[Continued from yesterday. To look at the “inherent limitations and contradictions” of one’s religion or ideology or philosophy can allow one to begin questioning the validity of “their” teachings. Since the site visitor who wants to be free of concepts mentioned his thirty-year history with religion, the response is focusing on religious contradictions and dogma, all based in fiction rather than fact. Judaism was discussed yesterday. Today, the other two religions of Abraham will be discussed.]
Christianity: This religion teaches that its savior/prophet was “unique” because he was born of a virgin. In fact, even before the birth of Christ there were twenty-two other religions that had already been founded and were proclaiming that their prophets had been born of virgins. There was nothing at all “unique” about the story surrounding the birth of Jesus. (Since societies of that day stoned to death their unmarried pregnant women, then claims of virginal pregnancies as opposed to vaginal pregnancies would naturally become rather popular among unmarried pregnant women, would they not?) In addition to that basic contradiction, the Christian doctrine is peppered with other inconsistencies. Their savior is said to be “the prince of peace,” but he said, “I do not come in peace…I come with a sword.” His doctrine is supposed to based in "family-values," but he said that "you must hate your father, mother, brother, etc." and "I come to tell you that your family is your enemy." Why? Because family members are the earliest programmers who begin the process of bastardizing the consciousness. Furthermore, his Torah-based teachings when young were contradicted later—depending on his audience. While his followers claim that he came to “save” them so they could go to heaven, he said that “heaven and earth shall fade” and that “no one shall ever see the kingdom of heaven because it’s within.” His followers ignore his later Advaita-based teachings and his comments around the “I AM.”
If Christianity is the religion you’ve have “thirty years of involvement” with, and if you’re clinging to it in hopes of going to heaven, your prophet told you to forget that nonsense. Heaven and earth shall fade away when the consciousness fades away. Heaven is within, as is hell, meaning “in your ‘mind’.” Those are his ignored teachings. Furthermore, while looking at contradictions, is it not ironic that the “followers” of Christ are not following his example? Early on he quoted “holy” texts in “holy” buildings and taught the dogma of their organized religion. Later, he abandoned organized religion, he abandoned any “holy” text, he stopped teaching in their “holy” buildings, he quit teaching any “religious” message, and he shared spontaneously the Advaita teachings that he had learned while in exile. So how is it that his “followers” today have created in his name an organized religion, use what they take to be a “holy” text, now build “holy” buildings, and ignore his Advaita teachings? If your religion happens to be Christianity, might your consideration of those contradictions inspire you to question everything else they’ve come up with that is in opposition to their “prophet’s” Advaita teachings? And if you can question part of it, can you then find the courage to begin to question it all?
Islam: Contrary to whatever might be proclaimed in their “holy” books, many Islamic Sunnis currently have a desire to kill Islamic Shias and Jews and Christians; simultaneously, many Islamics Shias currently have a desire to kill Islamic Sunnis and Jews and Christians. So much for religion “bringing peace.” Also, even as Muslims claim that their religion focuses on the metaphysical, their male-dominated view of the afterlife focuses strictly on the physical. In their concept of heaven, not only virgins--but also thousands of prostitutes and wives--will supposedly be at the disposal of Islamic men who die in the process of killing infidels. Talk all they want about the metaphysical, but an eternal orgy with sex slaves at their beck and call certainly is about the physical and has nothing to do with anything metaphysical. If your religion happens to be Islam, might such blatant and ironic contradictions inspire you to question the rest of what they teach? And if you can question part of it, can you then find the courage to begin to question it all?
Finally, members of all three of those groups worship the god of Abraham, so if you want to continue the questioning process, consider what that god is supposed to be like. Then ask if such a god deserves your worship and adoration. But first, consider these questions:
1. Do you like murderers or those who start wars?
2. Do you like those who commit genocide, such as Hitler?
3. Do you approve of vampirism?
4. Do you approve of cannibalism?
If not, would you be willing to question at least part of the beliefs held by those among the three groups in order to be free of the programming that has you screaming “Help!”? Look rationally and logically and unemotionally at that god and apply the standards of your answers to 1-4 above:
1. Murderers: There has never been a serial killer who has murdered as many people as that god, according to reports in the text deemed “holy” by billions: 100,000 killed on one day; 6000 swallowed up in a hole in the earth on another day; entire cities and their inhabitants annihilated by use of fire; hundreds and hundreds of thousands killed in battles that he called for on other days. Later, he would even arrange for his son to be killed as a sacrifice. All of those are examples of premeditated murder. The battles he called for are examples of warmongering. Even today, the religious continue to cite instances of his continuing acts of premeditated murder: he allowed a five-year old to be killed by a drunk driver “because he needed another angel in heaven” and “he sent Katrina to kill people and destroy homes because he was made angry by sinners.” Do you like murderers and warmongers? If not, why would you even considering worshipping a murderer or warmonger? Only because of the concepts you have received via programming and conditioning, and only because that programming and conditioning included grave warnings about questioning anything. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [Tomorrow: Genocide, Vampirism, and Cannibalism]
Christianity: This religion teaches that its savior/prophet was “unique” because he was born of a virgin. In fact, even before the birth of Christ there were twenty-two other religions that had already been founded and were proclaiming that their prophets had been born of virgins. There was nothing at all “unique” about the story surrounding the birth of Jesus. (Since societies of that day stoned to death their unmarried pregnant women, then claims of virginal pregnancies as opposed to vaginal pregnancies would naturally become rather popular among unmarried pregnant women, would they not?) In addition to that basic contradiction, the Christian doctrine is peppered with other inconsistencies. Their savior is said to be “the prince of peace,” but he said, “I do not come in peace…I come with a sword.” His doctrine is supposed to based in "family-values," but he said that "you must hate your father, mother, brother, etc." and "I come to tell you that your family is your enemy." Why? Because family members are the earliest programmers who begin the process of bastardizing the consciousness. Furthermore, his Torah-based teachings when young were contradicted later—depending on his audience. While his followers claim that he came to “save” them so they could go to heaven, he said that “heaven and earth shall fade” and that “no one shall ever see the kingdom of heaven because it’s within.” His followers ignore his later Advaita-based teachings and his comments around the “I AM.”
If Christianity is the religion you’ve have “thirty years of involvement” with, and if you’re clinging to it in hopes of going to heaven, your prophet told you to forget that nonsense. Heaven and earth shall fade away when the consciousness fades away. Heaven is within, as is hell, meaning “in your ‘mind’.” Those are his ignored teachings. Furthermore, while looking at contradictions, is it not ironic that the “followers” of Christ are not following his example? Early on he quoted “holy” texts in “holy” buildings and taught the dogma of their organized religion. Later, he abandoned organized religion, he abandoned any “holy” text, he stopped teaching in their “holy” buildings, he quit teaching any “religious” message, and he shared spontaneously the Advaita teachings that he had learned while in exile. So how is it that his “followers” today have created in his name an organized religion, use what they take to be a “holy” text, now build “holy” buildings, and ignore his Advaita teachings? If your religion happens to be Christianity, might your consideration of those contradictions inspire you to question everything else they’ve come up with that is in opposition to their “prophet’s” Advaita teachings? And if you can question part of it, can you then find the courage to begin to question it all?
Islam: Contrary to whatever might be proclaimed in their “holy” books, many Islamic Sunnis currently have a desire to kill Islamic Shias and Jews and Christians; simultaneously, many Islamics Shias currently have a desire to kill Islamic Sunnis and Jews and Christians. So much for religion “bringing peace.” Also, even as Muslims claim that their religion focuses on the metaphysical, their male-dominated view of the afterlife focuses strictly on the physical. In their concept of heaven, not only virgins--but also thousands of prostitutes and wives--will supposedly be at the disposal of Islamic men who die in the process of killing infidels. Talk all they want about the metaphysical, but an eternal orgy with sex slaves at their beck and call certainly is about the physical and has nothing to do with anything metaphysical. If your religion happens to be Islam, might such blatant and ironic contradictions inspire you to question the rest of what they teach? And if you can question part of it, can you then find the courage to begin to question it all?
Finally, members of all three of those groups worship the god of Abraham, so if you want to continue the questioning process, consider what that god is supposed to be like. Then ask if such a god deserves your worship and adoration. But first, consider these questions:
1. Do you like murderers or those who start wars?
2. Do you like those who commit genocide, such as Hitler?
3. Do you approve of vampirism?
4. Do you approve of cannibalism?
If not, would you be willing to question at least part of the beliefs held by those among the three groups in order to be free of the programming that has you screaming “Help!”? Look rationally and logically and unemotionally at that god and apply the standards of your answers to 1-4 above:
1. Murderers: There has never been a serial killer who has murdered as many people as that god, according to reports in the text deemed “holy” by billions: 100,000 killed on one day; 6000 swallowed up in a hole in the earth on another day; entire cities and their inhabitants annihilated by use of fire; hundreds and hundreds of thousands killed in battles that he called for on other days. Later, he would even arrange for his son to be killed as a sacrifice. All of those are examples of premeditated murder. The battles he called for are examples of warmongering. Even today, the religious continue to cite instances of his continuing acts of premeditated murder: he allowed a five-year old to be killed by a drunk driver “because he needed another angel in heaven” and “he sent Katrina to kill people and destroy homes because he was made angry by sinners.” Do you like murderers and warmongers? If not, why would you even considering worshipping a murderer or warmonger? Only because of the concepts you have received via programming and conditioning, and only because that programming and conditioning included grave warnings about questioning anything. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [Tomorrow: Genocide, Vampirism, and Cannibalism]
