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Religions > Atheism |
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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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16 Oct 2005 06:59:08 PM |
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My god is better than your god |
http://www.rense.com/general67/thequintessential.htm
The Quintessential False Dichotomy
Criticism of religion is only fair when the critic isn't saying
"My God is better than your God'
By John Kaminski
skylax@comcast.net
10-11-5
Although I am not a practitioner of Islam, I defend Muslims because
they are constantly and unfairly slandered by a vicious media spin
machine attempting to create an enemy where none exists - with
inflammatory prejudices from the untrustworthy lips of slithering
hypocrites trying to promote the bogus authenticity of their own creed
at the expense of innocent strangers who live far away and possess
precious commodities coveted by others.
Although I am not a practitioner of Judaism, I defend Jews who are
unfairly criticized for slyly undermining the moral character of
Christian nations, when in fact the existing social oppression in
these Christian nations provided the opportunity for secular Jews to
persuade the public they were being needlessly enslaved by rules that
only benefited the holy men who controlled them.
Although I am not a practitioner of Christianity, I defend Christians
who are unfairly maligned for their pure beliefs, even though they may
be based on questionable historical facts. There is no doubt that the
truly believing Christian heart has the best interests of the universe
as its goal, though in their rapturous piety, fundamentalist god
blatherers have become silent and unknowing victims of perfidious
perverts practicing exactly the opposite of what they preach - to be
specific, who preach hate instead of love and back it up with
instantaneous mass murder on demand.
Each of these belief systems controls the minds of significant
segments of humanity's unitary consciousness, and billions of
individuals are buffeted this way and that by the pronouncements of
living cultural icons who are nurtured and promoted for their public
roles by influential men who profit by their obedience, spreading
blood like storms in every land.
By far, the most important of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not
kill." Why is the people who talk most about God do it to justify
killing?
These homicidal robots like George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth and Ariel
Sharon all operate with the supernatural sanction of the media church,
and mask their crimes in hollow hymns to their own magnificence while
the transfixed masses sway in Pentecostal ecstasy to the lunatic media
circus triumphalizing the ravaging of our own nest.
The real problem with these systems - and all the other permutations
generating every conceivable stripe of social fellowship throughout
the world - is that they predicate their own value on the narcissistic
necessity that they are the sole executors and operators of the one
truth path. This is a pattern that guarantees ceaseless conflict for
as long as the unitary mind of the species is undermined and sabotaged
by the psychological need of individuals to embed themselves in a
social context and strive to emulate the poisoned prescriptions of the
hive mind as the most valid measure of their happiness.
Keep it simple, stupid.
We're all the same. Humans of any origin under any condition have
always had the potential to become the most important person on the
planet. The vast majority of humans born into this sublime paradise
called Earth live their lives as decent, cooperative, sincere and
principled individuals. Everyone realizes that the greatest freedom
possible is for any individual to do exactly what she wants with her
life.
Anybody who tells you different is either shuckin' and jivin' or he
has his hand in your pocket.
So why do we have all this stupid strife?
Because it's profitable. There, in three words, is the history of the
world.
And don't kid yourself - we're all signed onto this program. Luxurious
leisure is what we're all after - the time to pursue who we are,
because if we can do that, the rest will all fall into place. That's
freedom.
Man conquered nature. I don't think it's too early to say nature will
vomit up its tumors should humans continue to be so thoughtlessly
toxic (although I've been saying that for 40 years). Perhaps this is
the message in the rash of hurricanes that have suddenly developed as
new mobilization points for the corporate war machine, assuming this
new meteorological plague is not merely another government program
like AIDS, fluoride, aspartame, chemtrails, white flour, and child
kidnappings, not to mention thimerosal, depleted uranium, MSG, Prozac
and, well, you know the list, or should, if you harbor any actualized
interest in your own survival.
It seems to me we need to do things to close the gap between this
artificial life that is constantly crammed down our throats - making
stars on Star Search - and what we know in our inmost hearts is the
right way to live, regardless of creed or tribe.
The tangible reality that underpins the context in which we live our
lives that begins with our feet attached to the surface of the planet
and stretches through the birth of our children and the deaths of our
parents.
Though it is most important to us, it is virtually never discussed in
public media. As a result the forces of shameless profit are able to
kill off thousands of people at a time with sadistic stratagems, and
we relegate the daily shock into a news brief to be consumed during
our misprioritized leisure.
What's that about?
That we've fouled our nest is a serious understatement. We have
chosen, willingly, to live in a sewer. This is directly attributable
to letting profit be our real god. And we're only getting what we
deserve, not to even mention that we're doing it to ourselves.
For most, children are their signature contribution to human society.
But the herd doesn't run without herding - or so the Illuminati tell
us, in myriad ways, from your TV sitcoms to your presidential
pronouncements - so instead humanity sweeps across the planet killing
practically everything in its wake, including, most especially, itself.
And we all snatch our piece of whatever pie we can master, somewhere
along the line learning the bigger the pie, the better the snatch.
Where is that boundary many of us cross from getting enough to really
getting enough, and in the process forgetting .... well, you probably
know the tune. Maybe it's addiction to life, and we always want more.
Because if you don't know that boundary, you're not really living, not
really a decent person. Soldiers and politicians should be shunned. If
everyone ignored the government - because it sure ignores us - maybe
it would just go away. I know, the world doesn't work that way.
And when I say, "But, it's killing us," the most common reaction is
that Leave It to Beaver shrug, ballcap askew.
Religion is bondage conditioning, servitude to a bloodthirsty wraith
named Yahweh who orders his robots to obliterate the victims of his
robberies, and calls it holy.
And in the the trap of monotheism, the euphoric blindness of
transcendental ascension engulfs us in a poisoned fog of pious ecstasy
that prevents us from seeing the world clearly, and realizing that we
are all just people with the same basic needs.
Worse, the powers that be nurture these nagging hatreds for the
purpose of selling guns, and the men in long robes pronounce these
matters "holy."
During the Catholic Inquisition, priests determined the fate of
"witches" with the following process: they were hogtied, weighted with
stones, and dropped in a lake. If they floated, they were guilty and
put to death, all their property confiscated. If they sank to the
bottom and died, they were judged innocent, but, as they were dead,
all their property was confiscated.
Tell me, my friend, how is it any different today? Except that the
rabbis are now rendering the verdicts. But the rule that they may kill
anyone they want for any reason at all is still, as so many people
know, very much in force.
And all propelled by the deceptive moneymaking operation that pits
Team A versus Team B, while the puppeteers who make the rules we live
by sit back, chuckling at the gore and smiling knowingly at homosexual
prostitutes in the White House press corps, and count the money.
Convincing us we are different - be it through language, or custom, or
religion - is the single biggest mistake ever made by the human
species. Every current indicator shows this was ultimately the reason
for our extinction.
John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida
(still sizzling with noxious fumes) who Internet essays are seen on
hundreds of websites around the world. http://www.johnkaminski.com/
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Bush is a Christian. Get over it!
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: My god is better than your god |
16 Oct 2005 07:02:44 PM |
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:59:08 GMT, (Fredric L.
Rice) wrote:
Queen Elizabeth, a "homicidal robot"? What kind of loony are you?
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: My god is better than your god |
16 Oct 2005 09:54:21 PM |
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Christopher A. Lee wrote:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:59:08 GMT, (Fredric L.
Rice) wrote:
Queen Elizabeth, a "homicidal robot"? What kind of loony are you?
Yet another self-appointed netcop who can't tell a quote
from the poster.
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
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"I always thought our house was haunted,
'Cause nobody said boo to me."
- John Hiatt
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| User: "Nosterill" |
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| Title: Re: My god is better than your god |
17 Oct 2005 08:18:46 AM |
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wrote:
Christopher A. Lee wrote:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:59:08 GMT, (Fredric L.
Rice) wrote:
Queen Elizabeth, a "homicidal robot"? What kind of loony are you?
Yet another self-appointed netcop who can't tell a quote
from the poster.
Whoever wrote it, it deserves to be corrected. Queen Elizabeth has no
real power. I'm not sure that even Tony Blair is strictly a "homicidal
robot". For reasons that are not entirely clear to me he chooses to
follow Bush's lead.
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| User: "Brian E. Clark" |
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| Title: Re: My god is better than your god |
19 Oct 2005 11:30:21 AM |
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In article <1129555126.370466.35540
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Nosterill said...
Whoever wrote it, it deserves to be corrected. Queen Elizabeth
has no real power.
If so, she's the only fabulously wealthy woman in all the world
who holds no real power. :)
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Brian E. Clark
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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19 Oct 2005 12:35:16 PM |
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:30:21 -0400, Brian E. Clark
<reply@newsgroup.only.please> wrote:
In article <1129555126.370466.35540
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Nosterill said...
Whoever wrote it, it deserves to be corrected. Queen Elizabeth
has no real power.
If so, she's the only fabulously wealthy woman in all the world
who holds no real power. :)
She owns huge country estates plus income property in Mayfair. But as
Queen she is simply a figurehead.
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