DESMOND TUTU AND OTHER ICONS DEMYTHOLOGIZED

As you may have heard, (Archibishop) Desmond Tutu died.  He was widely acclaimed though it was clear he was not a part of the Body of Christ, just as Mother Theresa and Markin Luther King, Jr. were not by their own words.  The world knows the difference much more than Christians do, which is why they embraced all three uncritically.

Tutu was a rabid anti-Semite, with a lot of background on that in the article I provided a link to below. 

https://www.newsmax.com/alandershowitz/apartheid-hitler-stalin-zionism/2021/12/28/id/1050201/?ns_mail_uid=d199525f-2033-41f9-805ca7370deff243&ns_mail_job=DM288393_12292021&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010504kr1ppm

Tutu wrote an incredibly blasphemous book, "God is Not A Christian". He was a universalist and  preached what Satan did, and totally ignores who Jesus is and what God is like. He put his own failed ideas above the Holy Scriptures.

https://real-leaders.com/desmond-tutu-god-is-not-a-christian-nor-a-jew-muslim-hindu/

Mother Theresa doubts that Jesus was who he said he was for the last decades of her life. She was against evangelism which was Jesus' final charge to us before he ascended to heaven.  Like Tutu, she was a universalist and put her own failed ideas above the Holy Scriptures. It has been well documented that she was a master at PR, with a stunningly small number of people actually helped.  While she would fly off to get the best medical care for herself, the people in Calcutta received marginal care at best with "poor" being a more accurate description.

https://www.evangelical-times.org/articles/cults-and-other-religions/the-myth-of-mother-teresa/

MLK Jr. in his own writings says he stopped believing in the diety of Jesus Christ when he was 13.  His writings, summarized by his denial of three pillars of Christianity in this paper on display at Stamford. make is crystal clear.  It reads like a hateful skeptic,

"What Experiences of Christians Living in the Early Christian Century Led to the Christian Doctrines of the Divine Sonship of Jesus, the Virgin Birth, and the Bodily Resurrection" 

On the Sonship of Jesus--

The first doctrine of our discussion which deals with the divine sonship of Jesus went through a great process of development. It seems quite evident that the early followers of Jesus in Palestine were well aware of his genuine humanity. Even the synoptic gospels picture Jesus as a victim of human experiences. Such human experiences as growth, learning, prayer, and defeat are not at all uncommon in the life of Jesus. How then did this doctrine of divine sonship come into being?

We may find a partial clue to the actual rise of this doctrine in the spreading of Christianity into the Greco-Roman world. I need not elaborate on the fact that the Greeks were very philosophical minded people. Through philosophical thinking the Greeks came to the point of subordinating, distrusting, and even minimizing anything physical. Anything that possessed flesh was always underminded in Greek thought. And so in order to receive inspiration from Jesus the Greeks had to apotheosize him.

...As Hedley laconically states, "the church had found God in Jesus, and so it called Jesus the Christ; and later under the influence of Greek thought-forms, the only begotten Son of God." 

On the virgin birth--

First we must admit that the evidence for the tenability of this doctrine is to shallow to convince any objective thinker. To begin with, the earliest written documents in the New Testament make no mention of the virgin birth. Moreover, the Gospel of Mark, the most primitive and authentic of the four, gives not the slightest suggestion of the virgin birth. The effort to justify this doctrine on the grounds that it was predicted by the prophet Isaiah is immediately eliminated, for all New Testament scholars agree that the word virgin is not found in the Hebrew original, but only in the Greek text which is a mistranslation of the Hebrew word for "young woman." How then did this doctrine arise?

A clue to this inquiry may be found in a sentence from St. Justin's First Apology. Here Justin states that the birth of Jesus is quite similar to the birth of the sons of Zeus. It was believed in Greek thought that an extraordinary person could only be explained by saying that he had a father who was more than human. It is probable that this Greek idea influenced Christian thought.

A more adequate explanation for the rise of this doctrine is found in the experience which the early christians had with Jesus. The people saw within Jesus such a uniqueness of quality and spirit that to explain him in terms of ordinary background was to them quite inadequate. For his early followers this spiritual uniqueness could only by accounted for in terms of biological uniqueness. They were not unscientific in their approach because they had no knowledge of the scientific. They could only express themselves in terms of the pre-scientific thought patterns of their day.

On the resurrection--

The last doctrine in our discussion deals with the resurrection story. This doctrine, upon which the Easter Faith rests, symbolizes the ultimate Christian conviction: that Christ conquered death. From a literary, historical, and philosophical point of view this doctrine raises many questions. In fact the external evidence for the authenticity of this doctrine is found wanting. But here again the external evidence is not the most important thing, for it in itself fails to tell us precisely the thing we most want to know: What experiences of early Christians lead to the formulation of the doctrine?

The root of our inquiry is found in the fact that the early Christians had lived with Jesus. They had been captivated by the magnetic power of his personality. This basic experience led to the faith that he could never die. And so in the pre-scientific thought pattern of the first century, this inner faith took outward form.

Of course, the gross immorality of his life, his intellectual dishonesty with rampant plagiarism, and his Marxist associations were legion.   The world whitewashes all three of these icons, as do many uninformed Christians.  We need to know the truth as that truth will set us free.