It is my opinion that we need to direct our focus directly at the primary myth that holds up the religious right! There are millions of American Citizens caught in Bible Belt Slums with nobody to give them the resources to stand up against the growing hair shirt culture. Below is a piece that inspired me after watching a google video about the roots of christianity. This is a first draft. Input is welcome.

In 326 BC Alexander the Great invaded India but failed to take the entire subcontinent. Upon his return, he brought back with him what has become the myth of the Cyclops. The word Cyclops actually means the inventor of the calendar. This ancient calendar is known as the Zodiac today.

India is the home of the Zodiac, or the ancient world's calendar. It can be traced from its origins in India to countries and cultures across the ancient world. The original source for the Cyclops giant with an eye in the middle of his head, according to Godfrey Higgins is actually a twist of the Hindu tradition of painting a red dot on the forehead.

The Zodiac calendar is made up of a series of star based images that is broken down into the twelve constellations that rotate across the sky at night. It is also broken down by the four seasons, the solstices and equinoxs.  Ancient cultures also were aware of a much larger calendar cycle called the Procession of the Equinox.

The Procession of the equinox is caused by the earth's tilt that causes our seasons. This tilt creates a 2156 year cycle that moves us through the 12 constellation based ages. We are currently living in is the age of Pisces which started upon the supposed birth of Jesus Christ.  The next age, will be the age of Aquarius. All those little fish you see on the back of cars of Christians don't know it, but that is the symbol for the age of Pisces, the current processional age we are living in.

The Christos myth has actually been around for thousands of years prior to the so-called Christian culture that started 2,000 years ago. As Egyptologists have uncovered the ancient culture of Egypt and learned to read its language, they have discovered all the exact same religious trappings we relate to Jesus were also found with the original Egyptian sungod Horus going back to 3,000 BC. Horus was also supposedly born on December 25th to a virgin mother (Isis) and sought by 3 wise men (kings). Horus also had Twelve disciples, was crucified and then resurrected.

What's interesting is that these exact same symbols can also be found in the mythological characters (Gods) like Greece's Attis and Dionysus, India's Krishna, Persia's Mithra and many other lesser known ancient myths.

What our scientifically enlightened society is not telling us is that Jesus (the Sun of God) the above other characters and Horus (the Sun God) are all personifications of important astrological events.

The death of the sun comes on Dec. 22 each year where the sun stops moving south for 3 days, halting its motion while in the constellation known as the Southern Cross. For three days the sun doesn't move. On Dec. 25th the sun reverses its direction announcing the rebirth of the annual cycle that ended on December 22nd, the winter solstice, shortest day of the year. The crucifixion and resurrection are pagan rituals personified each year in the sky with the focus on Sirius the brightest star. On December 24th, the three wise men or kings were actually three stars that align with Sirius to point exactly to where the Sun would rise on the horizon on December 25th.

In another one of the most prominent aspects of the Horus and Christos myth, we all know about the 12 disciples. In the Zodiac, there are 12 constellations that tell us the position of the seasons. Are these not the personifications of original constellations?  What is probably the most dramatic aspect of Christianity's symbol based cult is the fact that the center of the traditional Zodiac, when extracted, turns out to be the Christian symbol of the cross inside a halo!

Zeitgeist Video

You can go here to see rest of first chapter of the movie called Zeitgeist, a dramatic presentation of the above information. The rest of the movie focusses on the 9-11 controversy. Not embroiling this conversation in that issue, it is of importance to stay focussed on the dramatic implications of Christianity and its pagan origins.

Today, hundreds of millions of people have become captured with the idea that the bible is the written word of God. Yet, scholastic works show that, for example, there were at least 7 different version of the original book of Genesis, including one written by a woman. Most of those most captured have been done so based on the King James version that was commissioned by the English king.

The culture that the scholars who translated the original Greek bible lived at a time can best be described as the tail end of the pre-industrial dark ages of the west. The prior century where the Protestant reformation, ongoing inquisitions and the Catholic Pope's refusal of King Henry the VIII's request for a divorce from his wife Catherine, resulted in the formation of the Church of England. The Puritans were in full scale rebellion when the first English translation was finished in 1611. Christendom had been yoked to the royal courts of Europe not as some blessed era of religious bliss, but was at the end of an era of inquisitions, witch burnings that can be described as one of the most brutal, repressive era's in world history.

Yet, with its publication, a new apocryphal chapter was added nor originally part of the Greek bible called Revelations. To this day, that book which was a dream vendetta focussed on the revenge of the Roman emperor, Nero, has been used to terrify millions of humans into prostrating themselves in mortal fear of their soul. For the last two centuries in the U.S., people have been convinced that the world would end and the true believers would be raptured into heaven with Jesus' return.

The Christian religion represents one of the most repressive psychological eras to have ever existed in human history. It's reliance on a simplistic notion of dualistic ethics where larger forces are organized into good or bad, right or wrong still have sway over most of humanity in what has become known as the dominator culture. The monetized consumer society of the west today has to fail, leaving most of the planet's people's still caught mystification of the past.

The King James bible was and is a product of a repressive, imperial culture whose true intentions were to control its subjects using tactics of fear. Today, as the end of the world predictions, which have been growing in their shrillness since the late 1970's have been flopping around looking for a devil to focus the believer's fears.

Armageddon lovers were crying out against the Soviet Union, but with its collapse the United Nations then took the lead. The Bush administration has unleashed a new devil in the form of Muslims. We all know that Jews believe that the world will end when the Muslim's holy mosque on Temple Mount is torn down and the Solomon's temple is rebuilt!

Let's hearken back to the good old days of Abraham the first patriarch of the Jews.
Abe was a herder of sheep who just happened to wander west into a culture called Sumeria that was at the time dealing with a new religious revolution known as monotheism. Abe, we know all about how cultured wandering sheep herders are, just likely ran into a Zoroastrian who was promoting their dualistic one god ideas in an alley of Baghdad on their way to spending time in Egypt around the time of Remises.

Today, what is left of the Zoroastrian religion can be found in India where its ancestors fled in 650 after the Muslims took over the middle east. I suggest that you go visit a Parsan family in India, they have a striking resemblance to Jewish people!  Maybe more than a couple of beers took place between Abe in that back alley!

Yet, for anyone who wanders around the world today, like Gypsies or traveling herders or any tribal community, they picked up rather unique values and then developed a mechanism for remembering those traditions. Today, it isn't very hard to do an online search and find Jews who claim to be able to trace their ancestry back to Solomon or Abraham.  In Japan and China the emperor used to claim a direct ancestry with god! Isn't it kind of sad that a "Jewish" tribe would have its family history be transcribed from Greek by King James to help imperial Britain maintain order over its newly formed Protestant church? Aren't we still waiting for the original Jewish version to come out?

For those who have not been ensnared in Revelation's and its end of the world scenario, it is easy to laugh and shrug off the archaic mystification of the religious right.  Yet, today with almost half of this country's citizen's actually believing the Revelations prophecy, we are facing the fact that the president of the United States may or may not actually believe this as well. The idea that someone who might want to use his power to consciously or subconsciously bring Armageddon into reality represents the very essence of exactly what this country's nuclear arsenal has the potential to do.

Whether or not Bush really is a true believer or not isn't what is most relevant in the first few years of the 21st century. With even the History channel promoting the Mayan calendar's end on December 21st 2012, there can be no doubt that human culture, with all of its real problems, it also faces the potential of a real collapse. The idea that western civilization and all of its economic, political and military power, could actually collapse might be hip to some, but for most, the idea represents a frightening scenario. The growing instability of our civiliation is one of the reasons why so many have been reaching out to religions for answers. Aren't we all watching in fear of the militancy industrial complex and its interest in shredding the last of what little remains of our constitutional democracy.

Could it be the reason why Americans work harder than most of their other fellow humans around the world?  Aren't we still caught up in the largest economic trap on the planet that has done more to dismantle traditional social relationships that used to sustain us? This culture like no other since imperial Rome has bred its citizens to compete against each other. The winner, loser mentality, which is just an extension of the simplistic duality cult of religion, can be seen everywhere.

What will it take to dismantle the monetized psycho-religious modeling that is being used to economically enslave people in the USA today?  Many watched the Matrix movies, looking for some kind of symbolic answer to the growing human crisis around us. It gave us nothing but a mirror within a mirror looking back at what? We all wanted to be in Neo's shoes as Morpheus awoke him to the Zionist battle against the computer generated machine driven Matrix.

There will be no symbolic answer. Isn't it about time to break up the Christian mythos? Whether or not there is any kind of spiritual relevance to our existence or not, the real problem is how we have allowed the weak to be caught up in the idea that some one will come and save them.

For anyone who actually believes this and is really freed from the myth, it can and will be one of the most important events in opening up their lives. For most people who need a deeper relationship to the world around them, spirituality can and does continue after freeing oneself from the rule oriented religious structures.  

Believing in a spiritual dimension to our humanity is not necessarily a bad thing unless its being used to manipulate people into doing things that are contrary to their own best interests.  Ethical behavior should not be related to what a bunch of monks over four hundred years ago thought about authority, whether or not it was divine or just as most of us can see historically to be imperial in nature and function.  

Today, we are no longer willing to keep women barefoot and pregnant. So why are we willing to let a bunch of religious charlatans prey upon the weak or uninformed?

Isn't it about time that we start flooding the Internet with the facts about Christianity's mythological roots? Freeing people from the cultural Matrix of religious slavery won't be easy, but it is probably one of the most humane and spiritually valuable projects we could ever do for our fellow humans!

The U.S. and the world's people are becoming aware of the precarious nature of western civilization. Many are fleeing into organzied religion in the hope that they may find answers to the growing problems we all face? The world's authority figures, from corporations, politicians or the media only offer us elite agendas like the war on terror or consumption oriented behavior.

An "Ozzie and Harriet" home owner in any one of the major urban or suburban areas in the U.S. are by definition part of the wealthiest 1% in the world, and most of these people would define themselves as Christian. How do christians today rationalize their wealth and the fact that this culture is driven by the rule of Gold rather than by the Golden Rule? Most want to blame liberals. The vast majority of Americans are truly not rich when compared to the likes of the few that have 7 or more figure salaries.

This country's leaders have linked the behavior of this country with God. Four hundred years ago, King James and other royalists were doing the same thing as a mechanism to enforce power over an increasingly restless populace that was seeking answers but received none from the rich who ruled over them.

Organized religion has used every trick in the book in its alliance with the wealthy rulership class to maintain a compliant citizenry. Neither spirituality or ethical values come from externalized rules but from within.The owners of this country have been using the media to breed whole segments of this society, using our instinctual need for a hearth, home and community. Most of this country get's its news and cultural ques from TV.