Saturday, September 28, 2013

About Acharya S "Christ Conspiracy"

About Acharya S


D. M. Murdock, better known[1][2] by her pen name Acharya S, is an American author and proponent of the Christ myth theory.[3] She has written six books and operates a website named Truth be Known. She argues that Christianity is founded on earlier myths and the characters depicted in Christianity are based upon Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and other myths.[4]

The Other Side: Acharya S. is an anti-Christian / anti-Catholic author best known for writing the book "The Christ Conspiracy" which proves that Jesus Christ was a myth. Endorsed by anti-semitic Veterans Today contributor "Yukon Jack" who calls Jesus a "jewish straw man". Writes about Catholic death camps in Vietnam, and the Catholic plot that prevented Viet Minh freedom fighters from extending liberation to South Vietnam. She is also critical of Islam as well as Jews and Christians

Here is her introduction:
If you are unfamiliar with my work, you may be in for a bit of a shock, as I tend be somewhat critical of sacred cows! Some of my more popular articles include:
The Origins of Christianity
The Christ Conspiracy Anthology

In addition to "debunking" Christianity and Judaism, I also critique ISLAM, sometimes rather harshly, so if you have a problem with that fact, you may not be happy on this list. For more information concerning Islam, please see my articles at:
I am also the author of the books:
Here is my blog:
My publishing company website:
Another one of my sites provides links to news items about religion, atheism and freethought:
I also run two discussion groups and a forum on my website, so please feel free to join us!
From Fun to Superconsciousness list
The Christ Conspiracy list
Truth Be Known Nation forum
Have fun, and please also visit my stores at:
Acharya's Amazonian Adventure!
Stellar Audiobooks - My audiobook store contains loads of great selections.

.Reference

.Topics
  • anti-Catholic
  • anti-Christian
  • Catholic lobby behind defeating elections to put fanatic Catholic president in power in South Vietnam
  • Jesus Christ was a myth
  • The Christ Conspiracy - Author Acharya makes the case that there was no actual person named Jesus, but that several characters were rolled into one mythic being inspired by the deities Mithras, Heracles/Hercules
  • .Veterans Today - Yukon Jack "Jesus, the Jewish Straw Man worshipped as God"
  • .Wikipedia
.The Christ Conspiracy 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Christ-Conspiracy-Greatest-Story/dp/0932813747?&linkCode=waf&tag=truthbeknownfoun
Controversial and explosive, The Christ Conspiracy marshals an
enormous amount of startling evidence that the religion of
Christianity and Jesus Christ were created by members of various
secret societies, mystery schools and religions in order to unify the
Roman Empire under one state religion! This powerful book maintains
that these groups drew upon a multitude of myths and rituals that
already existed long before the Christian era and reworked them into
the story the Christian religion presents today-known to most
Westerners as the Bible. Author Acharya makes the case that there was
no actual person named Jesus, but that several characters were rolled
into one mythic being inspired by the deities Mithras,
Heracles/Hercules


.Vietnam 

Anti-catholic website

http://www.amazon.com/The-Christ-Conspiracy-Greatest-Story/dp/0932813747?&linkCode=waf&tag=truthbeknownfoun
Controversial and explosive, The Christ Conspiracy marshals an
enormous amount of startling evidence that the religion of
Christianity and Jesus Christ were created by members of various
secret societies, mystery schools and religions in order to unify the
Roman Empire under one state religion! This powerful book maintains
that these groups drew upon a multitude of myths and rituals that
already existed long before the Christian era and reworked them into
the story the Christian religion presents today-known to most
Westerners as the Bible. Author Acharya makes the case that there was
no actual person named Jesus, but that several characters were rolled
into one mythic being inspired by the deities Mithras,
Heracles/Hercules

http://www.truthbeknown.com/victims.htm
Catholic terror in Vietnam (Freedom fighters???)

In 1954 Vietnamese freedom fighters - the Viet Minh - had finally
defeated the French colonial government in North Vietnam, which by
then had been supported by U.S. funds amounting to more than $2
billion. Although the victorious assured religious freedom to all
(most non-buddhist Vietnamese were Catholics), due to huge
anticommunist propaganda campaigns many Catholics fled to the South.
With the help of Catholic lobbies in Washington and Cardinal Spellman,
the Vatican's spokesman in U.S. politics, who later on would call the
U.S. forces in Vietnam "Soldiers of Christ", a scheme was concocted to
prevent democratic elections which could have brought the communist
Viet Minh to power in the South as well, and the fanatic Catholic Ngo
Dinh Diem was made president of South Vietnam. [MW16ff]

Diem saw to it that U.S. aid, food, technical and general assistance
was given to Catholics alone, Buddhist individuals and villages were
ignored or had to pay for the food aids which were given to Catholics
for free. The only religious denomination to be supported was Roman
Catholicism.

The Vietnamese McCarthyism turned even more vicious than its American
counterpart. By 1956 Diem promulgated a presidential order which read:
"Individuals considered dangerous to the national defense and common
security may be confined by executive order, to a concentration camp."
Supposedly to fight communism, thousands of buddhist protesters and
monks were imprisoned in "detention camps." Out of protest dozens of
buddhist teachers - male and female - and monks poured gasoline over
themselves and burned themselves. (Note that Buddhists burned
themselves: in comparison Christians tend to burn others). Meanwhile
some of the prison camps, which in the meantime were filled with
Protestant and even Catholic protesters as well, had turned into
no-nonsense death camps. It is estimated that during this period of
terror (1955-1960) at least 24,000 were wounded - mostly in street
riots - 80,000 people were executed, 275,000 had been detained or
tortured, and about 500,000 were sent to concentration or detention
camps. [MW76-89].

To support this kind of government in the next decade thousands of
American GI's lost their life....


.Veterans Today - Yukon Jack "Jesus, the Jewish Straw Man worshipped as God"

September 24th, 2013 | Posted by 

Jesus, the Jewish Straw Man Worshipped as God

Jesus never returned to save America, he didn’t and couldn’t because he’s a Jewish created fiction. Americans are unable to deal with the current crisis because the primary myth keeps their minds in a state of suspension.  They are unable to think and grasp their predicament, they cling to their myth of a savior return, more convinced than ever as things get worse.
nother popular writer, Acharya S, who wrote “The Suns of God” (http://www.truthbeknown.com/sunsofgod.htm) says Jesus is a Jewish man worshipped as God. Jesus is the Jewish man inserted into common myths of the day. Soon everyone was worshipping a Jewish man as god. The Jesus myth eventually became the most successful myth of all time, with the greatest amount of converts. Christianity is now the world’s most successful religious memeplex because the internal memes are virulent and reproduce, that doesn’t make it true, just highly propagatory.
Christians dominate by stating their unprovable faith as fact, they often say ‘Jesus is the son of man’, a memetic code programmed into their mind, a meaningless phrase that stuns the non-believer with internal confusion because Christians also claim that Jesus is god. So which is it, god, man, or both? The Christian cares not because clear cut definitions about their god don’t matter, the entire exercise of making such statements is to establish dominance until the non-believer tires and becomes one of the Christian Borg.



.wikipedia

Acharya S

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
D. M. Murdock, better known[1][2] by her pen name Acharya S, is an American author and proponent of the Christ myth theory.[3] She has written six books and operates a website named Truth be Known. She argues that Christianity is founded on earlier myths and the characters depicted in Christianity are based upon Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and other myths.[4]

Early life[edit]

According to her website, Murdock received a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree in Classics, Greek Civilization, from Franklin and Marshall College, after which she spent a year at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece.[5]

Career[edit]

As a writer she publishes under the title of acharya, a term from Hinduism usually denoting the formal head of a monastery, sect, or subsect, or a teacher who initiates a disciple into a movement.[6]
In 1999, as Acharya S. she published her first book, The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, arguing the concept of Jesus Christ as myth. She states the Christ story is a fabrication.[3] In 2001, Acharya S. wrote the Foreword to a new edition of Kersey Graves's The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviours: Christianity Before Christ.
A follow-up book, Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled, was published in 2004. Acharya comments on the Hindu story of the life of Krishna, as well as the life of Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama). She claims parallels to the Christian stories of the life of Jesus as evidence that the story of Jesus was written based on existing stories, and not the life of a real man. Suns of God also seeks to address some of the criticisms leveled at Christ Conspiracy.[7]
Acharya S. founded Seattle based Stellar House Publishing in 2005 through which she self-publishes a number of her books. According to the website, they claim to specialise in "Archaeology, History, Astrotheology, Mythology and Religion".[8]
In 2005–06 she was one of fifty Fellows of The Council for Secular Humanism's Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (CSER).[9]
Her 2007 book, Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ continues the theme of The Christ Conspiracy by expanding her theory questioning thehistorical validity of Jesus Christ alleging "early Christian history to be largely mythical, by sorting through available historical and archaeological data."[10]
In 2009 she released Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection and The Gospel According to Acharya S.[11] Her work was used extensively in part 1 of the original movie Zeitgeist. She also acted as consultant only for part 1 of the movie.[12]
In her various books, Acharya describes the New Testament as a work of mythic fiction within a historical setting. She claims that the story of Jesus Christ is a retelling of various pagan myths, representing "astrotheology," or the story of the Sun, and also incorporates the science of archaeoastronomy. She asserts the pagans understood the stories to be myths, but Christians obliterated evidence to the contrary by destroying and controlling literature when they attained control of the Roman Empire, which led to widespread illiteracy in the ancient world, ensuring the mythical nature of Christ's story was hidden.[13]
Acharya S. compares Jesus' history to other "Saviour gods" such as Mithra, Horus, Adonis, Krishna, Quetzalcoatl, and Odin, claiming the similarities result from a common source: the myth of the sun-god or solar deity.[14]

Reception[edit]

Acharya S.'s positions have received criticism by Christian apologists, notably Mike Licona[15] and James Patrick Holding,[16] to whom she published a rejoinder.[17] She was also attacked by Joel McDurmon,[18] as well as atheist activist and fellow Christ mythicist Richard Carrier.[19] Acharya S likewise produced a rejoinder to Carrier's critique.[20] Theologian Robert M. Price, who is sympathetic to the Christ myth hypothesis, wrote a critical review of Murdock's first book.[21] He has, however, retracted it previously from his website, for reasons unknown currently. He has been supportive of her subsequent work, promoting Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled in a recommended reading list[22] along with promoting the same book inThe Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-Four Formative Texts,[23] penning the foreword to Who Was Jesus: Fingerprints of the Christ and writing a positive review of Christ in Egypt.[24] The Christ Conspiracy received a favourable review from author Earl Doherty.[25]
Acharya S's presentation of Christianity as a "conspiracy" has drawn positive attention from other conspiracy theorists and critics of Christianity. In his book You Are Being Lied To, Russ Kick describes The Christ Conspiracy as "an essential book for anyone who wants to know the reality behind the world's dominant religion."[26] In a book on American conspiracy theorists, Kenn Thomas calls her a "great chronicler of the conspiracy known as Christianity."[27]
Acharya has been interviewed on a variety of radio stations,[28] including the Alan Colmes Show. She also appears on podcasts such as Black Op Radio,[29] and Coffee, Cigarettes and Gnosis.[30] She has been interviewed in Paranoia magazine[14] and by The Progressive Observer.[31]

Scholarly reception[edit]

D. M. Murdock's writings have not been widely referred to in academic and scholarly sources.
In his book In Search of Jesus, Baptist comparative religion scholar Clinton Bennett describes her views as being similar to those of radical freethinkerRobert Taylor (nicknamed "the Devil's chaplain"), secularist MP and fellow Christ mythicist John M. Robertson, and American mythographer Joseph Campbell.[32]
Bart Ehrman, himself an agnostic, featured Acharya S/D.M. Murdock among several mythicists in a chapter of his book Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth (2013). Murdock is allocated a 4 page section of Ehrman's chapter on mythicists (pages 21-25, further mention page 28). In particular the review concluded with an example of Acharya S claiming "Bronze sculpture hidden in the Vatican treasury of the Cock, symbol of St. Peter."[33] And Ehrman noting that no such thing exists (although there is a pagan phallic statue unrelated to Peter in the Pompeii Museum in Naples). In responding to criticism of his treatment of this claim by Acharya S. from mythicist Richard Carrier, Ehrmann notes that his main point was simply that Acharya S is "not a scholar who could be trusted (in part because she is not a scholar)."[34]

Publications[edit]

  • Murdock, D.M. (as Acharya S) (1999). The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold. Kempton, Illinois: Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 0-932813-74-7.
  • Murdock, D.M. (as Acharya S) (2004). Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled. Kempton, Illinois: Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1-931882-31-2.
  • Murdock, D.M. (2007). Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ. Stellar House Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9799631-0-0.
  • Murdock, D.M. (2009). Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection. Stellar House Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9799631-1-7.
  • Murdock, D.M. (2009). The Gospel According to Acharya S. Stellar House Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9799631-2-4.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Jump up^ Murdock, D. M. "Who is Acharya S?". Truth Be Known. Archived from the original on 16 January 2010. Retrieved 1 Jan 2010.
  2. Jump up^ Robert M. Price in Murdock (2007) p. v.
  3. ^ Jump up to:a b Adventure Unlimited Press, rear cover of Murdock (1999)
  4. Jump up^ "The Christ Conspiracy – Home". Retrieved 11 September 2009.
  5. Jump up^ Acharya S. "What Are Acharya's Credentials?". Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
  6. Jump up^ Vasudha Narayanan Hinduism 2009 p50 "The term acharya usually denotes the formal head of a monastery, sect, or subsect, or a teacher who initiates a disciple into a movement"
  7. Jump up^ "IG: Acharya S – 2nd Appearance – Suns of God". The Infidel Guy. 2001. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  8. Jump up^ "About Us". Stellar House Publishing. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  9. Jump up^ "CSER Home / CSER's Mission / JSER / Conference 2005–06". Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  10. Jump up^ "Stellar House Publishing Releases 'Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ' for Worldwide Distribution". 27 December 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  11. Jump up^ "The Gospel According to Acharya S". Stellar House Publishing.Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  12. Jump up^ "The New Zeitgeist Part 1 Sourcebook (2010)".
  13. Jump up^ Murdock (1999) ch 22, The Making of a Myth
  14. ^ Jump up to:a b Fox, Storm. "Man's Inhumanity to Man: An Interview with Acharya S".Paranoia. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  15. Jump up^ Licona, Mike (2001). "A Refutation of Acharya S's book, The Christ Conspiracy". Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  16. Jump up^ Holding, James Patrick. "Gospel Gossip: A Refutation to Acharya S on the Gospels". Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  17. Jump up^ Murdock, D.M. "Prove Jesus Existed, Please!". Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  18. Jump up^ McDurmon, Joel (2008). Zeitgeist: The Movie Exposed: Is Jesus an Astrological Myth?. Powder Springs, Georgia: American Vision. pp. 17–20. ISBN 978-0-915815-92-0.
  19. Jump up^ Carrier, Richard C. (2004). "Brunner's Gottkoenigs & the Nativity of Jesus: A Brief Communication". Frontline Apologetics. Archived from the original on 23 January 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2009.
  20. Jump up^ Murdock, D.M. "The Nativity Scene of Amenhotep III at Luxor".Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  21. Jump up^ Price, Robert M. (Summer 2001). "Aquarian Skeptic". Free Inquiry 21(3): 66–67.
  22. Jump up^ Price, Robert M. "Recommended Reading List". Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  23. Jump up^ p. 1179
  24. Jump up^ Price, Robert M. "Review: D.M. Murdock (Acharya S.), Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection". Archived from the original on 21 January 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2009.
  25. Jump up^ Doherty, Earl. "THE CHRIST CONSPIRACY" Jesus Puzzle
  26. Jump up^ Kick, Russ (2001). You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths. New York:The Disinformation Company. p. 272. ISBN 0-9664100-7-6.
  27. Jump up^ Thomas, Kenn (2006). Parapolitics: Conspiracy in Contemporary America. Adventures Unlimited Press. pp. 15, 127. ISBN 1-931882-55-X.
  28. Jump up^ "Acharya S in the Media". Retrieved 1 July 2008.
  29. Jump up^ "Black Op Radio, Show No. 351 Part 3 – Acharya S Episode". 7 December 2007. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
  30. Jump up^ Abraxas (2006). "Coffee, Cigarettes and Gnosis podcast episodes No. 5 & 6" (audio (mp3)). The God above God. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
  31. Jump up^ "The Good Shepherd Part II: Revelations". Retrieved 1 August 2008.
  32. Jump up^ Bennett, Clinton (2001). In Search of Jesus: Insider and Outsider Images. London: Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 339.ISBN 0-8264-4916-6.
  33. Jump up^ Ehrman Did Jesus Exist p25
  34. Jump up^ Ehrmanblog.com "Let me say, in addition, that this comment of mine was made very much in passing. No major point was being made, other than that Acharya S was not a scholar who could be trusted (in part because she is not a scholar) in the context of eleven rather egregious mistakes that I picked out, more or less at random, in her book."

External links[edit]

Authority control
Posted by at
Labels: , , , , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)