Catholics Beware
First...I am no longer associating myself with the Catholic Church. VICTORY! I have not lost my faith, just not going to listen to the hypocrites anymore. Organized religion is the greatest "CON" ever pulled on the Human Race. Everything we do is for survival purposes and religion has allowed a select group of us to control the rest. As we gain intelligence we appreciate the faerie tales for their message, right? We don't allow the "make-believe" to cloud our quest for knowledge, right? I won't allow myself to be brainwashed any longer!
I would venture to remind all Humans that with religion or without, this earth is not ours to abuse indiscriminately. People today hide behind religion to protect their ability to be hypocritical and to get what they WANT. The attitude of I will choose who to help, who to kill, who to hate, and who to love. Is this starting to sound like selfishness or ego? Either way, it cannot be what your God tells you to do. But since the reality is people do make these choices, I want everyone to consider how your belief in your religion has truly made you a better person. And then consider giving "EVERYTHING" you possess to that organization. E V E R Y T H I N G! What now...too hard to do. Just keep on living your hypocritical life and leave me out of it. Keep up appearances America. In God we trust until he gets in our way!
If you find yourself writhing in furious disbelief at these accusations, please find the time to remind yourself that the bum you passed on the street is one of "God's" children too. What did your conviction to your religion compel you to do? Further more, how can you justify that God wants us to fight any war? Guess what...God does not want it, Humans do!
Organized Religion is the cause of all wars and the when religion is defeated, war will be defeated. Stop staring at the shadows and come with me to explore. I compel you to!
As if I really need evidence:
Billy Graham should get an education. Other than that of a Confidence Man.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/graham/208226_billy31.html
Try this site on for size. God.com must be raking in millions of dollars!! Pay particular attention to the claim of the internet being dominated by religion. Sounds like a theory worth testing and seems easy enough. So here are the true results as received from Google, arguably one of the biggest search engines around:
Sex:
355.000.000 listings in a mere 0.11 seconds. WOW!
God:
129.000.000 listings in a mere 0.08 seconds.
Now, my math may be rusty but it sure seems to me that there are 2.75 times the number of places to find sex on the internet. Maybe that's because sex leads to more Humans and more Humans is our true ultimate goal. (Thank you Jeff for reminding me it's fun too! Probably a good reason for that too!) If it comes to it...could you stomach the extinction of the Human Race if the choice were to believe in a God or believe in your own survival? Before you remind me that God will protect us even in death, what if there are no "us" to protect? Ummm...Darwin still has the edge folks, but keep right on trying to prove him wrong.
For fun, click the Spiritual Bazaar button. Seems appropriate that one of the descriptions applied to the site, or to Religion for that matter, is "Political Power Tool". Apologies for pointing out the obvious to those in the know, but for those who reside in shadows I have brought you some knowledge. What you do with it is your dilemma.
http://www.time.com/time/godcom/home.htmlUpdate: This is worth the read for anyone who might be locked into the "traditional" belief systems that organized religion has demanded for centuries. At least she has looked in the correct direction, not away from religion I agree, but the light is getting brighter.
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/bookshelf/ammerman_article2.html
This essay is about "Conversionsim vs. Brainwashing". Yes, it is yet more evidence that the two terms are indistinguishable, but I encourage you to draw your own conclusions.
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dbromley/ATaleofTwoTheories.htm
posted by cozy @ 1/31/2005 10:53:00 AM
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4 Comments:
What proof do you have that you are not the one chained to the bench fascinated by and yet frightened by the shadows... determined to kill the one who comes to tell you the reality?
lori
"Maybe that's because sex leads to more Humans and more Humans is our true ultimate goal."
I think it's because sex is fun, but I could be wrong.
Thank you Lori for reminding me that I may be the one lost soul in need of the same direction and leadership I am preaching about.
The main point I am trying to explore is so much bigger than any Organized Religion could accept that I have found it necessary to search for answers without the binding control of Religion.
I am tired of watching scientific exploration be pointed in the directions Reigious belief chooses. History has demonstrated, to all who care to listen, that this religious control has crippled Human scientific Knowledge. It is today crippling our ability to find understanding about the Universe we inhabit.
If you cannot see even an glimmer of truth in what I am discussing, then consider this. If the Catholic Church had it's way, We would all have to worry about sailing off the edge of the Earth. It is flat, right?
All I want to do is ask questions that cannot be influenced by any "man-made" religious organization. The ability to remove the chains and free myself from the bench has been acquired. The chains of religion and the bench of group think are behind me. And the magic of this Allegory I am so triumphantly touting, is the simpleness of it. The more you watch the shadows on the wall of the cave, the more you agree that shadows are all that exist. When you see someone turn and head for the light, your reaction is one of disbelief and fear.
I KNOW I am free of this cave. The unfortunate fact is, the small campfire that has been lighting the world for all of us is in a much bigger cave. In other words, there is a long way to go!
Final note: My belief is that when I am judged, if I am judged, I will be thanked for breaking the chains of mans egotistic character. I will be thanked for questioning everything. I will be thanked for being a FREE THINKER in a world of sheep.
Had to chime in here... I think that GOD would be disheartened by religions of today. The thought that one religion or another gets you closer to GOD or puts you in a better position to reach Heaven is Blasphemy.
God, and I did not always see eye to eye and in fact when he took my Dad and THEN made my mother die a slow and painful death I had a real problem with his methods. Although I don't believe I have ever forgiven him for that I do think I have figured out, for me at least, his creation.
He created Earth to be his "Church". I do not need to go into some stinking building and surround myself with hypocrites in order to communicate with GOD. I am in his church wherever I am and am in need of NO ONE to help me communicate with him.
I try to live well and make sure my family is OK. I can't believe that he would have a problem with that. Nor do I believe that he could possibly need help pointing out my success or failure to me personally.
TIM Gildea
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