Introduction
tothe
First Edition
To the Muslims, Christianity is a historical reality based on a meta
physical fiction. Because its foundations are mythical and invented,
as opposed to existential and revealed, it appears to us as a locked
system of negation. Declaring a doctrine of love, it establishes in
quisition. Preaching pacifism, it enacts the crusades. Calling to
poverty, it constructs the vast edifice of wealth called the Church.
Declaring 'mysteries', it involves itself in politics. Reformation, far
from resolving the contradictions, revealed them further. Declar
ing the priesthood of all believers, they established a priesthood,
but with a shift of focus by which the inherent insanity in the Chris
tian fiction began to emerge. The qualifications for priesthood in
thereformed churches werepurely 'academie', while before a man
could win a place in the hierarchy through piety and withdrawal
from the world. This was the beginning of the concept of the secu
lar - now there was a zone of 'religion' and a zone of politics, Church
and state are held to be separate. What we discover is that in fact
they have been one, as our author reveals in this fascinating study,
from the beginning of the Church's bloody history.
Today Christianity as a body of metaphysics is frankly non-ex
istent. No one is more aware of this than the Vatican. Their desper
ate attempts to co-opt every and any intel1ectual movement into
the Christian thesis have gone beyond the bounds of satire. The
most significant sign of their intellectual fraudulence has been the
a1most complete defection of the Christian intelligentsia into the
Marxist and post-Marxist socialist camp. To unbelievers and to
people of other religions, it always appeared baffling how the Chris
tians could accommodate themselves to every power-nexus that
appeared, right or Ieft wing. From this work, it is clear that there is
no longer any such thing as the Christian religion. Christianity is
over. The myth has finally exploded,