New Testament

The New Testament is the part of the Christian Bible that was added to the Jewish Bible (the Old Testament) by misguided followers of Jesus Christ. The testimony recorded in the New Testament is only slightly more reliable than that found in the Old Testament because 1)it was an oral history recorded hundreds of years after the fact and 2)the version of the New Testament now published is the result of political infighting among different sects of Christians and was written by the winners. As a result, the patriarchal bias of one group of Christians has been accepted as the only true view of Christian thought.

Ancient versions of New Testament texts written by Gnostic Christians on papyrus have been discovered in the desert around the Dead Sea and in Egypt. The Gnostics believed that many accounts in the Old Testament, such as the story of creation and Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, are obviously metaphorical, and point to deeper spiritual truths. This approach to interpretation of the New Testament has been superceded by the obstinate insistence of fundamentalist Christians that every word in the Bible must be taken literally, no mattter how contradictory or bizarre.

One of the most interesting parts of the New Testament is Revelations, a wild visionary account of the second coming of Christ. Modern American evanglistical Christians think Revalations is a prophecy which will come true when the conditions decribed therein come to pass. Evangelistical neocons have vowed to bring about the Apocalypse by helping Israel permanently annex Jerusalem and rebuild their temple to bring about the events foretold in Revelations.