and the Futility of Faith
At the dawn of the 21st century it's time for a fresh look at religion, particularly the christian religion. For two thousand years the church has been lying to the people, deliberately deceiving us in order to accrue wealth and power.Jesus instructed his followers not to pray in public, instead he instructed them to pray in private. So what did the church do? It encouraged people to disobey Jesus. It built hundreds of cathedrals and thousands of churches whose purpose it was to assemble the masses for public prayer. You can't make money out of people who pray in private.
Jesus said "Give up they worldly goods and give to the poor," so the church set about amassing as much wealth as it could lay its greedy hands on. To this day the church plays monopoly with office blocks and shopping malls, it hordes gold bullion and art treasures and it's a major player on the stock market. The Church flicks snot towards charity.
The church – every church – sodomises everything worthwhile that Jesus lived and died for.
Were Jesus to return and glimpse the obscene wealth on display in the Vatican, or in any of the gold rich cathedrals of Europe, he would throw a fit. Jesus wore rags but the christian elite prefer magnificent ball gowns fit for kings. The pope's ridiculous hat would feed an African village for a month!
But you have nothing to fear, Jesus is not coming back. And the reason for that is that no one returns from the dead. We have been fed all this garbage about the divinity of Jesus when in fact the first chapter in the book of Matthew shows that Jesus was just a normal sperm-meets-egg conception. Twenty-two times in the New Testament, Jesus is referred to as the "Son of David" or "The fruit of the loins of David." How could he possibly be descended from David unless there was a connection between the two? Jesus' father Joseph was descended from King David, Mary was not. Clearly then, Joseph impregnated Mary. There is NO other explanation. There was no "virgin birth."
Mary, by the way, was nothing like that portrayed on church posters. She was a Jewess and therefore she would have looked more like Golda Meir than Nicole Kidman. She gave birth to four more children that we know of (read your bible) and therefore her "virgin" status is in considerable doubt. Joseph gave her a good rogering.
Jesus was not a "christ." There is no such thing as christs. Christs are a Jewish invention, the idea being that someone would come and save them whenever they found themselves in trouble. The Jews manufactured numerous saviours, or christs, of which Jesus was just one. Had it not been for Saul, (aka St Paul), Jesus, Justus or Yeshu, as he was variously known, would have disappeared down the lavatory of life along with all the rest.
Most of what we know, or think we know, about Jesus, was fabricated by Paul and the four anonymous scribes who wrote the gospels. They purloined stories from existing folklore and myth – a dollop of the Persian gods Mithra and Prometheus, a snippet of the Roman god Apollo, a smidgen of the Greek god Bachus – and then they stitched the stories together to make a bolt-on Frankenchrist, the one christians worship today.
God the father, so called "merciful father," was in fact the most evil, bloodthirsty, diabolical and disgusting deity ever manufactured by man. Christians have been brainwashed to love Jehovah and hate Satan. And yet Satan was a paragon of virtue compared to the sadistic god, Jehovah. Consider the millions of innocent people, especially children and babies, murdered by Jehovah, then name just one child killed by Satan! You cannot, because it was Jehovah, not Satan, who committed the atrocities in the bible. It was Jehovah who drowned the world. It was Jehovah who incinerated children. It was Jehovah who murderdered the "first born" of Egypt. It was Jehovah who demanded that children be sacrificed on his bloody alters. It was Jehovah who sent plagues and famines, and who forced parents to eat their own children. It was Jehovah who gave men haemorrhoids. It was Jehovah who forced people to drink their own urine and eat their own excrement. It was Jehovah who set bears onto 42 children and had them ripped apart for calling a man "old baldhead."
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind; and for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel." Thomas Paine – revolutionary, co-founder of modern democracy
Jehovah was, and remains, the Jewish god of hate, war and death. Moses knew him better than most, might even have created him, and he referred to Jehovah as "A man of War!"
Jehovah hated blind people, the disabled and Gentiles. (Anyone who is not a Jew is a Gentile.) Jehovah banned the blind, the maimed and Gentiles from his synagogues. He hated homosexuals, but nothing like as much as he hated Gentiles.
Jesus was a Jewish supremacist, a racist pig. He forbade his disciples to speak to Gentiles. When a Canaanite mother begged Jesus to cure her daughter of an illness, Jesus replied, "It is not right for the master to waste his powers on dogs!" Yep, he called the dying child a dog, because she wasn't Jewish. This sick excuse for a man is the same Jesus worshiped by two billion Gentile christians around the world. Two billion dogs.
Jesus condoned slavery. Several of his parables concern slavery, yet not once did he condemn the practice. In fact, he upbraided slave owners for allowing slaves to eat alongside their owners. Rather, said Jesus, slaves should be made to wait for their food, until the master has eaten. So much for "Jesus the Reformer." And worst of all, the most wicked and cruel idea ever conceived in the evil mind of man, Jesus introduced to the world the indescribable terror of HELL!
"Depart from me, ye cursed," said Jesus, "into everlasting fire!" Matthew 25:41 For all his talk about love and kindness, Jesus was in fact a rotten, low-life rat.
"The hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than any religious belief in the history of mankind. Yet this doctrine was unambiguously taught by Jesus." Margaret Knight – lecturer, Aberdeen University
And as for "god" loving the world so much that he gave his "only begotten son," think about it for a moment. Jesus was on this planet for just 32 years, and then, according to the bible, he returned to "god." Within three days of Jesus' death, he was reunitied with his "heavenly father." What kind of a sacrifice was that? And Jesus communicated with "god" every day of his earthly life. Compare god's sacrifice to that of millions of ordinary people who were tortured, burned, hanged, drowned or beheaded "for god's sake!". They ain't coming back, no way, no how. "God so loved the world..." What utter crap!
We have been fooled big time. In their hearts, christians know they've been fooled. They talk about "faith" (Feeble Answers for Imbeciles, Tyrants and Hypocrites) but watch them run to a doctor whenever they or their children are ill. They know damned well that nothing fails like prayer! Toothache? Asprin beats "god" hands down. Deity or dentist – no contest. Given the choice of a hospital bed and qualified surgeons, OR, a room full of praying christians, christians will opt for the hospital bed every time. And so they should. The only exceptions are members of weird and wacky cults, who die.
Kentucky snake handlers who get bitten trying to prove their faith in Jesus, always opt for medial science in preference to prayer. The Pope's suffering is relieved not by "holy" water that he has blessed, but by handfuls of chemical painkillers. And despite one billion Catholics praying for his recovery, the Pope's health continues to deteriorate.
Mother Teresa, rather than pray for health, travelled to Los Angeles for surgery. Both the Pope and Mother Teresa were happy to place their care in the hands of men who, in earlier times, would have been burned at the stake for practicing alchemy and magic.
At this time in our history we are facing the biggest threat we've ever faced – total annihilation. And the scary thing is, millions of christians are looking forward to it. They believe that "Armageddon" is inevitable and desirable. When World War Three erupts, they believe they will be "raptured" up to heaven as Jesus plummets down to earth. Were we just dealing with snake handling hillbillies and other crazies, it wouldn't matter. But fundamentalist lunatics have secured for themselves positions of power, both within the military and in the Pentagon. Programing Pentagon computers!!!
There are commanders and crews of nuclear submarines who believe that Armageddon is inevitable. There are stealth bomber crews who believe that Armageddon is inevitable. There are pairs of "born again" evangelicals down missile silos, both in the USA and Russia, who believe that Armageddon is inevitable. All believe it must happen. And Russia's 4,000 nuclear warheads are controlled by ageing and defective early warning systems.
Since the beginning of time, man has been murdering man for various stupid reasons. Yet mankind survived because never before have we had the capability to destroy all life on Earth. Now we do have the capability. And the scary thing is, millions of fundamentalist christians have the overwhelming desire to press the nuclear button.
And America's young people have been groomed to accept it, for Jesus' sake.
This brochure has been produced by an ordinary bloke with extraordinary concerns. Unless there is a universal and immediate revolt against christianity, this planet of ours will perish. And don't think for one moment that we'll be safe down here in the Southern hemisphere. Where do you think the American, British and Russian fleets will head for once the Northern hemisphere is made uninhabitable? What will you do, wave a white flag that says "Special relationship"? How will you protect your home and food supply when the most powerful, most well armed men on earth arrive on your doorstep?
"All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention – of barbarian invention – is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition – then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity." Robert G. Ingersoll 1833-1839 – US Statesman, Freethinker, Humanitarian
Please do think about these matters, while you still have time.