The present consensus of the historical & critical scholarship on the last Mysteries Cult still in operation nowadays : Christianity
A quite interesting and indeed veridical historical journey with legit theological considerations when needed.
■■■ This 45 minutes long video is narrated by a personal feminine voice but the CONTENT is the correct compilation by her of the present CONSENSUS OF HISTORICAL & CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP. Sources and further reading are in the description (a list of definitely distinguished scholars).
● At the center of all those scholarly interconnected discoveries are THE 3 FOLLOWING GROUPS OF IDEAS :
*1* THE MADE UP FICTIONAL DIVINE IMAGE OF JESUS by Saul of Tarsus aka Paul (~5 bce~ 65 ce) — Jesus being in his reality a Philosopher and an honorable transmitter of the timeless universal aristocratic education would be deeply disgusted with such a despicable and most grotesque charade.
*2* In nicer (or more hypocritical ?) words, the charade is called the pauline theology by the institutional religion (the niceno-constantinopolitan creed, yeah quite a mouthful … from the Nicea 325 and Constantinople I 381 imperial ecumenical councils having defined its essential dogmas…) coming from a very skillfully transmogrified Mysteries Cult, THE LAST MAJOR MYSTERIES CULT STILL IN OPERATION NOWADAYS, frankly quite flabbergasting when you think about it seriously !!!
Mysteries Cult because at the center of the niceno-constantinopolitan creed is A MYSTERIES CULT RITUAL : THE EUCHARIST RITUAL.
The Eucharist ritual is shared by the original 325 & 381 niceno-constantinopolitan creed aka the original institutional Western Christianity ALSO including ALL the various religious branches coming from it as a consequence of different schisms having happened through History essentially because of theological disputes or political enmity or even financial events as in the case of the 1517 Protestant Reformation.
The Eucharist ritual has been practiced for centuries if not millennia within the Mediterranean World with former deities : Osiris, Attis, Adonis, Baal, Mithras, Dionydos, etc., all having suffered (Passion) & Resurrected. The mythological concept was linked to the natural agricultural cycle of death and germination of the grain producing the plant (the resurrected grain).
The Eucharist ritual is the participation to the divine dimension by absorbing the flesh and the blood of the elected deity for real if the Mystery (Mysteries cult precisely coming from the Greek word mystes or mustes which means the initiated one) of transsubstantiation is taken literally (Catholic & Orthodox branches) or symbolically if the transsubstantiation Mystery is interpreted symbolically (the Protestant branches).
*3* The comprehensive use by the Roman Empire of its creature — the niceno-constantinopolitan creed — for political needs. The present successor of the Roman Empire, the Kakistocratic Feudal Conglomerate of the Anglo-Zio-American EstabLishment KFC-AZAEL ruling the collective West still uses its creature, the Whore of Babylon, meaning ALL the branches of Western Christianity, for coralling the plebs and for making house niggers worldwide. It is reasonable to see Western Christianity as still the most powerful machine on Earth for making house niggers worldwide.
The KFC-AZAEL 3 MOBs (Main Operational Bases) are :
The Uncouth Kleptomaniacs/UK (1707)
The Uncouth Slaves/US (1776)
Israhell (1948)
■■■ The lady having created this video is honest enough and MORE IMPORTANTLY, is CLEAR-MINDED ENOUGH for having crystal clear shown her banner (starting at 43’50’) :
● ” This whole essay is not about my beef with lay people, it’s about my beef with the Christian Church as an institution and the people who shaped it and the people who continue to preserve it and USE SCRIPTURE AS A WAY TO MAKE THE WORLD *LESS SAFE FOR PEOPLE. “
● And she said something even more dazzling at the very end of the video :
” God is a scapegoat for political cruelty … If we keep on argueing about God … THEN WE’RE TOO DISTRACTED TO ACTUALLY CHANGE THE WORLD. “