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25 Prophetsas, despite believing in the 'suicide' of Jesus- as the Christians profess-could not save themselves from immoralities, and nor could the Jesus' grand- mothers do so, it conclusively proves that such false Atonement cannot save anyone from carnal desires, nor could it save Jesus himself. Look how he followed Satan, 6 while it was most unbecoming of him to do so. Perhaps it was because of this that he was filled with such remorse that when someone hailed him as 'good' 6 Note: Present day European philosophers, despite being Christians, do not accept that Satan lured Jesus and took him up on a mountain, for they do not believe in the embodiment of Satan. In fact, they don't believe in Satan's existence at all. However, regardless of what these philosophers think, one objection is certainly valid, that had this episode taken place in the mountains inhabited by the Jews and on the paths they frequented, then, of a necessity, not only Jesus but many Jews would also have seen that par- ticular Satan. And without doubt, Satan would not have looked like ordinary humans but would have appeared as a bizarre creature, likely to amaze the onlookers. Thus, if Jesus had really seen Satan in the conscious state, it is inevitable that thousands of Jews would have done so as well, and a crowd would have gathered. But nothing of the kind happened. Euro- pean researchers, therefore, cannot accept it as an objective phenomenon. On the other hand, it is because of such absurd fantasies-including the claim of Jesus' divinity-that they salute the Gospels from a safe distance. Recently a European scholar has expressed the following opinion about the Gospels of the Christians. He says that all that is required to convince a sensible person that the Gospels are the creation of the human mind-and a wild creation at that-is simply to ask him to read it. This gentleman fur- ther says, 'Read the Gospel as an ordinary book, remove the blindfold of reverence from your eyes, drive away the spectre of fear from your heart and free your mind of superstitions; if you study the Gospel having done all this, you will wonder how you could, even for a moment, have considered