Introduction

This blog is dedicated to studying Christianity (and other religious concepts) from the perspective of the author’s theory that Jesus was an invention of Paul the Apostle and the Flavians. To date, I have written five books on the subject entitled Unkilling Jesus, Domitian: The Final Messiah, Paul’s Agon, How they Wrote the Gospels, Christianity on the Arch of Titus and The Mark of Titus. Below is a link to purchase each book and a synopsis. Also included are other books I have written on other religious concepts.

Unkilling Jesus

This book explores the following questions:How was the story of Jesus’s life written?Who was Paul and what was his role in the creation of Christianity?What was his provenance and did he actually meet the resurrected Christ? Who wrote Revelation and what was the document’s purpose?Why was Domitian assassinated? Who was Clement and what was the nature of his relationships with Peter and Josephus? Were the Pseudo-Clementine materials really “pseudo”? Why did Saulus attack Justus? How were the gospels written? What was the significance of the library fire during the reign of Domitian? Why did Josephus write the "Testimonium"? Who was the Anti-Christ and what was the Sign of the Beast? What was the Mark of Titus? What does all this have to do with the future of Christianity?

Domitian: the Final Messiah

Domitian’s contribution to religion is virtually unknown. Yet, as this book illustrates, he is the father of some of Christianity’s most profound concepts.

The goal of this book is to define the specific themes and concepts that make up Domitian’s religious precepts – in a sense, we are defining the specific Domitian overlay to the Christian materials developed for his brother Titus.

In the author's previous book on this topic entitled Unkilling Jesus, he presented analyses to support the thesis that Jesus was a fictional composite of the Emperor Vespasian, and his sons Titus and Domitian. This book takes the next step by showing that many of the documents thought to be of early Christian origin were actually written during the reign of Domitian in his efforts to overlay his version of Christianity over that of his brother.

Paul’s Agon

Paul and Jesus are joined in one important way; the way of a miracle. They met one day on the road to Damascus while Paul supposedly pursued Christians. Jesus, in a sense, told Paul to get with the program and stop persecuting his people. In this incident, the Bible tells us, Jesus is already dead, resurrected and leading his flock from his throne in heaven. He spoke to Paul as from a dream, knocking him from his horse and speaking to him as a spirit. It is thought he gave Paul the gift of enlightenment, a new brighter vision of a world ruled by Jesus and his Father in heaven. Paul had been transformed and given the answer that he had craved. His darkness had been turned to light and he knew what he had to do.

What if this story is literally true? What if Paul’s trip to Damascus had taken place much later than originally thought; before the Jewish War sometime between 67 AD and 70 AD when Titus was on the scene in Judaea? What if the person telling Paul to get with the program was the person who, at that very time, was leading the Roman Army and claiming to be the Messiah of the Jews; in short, what if “Jesus” was Titus?

How They Wrote the Gospels

One man’s conspiracy might be another man’s social revolution. The author thinks there was, regarding the writings of the Gospels, a group of men who joined forces to create at least four documents that we have come to know as the Synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. You can call it a conspiracy in a sense. We know that people collaborated to accomplish the Gospels.

In another sense, these men were part of a larger mission that required that they use their intellectual abilities and writing skills to create materials for their patrons who had their own goals. These men created a myth that has influenced not only the entire history of the world but also the “tide of history”.

Christianity on the Arch of Titus

This book explores the "persons" visible on the Triumphant Arch of Titus which is located in the heart of Rome. These people were significant in that they played a role, not only in Rome's conquest of Judaea but also in the creation of Christianity. This book explores those individuals and the roles they played in the creation of one of the most important religious movements in world history.

The Mark of Titus

Excerpts from the book Unkilling Jesus which highlight some of the key discoveries implied by new theories about the origin of the Jesus Myth. The idea that the Romans invented Christianity is the basic premise of new theories about the origin of Christianity.

Is this the Face that Launched a Thousand Ships?

It was love at first sight. I saw her one day while watching a television program about King Tut, the boy King of Egypt whose tomb had been discovered by Howard Carter years before. I was looking at the famous bust of a beautiful Egyptian Queen. Her elegant face, long neck and stunning eyes exemplified human perfection of the highest order.

Who was she? What was her life? How did she live? Who did she love and what were her deepest thoughts?

All of these questions represented mysteries to solve. Her beauty had inspired these questions; men could not help thinking that the mystery represented eternal truths that have haunted humanity for millennia.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? Was she Helen of Troy?

Behind the Ritual Mask

This book explores a new field called pre-philosophy that emerged out of pre-historical times to become religion and modern philosophy.

Villegas covers the fundamental concepts that make up religious precepts and he shows that rationalism, faith and collectivism bring about a self-imposed cultural dictatorship.

Contra Religion

This book is designed as a “shorter” explanation of the ideas presented in my larger book, “Behind the Ritual Mask” which seeks to define fundamental principles of religion. I’m hoping this book will serve as a primer for the original book and spur an interest in reading it. The following contains excerpts from the original Forward of the book. When an entrenched, anti-reason culture is presented with new ideas that challenge its fundamental premises, it relies on the power of what is taken as knowledge in the culture in order to defend itself. Indeed, when corrupt ideas are accepted as knowledge, as firm, people will not readily accept new, better ideas. In fact, those new ideas will be seen as false by many people because the entrenched ideas that are being challenged have a feeling of being obvious. Indeed, as I will show, when the prevailing culture is dominated by ideas such as rationalism, faith and collectivism, these ideas take on the power of a self-imposed cultural dictatorship, a non-reception system that blocks new ideas and prevents them from coming to the fore.

The Battle of the Sexes

In his book, Behind the Ritual Mask, the author introduced the concept of cultural paradigms.

As a result of these paradigms, mankind has been led down the road of altruism, collectivism and the good/evil split, all of which desecrate the value of the individual.

In his research for this book, he learned about an important cultural paradigm that represented a lost religion as distinguished from those that have come down to us. This religion, although buried in pre-history, is still being practiced today. It is called The Battle of the Sexes.

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