Volume 5

The new nation / by John Morris.

  • Morris, John.
Date:
1880
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Credit: The new nation / by John Morris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    any reference to the symbol of the cross adopted by the crusaders long after his imaginary death thereon; but it was not 1845 years ago (when he who is called Christ, and is reported to have uttered these words is supposed to have lived) that this mean- ing was first expressed by this sound; the Christ of Chris- tianity, in whose name the crusades were waged, was no more the origin of the word “ Crusade ” or the cause of those religious wars, as is supposed, than he was the originator of roast mut- ton and the primary cause of beef; the man from whose name the word arose was Gera or Geras, son of Benjamin, and he was dead hundreds of years before the Christian myth known as Christ ■was invented at Alexandria; the Gerasite pro- pensity for aggressive war had become known abroad, and words coined from his name to express this propensity had become rooted in the Egyptian, Hebrew, Accadian, and Assyrian languages, as is proved by those I have quoted from the Hebrew Bible, and the Egyptian and Assyrian monuments, which were already ancient, and buried in ruins, before this myth is pretended to have been crucified by Pontius Pilate. Of all the connections of words -with the family of Benjamin, none is stronger than the war connection which I brought forward at an early stage of the etymological part of this work, and none out of the family of Benjamin is more copiously, and definitely, connected with war than Gera, otherwise Geras ; nothing therefore can prove more decisively that the Gospels were manufactured for the political ends of the house of Geras than the fact of their writers putting these words into the mouth of the myth they were treating of, and nothing can make this more evident than a comparison of the above quo- tations from MattheAv and Luke with the more ancient words from the Assyrian, Egyptian, &c., which I have brought for- ward in Chapter VI., when showing that the house of Ben- jamin had become the chief power in Egypt; and moreover nothing can more clearly show the mythical character of the whole Christian religion than this, and the other instances I have adduced where he is stated to have uttered woi’ds taken from the myth of Horus, and others which must have been connected with Hir, Acher or Geras, son of Benjamin, or rather with the blasphemous deification of this dead man, by his lying, superstitious, and bloodthirsty descendants, who in the name of religion insult God, and injure man, murdering their supposed enemies for greed and gain, by craftily laid schemes for carrying on aggressive war, and especially taking their opponents at a disadvantage, while deceiving their friends and followers with all the arts and specious rhodomontade which the long firm of religious impostors have elaborated during centuries.