Christianity: The Devil's Greatest Trick

By Adam Weishaupt

It's a simple fact that most Christians know next to nothing about Christianity. How many people are aware of the many heresies that were stamped out by the early Church? Had any of these heresies triumphed, the world would be a very different, and much saner place.

Find out about the monstrous St Augustine and his doctrines of grace, Original Sin, Predestination and the Total Depravity of the human race. This "saint" was happy to send to hell unbaptised babies that died in infancy. His great enemy was the humane and rational Celtic monk Pelagius. The great tragedy of Christianity is that it listened to Augustine rather than Pelagius.

Were the Jews advocates of temple prostitution, even within the confines of Solomon's holy temple to Yahweh?

The material in this book is provided by the Pythagorean Illuminati, the oldest secret society in the world, and is not for petty, cheap, narrow-minded religious fanatics.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 24, 2011
• ISBN: 9781447888925

Adam Weishaupt

Adam Weishaupt invites you to enter the forbidden world of secret societies. Are secret societies hidden because they are plotting against the world, or hidden because the powers-that-be are plotting against them and hunting them – as heretics, apostates, infidels, blasphemers, freethinkers, radicals and revolutionaries? Are secret societies the underground heroes as opposed to the subterranean villains? Are they demonized by those who want to keep you enslaved with lies and a false consciousness? Secret societies are devoted to discovering the ultimate knowledge that will liberate all of us. Join the freedom fighters, those heroically venturing into the Unknown Land to find the Holy Grail. Come and find out about the extraordinary world of secrets that presents a totally different conception of reality from the ones your overt rulers – the billionaires and their puppets – feed you. Don't you want to find out what is really going on?

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Christianity: The Devil's Greatest Trick

Christianity: The Devil’s Greatest Trick

by

Adam Weishaupt

Published by Hyperreality Books

Copyright © Adam Weishaupt 2011

The right of Adam Weishaupt to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author, except in the case of a reviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in critical articles or in a review.

Cover Art: with thanks to A.W.E. and Disörder

ISBN: 978-1-4478-8892-5

Quotations

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. -- Verbal Kint, The Usual Suspects; (In fact, his greatest trick was to get billions to call him God and Saviour and to get on their knees to him in prayer.)

The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me debasing, rather than ennobling. It involves grovelling before a Being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected. -- H.L. Mencken

Table of Contents

Christianity: The Devil’s Greatest Trick

Quotations

Table of Contents

The Illuminati

What’s the point of Jesus Christ?

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

The Evolution of Consciousness

The Christian God – the Most Irrational Idea of All Time

Logical Christianity?

Sons of God

Psychoanalysis and the Garden of Eden

Reincarnation

Sex, Death and Shit

The Abrahamic Covenant

Twelve Hours to Hell

Eden: a State of Mind?

Temple Prostitution

Hieros Gamos

Abrahamism and Aestheticism

The God of Lies

The Devil’s Morality

Heresy

Male Slave

The First major Christian Church to Die?

The 12 Steps of Tyranny?

The Religion of Submission

All you need is Love?

The Love Delusion

Psychobiography of Mohammed

The Latest Islamic Outrage

Prostitution

Original Sin

Pelagius

Protestantism and Capitalism

Scottish Parcel Bombs

Freud the Hysteric

Conclusion

The Illuminati

THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF BOOKS outlining the religion, politics and philosophy of the ancient and controversial secret society known as the Illuminati, of which the Greek polymath Pythagoras was the first official Grand Master. The society exists to this day and the author is a member, working under the pseudonym of Adam Weishaupt – the name of the Illuminati’s most notorious Grand Master.

The Illuminati’s religion is the most highly developed expression of Gnosticism and is called Illumination (alternatively, Illuminism). Dedicated to the pursuit of enlightenment, it has many parallels with the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. It rejects the Abrahamic religions of faith: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, considering these the work of the Demiurge; an inferior, cruel and wicked deity who deludes himself that he is the True God, and who has inflicted endless horrors on humanity.

If you wish to judge for yourself how deranged the Demiurge is, you need only read the Old Testament, the story of the Demiurge’s involvement with his Chosen People, the Hebrews. You may wonder why the God of All entered into an exclusive and partisan Covenant with a tribe in the Middle East several thousand years ago, why he promised them a land (Canaan) that belonged to others, and why he then actively participated with them in a genocidal war against the Canaanites. Even more bizarrely, according to Christian theology, he then despatched all of those Hebrews, whom he had supported so fanatically, to Limbo – the edge of Hell – when they died. They couldn’t go to Heaven because they were indelibly marked by the Original Sin of Adam and Eve. Only the atonement provided by the agonising death of God’s son, Jesus Christ, could wipe the slate clean and allow the Hebrews to be released from Limbo. But there was a catch. Only those who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour were eligible for Paradise.

Of course, the Chosen People of God have almost entirely rejected Jesus Christ. Therefore, from the Christian perspective, nearly all of the Chosen People are now in hell proper. Don’t you find God’s behaviour distinctly odd? Indeed, unbelievable? Don’t alarm bells start ringing? Doesn’t the behaviour of this God sound rather more like what would be expected of Satan?

Remember that this same God ordered Abraham to perform human sacrifice on his own son, Isaac. Abraham, rather than rejecting this monstrous command, rather than denouncing the creature that gave it as evil incarnate, agreed to butcher his own flesh and blood to demonstrate how slavishly and mindlessly obedient he was – the prototype of all psychopathic, fanatical believers.

Does God’s command to Abraham sound like something that would ever pass the lips of the True God? We pity you if you think it does because you are surely a creature of the Demiurge and one of the legions of the damned. If, however, you doubt the credentials of the Abrahamic God, you may be receptive to the message of the Illuminati and our future-oriented, rational, scientific, mathematical and dialectical religion of light – Illumination.

What’s the point of Jesus Christ?

How did it come about that the death by crucifixion of a Jewish criminal at the hands of the Roman authorities 2,000 years ago is regarded by billions of people as an event of cosmic significance? All non-Christians do not assign any significance at all to this minor and barely-recorded historical episode. The other two Abrahamic religions – Judaism and Islam – utterly reject it as having any bearing on the destiny of humanity.

Why, then, do Christians insist on its importance? Why is it such a debatable matter? Why is there no consensus amongst the peoples of the world? Either Christians have catastrophically misinterpreted the event, or everyone else has. Given that the souls of all human beings are allegedly at stake in this matter, why is it such a controversial and murky topic? Why did God choose to present humanity with a deadly puzzle – to believe or not to believe in the man called Jesus Christ? How you answer this question could determine the eternal fate of your soul, so shouldn’t you be as well informed about it as possible?

In fact, there’s very little you need to know. The portrayal of Jesus Christ – or Yehoshua ben Yosef as he should properly be called – as God is cosmically ridiculous. It’s quite possibly the most deranged claim ever made.

The point of Jesus Christ is that he is somehow redeeming humanity from something. The something is the prehistoric event known as the Fall: the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

If you don’t believe in the literal story of Adam and Eve (and no one who accepts Darwin’s theory of evolution does) then you have denied that there was any specific, known event for which the life and death of Jesus Christ served as a cosmic antidote. In other words, you have to guess at some appalling moral transgression in the prehistory of humanity that marked all human beings for eternity as the damned, whose only hope of escape from hell was to believe in Jesus Christ. What was this mysterious crime that we know absolutely nothing about? And if we know nothing about it, why should we accept that it even happened? Why would God send us all to hell for something we know nothing about and for which we had absolutely no personal responsibility or accountability?

Those who regard the tale of Adam and Eve as a metaphor rather than a literal historical happening are left to wrestle with what the metaphor tells us. What exactly was the offence of early humanity that merited all of humanity forevermore being branded with the ineradicable stain of Original Sin? Was it disobedience (the alleged sin of Adam of Eve)? But disobedience to whom and in what circumstances? Are we to suppose that God appeared to early humanity in some unrecorded event that just happened to be the most significant in human history and was disobeyed in some despicable manner by those early humans? In which case, why hasn’t God chosen to share this apocalyptic event with us since it determines our eternal fate?

The fabled disobedience of Adam and Eve – eating some fruit that they had been told not to – is astoundingly trivial and could not to any rational mind constitute an act of transcendent defiance of God meriting the sentence of hell for the whole species, so what could early humanity have done that was so bad…and why (and indeed how) was it transmitted to all future generations?

If there was no such event, no Original Sin, then Jesus Christ becomes pointless. The man Jesus Christ is exposed as an absolute fraud, deceiver and deranged, suicidal (and ultimately homicidal) lunatic. And has not humanity had legions of false Messiahs making all manner of absurd claims, and often suffering horrifically violent deaths at the hands of the powers-that-be? What makes Jesus Christ any different from all these other cranks? Surely we would need the most persuasive evidence imaginable to take his claims seriously. Yet there’s none. He himself says nothing about Original Sin…so how can that be the issue that he came to address by his self-sacrifice? Surely he ought to have explained why he was arranging his own crucifixion?

Have Christians simply inflated the story of one self-proclaimed Messiah into a grandiose religion, and then spent centuries making up reasons to explain, against all common sense and all the evidence, why they choose to believe that this person was God incarnate on Earth?

Is Christianity – the most successful religion of all time – also the maddest of all time? Is it total delusion and wishful thinking from beginning to end, giving a crazy answer to a non-existent question? Why should any human being accept that humanity has to be redeemed by anyone from anything? Do lions have to be redeemed? Do apes? If we are part of evolution, as we surely are, why have we been singled out as being in need of being saved from our evil natures?

The truth is we have done nothing wrong in cosmic terms, there is no such thing as Original Sin (it’s a wicked fabrication), and we have no requirement of redeemers, saviours or Messiahs. We don’t need Jesus Christ or anyone else. What we do need is true knowledge of existence, and we achieve that through the process of enlightenment – what the ancient Gnostics called gnosis.

We want to expose the gigantic fraud perpetrated by Christianity against humanity. We want to dismantle and deconstruct every part of this monstrous and evil ideology. We will concentrate on a) the tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, b) the uniquely Christian concept of Original Sin, and c) the monstrous story of God ordering Abraham to make a human sacrifice of his own son.

We will prove beyond reasonable doubt to any rational, open-minded, non-brainwashed reader that Jesus Christ should be known by another name.

Satan!

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

It was God himself who, at the end of His great work, coiled himself up in the form of a serpent at the foot of the tree of knowledge. It was thus that he recovered from being God. He had made everything too beautiful…The Devil is simply God’s moment of idleness, on the seventh day. -- Nietzsche

Animals do not attempt to hide their sexual behaviour and sex organs in any way. Humans do. Why? Many people associate sex with sin and evil. Why? In the tale of Adam and Eve, the couple immediately become ashamed of their nakedness after eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Why? Why is the mysterious tree not simply the Tree of Knowledge? Why has Good and Evil been appended?

Look at modern Muslims. They are ashamed of their sexuality and do everything to pretend it doesn’t exist. Their idea of a good life is to robotically obey the Koran, word by word, letter by letter. They cannot contemplate doing anything beyond what the Koran decrees. They are exactly like Adam and Eve before the serpent tempted them into disobedience. Muslims would take that as a great compliment. We intend it as the worst possible insult.

Many times in our series of books, we have posed the question of whether Muslims can be regarded as human. In fact, the same question may be asked of enormous swathes of the human population. It seems that there are two human species – conscious and bicameral (the latter referring to the type of proto-humanity described by psychologist Julian Jaynes).

Look at the schedules for different TV channels and you will notice that many don’t contain any intellectual content whatsoever. There are people in our world who have no relationship at all with any form of complex thought. Can they be regarded as the same species as those who are immersed in logic and reason? In