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… and the love of God
It’s a well worn path and so long as we have the insane in our midst it will never be resolved. The insane (as I define them) are the ones who not only ignore Reality but twist it to pervert the minds of the gullible innocent—for their own selfish gain.
I happened across and was impressed by:
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http://aerinndis.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/saudi-babies-abandoned-in-us/#comment-931
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http://aerinndis.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/changes-in-the-quran/#comment-930
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A Saudi woman trying with a degree of desperation to warn western women of the dangers involved in becoming involved with a Saudi male. Apparently Islam as practised in Saudi Arabia tends to treat women ‘not nicely’. The religious leaders are adamant that Men are infinitely superior and their women are vehicles for procreation only (and none too sanitary at that). To each is own.
I’VE STATED OFTEN ENOUGH without serious challenge that a person’s religion is essentially a matter of geography and/or timing. At another time or in another place you, you devout Bible-thumping God-fearing (fear? Why?) Christian could (would) equally be/have been a Jain, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Shintoist, Jew, Wiccan … ad infinitum. But whatever you are now you won’t have a bar of it, of course. I like that in an open mind, brook no argument.
IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN you are a follower of the One True God, who gave his only beloved son etc etc (query: are the Catholics still burning Protestants at the stake? Are the Protestants still torturing Catholics? It’s so hard to keep up …) and will brook no discussion, argument, or anything less than total obeisance. To God. As seen by you.
IF YOU ARE A MUSLIM you are a follower of the One True God etc etc … (whether Sunni or Shi’ite. Or whatever else) and will brook no discussion, argument, or anything less than total obeisance. To God. As seen by you.
IF YOU ARE A JEW you are a follower of the One True God etc etc … and will brook no discussion, argument, or anything less than total obeisance. To God. As seen by you.
GOD, of course, is (a) almighty (means omnipotent) and (b) infinitely merciful and compassionate. Being that the same God serves in the same office for Jews, Christians, and Muslims an outsider might think that there is hope for the future; but no, that same merciful all-loving Compassionate omnipotent floats idly by whilst the Jews of Israel rain blazing phosphorus down on Islamic universities and the terrorists of Islam fire home-made rocket-bombs across the border into the Lands God gave His chosen people millennia back. God loves a good scrap, it seems—knowing the future in advance must make it hard for him to take bets with Himself as to the outcome, but being omnipotent (can do anything) of course that’s no problem.
RELIGION WHILST MAKING NO SENSE to a rational person is nonetheless a marvellous way for the unscrupulous to exploit their fellow beings—for the acquisition of power and wealth. And this is entirely what it is all about.
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I BELIEVE IN THE RIGHTS OF MAN
Where ‘Man’ means humankind as a whole. As a whole, note—if you are male or female, black or white, green, old or young, yellow, or purple spotted with big warts … so long as you are Human you have Human Rights.
One of those Human Rights is the right to believe in whatever irrational conjured-up ‘divine’ being you wish. You have the right to believe in your God, gods, goddesses, godlets, or even the Great Sacred Earthworm if you wish—and I would fight for your right to be that irrational if I had to. Would that the followers of the Abrahamic religions would do so …
THE MISTAKE YOU MAKE is in trusting the soothsayers who put themselves forward as God’s voice. If the Omnipotent (means He/She can do absolutely anything) wants to talk to you … do you honestly think for one moment that He or She would need a blasted priest, mullah, imam, saint, angel or whatever translating His words?
So … what is in it for the mullah, priest, or other con-man? As they say in America “Follow the money!” and it makes very good sense to see exactly who it is that prospers by yoking the power of your beliefs (CLUE: it isn’t you).
ORGANISED RELIGION is Big Business, nothing more and nothing less. Big business seeking power not over your soul but over you. Organised religion is prostitution to a very large degree: “You’ve got it, you sell it, you’ve still got it”. So who is the prostitute, who the ‘John’, and who the pimp?
Christian, Jew, Muslim … same God, different franchise. Born in Saudi Arabia there’s an almost certainty that you will will be/are Muslim. The religious leaders have set it up to be so. Born in the great Bible-belt of the USA there’s an almost certainty that you will be Christian, and for the same reasons.
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IF I COULD OFFER JUST ONE RULE to the victims of geopolitical indoctrination it would be simply this: look for contradictions (and don’t be fobbed off with pap answers):
CONTRADICTIONS DO NOT—CAN NOT—EXIST
—where ever you find an apparent contradiction look to the premises, one of which at least is false.
Loving, merciful, compassionate all-powerful God … and napalm? Aw, come on, give me a break …
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