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DaanSpeak neemt ook even vakantie en laat het wereldse gekonkel tijdelijk achter zich. Om vervolgens allerlei duistere zaken over de geestelijke wereld bij te lichten. Het bloed kruipt waar het niet gaan kan. Gisteravond in de herhaling op tv bij Canvas The Son of God van Roel Oostra in de serie The Myths of Mankind. Aan het woord de schrijvers van het boek The Jesus Mysteries die zeggen dat het verhaal over Jezus Christus zoals we dat allemaal kennen tot in detail identiek is aan allerlei oude mythen, zoals die over Mithras, Attis, Osiris en Dionysus. 'Undoubtedly those who have believed the history handed down to them about the origins of Christianity will be shocked to discover that they have been deliberately lied to', zeggen de schrijvers in een interview.

'On the site where the Vatican now stands there once stood a Pagan temple. [...] Where today the gathered faithful revere their Lord Jesus Christ, the ancients worshiped another godman who, like Jesus, had been miraculously born on December 25 before three shepherds. In this ancient sanctuary Pagan congregations once glorified a Pagan redeemer who, like Jesus, was said to have ascended to heaven and to have promised to come again at the end of time to judge the quick and the dead. On the same spot where the Pope celebrates the Catholic mass, Pagan priests also celebrated a symbolic meal of bread and wine in memory of their savior who, just like Jesus, had declared: He who will not eat of my body and drink of my blood, so that he will be made one with me and I with him, the same shall not know salvation', zo schrijven Timothy Freke en Peter Gandy in hun boek The Jesus Mysteries. '[They] conclude that the Christian religion was actually designed as another version of the Pagan religion, that Jesus was simply another variant on Osiris, Dionysius, Mithras and other earlier gods, invented for the Jewish people', schrijft Amazon.co.uk

Het verhaal over Christus lijkt op het verhaal over Dionysus
Vergelijk het verhaal van Dionysus eens met dat van Jezus Christus: 'It compares with the biblical story in the following ways: Dionysus is God made flesh and is hailed as the "Saviour of Mankind" and the "Son of God"; his father is God and and his mother is a mortal virgin who afterwards becomes worshipped as the "Mother of God"; he is born in a cowshed; he drives out demons, turns water into wine and and raises people from the dead; and he rides triumphantly into town while people wave palms to honour him. The date revered by the first Christians as Jesus' birthday was originally that of Dionysus, also the three day Spring Festival of Dionysus celebrating his death and resurrection coincides with the Christian festival of Easter. The last Supper and the Eucharist also parallel Dionysian rites', schrijft Freke.

Het verhaal over Christus bevat verborgen boodschappen
Volgens Freke en Gandy is 'the story of Jesus [...] a consciously crafted vehicle for encoded spiritual teachings created by Jewish Gnostics. We are unaware of this, [the authors] claim, because the Roman Catholic Church destroyed evidence of the connection between Christianity and the pagan mysteries. They make their case by offering an examination of mystery religions, especially Greek, pointing out the many parallels between them [...]', schrijft David Bourquin van California State University. Freke en Gandy gaan ervan uit dat Christus niet heeft bestaan: 'We can argue in the dark about whether it was based on a living man, but the fact is that if all that remains are these mythic archetypes that pre-dated the Jesus story and have been laid onto somebody, then still what we have is a myth', zeggen ze tegen CNN.