Free Thought 1912/1
The unborn Jesus
The unborn Jesus. . . I hear two busy bands speaking in the wake of this sentence. He begins with the gentle ringing of Christmas bells and tells the story of the birth of one and the child Jesus, the manger and the three kings, but then he continues to scream priestly curses and end up in a big drum puff of curse against the godless weeds. His other instruments are the roar of sympathetic laughter that mocks naive belief in God, the great voice of arrogant contempt that revels in the god of miracles and sends his friendly greetings to the brave god-denier. But all the strings and winds of this concert understand equally: it is about the unborn Jesus, so he denies the deity of Christ.
The goddesses see a god, a god who has become a man in Christ, the anti-gods see a man, a man exalted as a god in Jesus on the wing of faith. But they both see that the story of the unborn Jesus can only be about the denial of the born Christ. They think I deny the deity of Christ, even though I deny the humanity of Jesus. Christ, the god: reality. Jesus, the man: fiction. Christ, the reality of God, is a reality living in the faith of millions of millennia. Jesus, man is only a creature of modern “liberal” theology. Christ, the god in human history, in the past of the human worldview, is a great flower of thought, a seedling of emotion, sprouted from the rocks of real reality, hard economic life, harsh class struggles.
Today, however, Christ, the god, is also dead and the news of his death is spreading dizzyingly fast all over the world. It wasn't the sound of the forest rumbling like the death of the great Pan for Kadmos, but the horn of the factories, the siren of ocean steamers, the rustle of electric turbines. Christ, the god, has suffered from doubt, at the cross of the sciences, Jesus, the homunculus, is now being born in the flask of liberal theologians.
Ever since the earth entered the planetary ranks of the sun and man has joined one of the chapters of zoology, it cannot be proclaimed that the earth was occupied by three hours of dense darkness at the death of Christ and no longer believe that gods can be born from heaven and the dead will be resurrected. . So theologians are now distilling Christ into Jesus, making God human. They exterminate all tangible lies and unlikely things from the Gospels, decipher the naive miracles from them, and construct a “historical” Jesus whose word is not paralyzed, the blind do not see, but who preaches a wise and profound philosophy, who founded religion and martyrdom faith. This is how the image of the gentle rabbin, the defiant proletarian, or the superior Übermensch is formed in their writings. They cannot save the great god, so they create the great man. The Jesus of Renan and Harnack is not the Christ of the Gospels, for the fine French skeptic and the neck-sober, sober German could not believe in the birth and fabulous youth of the divine child, conceived by a virgin, and through Joseph from the royal house of David to Jerusalem at the same time. irrational impossibilities of his intrusion. So not as a miracle, but with the great suggestive power of his person, they explain the enormous effect and world-success success of his agitation. And they do not realize that this idea that Jesus, the young rabbi alone, created Christianity, the world domination of Catholicism, is more miraculous than all the miracles of the gospel combined.
Yet before and after this turn of theology, theology-free historiography worked from Bruno Banner and David Strauss to present-day Kalthoff and Pfliderer and wreaked terrible destruction in the writings of early Christianity. There was no stone left in the life of Jesus. It has become certain that there are hardly any of the early Christian writings that the person whose name is concerned has written, that they are much later than their date, that they are formatted by additions and reworkings, and that those gospels do not come from Jesus' contemporaries. Even the oldest gospel originated at least half a century later than when Jesus' death was made. So who dares to say that even a single word of Jesus, a single sermon, is authentic, without shorthand, recorded fifty years after their narration.
Serious historiography found no evidence to support the Gospels of Jesus. Neither pagan, nor Jewish, nor Christian writings write a single word of historical authenticity about it. But he found data all over the sea that proves the Christ of the Gospels. The birth of Jesus is a naive and ignorant tale, every word of which has been proven to be a historical impossibility. The birth of Christ is one of the turning points in world history, the explanation of which is provided by the whole forest. Christianity, the Christian church and its great symbol: the birth of Christ required the great unification of three worlds. Just as English capitalism, the French Revolution, the great synthesis of German philosophy created the system of thought of socialism: by soldering together the proletarianism, class struggle, and developmental dialectics, so did the Jewish religion, Greek philosophy, and Christianity of Roman economic life. Jewish messianic faith, Greek ethics, Roman proletariat - these are the three pillars of the dome building of Christianity around the world. Pogány József.