heres my take on the whole thing and this will be long and drawn out so bear with my poor grammer and spelling errors
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1. all of humanity simply cannot contemplate its own creation, therefore we cannot except that we are here just to be here, there must be a purpose for us all to be here, some greater plan for each of us, some mystical thing we cant see but must feel to go on.
2. religion is a form of control, most major laws came from religious insperation, thou shalt not kill, murder is a crime.
3. at our simplest form we are animals, the same as any other creature on the planet, we beleive we are better because we can create and design and plot and plan, alot of animals have these abilities, some monkeys in the rain forest use sticks and rocks as crude tools, much the same as science believes cavemen did thousands of years ago, i had a dog who if you corrected when he didnt feel he should of been, or left alone, or in some way shape or form crossed, he would either destroy one of the items you liked alot, such as cassette tapes, pictures, magazines anything he could get ahold of, or he would pee and crap all over the house while you were gone, so this proves that animals can reason and have some sense of logic to them. How then can we claim we are so much better, every animal fights for supremecy man is no different we all want to be top dog its a natural part of our makeup of course in any group there are those content to follow they make up the pack and theres nothing wrong with that, just see it in that light for what it is.
4. human history is filled with religious accusations of wrong doing by one culture to another, the germans beleived they were decended from ancient arion(spelling?) blood making them superior to the rest of the world because as anyone knows arions were the race of the people on atlantis, hitler beleived this so much that he set up several large groups to investigate his wild claims and to further push his propganda, and you know what the churchs official stand on it was? not our problem...they ignored the whole thing, kind of hypocritical isnt it? how bout them judgeing all of us as sinners because we arent in church every weekend giving our hard earned money to a corupt group of bible toting hypocrits? doesnt the bible say several times judge ye not your fellow man for only god can judge them or something to that effect?
5. there are more errors and incositencies in the bible than in the michal jackson trial, fully functional people honestly beleive that this book is the word of god, that he somehow told men to write these pages, but how can an all knowing being leave such a bumbled up mess of instructions? read the whole bible and count how many times it actually tells you to do an act of violence against your neighbors, such as when it states that any unruley child should be stoned, any man with long hair should be cast off and made to feel shameful.
Isn't it time that humanity as a whole realizes its time to abolish god from being connected to any state function or logic? they have a hard enough time figureing things out without god messing with their minds, as it sits now we ended up with dubya in charge again( great going to the thousands of idiots and rejects that had to vote for that puss to have a second term and screw things up even worse) i fully beleive that until we can transcend these roles of man, women, child, mother, doctor, rich, poor and see us all as the same species, the same chemical makeup be it white,black,brown or any combo inbetween, we all eat sleep and breathe, cant that be enough?
Religion has evolved the same as mankind has, back when we first learned to navigate the earth we found out that many other people worshipped multiple gods, it was the standard, the romans, the greeks, the norse, the egyptions, all of them worshipped multiple gods along with hundreds of other little religious devisions, keep in mind that all of these developed unassisted by any crossing of the tribes, no one traveled that far back then, anything past eyesite was to far for the most part, then the romans seeing that their way of life was quickly coming apart decided they needed a change, they realized that they were cruicifying alot of guys who claimed to be the son of god(yes there were literally hundreds of guys running around the deserts claiming to be the messiah, dont beleive me look it up) they realized they had a unique oppurtunity to create a society of control, a rigid control that could be enforced thru fear, the ultimate controlling agent this led to catholicism, hence roman catholic, from there they spread this plague on the world slowly stomping out religion after religion until only one was left, even now jehovas witnesses still try to spread the word of god to as many who will listen as possible, if you follow the expansion of christianity across the world you will see the slow and steady dieing of advances, in these early days there was no hell in this book, it wasnt a demonic goat it was just a story of an angel who challenged god and fell before his might, a story to show that challenging his word was useless because you would fall in the end. in the 15th century a preist who had in previous years been a very immoral person, aggravated that he couldnt receive the holy spirit locked himself in his room for 2 weeks, he claimed to have seen visions of hell and wrote a new chapter about how life in sin will lead to purgatory for eternity, so ashamed of what he had done in previous days that he condemed everything he had done himself, drinking, sex, same sex relationships, all of it was stomped into the mud as hard as possible, and this new image of hell was created, the ruler a demonic image of fear and loathing a creature that fed on the immoral acts of these people and would consume their soul for eternity for any wrong doing they ever did. keep in mind this was created by a disgruntled preist, its open knowledge easily researched by anyone who wants to challenge that. now in later years the idea of the devil being a goat/human variation took some life, i forget the artists name but he created the first image of the goat/human devil and his throne until then the devil was a demonic mutliheaded creature. this was a time when the world was very strict on itself, this is around the time that circumsicion caught on heavily, if you can find copies of the old texts from doctors books the actual reason for this surgery was to create an uncomfortable pulling and stretching feeling whenever a man was to get aroused, in effect preventing self pleasure, or much pleasure of any kindthe thought was to prevent these acts, thousands of products were patented in this time span to stop or prevent arousal of any kind from men. the world was so oppressed that we couldnt even comprehend a basic human function, trying to opress it even harder. human history is full of these kinds of things, wars over religion are as hard fought as wars over what is felt is owed, its so sad that we cant even open our eyes and see the destruction and devastation that we are asking for, and giving so freely this country has unleashed masses and masses of devastation the likes of which none of us could ever understand we are the loved grand child of a rich relative who has passed on and left his fortune to us, we give these man children power beyond our wildest dreams then sign up in rows to serve under them, yes i'll go off to war and fight for something i dont believe in, just because someones voice is louder does not make this voice more correct than your own. we as a whole have yet to grow up and see this world for what it is, i lump myself in this category freely because i understand that there is much to learn and much to see but i feel on a maturity level on an insight level i am a few notches up from the average street walking adult, be it arrogant or ignorant its my point of veiw and i'll fight till the death to say it and i commend anyone who is willing to do the same i fully support our U.S Troops home or abroad the work they do is above and beyond what anyone should ever be asked to do and they do it daily and walk with pride, my hats off to any enlisted man. i dont however support our current president, or his choices/ people he brought in with him they havent made many smart choices and this crap about the us being the moral majority is insane, we cant even deal with the simple issues we have in this country, any loving couple should be allowed to marry, god would want it that way, better to be happy than to be right in the eyes of those around you, weed should be legal, god put it here leave it at that natural selection should be enforced brutally if need be, but with rules, any baby that is born and can sustain its own life is obviously qualified, if a child is born and has a mental handicap but is physically capable of living then i guess thats ok to, if a child is born completely cripple, or with serious complications and will require extra ordinary means to survive for an extended period of time why force them to suffer? abortions should be legal but should be limited to certian situations, such as rape victims, incest victims, and younger girls who accidentally end up preggo from jerk of a boyfriend or another such accidental situation but should be limited to time available for this procedure there are some very sick varitions of this procedure out there. health care should be made available to anyone who needs it and taxes should be reduced, if we as americans can survive on minum wage then why cant the goverment do the same? these huge budgets for stupid crap like toilets are insane, if i cant pay my debt at the end of the year they will take my stuff away, yet the goverment has rode a debt for over a hundred years sounds like bad management to me, second i dont think churches should be tax free once they can claim more than a 20% profit that isnt shown as going to local charities, or the community as a whole, i'm tired of seeing preachers drive caddys while their worshippers have to walk 5 blocks to get there and listen.
J~ these are my opinions and go alittle further than the context given here but if i'm gonna rant i might as well spit it all out.
