"We must frankly admit that we have no source of information with respect to the life of Jesus other than ecclesiastic writings put together during the latter part of the Fourth Century."
"It is amazing that neither history nor tradition should have embalmed for us even one certain or definite saying or circumstance in the life of the saviour of mankind, except the comparatively few events in the four brief Gospels. There is no statement in all history that says anyone saw Jesus or talked with him. Nothing in history is more astonishing than the silence of contemporary writers of the events relayed in the four Gospels relative to Jesus, his disciples and his work."
"The chief of the (Mithraic) fathers, a sort of pope, who always lived at Rome, was called Pater Patrum".
1. An extract from entry in The Christ Scandal called, The Fatima Secret:
'Through your prayers and mine, it is possible to elleviate this tribulation, but it is only in this way that the church can be effectively renewed. How many times, indeed, has the renewal of the church been effected in blood ... this time, again, it will not be otherwise'.
(Pope John Paul II (d. 2005) - after reading the Third Secret of Fatima he reportedley made a public comment regarding its contents - interview in the October 13, 1981 issue of German publication, Stimme des Glaubens.)
2. An extract from an entry in The Christ Scandal called, Sexually perverted pope:
'Almighty God! How long will this superstitious sect of Christians, and this upstart invention, endure?’
(Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503; pope from 1492-1503; from the Diarium of Burchard)
3. An extract from an entry in The Christ Scandal called, Encyclopedia suppressed by the Church:
‘Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses’
(Pope Julius II (1443-1513), published in Diderot’s Encyclopedia, 1759)
4. An extract from entry in The Christ Scandal called, Christianity’s disbelieving pope:
‘How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us and our predecessors’.
(Pope Leo X (1475-1521; pope from 1513-1521; from the diaries of Cardinals Bembo and Jovius)
5. An extract from entry in The Christ Scandal called, Christ and the Sun:
‘Jesus was no other than the sun, adored in its Mithraic sect ... [there is] no valid document to demonstrate the existence of Christ ... Jesus Christ had never existed’.
Pope Paul III (1534-1549); Diego Hurtago de Mendoza (1503-75), Ambassador of Spain, repeating what Pope Paul III told him at a meeting in the Vatican; quoted from Mendoza’s records in Luigi Cascioli’s 2002 lawsuit against the Catholic Church for deceptive representation of the facts (Court of Justice, Viterbo, Italy; no. 45/b).
6. An extract from, Encyclopedia Britannica:
‘There was no Jesus Christ and the Eucharist is just flour and water. Mary was no more a virgin than my own mother, and there is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing your hands together’.
(Pope Boniface VIII (c. 1234-1303); pope from 1294-1303; from Encyclopedia Britannica, James Moore’s Dublin Edition, 1790-97)