The Falsehoods of Christianity: Volume Two: (A Layman's Perspective)

By Ivan P. Kovak

In this book (the Falsehoods of Christianity Volume Two) your belief structure will not only be tested but rocked to its core by hard facts and not delusional fairytales by someone who lived over two thousand years or more. If one is a self proclaiming born-again Christian you'll feel like you've been hatched--instead of reborn.

Understanding the theory behind the established Christian belief structure starts when one realizes that it is all based on faith, hope and a prayer. In the end one ends up with nothing but theories, unanswered prayers and doubts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Sep 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543947908

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The Falsehoods of Christianity Volume Two

Copyright © 2018 by Ivan P. Kovak

All Rights Reserved

Library of Congress Number: Pending

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United States

Print ISBN: 978-1-54394-789-2

eBook ISBN: 978-1-54394-790-8

I dedicate this book to my niece Kimberly O’Connell

who was born mentally challenged but stole my heart. IPK

To the Reader

A falsehood is the expression of an untruth intended to deceive.

— John E. Remsberg

Christianity is the longest running con in America. — Ivan P. Kovak

It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehoods for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment. — Eusebius

To deceive and lie is a virtue when religion can be promoted by it.

— John Lawrence von Mosheim

I have repeated whatever may rebound to the glory, and suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace of our religion. — Eusebius

Contents

Introduction

1. Shenanigans

2. Pirates of Christianity

3. Gullibility

4. The Falsehoods of Tithing

5. Examples of Wolves by Wolves

6. Inside the Wolfpack

7. The Falsehoods of Tax Exemption

8. The Falsehoods of Faith Healers

9. Summation

Conclusion

Resources

Research

Biography

Introduction

My mission is to educate Christians about the falsehoods of Christianity.

Anything written by man is subject to errors, debate, scrutiny, and contradictions. Contrary to popular beliefs, the Bible is not the written word of God. It is full of errors, debate, scrutiny, and contradictions that can only be contributed to the mind of man. If one is to believe that God created the universe and the world with all their complexities and innuendos within the span of six days, then one needs to speak to their psychiatrist within a shorter span because according to religious scholars, it took God 1,500 years to write and influence the works of the Old and New Testaments.

In this book (The Falsehoods of Christianity Volume Two) your belief structure of Christianity will not only be tested but rocked to its very core to the point you’ll feel like you’ve been hatched instead of reborn.

Understanding the theory behind the established Christian belief structure starts when one realizes that it is all based on faith, hope, and prayer. Faith is nothing more than believing in something one cannot see, hear, or touch. Hope is that God does exist. Prayer is when you talk to God and have hope and faith he is listening.

In the end what you end up with is nothing but theories, unanswered prayers, and doubts.

Comparative Mythology

Comparative mythology is defined as identifying shared mythology among various ancient cultures.

Christianity owes its start from Judaism, which received its indoctrination from comparative mythology. Without it, Judaism would have never made it off the ground and monotheism would have remained the underbelly to polytheism (the belief in many gods). Christianity would have been just an afterthought of some delusional ancient individual suffering from mental illness.

The Bible is made up of nothing more than a collection of comparative stories, traditions, rituals, and beliefs that formed the basis for Judaism and its religion that stem not from the Holy Scripturesbut from the religion, laws, and beliefs of other ancient civilizations that were necessary to help explain the unexplainable to satisfy the Jewish way of life that became the core structure of comparative mythology.

After all, if it weren’t for Greek, Egyptian, and Roman mythology (which also got their start by way of comparative mythology), God would have just been another god among many gods and prayer would have been recognized for what it is—wishful thinking—and churches seen as nothing more than mental institutions for Christians.

So, for those of you whom think God has no beginning—I offer the following:

Nothing derived from something—, not something from nothing.

Even the Sumerians, who were the first civilized society on Earth, which all civilization grew from, started out with comparative mythology when the various local wandering tribes gathered together to form what became the Sumerian civilization. They each brought with them their own tribal rituals and religion that came along with their own gods and goddesses that, over 1,500 years, formed the Sumerian mythology pantheon, which housed their gods and goddesses that were either good or evil or both. From these gods and goddesses stemmed the first creation and flood myth along with battles between good and evil.

Every ancient civilization owes its start to the Sumerians and comparative mythology, which started the blue print for all others to follow.

It was the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans who took comparative mythology to a whole new level by taking each other’s gods and goddesses, by changing their names and their characteristics, and calling them their own.

From there, they created their own creation and flood myths that would be the foundation of Judaism, which built a better mouse trap that would incorporate all the gods, devils, and demons into one Jewish mythology called monotheism, which recognized one God and devil that embodied all the characteristics of all the gods and goddesses—both good and evil—whose deeds and accomplishments would be accomplished by others with new names and characteristics.

This would all be recorded in a book written by the Jews for the Jews called the Bible, where a man named Jesus would be the soul and embodiment of comparative mythology by accomplishing what other gods had accomplished thousands or hundreds of years before and claiming them to be unique.

This uniqueness would lay down the foundation of Christian mythology that would become known as Christianity, which would not only be built on comparative mythology but on what they called faith, which is not based on seeing is believing—but believing in what one is hearing.

The mythologies of many ancient societies included various gods and their sons who were born on December 25, whom performed miracles, died, and were resurrected three days later.

Most all had a story of Adam and Eve, creation myths, flood myths; etc. The names may have changed, but the product stayed the same even after being picked through by the Jewish Hebrew Scholars thousands of years later to create their beloved Jesus in the image of other gods who came before him.

So, remember, nothing, but nothing, Jesus Christ supposedly accomplished—had been already accomplished by other gods prior to his existence.

Chapter 1

Shenanigans

In November 2007, after receiving numerous complaints from the public and news media, the United States Senate Committee on Finance under Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, launched a scathing investigation into the lavish lifestyle of six prominent members of the Christian establishment: (1) Benny Hinn Ministries, (2) Bishop Eddie Long Ministries, (3) Creflo Dollar Ministries, (4) Joyce Meyer Ministries, (5) Kenneth Copeland Ministries, and (6) Paula White Ministries.

During the investigation, three of the six cooperated with the inquiry: Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, and Paula White. The other three, Bishop Eddie Long, Creflo Dollar, and Kenneth Copland, claimed the IRS was the only entity that had the authority to investigate their ministries.

Note that the Senate Finance Committee has exclusive senate jurisdiction over federal tax policy governing the billions of dollars donated to and controlled be the nation’s tax exempt groups.

In January 2011, after around three years, the Senate Finance Committee wrapped up its investigation finding that the three who cooperated and the three ministries who did not cooperate were free of any guilt or wrongdoing.

Was this an outrage? No. Because the Senate Finance Committee and the six ministries in question were both 100% correct under the established laws that were in place at the time.

First and for most, the elective body of the United States Senate is in place as the watchdogs of our democracy as well as representatives of their individual states and the welfare of their constituents who reside within their states.

If a questionable entity of good or bad intentions should arise within or outside the territorial boundaries of the United States, the senate by law has the right to investigate the legalities of such entities and the impact of those intentions upon the country with regards to the well-being of all 50 states and the individuals who reside in said states—regardless of what the intentions of such an entity might be.

Now, with that said, the IRS is answerable to the senate, but the individual senators who make up the senate are answerable to the IRS when it pertains to their taxable income and the legitimacy therein. All tax exempt approvals and those with tax-exempt status, such as religious organizations, and their religious leaders that function within said tax exemptions are answerable to the IRS for their legitimacy.

In other words, the senate may pass laws governing the IRS, but it’s the IRS that legitimizes the laws passed by the senate. In the meantime, it’s the senate who legitimizes the IRS when the IRS misinterprets the laws passed that govern the functions within the IRS, as it did in 2013, when the IRS was accused of political profiling.

One must keep in mind that Grassley is an honorable man and is also a member of a religious organization called The Family. This does bring into question that potentiality of a conflict of interest of any elective official investigating any Christian organization or individuals within said organizations when it comes to their legitimized behavioral manner pertaining to their religious beliefs and practices that govern their income from such religious practices that govern their lavish lifestyle.

When you have any elected governing body of the United States of America (whether it be federal, state, or local) made up of primarily Christians investigating the legitimacy of a Christian establishment and its members—is the equivalent of hiring Jesse James (called the Jesse James theory) to investigate investment bankers on Wall Street and after three years—finding nothing wrong! Am I implying that investment bankers are crooked? Absolutely not! Let’s just say that that some well-established evangelicals and investment bankers of the past have a lot in common, when it comes to other people’s money.

Am I implying that there was a conspiracy by the senate to cover up any wrongdoings by any celebrated member of the Christian establishment called before the Senate Finance Committee due to their Christian heritage? Absolutely not.

Wait! I can hear a few of you yelling, Doesn’t the IRS have laws governing nonprofit or tax exempt status for churches and religious organizations? Yes, they do. All tax exempt organizations or individuals must maintain any and all books of accounting to continue to justify their claim for tax exemption in the event of an audit by the IRS.

The only problem is that it takes a high level IRS executive or Treasury Department appointee to initiate such a probe or investigation into any requested questionable violation of one’s tax exempt status, which must be backed up with an enormous amount of data first. The other problem is that, to date, no one has been appointed to said job yet. There are over 450,000 churches in America, and the amount of churches audited in the past seven years amount to a number between one and ten.

Does this mean that there may be churches guilty of improprieties? Privately, one can draw their own conclusions. But publicly—in lore of any investigation—no there is not!

At the end of Grassley’s three-year investigation, he made the following statement: Self-regulation by religious organizations was preferable to any government action. Prior to this statement, Grassley was in favor of tougher sanctions until enormous outside pressure from leaders and lobbyists of Christianity forced him to turn to the Evangelical Council for financial accountability who in turn came up with the suggestion of the self-policing policy. Why doesn’t that surprise me?

The real truth behind what really happened goes something like this: The failures within the bureaucracies of the United States government and its oversight committees (Congress, IRS, the Supreme Court) along with the First Amendment to the Constitution have allowed Christianity along with its leadership and its propaganda organizations to grow to such prominence both financially and politically that it would be next to impossible to legally take any action deemed negative toward Christianity and its proponents. Whether that action was an established oversight committee or guidelines in place to govern monies or behavior. In conclusion, they would make OJ’s dream team look like child’s play.

Under the First Amendment, Congress shall pass no laws concerning the establishment of a national religion or impeding the free exercise of religion. Under the free exercise clause, which is part of the establishment clause created around the First Amendment, which allows the Supreme Court to interpret the intent of an organization or individual that may circumvent the First Amendment for their extremist religious beliefs—such as declaring headhunting part of their religious practices associated with their beliefs.

Under these prognostications and the failure of Congress and the IRS and Grassley’s three-year probe into the lavish lifestyle of six prominent ministries that left one bewildered, dazed, and confused with its conclusion, one could petition the Supreme Court to pass guidelines on what constitutes religion and/or Christianity. This coupled with an oversight committee to regulate said behavioral patterns in regards to their tax-exempt status.

Tax-exempt status was granted to religious organizations because the United States government at the time (1894) felt that Christianity was better suited to deal with the American poor. By 1969, tax-exempt status was well rooted in the taxation of IRS policies that made a lot of Christian leadership and their ministries wealthy at the expense of the poor.

The Supreme Court needs to address the nature of separation of church and state to remove any and all overtures by religion and/or Christianity toward America’s electoral process to insure a fair and balanced election—so that any individual Americans, regardless of race, color, creed, or religious affiliation, may have the opportunity to hold elected office, whether that be federal, state, or local. Under America’s present system, only the rich and proponents of Christianity can hold elected office in America (in my book America – Democracy in Chaos, due out in 2023, I shall address this issue in more detail).

After all, one must keep in mind that in late-September 2015, the pope visited America and was treated like a rock star by America’s leadership and the news media. They were oblivious to the fact that hundreds if not thousands of children across the globe were looking on who had been sexually abused by members of the very organization the pope represented—God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Roman Catholic Church. What’s wrong with America?

Without the Christianity and its leadership, the poor in America don’t have a chance. Please note the following:

The prosperity gospel is the Bible of Theologians which emphasize the American dream can be accomplished through seed planting into their ministries. The recipients of this message of name-it-claim-it theology often enough turn out to be those in our capitalistic society who are poor and have dreams of oneday lifting themselves out of poverty, but see no other way out other than the lottery, casinos, or some miracle of God who meeting the pope. It’s the latter that said preachers of the prosperity gospel have no scruples in exploiting in order to achieve their wealth while the U.S. Constitution, Congress, the Supreme Court, and the IRS stand by blindly while the poor are raped and robbed by Christianity of any dignity they have left. The poor may not know any better, but then again, what excuses does the government have when the lessfortunate are abused by the fortunate?

This is all due to the failures of Grassley’s finance committee that succumbed to the bullying tactics of lobbyists and fear of prominent evangelical religious leaders such as Kenneth Copeland who stated after being asked by the committee for his ministries financial disclosures, You can get a subpoena, and I won’t give them to you. It’s not yours. It’s God’s, and you’re not going to get it, and that’s something I’ll go to prison over. So, just get over it.

In 2011, the Senate Finance Committee did just that! They got over it—because 2012 was an election year.

Maybe it’s time to remind the Supreme Court of what’s etched in our monuments throughout Washington, D.C., and the walls of the senate chambers: In God We Trust. Maybe it’s time to put that to the test? Why? Because according to your Bible, Jesus Christ would have taken care of the poor first and the money changers last.

It’s time also for the U.S. Supreme Court to do some bullying of its own. The court isn’t governed by an election year, lobbyist, recall elections, or term limits (all though they should be). But then again that’s argumentative nature due to the legalities of a particular issue that may be presented to the court whose legalities are paid for by an individual or group of individuals whose interests are best served for a favorable outcome for the organization they represent. One must keep in mind also that six members of the nine justices that sit on the Supreme Court are Christians.

One must also keep in mind that it does cost over a million dollars to bring a case before the Supreme Court. What’s wrong with this picture of democracy? America is mostly made up of middle class to poor families and that 99% of the population is ruled by the other 1%. Maybe it’s time to remind the plutocracies of America, that we are supposed to be a nation governed by the people for the people—regardless of your oligarchy status under capitalism or religion. But then again, one must remember that it’s capitalism that runs America—not Capitol Hill.

Ironically it was the failures of the U.S. government through times of crisis and growth that ultimately was responsible for the success of Christianity in America. Ultimately it will be the falsehoods of Christianity that will lead to its downfall in America.

According to the Constitution, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. Really?

Etched in granite on the façade of the Supreme Court building of its outer architectural structure surrounded by other statues facing it is the figure of Moses holding the ten commandments, front and center. On its huge wooden doors entering the courtroom are engraved images of the ten commandment tablets and behind the bench of the judges, is a large image of the ten commandment tablets also (pictures paint a thousand words—and words tell a story).

Ironically Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from office on November 13, 2003, for refusing to obey a federal judge’s order to remove a ten commandments monument from the judicial building of Alabama. In November 2103, Roy Moore won back his seat as Alabama’s Chief Justice and was suspended in 2016 for failure to recognize same-sex marriages in Alabama (on June 26, 2015, same-sex marriages in America were legalized by the U.S. Supreme Court).

In 2017, he vacated his judgeship in order to run for Sen. Jeff Sessions Alabama seat that became available when he was appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Donald J. Trump. Roy Moore won the right to be the Republican nominee in a special primary election to be held on December 12, 2017, by defeating fellow Republican incumbent Luther Strange in a special Alabama election held on September 26, 2017.

In late October, 2017, Roy Moore was up by 11 points over Democratic Doug Jones, when out of nowhere and in a matter of weeks during the campaign, eight women would come forward and accuse Roy Moore of alleged sexual misconduct some 38 years earlier. One would certainly have to question the timing of these alleged allegations. But when the smoke cleared on December 12, 2017, Roy Moore would endup losing by 1.5% (48.4%) to Doug Jones (49.9%), which saved the Republican party a potential embarrassment.

On Thursday, December 28, 2017, at 1:10 p.m. Jones was officially certified the winner of the special election held on December 12, 2017, by the Alabama’s Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General. To date Roy Moore has not conceded the race.

Then we have this asinine situation: In November 2015, a Utah judge, who also is a bishop in the Mormon Church, issued a ruling that a legalized lesbian couple must return a foster child given to them for possible adoption months earlier. Why? Because Judge Scott Johansen claimed that several case studies he read found that children are better off in an environment with heterosexual parents. What’s wrong with this picture?

At the opening of every Supreme Court session, a crier yells out, God save the United States and the honorable court. As of 2018, there are nine justices who sit on the Supreme Court: three are Jewish and the other six are Christian.

The United States Capital building in Washington, D.C., is the place where our laws are established and home to 435 elected members of the House of Representatives and 100 elected Senators. As of 2016, to my knowledge, not one of the 535 members of Congress is atheist.

Then again Shakespeare did say all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances. Meaning, just how many of the 535 are truly Christians and what chance does an atheist have of holding an elected office in America?

Since 1789, every session of Congress has opened with a prayer for both houses with a paid chaplain at taxpayers’ expense. There are two full-time chaplains—one for the House of Representatives and one for the Senate. The house chaplain makes around $175,000 a year. The senate chaplain makes slightly more.

Both chaplains mirror each other with respect to their duties. The senate chaplain’s job description is that of the house chaplain’s also. Besides opening their respected houses with prayer, they also will provide spiritual services to its members, their staff, as well as their families, with respect to marriages, funerals, counseling, and other pastoral events, which include ceremonial duties for either house with respect to foreign dignitaries, which also includes the White House.

The United States Capitol building is were both houses of congress are entombed, and contrary to popular belief, it’s not the endorsement of democracy, but that of Christianity.

The capitol building itself has been compared to Solomon’s Temple by its designer and ironically enough has more religious symbols than a church. Inside the interior dome that sits above the rotunda is a fresco painting of George Washington (which is hypocritical) for it depicts him as a godly idol, surrounded by godly idols of mythology that flow throughout the fresco that give off religious overtures, and on the outside edges, there are 72 stars that form a circle around the painting, which represent the 72 names of God.

The mythological characters within the fresco painting are those one would find between the pages of the Bible. There is no evidence that Moses or Solomon ever existed—except in the minds of those who wrote about them, preach about them, and believe in them.

One can walk the streets of Washington, D.C., and find biblical scriptures on its monuments and etched on various walls throughout our nation’s capital. The only reason our American forebears decided to call our nation’s capital Washington, D.C., is because the name Vatican had already been taken.

What’s wrong with America? This was best summoned up by President James Madison: Our political institutions and our right to self-govern ourselves is all structured around the ten commandments.

Strangely enough, only one member of the religious establishment signed the Declaration of Independence: John Witherspoon.

Christianity seems to think our ancestors gave them a mandate through the Constitution that America was founded on Christian principles. The only problem with that is someone forgot to tell the first 25 U.S. presidents.

George Washington became America’s first president on Thursday, April 30, 1789, in our nation’s first capital New York City. He was the only president to run unopposed in both his terms and belonged to no political party and is revered as the father of our country and rarely attended church. This would suggest that he placed his loyalties to his country first and his personal views came second.

John Adams became America’s second president on March 4, 1797, and stayed in the President’s House in Philadelphia until Saturday, November 1, 1800, when he moved into the White House and had this quote placed on the mantel of the state dining room fireplace: I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on the House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof. So much for prayers and blessings. Three days later on Tuesday, November 4, 1800, Adams lost the election to Thomas Jefferson, and in the war of 1812, the British burned the White House down. John Adams was a Unitarian (one that believes that God exists only in one person).

Thomas Jefferson was America’s third president and shortly after taking office wrote a letter which included the phrase, Wall of separation between church and state. Jefferson believed in the morals of the Bible, but not the superstitions that accompanied it. Jefferson believed that government had no business in religion and religion had no business in government.

James Madison was America’s fourth president and shared similar views to Thomas Jefferson when it came to religion. He also was considered the father of the United States Constitution.

James Monroe was America’s fifth president and was considered an Episcopalian in name only.

John Quincy Adams was America’s sixth president and like his father John Adams was a Unitarian. John Quincy took the oath of office with his right hand on the Constitution and not the Bible.

Andrew Jackson was America’s seventh president who would not sign off on a national prayer day.

Martin van Buren was America’s eighth president who religious historians would have you believe attended church regularly. There are no records of him attending any church of any denomination while he was president.

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