Inri Christ

By Henri Cosi

INRI means Jesus Nazarene Kings of the Jews. The content of this ebook is not a religious doctrine, with dogmas and teachings to convert people into a new religion or a new church. In fact, Inri founded his church in 1982, when he invaded the Se’Cathedral, city of “Belem”, Brazil, climbed on the altar, took the doll from the cross and broke it on the floor, claiming that he was reincarnated and is back on earth. His new church, called SOUST (“Supreme Universal Order of the Most Holy Trinity”), contains few disciples, very few followers around the world, and has no ornamentation like Catholic churches. There he does not try to convert new believers and does not require tithes, like priests and pastors. Even though he founded a new church, this book presents his story impartially. The book’s internal discussions refer to reflections on the true nature of Inri Christ. In the end, as an expert psychologist, I did a full psychological assessment on him, for about a year. My psychodiagnosis included the application of the Rorschach personality test (better known as the inkblot test). The book is divided into five parts. In the first there is the prologue with photos, the introduction with photos, where I explain everything about the book and what I did with Inri. There are also two chapters where I expose certain social reflections in the area of psychology and the Bible, when I question whether Jesus Christ happened to exist or is a myth. In the second I talk about the messianic question, in which I expose in a rational way, even to atheists, about the Divine, the Cosmos, Universe, Infinite, human gods, human nature from the metaphysical point of view, and finally I present my concept what would be the “Messiah”. At the end of this part I leave an interview of mine exposed, in which I asked 38 main questions to Inri Christ, and he gave his respective answers. The interesting thing for an eventual evangelical reader, or even a Christian Catholic, is that Inri quotes in his answers several passages from the bible (of the gospels), that is, the complete chapters and verses. Among the questions are Dan Brown s Davinci (or Da Vinci) Code, Mary Magdalene, the Virgin Mary, the end of the world (which he says will be with a nuclear hecatomb), abortion, the new Jerusalem of the apocalypse etc. In the third part, which is about the title “Liar” (and its various synonyms, such as charlatan, fake, phony, deceitful, trickster etc.), I first illustrate, in an illustrated way, the main and most relevant points of the life story of Inri Christ, even when he was arrested in Belem , after the invasion of the church. I also show, with photos, the day he invaded the Vatican and entered St. Peter s Basilica, giving sermons as he did in Belem . Then I make an explanatory compilation about Lies and the nature of Liar. Finally, I present to the reader the result of my non-verbal analysis, verbal evaluation and anamnesis on Inri Christ, showing whether he is indeed a fraud or not. In the fourth part, which is about the title “Crazy” (and its various synonyms, like hallucinated, insane, mentally ill, schizophrenic, psychotic, etc.), I give a brief introduction about psychopathology and mental disorder (psychological disorder), by understandable way for laypeople. Then I present the complete clinical report of Inri Christ. Soon after I expose the result of the Rorschach test, where it is possible to check whether or not Inri suffers from some hallucination, delirium, mania of greatness, psychosis (or schizophrenia), among other crucial personality factors. In the fifth and last part, I begin with the conclusion, where I summarize the entire path of the book and present my psychological diagnosis, answering the question of the book s title. At the end I leave an appendix for those interested in knowing the more detailed criteria on how to assess normality and insanity, in addition to leaving the raw result of his responses for each Rorscha

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clube de Autores
• Release date: Oct 17, 2020

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S U M M A R Y

PROLOGUE

INTRODUCTION

- Is

J esus Christ a

Myth?

- Popcorn ou Paper?

MESSIAH?

- Divine Nature

1 – Finality

2 – Infinite

3 – Paradox of Inexis-

tence

4 – Existential Consci-

ousness

5 – Human Spark

6 – Messiah

- Inri Christ Responds

LIAR?

- Life’s History

1 – Prophet Iuri

2 – New Name

3 – Prision in Belém

4 – Vatican

- Nature of the Lie

1 – The Truth

2 – The Lie

3 – The Liar

4 – Inri Christ

CRAZY?

- Psychological Disor-

der

- Clinical Report

Inri Christ’s Report

- Rorschach

Rorschach Result

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

- Criteria for Normality

1 – Statistical

2 – Suffering

3 – Culture

4 – Personal Life

- Rorschach

1 – Application

2 – Inquiry

3 – Calculation

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P R O L O G U E

Sé’s Cathedral, Belem city, Brazil

08:18

It was a normal summer Sunday morning. The mass had already started.

That was when the chief priest, Fausti-no Calixto Brito, was surprised by the unexpected arrival of a man dressed in a long white tunic, leather sandals, and a scarlet wool clo-ak on his left shoulder.

Tall, thin, blue eyes and long almond-colored hair. Your name? Exactly the one whose initials top Christ's head on the cross.

He walked towards the altar accompanied by

a crowd.

Inside the cathedral, INRI performed the "Libertarian Act - the materialization of the Kingdom of GOD on earth", as he proclaimed to al who were there to watch.

Stopping abruptly that Sunday mass,

he went up to the little central altar and

said into the microphone: "Get out of here, liar thieves, idol worshipers, mer-

chants of false sacraments, I am CHRIST".

When he climbed that altar he ordered the people to take him to the

largest altar, the main one.

Then he expelled all the priests who stood there, and looked toward

the ceiling, in what seemed to be in-

voking God in some prayer.

Then he removed the wooden crucifix from the pedestal and tore off

the dummy that was stuck to the cross, smashing it to the floor.

Astonished, Faustino Calixto Brito gave immediate orders to his priests

to call the police.

Then Inri said:

"Here is what my Father said about idolatry – ‘I am the LORD, your GOD;

You shall not make idols for yoursel-

ves, nor graven images to worship, be-

cause I am the LORD, your GOD.. . ’;

‘...I am the LORD, this is my name; I

will not give my glory to another, nor

will I consent the praise that belongs to Me alone be given to idols’ " .

A priest and two people in charge of temple services invaded the altar to

expel him permanently.

At that moment the voice he hears

inside his head said: "It is time of the violence. Take the candle, hit him on

the head, otherwise he will go up to

the altar too. And on the altar, my son, only you can go up".

Then one of the priests threw a chair towards his head. However, Inri

held it in the air and started using it as

a throne. Meanwhile, two followers guarded the altar.

Some time later, a dozen unifor-med military policemen entered the

enclosure with difficulty in controlling

the chaos and removing much of the

crowd that crowded the temple.

Then the soldiers finally reach the altar.

As the altar was very tall, the Lieu-tenant Watrein made a stepladder

with his hands for him to step on sa-

fely.

Inri walked calmly toward the exit.

At that moment, already approaching

the entrance of the temple, he heard

inside his head something that he

says to have come directly from God:

"See, this is not your house or my

house. My house is your house. This

is the house of idolatry. It is the hou-

se that sells your name and my name.

It resembles a prostitute, for while

the prostitute sells her body, this hou-se, which was your church, sells the

sacraments that are your body, and

because of the iniquity that reigns in

all the churches, there is no place for Me or for you, my son.

Therefore I command you to institute my kingdom there on earth. An-

nounce to the world that this command came from Me. I am the GOD

of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

I am your LORD and GOD, the

same who opened the sea for Moses

to pass through and who comforted

you when you were agonizing on the

cross. I am the only LORD of heaven and earth".

Outside, Inri found more than 10,000 people.

With wide and firm strides, as he walked the crowd opened the way

before him, but closed soon after,

holding the soldiers behind them in

the chaotic mob of curious passers,

farther and farther away. And so Inri

moved away...

The entire story described so far

shows actual events in the city of

Belém, in state of Pará, on February 28, 1982.

Since the day that Inri fasted in Santiago, Chile, in 1979, where he claims to have received the revelation of God and "his identity as the

Messiah", this was the most vehe-

ment public manifestation of Inri Ch-

rist.

INTRODUCTION

Before presenting the summary

about Inri Christ, I must emphasize

one fact about the title of this book:

only one of the answers can be the

real one.

Inri Christ is an iconoclast and religious philosopher, well known in

Brazil. He founded a church called

SOUST (Supreme Universal Order

of the Holy Trinity) when he invaded

the cathedral of Belém and broke the crucifix, claiming that he himself

is flesh and blood on Earth.

The headquarters of his church is a farm in Brasilia, capital of Brazil, where he receives journalists from

his country and other countries. He

also receives curious people and

answers questions openly, without

any control over time or subject.

He has given thousands of interviews to Radio and TV programs, in-

cluding comedy or ones that promo-

te discredit to him.

There are no more than a dozen disciples who live at the church headquarters. He has about a thousand followers all over the world, mostly in

Brazil.

In my opinion, until today almost nobody has a definitive answer about Inri Cristo, because whenever I question people about him, none of them knows to categorically explain why his answer to the title.

Do you know when people wonder what

life is, where did we come from, where are we going? Whether God exists or not? So know

that both science and religion were born out of these same doubts. Asking doesn't hurt, it doesn't waste time or energy.

Al owing yourself to question yourself is

mentally healthy, because it opens up a range of responses that have not yet been thought of.

In March 2006, my personal meeting with Inri was quiet and receptive. I introduced myself as a psychologist and a specialist in

Psychodiagnosis, and went straight to the point.

I openly proposed to analyze him from

the point of view of Psychology.

I made it clear that his sanity would be

called into question, all scientifically and seriously.

I got his permission to analyze him in person. The meetings lasted for more than a year, twice a week at the place where he lives, in Brasília. In the evaluation I have included the Rorschach test.

From the beginning I did not notice any

resistance. But curiosity made me the most persistent investigator he has ever known.

Although the title of the book presents a

reduced range of answers, each one of them

is a huge universe apart. So that if someone offers an alternative answer to the title question, I assure you that it already exists in one of these three universes.

I analyzed each factor separately ("mes-

sianism, falsehood and madness") with objectivity and clarity. I have come to the logical conclusion that eliminating one hypothesis can only lead to one of the remaining two.

If another is also deleted, the last one

wil be left as true. Being clearer: if Inri Christ is crazy, then the story is over (what he claims to be would be an insane delirium of identity).

If he is not crazy, we have only to know

whether he is a phony or the Messiah himself, and there is no other fourth possibility to evaluate.

Later in this book, I wil present some

extra possibilities that have been suggested to me, but I wil demonstrate in arguments that they stil fit into one of these three hypotheses of the title.

If humanity knew precisely WHAT the Messiah is, there would be no doubt for anyone, obviously. The problem of humanity lies precisely in not knowing its exact definition, which causes the world to proliferate with countless different religions, beliefs and philosophies on the subject.

For this reason, in the first part of the

book I begin with the Messianic criterion, in which I explain the whole religious and philosophical question about the subject, including the well-formed concept of what the Messiah

would be.

Soon after, I present a relevant part of my personal dialogue with Inri Christ.

In the criterion of Lie, which is the second part of the book, I begin by talking a little about his life history, how was his childhood and growth, besides exposing some of the most relevant facts of his life before and after being called Inri Christ, all in summary form.

Then I explain to you the elements about

the nature of the lie and the liar, and I analyze Inri Christ at the end of the chapter, verifying precisely whether he is a trickster or not.

Finally, the third and last part of this book is about the criterion of Madness.

You know that everyone identifies with relative ease a madman. The madman, popu-

larly, is almost always the one who does not fit into the ordinary of his society, in any way, without further criteria.

And by definition, Messiah would also

be out of the normal pattern of any population.

So, how to distinguish?

For this reason, I spent almost a year

analyzing his behaviors closely. I elaborated several clinical questions. Sometimes I was able to observe his daily routine in his farm. I was also present in interviews that he did to TVs and Radios, and I even accompanied him

on some tours around the world.

So, my clinical analysis was rich and deep, and stil complemented by the Rorschach personality test.

Thus, in the end, the three angles can be analyzed equally, allowing you to decide with a formed concept on the theme.

Finally, I tell you that this book was not

written just for the reader to find the answer to the question embedded in the title, but to be able to understand it.

In remote times, few questioned rationally about this supposed personality, which provoked insurrections and even modified calendars in human history.

If the Messiah really existed in the flesh of Jesus Christ, he was not questioned and

studied but simply crucified.

A few hundred years later, they mystified

him.

Mil ennia later, they transformed the

Messiah into a god with no definite concept, imprecise and obscure. And everyone have always followed, from time to time, the same collective consciential wave.

There is a story, true or not, that tells of a supposed experience lived by Charles Chaplin: he was in New York and heard about an impersonation contest of his character of silent films.

So he decided to participate with a false

identity so that no one noticed his presence. In the end he was in third place!

If everyone there claimed to be the Tramp, how to find the true one? Certainly it would not be discovered only by appearances, but thorough investigating each one of them.

In the end it is important that the three possible angles be known, so that it may be understood why Inri Christ is what is concluded.

Is Jesus Christ a Myth?

I begin this chapter by informing you that the Bible is a very old book, and written, for this very reason, by several human hands.

It is human nature to evolve along with the environment and history. Their civilizations and technologi-es always change in evolutionary rhythm.

In this sense, adaptation to new times can be considered the only constant. Like the scientific conceptions, the religious conceptions are also subject to periodic revisions.

In ancient times, and especial y in modern times, a sincere rational mind should never accept as truth everything it reads. The world has always been populated by people with diverse interests, often such interests in contrast to each other. There are different economic, political, philosophical, geographic, and religious motivations in al people. Groups with different motivations from other groups tend to conflict, often

using biased information or even explicit lies to confuse those who are not part of any group and sometimes even to convince the enemy.

It is thus evident that the Bible, which was written by several people and at different times, has many information born only of interests. In other words: wrong, distorted or fabricated information. As wel as there is the percentage of correct historical information, which for various reasons have not been modified over the centuries.

Human psychology finds that the brain of an individual who is not very attentive or uninterested in a particular subject tends to accept more easily any written information about this subject, without taking the trouble to reflect. One can say in this sense that there are in general three types of people: those who believe in everything they read; those who believe in almost nothing; and those who question. The most numerous group of al is the first. It is part of the great popular mass, which, in statistical terms, shows an intel ectual level lower than the minority. In this mass

there are the less intel igent, there are the unmotivated ones for lack of education, and there are also the idle ones who can even reason, but by laziness they do not and end up accepting everything that others write, thinking that they built their subjects after much study and sincere effort.

Those of the second group, who believe almost nothing, are people also belonging to the first group, but who, by some disappointment, bitterly verifying that information read did not confer with the truth, began to generalize to almost total denial. They are much less numerous