I get asked about the history of Christianity a lot. Think what you will of me as a source of information about anything other than celeb gossip, but it does happen.

The truth is I’ve studied Christian history a fair bit. Not to an expert level or anything, but I always took an interest. A purely historical interest. Even though I’ve read the bible a couple times, (translating the Vulgate was how I initially taught myself Latin (brag brag)), I’m pretty ignorant about doctrinal matters, at least ones that are current after say, the Vulgate (400 CE), or that aren’t an issue affecting Habsburg temporal authority.*

I’m also right now very interested, as I partially mentioned in the previous post, in how totalitarian ideologies separate themselves from history, theirs and others. Basically, how say Christianity/Marxism can continue to exist in spite of their histories.** Whatever. I don’t really like mentioning things I’m seriously thinking of in a blog. Or to other people in general.

Anyway, when I’m asked these questions I don’t think I do a very good job of explaining things. My thought process is a little strange, and my obsessions can over obviously dictate the way I explain things.*** Also, I stutter a bit when explaining things, and dislike that. So wherever possible I find someone else to express what I’m thinking, (which always leads to me putting forward explanations which I don’t agree with completely). So here’s an explanation of early christian history in video form that I found entertaining. Couldn’t say I agree with everything said, or that I see the point of including everything it does, and so on and so forth, but that goes for anything produced by someone who isn’t Bismark, Augustus, or of Royal Blood.

This first part is an entertaining rundown of the life of Jesus. I wish the “historical footage” was from Jesus Christ Superstar, really one of the greatest movies ever made.

I don’t entirely remember the content of this video, I think it’s about immediately post Jesus period. If you think it’s being a bit harsh when discussing the lack of connection between the era of Jesus and the Paulian and Gospel periods, you should know it’s actually being very generous. I think this segment ends with the heroic checklist, something I always find entertaining.

This segment continues with the theme of the generic nature of Jesus, and touches on some of the saviours/gods he’s an, um, replica of. They’re worth looking into. Somewhere Stephen Fry does a pretty good job of comparing Mithras and Jesus. I know it’s on the internets somewhere, maybe I’ll see if I can find it. Anyway, as someone who learned Hellenic, Roman, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian mythology a good ten years before Christian mythology, I can vouch for the unoriginality of the whole Jesus thing.

This segment is a bit more sensationalist than the rest. It’s not my favourite. The doctrinal problems of Christianity are less interesting than the historical problems to me. (Not that this is some in-depth doctrinal primer.) Like, I view Arianism as a less retarded form of Christian doctrine, but don’t at all give a shit. It’s not what’s believed that’s the problem for me, it’s the way it’s believed. (Though that what’s believed is stupid doesn’t help.) So, while I understand the focus this segment has, it doesn’t “float my boat”. Or “put ham in my jelly”, as they say. “Reindeer off the noise.”

Overall, an entertaining little video on Christianity. And one that’s of course thematically applicable to all the totalitarian ideologies in that interesting way in which that segment in the last post’s video about Lysenko was such a perfect critique of a defining aspect of all Totalitarian ideologies.****

Anyway, I’ll try to follow up these far too serious posts with something akin to that wonderous video of a monkey peeing into it’s own mouth.

*-Actually, reading the bible is a pretty god way to become confused about what Christians believe.

**-I guess the simple answer is they make up history, or economics, or science, or whatever. Think of “Marxist historians”. Funny stuff.

***-Given enough time, any topic I address can and will be brought back to WWI, the historical westward aggression of Poland, the post-modernists and Marxists who have made the left an embarrassment, and how I’d love to have a job drowning people at a Drownery. In many ways, all topics actually are just about these things, so I don’t think it’s necessarily a problem on my part.

****-I keep lumping Christianity in with other Totalitarian ideologies, but I think I’m doing it in a confusing way. Christianity is to me an ideology which is Totalitarian. But it’s isn’t a movement which is necessarily Totalitarian. And I don’t mean that in the way you’d say that a non-Totalitarian version of Marxism/Nazism could exist, but would be a total failure, and so isn’t necessarily Totalitarian but functionally is so. Christianity I think can and does exist in a non-Totalitarian manner, and has a particular Totalitarian form (Dominionism) which isn’t dominant or even a factor in most places. So what I’m trying to express in my confused way is that there isn’t a 1:1 correlation between Totalitarian Ideologies and Totalitarian Movements in the way I use the term. Which is my fault for not cleaning up my terms and pretty lazily using one term in two different ways. So I apologize. If I were writing a paper I would better define things and so on and so forth. Luckily, this is a fucking blog about how I generally eat rotten food and hate the Irish and communists, so I’m not being held to any such stringent standards.

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