Religion

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Religion is cool in that it helps bring people together to believe in something - to believe in God, and to believe in an afterlife. There is a lot of good in religion - people are taught to be nice because they will then go to heaven. But there is a lot of bad in religion. Many/most wars have begun because of people's intolerance toward other religious beliefs.  Religion does not teach tolerance of beliefs - most have the philosophy that my way is only way to salvation. Religion is almost an accepted cultism. You are taught to believe only certain things, and not taught to be open-minded about other things. It's the difference between preaching what you "believe to be true", and "what you know to be true" (almost always the case).  The reason why there are so many different versions of religions is due to the fact that there is no proof of religious ideas.  Really, the only facts and life are math, science, physics, and most engineering, etc.  Some of the smartest people I know have been so dumified by the religion process, which brainwashes you to be locked into the belief system which is so speculative, with very little proof behind their beliefs - just unproven theories about how things work and how to get to heaven, and prevent going to hell.

Both my parents are Catholic.  My mother was a devout Catholic for all of her life. The system taught her that she could not use birth control. She had six children in seven years, which strained her health (and the baby's) and felt nearly killed her (5th child has severe asthma and the 6th died of SIDS at 3 months, maybe of asthma attack). She liked getting laid, but the rhythm method was not working (This may be party why I'm so fertile).  Even though she loved having children, that was way too many in such a short time.  She starting rethinking things - she broke free of the brainwashing (trance), started having some common sense about life.  She said, "You know what, something is not right here.  I should be able to choose how I run my life.  I did appreciate the things I learned in a Catholic upbringing because it makes me a better human, but there are things about this that are just plain wrong.  That's why she did not raise her children to a religious upbringing, so we could learn life on our own.

The ideology that children are born with sin (Original Sin) is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard.  If you believe this, I'm personally calling you an idiot.  It is amazing what people will believe based on hearsay - very little proof, just theories.  Yes, there maybe was this guy named Jesus, who demonstrated the power of God, and he had some things to say, but the testament is largely based on hearsay and the beliefs of other people from 2000 years ago, who barely had an education, mostly illiterate, thought the Earth was the center of the universe, and were so stupid that they would kill a guy with supernatural powers. And we're suppose to believe advise from these idiots about religion and spirituality.  I've talked to some fairly intelligent people, who are so brain warped, and they say some of the stupidest things, that defy all logic, all in the name of their religious beliefs (based on the Bible). They are so close minded, that when they witness a guy like John Edward, who demonstrates psychic abilities by talking with the dead, and states that there is no heaven and hell up in spirit land, they claim that he is just the work of the devil to deceive us, because he has to be wrong about the afterlife.  That crop circles and UFOs seen via videotape are all just hoaxes - ALL of them. These people are so stupefied that they would deny ALL videotaped evidence as a hoax, and then try to tell me that their belief system, which has no proof - no video tape - is supposed to be the truth.  Heck, how do we know Jesus even existed?  No one has shown any proof of God, Heaven, or Hell, but we're suppose to believe the idiots who killed him and others who allowed him to be killed.  Then were supposed to believe the statement that "Jesus died for our sins", so that we can be sinful and still go to heaven.  Now that seems like a stupid statement, that I can do wrongs, then I can go to heaven as long as I admit that I need God.  Heck, these people didn't know the world was round until 100 years (maybe wasn't until 1500ad with Magellan/Columbus - a stupidity cover-up) after the Old Testament was written, and we're going to base our beliefs on this kind of intelligence.  Supposedly, the Old Testament very accurately predicted where Jesus will be born (Bethlehem), and some major events of his life - his betrayal, his death, and then his resurrection. Yet the Old Testament (and the people who wrote it) couldn't predict that the earth revolves around the sun instead of everything revolving around Earth.  Poor Galileo was nearly beheaded by the church in 1600 for claiming that Earth revolved around the sun, or that Earth rotated on its axis.  The church, scared the Bible would lose credibility for this, now admitted that, for 2000 years, "we just interpreted the Bible/scriptures incorrectly - incorrect translation", that the Bible was actually correct.  Isn't that convenient.  I guess it's easier to believe this hearsay (couldn't be rigged, of course) than it is to believe the video tapes of UFOs (claims are a total hoax).  Richard Burton also feels the need to cover up the stupidity of the flat earth myth.  Sorry Richard, they were stupid back then.  You know, these days, when a breed of dog grows a really cool blue-haired tail, they mate that dog as much as possible to see if it will happen again in it's offspring - as a new breed perhaps.  2000 years ago, it may have been beneficial to have Jesus have some offspring to see if his powers were genetic.  Again, incredibly stupid people.  Why do you think I've been protected, and why I've got ladies waiting for me - because we're smart and experimentally curious, not stupid and absurd.

Religion is big business, you know.  They have a huge investment to protect. Where there's big business, there's usually corruption.  That's why it didn't surprise me (actually I couldn't believe my ears) when I heard that priests in the Catholic Church were banging boys.  I really can't put in the words how unbelievable this behavior is for our leaders of religion.  They will definitely be going to Hell.  I was relieved to learn, though, that they had a special meeting in which they declared a "no tolerance policy" for this kind of behavior.  Whew, we needed a meeting to clear that up!

The lack of religious intolerance, unlike Unitarian, resulting in wars and death, is why I'm not terribly happy with religion. We need to be more open-minded until somebody can provide hard proof that their beliefs are correct.  Soon, I will be able to show you I'm for real, and we can start to resolve your beliefs.

There's been some debate about Jesus - whether it be his actual birth date, to a debate about whether he actually existed. Similar to the myth of vampires and whether Elvis actually died, could the story of Jesus be a myth which manifested it itself to the point in which two billion people now believe everything in the Bible.  Another point - if you whisper something in this someone's ear and a pass it on the next person - after 10 people, the original story will transform into something different than the original.  Scriptures were written decades after Jesus died.  Who knows what really happened, and how many people (eyes) transformed the story from what actually happened into was supposedly happened, before it became public.

I guess what bewilders me is that if Jesus had all these godly powers then why didn't he work his magic on the entire world. The people back then would never have imagined an airplane or computer back then, but anyone, thousands of years ago, thought "I wish I could fly like a bird".   Jesus could easily have conjured up a hand-held device that said "fly", then when we held it, we could fly.  And this would be good for eternity, so that we, 2000 years later, could experience the power of God, to let us know that Jesus and the power of god does exist.  Also, something that could have easily been created is a hologram of Jesus, speaking his word for an entire 50 hours.  This way, not only would it demonstrate the power of God (via the hologram - because holograms don't even exist today except in movie magic), but it would also tell his word as he said it, because it couldn't be anybody else's word.  If we saw and heard him there'd be no doubt we're hearing his words.  Idiots would then argue that he would still have variations of interpretation of his words. That's probably true to some extent, but it would only be five variations - far less than a thousand and one variations of the bible we have today. To further demonstrate the power of God, that hologram could be made to ask a question, and we would get a response from the hologram of Jesus, eventually eliminating the variations in interpretation.  It seems so simple.  Instead, we have no proof of Jesus or God, no proof of his word, and hundreds of years of war is based on intolerance of religious beliefs.

And the concept that Jesus had to die a horrible and miserable death. I've heard reasons for this - he had died because he was healing people, or he had died because he was healing people on the Sabbath (sunset on Friday to sunset Saturday), and here's the best one - he had to die so we could be sinful, yet forgiven through him.

I get hardly any bad vibes from older folks, say 60 and over. Maybe it's because they're contemplating death pretty soon and becoming desperate for answers to the afterlife after decades of hearing BS in church.  Then when they hear about me, they're so relieved, they can't ponder the thought that I'm a false prophet, thus they don't become type 6, and accept me for the wonderful person nobody will admit that I am.

In 1993, I went to a conventional Christian church for about six months because I wanted to play in the band. When it came time for the sermon, I tried desperately to listen and makes sense of what the pastor was saying. Unfortunately, it only took about 3 minutes before I realized it just didn't click with me. Each Sunday I tried, but to no avail. I'll try to show you what I mean.  Check out this clip.  I love to learn, but there's nothing to learn here, except this makes no sense.  Pay notice to the phrase, "Jesus takes responsibility for bad things that he never did, so you can be credited with good things that you haven't earned."  I was so mesmerized where I first heard this - it was like some weird brain puzzle/twister.  This is how the religious hypnosis begins.  After your head stops spinning, try to understand what it means.  If you can do this, congratulations - you've now entered the realm of a zombie trance.  You are now willing to hear anything.  Now, try to make some sense of the statement.  If you believe it, congratulations - you've now entered into the realm of the stupid and are now willing to believe anything.  And what's amazing is the number of people in this world who believe this statement despite absolutely no proof of it's validation.

The way they prove it, is by saying Jesus said this.  If that's not proof enough, what they say is that if the Scriptures are correct, and you don't abide by the rules, then you won't be saved and perhaps go to hell, thus are you willing to take that risk?  That's a pretty big "if" if you ask me.  Preachers would threaten you with their philosophies, rather than pose the idea that God will probably forgive you for not believing "his supposed word".  After all, God is all-forgiving, right?  Not believing might be considered a sin, and God will forgive us - because after all, all we were asking for was some proof - proof of the scriptures, Jesus, God, God's power, heaven, or hell - something substantial to believe in besides hear-say.

Have you ever wondered why we spend billions of dollars every year to try to prolong our life-span and look young. It's instinctive to stay alive and look young and beautiful, whereas, if the Scriptures are correct, it benefits us to die so we can go to heaven.  Have I mentioned yet that I've been suffering for many years now.  I asked a friend, MC, why my life has to be so miserable that I can't just accept Jesus into my life, and then just die. Why do I need to suffer in my life.  He responded, "Well, we need to suffer to understand how much we need god."  Huh?  The stupidity never ceases to amaze me.  So why do we want to stay alive forever.  Why are we so mad at god when a loved one is taken early in life?  We should celebrate death, but instead, we absolutely hate it, lessened somewhat by the unproven theory that he/she went to heaven.  Why the instinct to absolutely hate death and to stay alive forever - it's because, eventually, we're meant to stay alive forever.  Maybe that gut instinct we all use in our daily lives is telling us something about our destiny!  Why do you think females are born with millions of eggs in their ovaries and yet only use a few hundred in their birthing years.  It's because the Game of Life knew women would be able to stay alive for millions of years at the physical age of 26, and they would need those eggs for thousands of years of fertility.  Ladies, don't be sad - we can make up a magic invisible tampon to minimize the headaches of that darn menstrual cycle (no more leakage), and use magic to deliver your baby instead of ripping apart and stretching your vaginal parts - no pain, all gain, right ladies!

Here's another clip that ok.

This guy is the real deal, conveying more truth, and admitting up front that his sermon is a joke.  And you get more from it, because laughter can cure cancer.

One reason why people don't like me is that they've been brainwashed their entire life with the idea of what God is like. One of the things they expect from God is that he is all forgiving.  I set foot into a Christian church on the 9 May 2004, for the first time in two years.  I absolutely love how the system works. They get 30 seconds in which to divulge all their sins in a prayer - all you have to do is simply think about which one gets forgiven, and it will magically happen - you're forgiven.  Heck that makes life easy for those Catholic priests who were banging boys.  After the ministry in which you're telling everybody how to achieve the Holy Spirit and go to heaven, then after the sermon, "Let's have some fun with little Timmy".  This behavior is simple if there's no deterrent involved.  I mean, simply confess your sins in your mind for 30 seconds on a Sunday morning.  That's a mighty convenient way to live life - with no deterrence other than what your mind thinks is wrong - the same mind that did the wrong.  The idea that, "I killed somebody last week". but "forgive me Jesus". To me, it makes absolutely no sense, that you can magically whisk away all your sins without having any repercussions, like the law, for instance.

Then when people find out about viewing the past - that can make some people very nervous - to be able to view a person's past and make judgment on them.  That is what the religions have been preaching right?  That God will judge.  Some people can't bear the thought that they will be judged before us all, right here on earth.  Didn't envision that, did we folks?  Bible didn't predict that, did it?  But there's going to be a whole bunch of people who are going to love me for what I'm going to do.   To make people honest - that's my goal in life - "To tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me I'm God"!

Given this new knowledge, here's my take of what happened with Jesus.  Mary rode some guy's stiff pony, and then claimed virgin.  Mary then had a baby named Jesus, born in Bethlehem like the Old Testament did predict.  In his journey, Jesus was then granted powers, very occasionally, to give us a taste of the power of god - to introduce us to him, and to give us hope for the future.  Meanwhile, Jesus and/or his disciples, would teach a philosophy which believes that if you commit a sin, that you can simply ask for forgiveness in your mind during church confession, and you are forgiven without punishment.  This is a perfect system in that if you kill someone or commit acts of terrorism, then you will be forgiven.  Romans then killed Jesus via a horrible death for your sins.  The prediction in the Old Testament was crucial, so that people would believe Jesus is the Savior, and cause 2 billion people to believe that it's OK to be sinful.

Much of the following comes mostly from a discussion I had with Pastor Bob (PB), from Assembly of God in Smallville.  Also, a little from (VW) from Marshall, (GL) from Smallville, (MC) from Smallville, and (PM) from Oregon.

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