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Show Religious Customs and Festivals Only a Mixture of Magic and Myth By WILLIAM BROWN, Deposed Episcopal Bishop. Jesus Christ as a divinity is wholly a myth. If He ever lived as a man, there are no historical facts of His life. The customs and festivals associated with religion are nothing but a mixture of magic and myth The priests of Christianity are the successors of the magicians of pagan times. The only difference bettfeen the pagan magician and the modern priest is that the magician was attempting to work miracles in the real world to save humanity from actual dangers while the priest is trying to save mythical immortal souls in a mythical life after death from a mythical myth-ical hell. Science is the real Christ that will redeem the world from slavery. The progress of humanity has been gained through slavery, oppression and war. Science brings to mankind a new mastery of the world that renders such methods of progress obsolete. |