I , AS MANY KNOW AM AN ATHEIST,,I WENT ON A QUEST FOR GOD FOR TEN YEARS OR SO. I DID NOT FIND HIM AND CAME OUT THE OTHER END AN ATHEIST. I DID READ QUITE A BIT ABOUT RELIGION,, AS RELIGION IS MUCH A PART OF OUR LIVES. IT IS NOT EASY TO DISMISS SOMETHING THAT YOU WERE RAISED WITH FROM THE CRADLE. IN ORDER TO DISMISS IT YOU HAVE TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT IT, SO I READ.
I DECIDED THAT RELIGION,,,ALL RELIGIONS HAVE NO PLACE FOR ME, THEY WERE WRITTEN BY MEN FOR MEN,, WOMEN ARE HANDMAIDENS, MOTHERS OR RECEPTACLES FOR SPERM. I THOUGHT IN THIS MODERN WORLD, I HAD OTHER MORE INTELLIGENT CHOICES. BESIDES I DIDN'T THINK ANY RELIGION RESPECTED WOMEN AS THEY ARE, THEY WANT WOMEN TO BE WHAT THE MEN THINK WE SHOULD BE. YOU KNOW VIRGINS,, THEY WANT A VIRGIN SO THEY CAN BE THE FIRST THERE,,I SPOKE WITH A MUSLIM FRIEND OF MINE AND HE TOLD ME THE REASON HE WANTED A VIRGIN IS IF HIS WIFE NEVER HAD AN OTHER MAN SHE WOULD THINK HE WAS THE BEST, EVER, SO IT'S AN EGO THING. HE COULD REALLY BE INEPT AND SHE WOULD THINK HIM AS GOD.
SO I BECAME AN ATHEIST, THE MORE I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT THE MORE IT MADE SENSE,,I DID NOT NEED A DADDY LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER TELLING ME WHAT TO DO. I AS AN ADULT FELT I COULD MAKE MY OWN DECISIONS AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MY OWN ACTIONS. NOT HAVING TO PLEAD, BARGAIN OR CAJOLE MY INVISIBLE FRIEND WHO ABIDES SOMEWHERE?
ONE OTHER THING IS, WHY DOES GOD NEED SO MUCH MONEY. HE MUST HAVE REAL DEEP POCKETS AND HE SEEMS TO ALWAYS NEED MONEY.
. I ALSO THINK THAT THOSE WHO ARE DEEPLY INTO RELIGION ARE IMMATURE,,NOT LOOKING AT THE WORLD AS IT IS BUT AS THEY WANT IT TO BE.
THIS IS ALSO ONE ASIDE I WOULD LIKE TO ADD AND THAT IS THIS, FOR ALL YOU CHRISTIANS,,JEWS AND MUSLIMS I ASK THAT YOU SHOULD HEED THIS WARNING.
I KNOW I MENTION ONLY JESUS HERE BUT THIS IS FOR ALL RELIGIONS TO HEED,
JESUS CHRIST DESIGNATED THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, HOW DID HE DO THAT?
HE THREW THE MONEYLENDERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE, THE MONEYLENDERS REPRESENTED STATE WITH THE COIN OF THE REALM, AND JESUS REPRESENTED THE CHURCH AS IT WAS TO BE. SOME SAY THEY SOLD ANIMALS FOR SACRIFICE, DOESN'T MATTER, THEY WERE STILL BUYING AND SELLING WITHIN THE CHURCH.
THIS WAS HIS ONLY ACT OF VIOLENCE. HE WHIPPED THEM OR SO IT IS SAID.
WHEN THE CHURCH CAME TO THIS COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES AND SET UP SCHOOLS THEY DID NOT WANT TO BE AFFILIATED WITH GOV'T. WHY?
WELL GOV'T DOES NOT HAVE TO ABIDE BY THE RULES THAT CHURCH HAS DESIGNATED FOR ITSELF. POLITICS AS WE KNOW CAN BE PRETTY NASTY STUFF, CHEAT. LIE, STEAL, MURDER, SEX. YOU NAME IT THE SKY IS THE LIMIT, BUT CHURCH HAS ALL THESE RULES THAT IT HAS TO FOLLOW AND ONE THING THAT THE CHURCH LEARNED WAS THAT WHENEVER IT AFFILIATED WITH GOV'T IT BECAME AS CORRUPT AS GOV'T CAN BE.
THE CHURCH LEARNED THAT IN THE OLD WORLD BEFORE IT CAME HERE, TO THE NEW WORLD. IT LEARNED ITS LESSONS WELL.
THAT IS WHAT DE TOCQUEVILLE STATED IN "DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA", THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ON DEMOCRACY AND THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT AMERICA. BJG
