[Please note: The “journey” to Realization has seven, clear-cut steps that must be taken in an exact order. The third step requires that persons first play a religious role or a spiritual role. Both must be transcended to continue, but either (or both) can serve as a step; however, it is far easier to move beyond a spiritual persona than a religious persona.]
F.: Yesterday, you were invited to consider what the effects might be on a child raised in any venue in which the abnormal is presented as normal, where the bizarre is "normalized." Also to be considered are the effects of “Psychological Transference” whereby the child hears authority figure bragging about a murderous god and also being told that the child is to be “godly” and “god-like.” The child will transfer that and assume that killing in the name of god is being “god-like” or “godly,” that killing is justifiable, and that killing is also the preferred course of action in many instances. When he sees the majority in his culture accepting that belief system and acting on it, he will not consider “murder under the right conditions” abnormal at all. Program a population with such beliefs and you’ll have nations of sociopaths willing to “love god and country enough” that they’ll support bombing the evil members of another religion; that they'll be willing to join together to cremate all the members of a different religion; that they'll be willing to die in order to kill; and that they’ll be willing to use all force necessary to destroy those with different beliefs, though all of them are worshipping the same god of Abraham but are divided by recognizing different prophets:
Half of the population of the U.S. nodded their heads in agreement when George W. Bush told a reporter that before he attacked Baghdad, he “talked to the Father” (pointing upward) and that the God of Abraham told him to bomb that city and to invade Iraq.
Bin Laden’s supporters nodded their heads in agreement when he claimed that the same God of Abraham guided him to attack the World Trade Center.
Many Jews nod their heads in agreement when their military and political leaders claim that the God of Abraham is guiding them to kill their neighbors in order to secure control over dirt that they think is holy.
Half of the population of the U.S. nodded their heads in agreement when George W. Bush told a reporter that before he attacked Baghdad, he “talked to the Father” (pointing upward) and that the God of Abraham told him to bomb that city and to invade Iraq.
Bin Laden’s supporters nodded their heads in agreement when he claimed that the same God of Abraham guided him to attack the World Trade Center.
Many Jews nod their heads in agreement when their military and political leaders claim that the God of Abraham is guiding them to kill their neighbors in order to secure control over dirt that they think is holy.
You are invited to get free of the emotional intoxication that is generated by your worship services, to look at the actual facts and the actual results of religion, and to recognize exactly how widespread religious-inspired fighting is. (Will you, or any religious persons, be able to do that? Not likely.) The invitation, however, is extended to see the preponderance of arguing and separation and chaos and war and death that have resulted from thousands of years of religious programming and conditioning. Can you not see the effects of the duality inspired by raising a child to sing on Sundays such words as "Onward Christian Soldiers" along with the perversion of singing about being "Washed in the Blood"? Can you not see the effects of the duality of raising Islamic children to classify all people as either "Muslim or infidel"? Can you not see the effects of the exclusivity of Judaism's "us vs. them" duality? Can you not see how all of that faulty programming and distorted conditioning has inspired Jews, Christians and Muslims to worship a destructive god, to model that murderous god, and to believe that all of their destructive conduct is not only “godly” but is also “normal” and acceptable? Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
