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    Jesus vs. Mithra
    Jesus vs. Mithra
    Jesus vs. Mithra
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    Jesus vs. Mithra

    By GGF

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    Jesus vs. Mithras is an attempt to place the victory of Christianity on Polytheist religions in a historical context. The historical data are real and provide to an inexperienced reader an overall picture on certain historical phenomena such as persecution of Christians, rivalry of Christianity with gods as Mithras, persecutions of Pagans, certain Roman Emperors’ deeds, etc. The discourse is focused on two levels. On the one hand, there is a dialogue of Platonic type and on the other hand, an apocryphal historian’s work who tells historical events in order that he may complete and offer extra clarifications to the reader. Obviously, there is little fiction here and there in order to do the reading more interesting. One considers this book worth reading by any person interested in history, religion and mystery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateMay 29, 2012
    ISBN9781476338330
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      Jesus vs. Mithra - GGF

      GHETAU GH. FLORIN

      JESUS VS. MITHRA

      I M P R I N T

      This book is a Platonic dialogue as well as a polemic essay and a historical story seasoned with little fiction.

      JESUS VS. MITHRA

      BY GHETAU GH. FLORIN

      PUBLISHED BY GHETAU GH. FLORIN

      COPYRIGHTS © 2012 GHETAU GH. FLORIN

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      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      FLORIN GH. GHETAU was born on the 4th of August 1982 in Bacau, Bacau County (Romania). He graduated the University of Craiova, Faculty of History, Philosophy and Geography in 2005. In 2007 he got a master degree in Management of International Relations and he has been a Ph. D in History since 2009, a degree got with the thesis called An Assumed Mission. Alexandru Marghiloman’s Government. Currently, he is a History teacher in Lupeni, Hunedoara County.

      He made his debut with a volume of poems and aphorisms entitled Ergonomics of the Drifting Fall. The Protocol of Sankt-Petersburg (1913) and Romanian-Italian Relationships during the Period of Neutrality (August 1914 – August 1916) saw the light of the press two years later. The Manual of the Perfect Dictator, an exciting radiography of the dictatorial phenomenon appeared in 2010. He published numerous studies and articles on historical themes in several specialized magazines. He has also flirted with drama, being the author of five plays called: The Devil’s Temptation, Giordano Bruno, Leviathan, Tao Ba’s Falling Must Be Hurried and A Tale with and about Wicked People.

      His latest book is entitled Jesus vs. Mithras. As the title itself suggests, the Early Christian’s pagan roots are analysed therein.

      Chapter I

      A conference room – not too small, not too large. There are two professors at the presidium. One of them is the rector of Fiat Lux University herself, the organizer of the exciting seminar (round table, colloquy, free debate, symposium, as you like it) entitled

      Jesus vs. Mithras. There are a couple of dozen students and professors in the room.

      There are, of course, some representatives of the local media. The great guest of this event is Magister, a well-known and controversial researcher of the history of Christianity.

      Magister launches into a sparkling dialogue with three students simply named: Apprentice, Claimant and Disciple.

      Magister: The history of Christianity represents more than two millenniums of manipulation, indoctrination and deviation of attention from the essential facts. Even the fact that today many of the planet’s inhabitants call themselves Christians is a miracle which they do not aware. The Church – as an all monopolizing institution – tried and managed in the most cases to suppress the real understanding of its roots and the facts that lead to the triumph of Christianity in Europe.

      Apprentice: Do you mean that, in fact, the real history of Christianity is not known? Are they not clear all the elements which make up the structure of the church history?

      Magister: You have pointed up very well. Church not Christianity history. From my point of view, the church and faith, religion and worship of the Supreme Being do not have too many things in common. The Church is a telluric institution with interests as palpable as they may be, and not few times, material ones. This intuition has been moulded by interests and feelings as human as they may be. Power, richness, population’s control is on all religions’ agenda. You should not believe that Christian religion could be a special case.

      Claimant: I vehemently contradict you in this respect. History provides us numerous examples of the Christian church’s involving in the lives of different communities by virtue of the noblest human nature. You cannot deny the fact that personalities such as Francis of Assisi, Ignatius of Loyola, Maria Theresa or Pope John Paul II acted from love for their fellows.

      Magister: I totally agree with you, my young friend. However those are the exceptions which confirm the rule. Definitely the Church provided a series of leading personalities who exemplified the typical Christian devotion at the highest point, but this fact does not change the background of our discussion at all.

      Claimant: I am not totally so convinced about this fact. The Church was dragged in mud by certain unworthy leaders. However, as a whole, its role in moulding the western civilization was enormous. Europe would look totally different without Christianity. If Pope Julius II had not called Michelangelo Buonarroti in Rome, humanity would have been deprived of a cultural masterpiece as the Sistine Chapel. Without the protection that many Italian artists enjoyed from the Papacy, the famous artistic phenomenon known as the Renaissance could not have existed.

      Magister: It is much to say that it would not have existed. I may not have made myself clear. I do not consider the Church a good or bad institution. It, as any human product, is a mixture of sublimed vanities. Truth is always somewhere in the middle. But our discussion has started from the fact that the history of Christianity was deliberately occulted by the Church’s heads. I hope time will permit us to discuss all what I want to tell you and all what you want to learn about. I kindly ask you to conjure up a certain aspect from the history of Christianity and I shall prove you the reality distortion made by the Church with indisputable arguments.

      Disciple: I can notice that you are not deficient, either at the vanity chapter. But you have got extenuating circumstances given by Terence himself more than two millenniums ago: I am a human being and nothing from what is human lack me.

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