For Francesco Carotta

Francesco Carotta is an Italian linguist and philosopher. After ten years of study
he brought his findings together in ‘Was Jesus Caesar?’ (1999). Though not always
seens as a continuation of the skeptical findings of the Germans in the nineteenth
century respecting the implausibility of the New Testament, what Carotta has done
is to add a sociology to the whole JudeoRoman period and thereby clarify some
resplendent aspects of our knowledge of it.

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According to Carotta JC stands for Julius Caesar -- not Jesus Christ. There is no
Jesus Christ and there never was one. He is purely the figment of the Rome’s
imagination as depicted by what other authors are anxious to demonstrate was the
Piso Family. In some respect Joseph Atwill confirms this thesis and focuses on
Flavian Josephus, a captured Jewish General, who turned ‘Queen’s evidence’ on his
own people, the Jews.

According to Carotta Jesus looks like Caesar, their lives are congruent, their
families are the same, their respective kinfolk are peopled with parallel
personages whose names and locations are the same or similar. Caesar’s celebrated
victories become Jesus’ miracles (the conversion of savagery into piety!).
Caesar’s Pompey is Jesus’ John (the Baptist), Caesar’s Antonius is Jesus’ Simon
etc.. Caesar’s Senate is Jesus’ Sanhedrim, Caesar’s Gaul is Jesus’ Galilee,
Caesar’s Rubicon is Jesus’ Jordan, Caesar’s Rome is Jesus’ Jerusalem, etc..

And if Julius had his moll in Cleopatra, Jesus had his moll in Mary Magdalen.

Names resemble each other in writing as well as phonetically, ‘Gallia’ isn’t that
different from ‘Galilaia’, ‘Nicomedes of Bithynia’ isn’t that different from
‘Nicodemus of Bethania’, and ‘Brutus’ the murderer is not that different to
‘Barabbas’ the murderer, etc.

Moreover, Caesar’s quotations are lifted by Jesus: He who does not take sides is
on my side becomes For he that is not against us is for us. Or, again: I am not
King, I am Caesar becomes We have no king but Caesar.

Even in death the two JCs are the same. Caesar’s death on the Ides of March , two
perishing days before St Patrick’s day, becomes for Jesus the 15th day of Nizam,
which in turn confirms the Easter Vigil.
Reading Carotta one has to pinch oneself every so often to reassure oneself that
one is not reading an extract from James Joyce’s Ulysses...

If one had not already become familiar with the literary techniques employed by
Joyce, one might imagine that one was revisiting the same or a similar work of
art. We are used to the Joycean device of identifying some scavenging Seagulls
over the Liffey as a reference, also, to Homer’s Harpies. In much the same way
Francesco Carotta’s indescribable expose has unearthed a vast array of parallel
references, especially between those few momentous years in Rome’s civil war from
the time when Caesar crosses the Rubicon (49 BC) to his assassination (44 BC), a
period that is meant to mirror the Jesus narrative from the Jordan to his
crucifixion. In this sense the Gospel is a re-written history of the Roman Civil
War.

“What emerges from the comparison”, says Carotta, “ is the fact that no matter
what the comparison the same structures and sequences are found and differences
are reduced to the simple mix up of letters. What really changes is the
perception.”
How apt of Joyce, then ,when considering his own country as a perfect instrument
of the Mediterranean Myth, he writes:

Oh Ireland my first and only love

Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove.

Nothing could be clearer. The whole unmistakable upshot of Carotta’s work is that

THE CULT SURROUNDING JESUS IS ACTUALLY THE CULT OF DIVUS JULIUS

Now where does that leave the Catholics who support the Infallible One in Rome and
the other millions of Orthodox Christians, not to mention the unaccountable others
, monasteries, convents, dioceses, parishes, priests and lay people, individuals,
families, groups, nations across the world who have taken the Divus Julius to
their heart?
The work is truly momentous! But what questions must it give rise to in the
Christian breast? Do they still believe in Jesus? Do they still believe in those
miracles: the resurrection (of Caesar), the immaculate conception, the Last
Supper, the changing of water into wine, the walking on water? Surely not! And
what of their lying history, two millennia practically of spreading the Gospel
according to their own rash, unquestioning and unquestionable desires? And what of
all the wealth they have stored up for themselves in all the lands where they have
ensconced themselves, their infinite armies of nuns, priest and second-order
secular spies, plants and agents provocateur? What of their present obdurate
position and those insulting statements of the Papacy concerning the nature of
Jesus, the disposition of other religions, Christian and non-Christian alike? What
of these imperial ‘moral’ statements of the Papacy, his Infallibility, his
concordats, his half-heartedness about war and his cultural ignorance of other
peoples? Moreover, what now with all those world-wide investments in the future of
Christianity, in the colonizing educational establishments across the world? The
Jesuits alone boast of some 4,000 educational institutions (and JC alone knows
what other pokers they have in the world pie!) -- all premised on spreading the
faith (in Julius Caesar). Should all these institutions not pack their bags and
simply get out of education at all levels -- never to return, I might add. And
what about all those Christian appointments in political establishments with less
rabid convictions than the Poles, the Irish, the Spanish, the Austrians, the
Philippines, East Timorese, the Americans, North and South, Australians, Asians,
etc.? And what about all those diplomatic, senatorial and judicial appointments
everywhere in the world? Should they not in honesty resign from their ill-gotten
posts? Should they not renounce their secret societies, like the Opus Dei, the
Illuminati, etc.. Should they not be pointed out in the streets as the purveyors
of lies and deceits and the inheritors of false witness? Isn’t it time for the
honest atheist who took their whip for so long, especially the Catholic whip, to
come into the light and point out their accusers?

ONE THING YOU MIGHT ASK YOURSELF BEFORE LEAVING THIS SUBJECT IS THIS:

DID THE PAPACY ALWAYS KNOW THAT JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, WAS IN FACT JULIUS
CAESAR, DIVUS JULIUS, SON OF VENUS AND FOUNDER OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE ?

DID THE PAPACY, FULLY KNOWING THE CHURCH’S ORIGINS, CONSCIOUSLY DECIDE TO CONVERT
THAT CULT- MEMORY INTO THE ONE TRUE HOLY ROMAN CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH?

Seamus Breathnach

www.irish-criminology.com