The so-called beatitudes “Blessed are they” , were not new moral instructions in the days of Jesus; they already appeared in the psalms and Proverbs, and were sort of standard stories taught in the synagogues of those days – nothing to deserve the admiration cheap preachers are always ready to play with.
The psalms already referred to such concepts of religious blessings, among them psalms 18, 24, 34, 37, 63, 109, and others.
The psalms also pushed violence, war, and martyrdom, hence not that divinely inspired, since where there is violence there is no divine inspiration, as I always say.
Moralisms anybody can come up with given enough time to play a moralist teacher, or the medium being favourable.
Let us see what I find wrong with the eight beatitudes in Matthew.
By the way, in my humble opinion, to be perfect, seven should be the number of beatitudes, not eight.
Eight is pushing the number up one exaggerated beatitude; no need
for eight, if two were combined in one to have only seven of them.
The gospel of Matthew is an il ustration of religious propaganda established on lies.
It starts with the wrong genealogy of Jesus, going through Solomon, son of king David, whereas Luke presents a different one going through Nathan, the other son of David.
Since Luke’s introduction proposes that he made a deeper research for his bestseller, we take his word and declare Matthew a cheaper edition with many contradictions, distortions, and lies.
Then, Matthew presents a different story about the so-called Nativity, Mary, the birth of Jesus, the slaughter of the innocent babies of Bethlehem, and next the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, full of holes if you are an intelligent student.
Next, filled with the holy ghost, Jesus attracts a crowd of Jews and takes them to some mount or hill to lecture about beatitudes and other cheap moralisms.
The beatitudes are platitudes full of incongruence, the absurd, inflammatory, unrealistic.
Let us see why this is a list of items of cheap religious propaganda.
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Matthew 5:3-10 [NKJV]
[3] “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
My comment:
Luke says “Blessed are the poor”, omitting “of spirit”.
This business of beatitudes gets off on the wrong foot, to confuse the inattentive student.
This is a major hurdle to overtake, and it must not be left out as unimportant.
Bible commentators try to circumvent the hurdle with obtuse 98
and cheap explanations, as if they were the authorities to fix the imponderables in the gospel story – and there are many of them.
Luke promises in his first three verses to take great care about accuracy from eyewitnesses.
In this light, we take his text as the standard to check the other accounts of the same scenes.
It is only Luke and Matthew that talk about those beatitudes so-called.
Besides, Jesus would not explain what poor of/in spirit meant.
That is bad doctrine right at the outset of his teaching.
I do not endorse Jesus teaching doctrine or morals, because he was too young to make sense, and too immature to have grasped the deeper meaning of morals; besides, he always sounded like a cheater, a liar, pretending to say one thing while meaning something else, more sinister, more political, less moral.
His parables seem to have a hidden meaning, and a revolutionary intonation, which only the initiated in the smaller circle would understand – basical y, Jesus had a secretive manifesto to violently remove Caesar from the “Promised Land” of the “Chosen People”.
He was caught in time, and his revolutionary project destroyed.
The rest is a group of self-made apostles attempting to recover the lost ground going another route, pretending to work for the kingdom of heaven their master failed to conquer from the Romans.
Physical poverty, indigence, misery in life is what the beatitude sounds like promoting.
Many religious fanatics took this literal y, and chose to live a life of poverty at the expense of alms others had to supply to them, in order for them to get to the kingdom of heaven.
It’s a miserable beatitude to start the collection.
Also, never did Jesus explain what was that story he called the kingdom of heaven, and you can bet twenty American dol ars that no Christian knows what that is.
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All the commentators added their stories to the beatitude to try to escape this conundrum.
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[4] Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
My comment:
Mourn or grieve about what?
Doesn’t say; it’s a lie, a big one.
It’s a false promise, since grieving has been a permanent side of our existence here.
People grieve and mourn all the time from divine failures, life tragedies, accidents of nature, human violence, social injustice.
What comfort has Jesus ever given to those in that situation?
None.
There are many cases of grieving from injustice, and Jesus never did one gesture to fix anything.
Do you remember the Holocaust and other holocausts across the times?
Is this beatitude not for the Jews?
There you have a sign that Jesus was a parrot repeating old slogans, only to pretend spiritual elevation or moral quality.
Failed miserably.
It is delusion to hope that one will be comforted in situations of mourning or grieving; the only comfort available is from other humans, never from christs or gods.
Yet, life is soon encircled with pain, suffering, grieving; Jesus was trying to pass for a great master of morals, something he never was.
I am sure many listening to him quickly got upset with his pretentiousness and left the assembly upset with his cheap babbling.
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[5] Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
My comment:
Terribly false; inheriting the earth is impossible.
Meekness is a relative beatitude, for in matters of it being one, once you turn religious there it goes meekness through the window.
Nobody is more arrogant than the religious fanatic pretending to be meek, submissive, gentle; it is a matter of arguing some article of faith to start a war of words.
In many years of observing followers of Jesus I never encountered one genuinely meek; all arrogant, ready to throw anathemas and curses for small change, minor disagreements and the like.
Matthew 8:29 says that Jesus said “I’m meek, follow me and be one, too!”, but since Matthew was a liar I reject his story.
Jesus was a schizophrenic narcissist pretending humility and meekness “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.”
Baloney; nobody ever found rest in Jesus’ meekness.
You find it in yourself, if you have the right genes, because in the end, all has to do with the temperament you inherited from your parents. In Jesus you find arrogance, aggravation, despondency.
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[6] Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.
My comment:
Never happened.
This beatitude could be combined with the one before, to save space in the story, and have only seven to memorize, the so-called perfect number in spiritual numerology.
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Did you know that most Christians don’t know the number of beatitudes and where they are in the gospels?
That tel s you how much they study their bibles.
Most are, nonetheless, ready to launch anathemas, curses, and threats at the antagonists for calling them ignorant.
This is more nonsense and hypocrisy from this immature christ.
Hunger and thirst for righteousness in an imperfect society bears unsuccessful results.
Have you ever seen an example of that in your life?
I never did.
What one sees is a world of unrighteousness, including from religion.
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[7] Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
My comment:
Prove it.
There is no proof of that anywhere in the entire Bible, and in twenty centuries of Christianity.
Mercy is what religion does not produce.
But why is it so?
Because religion is intrinsical y an arrogant medium where proud men play agents of some Almighty they want to impose on their victims.
You have some calling themselves pope, while others reverend, bishop, pastor.
A conscription of deceivers earning a living by telling coarse lies to their victims.
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[8] Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
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My comment:
There is no God to see.
Also, what is pure in heart, in a planet where the survival of the fittest is the rule, and the daily struggle?
Besides, where would we, then, find these special characters, in the churches?
No.
Those are primarily arrogant, then thieves and liars, or the other way around – ready to sell their articles of faith to the inattentive bystander with exquisite lies that they represent God on earth.
Big liars, big thieves.
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[9] Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.
My comment:
Liar!
Jesus was the first to violate this beatitude, always aggravating adherents of other religions, the Pharisees and others, even insulting them, wherever he went with his band of immature and lazy marauders to get followers for his sinister plan about the “kingdom of heaven”!
Jesus could not be any son of God, because he didn’t practice what he preached.
Bad christ, bad manners, many enemies.
All the rest of his activities would enlarge his list of bad behaviour, mischievous acts, and being a deceiver, trying to pass for a great master of morals; as for his miracles, all can be discarded as propaganda stunts.
No, he was not; on the contrary, he was too young, immature, and arrogant to teach the more experienced around him; that’s why many left him when they heard this idiot talking about moral principles.
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Jesus failed, even with his beatitudes.
And then we have him pushing his secretive agenda of having to die to save the Jews – didn’t happen.
And for the next twenty centuries, Jesus was rejected as the saviour of the Jews; only succeeded in convincing those who saw in it an opportunity to earn a lazy living playing disciples of Jesus.
It was a big liar, this Jesus-of-Nazareth.
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[10] Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
My comment:
What righteousness?
All his apostles were persecuted, and even killed, but not for any righteousness they promoted; more like persecuted and killed for cursing and threatening anybody opposing them – the following pages of the NT testify to that, always throwing anathemas at the intelligent antagonists.
Came to bring good news, but soon crime took hold of the project.
It starts in Bethlehem with innocent Jewish babies being slaughtered by Herod to try to catch him and avoid something horrible in the future.
Herod failed, and the rest is history – a history of crime, horror, war, violence, disturbance wherever Jesus went in the next twenty centuries.
Persecuted not because they were saints, but demons, cruel followers of a fanatic from Nazareth, and martyred for propaganda, to win souls for God’s celestial choir, what a travesty of a plan, a joke, a disgrace, a horror story.
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