tactics of science and false generalities, but of my Christian partners in their level of vitriol and hate growing more venomous over the past week in abandoning their compassion and love even for sinners.

Why am I less disappointed in the atheists than I am my fellow Christians? The answer lies in what truly defines our faith, and why it separates the body of Christ from all others, which is free will and the right to choice. As I am a historian and political blogger with a very broad following, I see the uphill battles we Christians continue to climb from both the dogmatic perspective of our Lord as well as what mankind applies or destroys through its misapplications of what is intended. When I read of the atheists who so angrily are protesting Glenn Beck's post, I see an unbridled anger which will never be extinguished. No nations having adopted atheism or a secular policy in national religion have ever provided legal protections for people of faith; in fact, they have persecuted them, engaged in genocidal acts or imprisoned them as in the Soviet Union and China in gulags and labor reeducation camps. The methods behind this are synonymous between each communist nation having employed such brutal repression of the free will of the human spirit. They all demanded uniformity, not under a godless state ruled under the dictatorship of a proletariat, but of the falsely self-anointed legitimacy each dictator creates by consolidating his power as a godlike despot. Through such mechanizations to exalt themselves above their taught human superiority over the worldly realm, they become worshipped, venerated as infallible and never possibly wrong even as science time and again discredits them because they revise what does not serve their agenda. Still, despite wiping clean the slate of all vestiges of God, atheist rulers with the godlike complex could never do so to God, because God guarantees all mankind the rights to life, liberty and property per their acquisition of happiness.

Poster honoring the memory of peoples of faith who died during the Bolshevik Persecution in Ukraine

To read Russian history is to grasp how no other state has ever persecuted Jews more viciously. Russia once contained the world's largest Jewish population, but because it clashed with the tsardom's hegemony within the Russian Orthodox Church, no state controls over their activities were easily applied as they did not attend Christian services. Over the remaining 150 years of the Russian Empire, major reforms were enacted, particularly by Catherine the Great and Alexander II. Catherine liberalized substantially the Russian policy on religious tolerance, only to renege on such policy as the Charter of the Towns of 1782. Russian citizenship was based on membership to the state church. While initially Jews were granted full citizenship following the Polish partition in 1772, they were levied an additional tax not unlike the jizya in Islam. Eventually, she revoked this in 1785 as she grew more autocratic as the French Revolution approached. To consider that, too, pogroms slaughtered the Jewish peoples in the rural countryside, millions have died and are still being persecuted today, particularly in the fight between Moscow and Ukraine's military. The former Soviet Union is still primarily secular; the communist spirit has not yet died, or Vladimir Putin would not be attempting to recreate the empire.

Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great, Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias (1729-96)

Soviet Propaganda of Joseph Stalin as the Father Figure of the State's Children 

Some grasp this and state Christianity has indeed been brutal, and they would be correct since this should never happen to anyone. But under communism, all vestiges of the faith were banned since what once was the tsarist regime's autocratic rule through the divine right of tsars, the Soviet Union was all things to all people under threat of the gun. The Politburo through the state medium TASS issued the state's propaganda as part of its totalitarian absolutism. Communism sought to not only abolish the family order, but to do so first through commandeering all scholastic standards, to deny parents the right to raise their children and in perhaps the most damning measure of attempting this, what had been centuries of Russian Eastern Orthodox ecunmenical tradition and culture were largely wiped away, revised from the historical record as churches were demolished, and such cults of personality under Joseph Stalin replacing this with the atheist standard suddenly applying indoctrination through a god on Earth. As Lord Acton's immortal wisdom is true how "absolute power corrupts absolute", what was advertised during the Bolshevik Revolution as a utopian model for total equity only wiped the slate of one form of religious serfdom in order to replace it with one far more deadly should one have chosen not to comply. To corroborate this statement, Stalin declared the following as a philosophical planck in Soviet polity:

"One of Ivan the Terrible's mistakes was to overlook the five great feudal families. If he had annihilated those five families, there would definitely have been no Time of Troubles. But Ivan the Terrible would execute someone and then spend a long time repenting and praying. God got in his way in this matter. He ought to have been still more decisive!"

Even Stalin acknowledged at the Teheran Conference in 1943 that the struggle to ensue between East and West boiled down to God and the Devil:

"God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist."

Once one grasps how according to Stalin, "Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed," the power of an atheist state is not to be consolidated by the relationship of its peoples to a faith's moral code, but to establish totalitarian controls at the most centralized means, where morality once pervasive, died, and a world where the amoral govern absolute through coerced secularization. It can only be achieved under absolute state controls of public schools, through state health care and compulsory military conscription. When atheism rises, the rulers exalt themselves to the role of master and commander over all whom they surveil. As Western democracies go, religious freedom is taken for granted, only for atheism under Marxist-Leninist standards to revoke gradually this right to all free practice of a faith.

Christianity, therefore, has always been the most persecuted of all faiths. Every time it has faced total annihilation through genocide or state partitioning, like with Rome and under Soviet communism, it eventually toppled entire empires and replaced their order with Christianity, as applied in the Council of Nicea. The empires once persecuted Christians, but the indomitable will of human freedom toppled these walls partitioning those with their relationships with God and Jesus from ever again being denied discourse at His altar. If George Soros, a devout atheist, opposes Christianity so virulently, why else would he state the following?

"Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad."

Considering atheism has ascended to its own established religion in a church, it begs to question why it has adopted the key tenet by choice, of Christendom's doctrine of salvation through the voluntary acceptance of Christ's Grace as the King of Kings? Christianity is entirely voluntary, predicated upon the greatest choice one can make in establishing a relationship with God and Jesus, but suddenly, there is the First Church of Atheism. You make of it what you will, but I believe what has always been a faith of disbelief is on the brink of an historical penultimate collapse and a great spiritual awakening in God.

For more information on the new atheist religion, please visit the Official Website of the First Church of Atheism

***

Bonus Material: The Three Secrets of Fátima

The Three Secrets of Fátima were a series of apocalyptic visions and prophecies which some believe were given to three young Portuguese shepherds, Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto, by an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, starting on 13 May 1917. The three children claimed they were visited by a Marian apparition six times between May and October 1917. The apparition is now popularly known as Our Lady of Fátima.

According to the official Catholic interpretation, the three secrets involve Hell, World Wars I and II, and the attempted assassination by gunshot of Pope John Paul II (which occurred on May 13, 1981).

Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent. This vision lasted but an instant. How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising, in the first Apparition, to take us to heaven. Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear and terror.

You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pope Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.

J.M.J.

The third part of the secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fátima, on 13 May 1917.

I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.
After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: 'something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.

Tuy-3-1-1944