Question: My name is Ed. I'm from the Philadelphia office, part-time organizer, Philadelphia University. Okay.

I want to know--you were talking a lot about Christianity, and I've been studying that for a while. I consider myself a Christian, and I was wondering--I've been reading a lot about fundamentalism and all that kind of stuff. I was wondering if the Bible is not as true as it should be, what might one want to study?

LaRouche: Well, I went through all of this stuff as a young man and child. I got real exposure to all this stuff, and I'll tell you, I knew the Bible backwards and forwards, knew what various people, various religious groups taught, and as I got through the process, by adolescence I said, "Most of this is bunk, you know." And I settled on a couple of things: the first chapter of Genesis, and, especially, the writings of the Apostles Paul and John. Because those express the essence of Christianity. And you think of Christ personally, himself, as depicted in such things as, I think rather excellently, in Bach's--several versions of the Passion of St. John and St. Matthew. But you realize that the conception of Christ as a person who is dedicated to all of humanity, to save humanity; and you look at the image of Christ in the times he lived. A terrible affliction had descended on civilization and the entire region. The Emperor Augustus had established his empire, in concert with a bunch of Satanic characters at about the time--during the time that Christ, Christ's birth occurred during that period. Christ was murdered by order of the Emperor Tiberius, who was the next emperor. And it was done through Pontius Pilate, who was the son-in-law, under Roman law, of Emperor Tiberius, who was sent to Judea, among other things, to do that job.

So, Christ died for all of humanity in the sense of realizing that humanity was at the point of being destroyed.

Now, Christianity had a certain special quality: Contrary to all the nuts, Hebrew was not spoken in the Middle East, in the time of Christ. It was a dead language. The key thing was, it was--the written alphabet survived in part, but, at ... [tape change] ... existed only as a written language, which was highly subject to various interpretations. Secondly, the Hebrew texts of that period came from two reforms, so-called, the first done by the Babylonian priesthood, which revised the Hebrew texts. For example, the Adam and Eve story, is a Babylonian myth, and you observe that the Adam and Eve story in Genesis, and the story of Creation in Chapter One of Genesis, are different. Adam and Eve did not exist for Moses. Adam and Eve was a myth of the Babylonians, which was stuck in, synchretically, into the Hebrew writings, by orders of the conquering--like Adolf Hitler--began to write the Hebrew Gospels or something, eh? Then you had a second one, that was done by the Archemaenids; again, they got the Jewish priests, the rabbis, so-called, they get them into Babylon again, and they put them through another brainwashing. So that much of the Old Testament is brainwashing. And it was understood by most scholars, but people said, "I don't want to touch it. I won't touch it. Let's say the Bible is this. Let's not try to sort out what's real, and what's not real."

So, I stick with [myself?]. I have nothing to do with any quaint or quirky religious beliefs. I stick to what I know, that is, what I actually know. Not what somebody tells me I should believe. What I know is, that I know as a matter of science, that Genesis I is correct. Okay. I know that what Christ represents, as in the Gospel of John, which is not contradicted by the accounts of Matthew and so forth, and what Paul represents--it's what I understand. I understand Christ. I understand what that means. So, that's it. So I just simply avoid these other issues, because they're not relevant to me. That Christ died to save humanity is clear. That Martin Luther King saw himself as walking in the imitation of Christ, in the role his chose toward the end of his life, when he had to go through his own Gethsemane. That's true. And therefore, I just avoid these other things as superfluous; I ignore a good deal about theology and things of this type as a scientist. It's my area. But, I just stay away from anything that's dubious, quirky, or quaint, and stick to what I know to be true. Which is what I advise everybody to do.

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