Author: Acharya S
Acharya S on Aeon Byte radio, 11/17-18
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Come hear my new radio program with Miguel Conner all this weekend! In this show, I discuss the Maya, the Milky Way and religious ideas that can be found around the world. The Mayans and the Milky Way http://www.aeonbytegnosticradio.com/2010/05/may-15-may-16-its-complete-truth-about.html Here’s Miguel’s write-up: “Groundbreaking scholarship continues to reveal the sublime legacy…
Read MoreMilky Way image reveals 84 million stars at galactic center
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See my new Examiner article about this massive, 9-gigapixel photograph of the Milky Way created by astronomers. Astronomers catalogue 84 million stars from new image of our Milky Way “By combining thousands of infrared images by Europe’s dust-piercing VISTA telescope, astronomers have been able study more Milky Way stars than…
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The biblical ‘Lineage Tree’ and its Buddhist parallel
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On my publishing website can now be found a scholarly paper by Dr. Michael Lockwood, a philosophy professor in India for over 30 years, entitled: “Jesse’s ‘Lineage Tree’ and Its Buddhist ‘Branch’” In this article, Lockwood provides primary source evidence that the story of the biblical figure Jesse’s “sprout” (Isaiah…
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American Buddhists celebrate 100 years in Utah
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Buddhists have been in Utah for a century, yet we haven’t heard a peep about them, no terrorist threats or acts, no mega-temples designed to intimidate everyone, no advocates infiltrating our governments and law agencies, no clamoring to destroy our federal government and replace it with their own religious order.…
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Maya watchtowers discovered to align with solstices and equinoxes
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In 2012, archaeologists announced news concerning astronomically aligned structures at the Mayan site of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan. Previously largely overlooked, these ruined towers surrounding the long ceremonial area or “Great Ball Court” have now been analyzed and determined to possess alignments to the equinoxes and solstices. Alignments to…
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December 21, 2012 is coming – are we all going to die?
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The question in the title of this article can be answered quickly: No, we are not all going to die on December 21, 2012. Will there be natural disasters somewhere? Probably, as there are somewhere in the world every day, on whatever scale. If a beaver’s dam is demolished by…
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The phallic ‘Savior of the World’ at the Vatican revisited
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I have a forum post that is very lengthy and contains a significant amount of information for scholars and students of religious origins. There is bolded text for those who wish to skim this long post for the general ideas. Obviously, I found the original article I’m reviewing here to…
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Islamic fundamentalists destroy 8,000-year-old rock carvings?
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UPDATE: It is being reported by Gulf News that the government of Morocco has released a statement asserting that the Muslim radicals did not destroy any rock carvings. In consideration of the fanatics’ past history, one finds it difficult to believe that someone simply made up this story. The jury…
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Does Suetonius refer to Jesus?
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Hot off the presses! Here is a MAJOR piece of the Christ-myth puzzle. I have taken a lengthy article and broken it down into different essays, with numerous links both to these other articles and to references, citations and annotated footnotes. You will see the other new articles in this…
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A conversation on the Caesar’s Messiah thesis
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UPDATE: As concerns the “news” about this thesis rocketing around the net, forgive me if I’m a bit skeptical. This “announcement” is a paid press release, which is significant because it’s not a news item that anyone’s investigated. Rather than some newly discovered confessional document, I’m imagining Joe’s found a…
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The 2013 Astrotheology Calendar – Now Available!
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Hot off the presses – get yer copy today! The 2013 Astrotheology Calendarby D.M. Murdock/Acharya S and N.W. Barker This year’s calendar features the Milky Way, the celestial landmark that is the subject of many fascinating myths from antiquity. These stories involving the earthly view of our galaxy reflect intelligent…
Read MoreRadio discussion of Mohammed film, 9/24
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CORRECTION: Sorry about the mix-up over the XZone radio program. I didn’t realize that it wouldn’t be live. The program will be recorded and will be broadcast first from 10:00-11:00 PM EST/7:00-8:00 PM PST. However, it will be an archived MP3 located at the following link, so you can listen…
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God in the Box at the Carmel Art & Film Festival
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“God in the Box” is a terrific film that I think will help enlighten the world and increase peace by providing an open dialogue regarding religion, mythology and atheism. If we can all accept that numerous, often disparate ideas exist within the human experience, strife and division can only be…
Read MoreWas Jesus married?
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Some of you asked for it, so here it is! My hot-off-the-presses analysis of this papyrus fragment: Did Jesus have a wife? So says an ancient Egyptian papyrus In the press release of this papyrus discovery, Dr. King “repeatedly cautioned that this fragment should not be taken as proof that…
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Anti-free speech efforts blaspheme MY religion
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To the rabid rampagers globally attempting to silence us through their violence and through the imposition of “blasphemy” and “defamation of religion” laws designed to shut up criticism of the very ideology that causes them to rampage violently, your efforts at curbing my free speech are blasphemous against my religion,…
Read MoreAcharya S on the Stench of Truth, 9/7
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UPDATE: Here’s the link for the MP3 of the program – have a listen! I had an excellent time! This truth was not “stenchy” at all! As the program’s host, Ted Torbich, said on Facebook, while posting this MP3 link: My show with Acharya S from 9/7/12. This is a…
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Thomas Jefferson was a freethinker, not a devout Christian
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“Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned: yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and…
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2012: A New Beginning
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“Join independent religion scholar Acharya S/D.M. Murdock for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure at the ancient site of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan, Mexico!” The mysterious Maya seem to have come from nowhere, like time travelers of legend. Where did they come from? How did their culture develop? What were the beliefs…
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Do the Bible and Koran accurately depict THE God of the cosmos?
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Take a look at this image – it’s estimated that there are 200-400 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy alone and that there are billions of other galaxies, at least. Many of these trillions of stars likely possess inhabitable planets. Does anyone intelligent really believe that a “God of…
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Egyptian influence on Christianity radio show
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Right now and all weekend will be a replay of my radio discussion with Miguel Conner about my book Christ in Egypt! Here is the “teaser”: http://www.aeonbytegnosticradio.com/2012/08/teaser-for-wisdom-god-thoth-08042012.html At that link, Miguel writes: Our rebroadcast is “The Egyptian Influence on Gnosticism & Christianity.” Virgin, cutting-edge evidence finally reveals the stunning span,…
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Have archaeologists found evidence of the Israelite hero Samson?
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The latest attempt at anchoring the Bible in “history” has come with the discovery of a small seal in Israel that purportedly provides “evidence” of the existence of the biblical hero Samson, renowned for his strength and heroism. The Jewish Hercules, Samson went on an unstoppable rampage, slaughtering the Philistines,…
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Moses and the Midianites
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Tradition holds that the Pentateuch, composed of the first five books of the Bible, also called the Torah, was written by the Israelite lawgiver Moses, who is held up therein as the major prophet of the Lord of the universe. The claim that Moses wrote the Pentateuch is not sustainable…
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Muslim clerics call for destruction of Egypt’s Great Pyramid and other antiquities
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UPDATE (11/11/12): The Arab newspaper al-Arabiya has reported on the call of another jihadi cleric for the destruction of the pyramids, Sphinx and other ancient artifacts. UPDATE: Raymond Ibrahim, the originator of this news item, has answered the fallacious charges that this story is a “hoax” and “fraud”: Because the…
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Ken Humphreys on the ‘New Apologists’ desperately seeking the Son of God
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The illustrious Ken Humphreys has spoken on the subject: “Joseph Hoffmann – biblical scholar ‘par excellence’ or arrogant know-it-all? Maurice Casey – out in the sun too long?” Ken makes many good points here, especially in exposing the bizarre wishy-washy behavior by R. Joseph Hoffman, a “lapsed Catholic” who once…
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Christianity and the summer solstice
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From the below article at Examiner.com, it looks like somebody’s been reading my work. Except: “the sun mimics the death and resurrection of Jesus!” Is that what they teach at Harvard Divinity School, that the sun is mimicking Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ during the winter solstice? Couldn’t it…
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