God… full stop (belief comes first).
For a number of people belief comes first, everything is written in the divine books. If the predictions of the Bible seem so “current”, it is because the conditions have changed little. For at least 50 thousand years the brain has not evolved! The simple difference is due to new techniques and the size of the world, we have a planetary vision whereas they had a more restricted vision, but we suffer the same, wars, dictatorships, famines, genocides, injustices.
Only our arrogance makes us believe that it is God who inspired these writings, whereas it is the men of these remote times, whom we consider as idiots, who had enough intelligence to observe their situation, react and try to change it.
From generation to generation (indoctrination).
Is it possible that some believers come to doubt! The strategy of religions is somewhat nauseating; it is funny to think that the great religions criticise the sects, while they still use almost the same methods today!
As soon as they leave their mother’s womb, children are indoctrinated and lulled by divine music, they are initiated into a quantity of rites, repeated for years and years. Their developing brains, programmed to “one” wavelength, will gradually make them true believers, in spite of themselves. They will be…fortunately not all…sure of their beliefs and their God, and will pass these beliefs on to their own children, knocking them out from the cradle. The circle is complete, these rites are perpetuated from year to century, from century to millennium.
Most believers are the monstrous product of indoctrination that is perpetuated from generation to generation, the reassuring effect of “the group with the same behaviour”, the illuminations and pseudo-miraculous cures confirmed by the more than limited knowledge of “more than convinced” followers, all add to the watering hole of God. Does God exist? Everyone will answer in their own way, but we can have…some doubts…when we see the mechanisms concocted to maintain the populations in belief. Before being totally sure, would it not be more prudent to put some eggs in the basket of transparency and thus have a double security. Better two than one.
Visionaries (sects).
With the sects, we enter a system which is a real abject mire where clever pseudo visionaries claim to be in direct communication with God or extraterrestrials! They even go to great lengths, using arguments that are as stupid as they are implausible, and they risk nothing because their victims are mostly people who are completely disoriented or ready to believe in anything to get out of their moral, financial or existential distress, plus a few little remoras who eat out of the guru’s stomach. Most of these “leaders” are nothing but bastards who are only interested in doing business and stealing the savings of their followers, all or almost all of them drive Rolls, live in palaces, and moreover some of them are child rapists when they are not sadistic madmen.
But what can we say about the countries or regions that host them, that let them organise their misdeeds, that protect them. Yes, these cults are protected by the authorities, because they control a “difficult” part of the population, so that’s one less thing to control. The fact that these cults use fascist methods and have fascist goals leaves our governments strangely and blatantly indifferent. To demand transparency for the cults would set an unfortunate precedent, because democratic governments know that talking too much about transparency could give them ideas.
The soft sheep (the fundamentalists). On the one hand, the educated Western sheep, on the other, the illiterate people of the poor countries, the whole lot of them, gathered in a huge, docile, manipulated, unthinking herd, a godsend! It’s super perfect, at least as long as the power has the power. The small inconveniences occur when other powers take it. The famous white race has put down anyone with darker skin! It worked pretty well for a while, but as everything comes to an end, we are now taking it on the chin.
Let’s take fundamentalism for example, the much decried Islam. Colonised countries, brought to heel by multi-millionaire dictators and religion, populations kept in misery. Young intellectuals with higher education in Western universities, with some knowledge of their history, some bullying and racist unpleasantness to get rid of, easily seized power. But no longer as stooges of Western corporations, but as individuals wanting to settle their score. They were served on a platter by previous regimes, and now they have a section of the population that follows them to their death. The pure and intelligent white western society has done so well, that now the educated fundamentalists are using them for their own ends, and they are paying us back. Are we going to continue to illiterate the world’s populations for much longer?
This example should make us wary and it is high time to react! But what are we going to do? Are we going to build an army and attack fundamentalism and go back a number of centuries, or are we going to tackle the real problems, by imposing transparency, by using third world aid funds to promote literacy, to improve knowledge and thinking skills?
We are learning this again too late, because fundamentalist bestiality is real, and this pseudo-divine power is able to murder at will, and destroy everything that touches intellectual development, with the result that there is even more underdevelopment. Today, women, artists, the press, the teaching profession, all progressive people are victims. The fundamentalist fascist powers of all religions must understand that they will end up in the same dustbin of history as those who preceded them, and even if they manage today to convince a son to massacre his own family, all the oppressed, the supplicated, the true believers, will revolt, and all these fascist religious people who manipulate the word of God, will be punished by it….plus a little help from the population, as they say, help and heaven will help you…which they refer to and use for their sordid interests.
Islam does not represent any danger, on the contrary, it is its recuperation by small educated and aggressive people that represents the danger. Just as Western society is without danger, it is the big multinationals and the “big families” with power that are the danger. The latter all the more so, as they are the real architects of the emergence of earlier sovietism, of Nazi military fascism and of today’s mad fundamentalism. Only the suppression of the anonymity of large groups, the limitation of the over-accumulation of wealth and inheritance, will allow us to create a better balance between people and regions, will limit the over-power of individuals and the over-power of small groups.
Making people as docile as possible, is a double-edged sword, having buyers without thinking, nothing better for business! The bosses, instead of whining about a lack of responsibility and dynamism of their employees today, would do well to take themselves by the nose. Religious fundamentalism and anonymity…no, transparency and reflection…yes.
Spiritual century (playing the believer).
Let’s talk about the spiritual century! It is not the greatest spirituality or belief or respect for divine commandments that will develop in the next century, but what we are already seeing… the recuperation of the illiterate and real fascist wars. The religious colonisers are having a field day with all the poor people of the world, especially those in the Eastern countries, offering them the riches of the West and their dogmas. “If you believe in our GOD, you will benefit from our wealth! Many will “play” the believer… Once the mirage of wealth has worn off, the colonisers will be left alone again.
The imposition of faith by force, violence, cunning, a large-scale medieval inquisition that crushes families and uses growing poverty to spread will never succeed. Believe or die, what a beautiful spiritual century.
Courage and manipulation (forgiveness and prayer).
Courageous missionaries and volunteers giving their love, fighting against disease and poverty, bringing “our” good word, totally trusting in “our” God!
Third world populations will quickly be convinced that they are “inferior beings” if they do not adopt “our” behaviours and customs…a real boon for the big multinationals and local dictators.
It will be proclaimed everywhere the magnificent successes, the souls saved and put under the divine protection, the reality…alcoholism, misery, slavery and bulldozers dragging the…children of God…from Rwanda, packed in garbage bags…and precipitated in the democratic pits.
One must avoid following anyone, any way, any speech, without trying to find out the real intentions. Even if at first sight the message seems nice, reassuring or flattering, we must always know what the purpose of the speech is. If this speech is pronounced by church people, speech that they say is inspired by God…then if it is God, let’s follow these speeches, let’s follow these men of God…men of God, but above all…men! Yes, they are men, and there we fall back… “on earth”. On earth, what do we see? Violence, in spite of the churches, in spite of the men of the churches…and often precisely because of the churches…yesterday, today, we have multiple interreligious conflicts. Of course, religion is only the pretext, the root of the problem is the race for money and power. But as religions force people to blind obedience… for the powers that be, what fun it is to manipulate us and use us for their sordid interests.
God should not be a personal “insurance”…prayer is certainly very good, but it is also easier, nice and warm, after or before a good meal!…forgiveness is also very convenient, I do anything, I close my eyes to everything, and then I am forgiven!…but to think that we can stop massacres and injustices by prayer and forgiveness might be a little…little. Let’s pray, let’s forgive, but above all let’s demand the transparency that will make us true believers… human.
The chicken or the egg (di-theist religion).
God is good, God is spirit, God is God! But then, if he is so good, why did he create Hitler? And all the monsters that preceded and followed him! Did he create the devil? Is the devil a god? If so, we no longer have monotheistic religions, but di-theistic ones, a big good god and a little bad god! However, when we see the state of the planet, it seems that the evil god is greater than the good god… right? The image is that the good god is bigger than the bad god, and that he is the creator! The reference is the discourse used by all self-respecting believers, which says that if nature exists and is so perfect (!), it could only have been created by God. This reasoning is confirmed by the paradox of the “egg and the chicken”. Considering that the egg could not be laid without the chicken, and the chicken appearing without the egg, problem you will admit, complicated for our poor brains. So, it’s God.” But then, who created God?
History, tales and settling of scores (son of slave and son of master).
The Bible says: some are the sons of slaves…others the sons of masters! These are interesting writings which resemble more recent writings by less reputable but no less sincere “apostles”. The leader of these “new apostles” of this…almost religion…also seems to have received revelations from the only God really known… “money and a blank check”…granted to him by the “great families” of the time, which allowed him to write… Mein Kampf. He changed the history of history somewhat, but on the other hand he preserved the meaning perfectly. The masters of religions only make the “Texts” say what they want them to say. On one side the sons…of slaves and on the other the sons…of masters, pure racism, which shows that in all eras…the same racism has been used to divide and rule.
The 99% of the stories of the religions are only crude legends (swallowed by the same naive people who take Hollywood super productions for documentaries), the remaining 1% are archaeological observations, and only ignorance and the need to belong to a group, allowed the masters of the religions to interpret these aberrant stories into irrefutable truths.
The form and number of gods have been constantly modified with the advancement of knowledge, oddities, but the believers do not see anything wrong with them!
God would have dictated the commandments to Moses! For example “thou shalt not kill”! Any lizard, frog, fish or insect observes this commandment (much more humanly than the so-called human species) because few species attack their own species, this commandment is simply a product of “evolution”, so it has absolutely nothing to do with a divine word.
Another interesting story is that of Jesus. The fascist government in power was fought by revolutionary apostles, who ended up creating a relatively large party, which gradually became sclerotic and went from being an opposition party fighting slavery and misery to being dogmatic and totalitarian. Dissidents appeared, real freedom fighters… Jesus and others were murdered in the name of order and morality.
The proof of the existence of God (the divine project).
All scientists will tell you that nature is far too complicated, it could only be organised by a higher force, by a divine plan. The beauty of the butterfly is God! The non-intelligence (is it God) of the self-proclaimed human species is so great, the self-sufficiency leaves no doubt. “The lack of knowledge is certain, God…a little less so.
The head of the gods (very convenient for man).
Man, thanks to his strength, has taken power. The heads of the gods, of the messiahs, in all religions are they not (practically) all “male”! All in the effigy of the stronger sex! A divine coincidence? In any case, gods that are very practical for man and that look strangely like him! And even more practical for some of them! Did God create man and woman or… wouldn’t it be rather the opposite?
Puzzle (not seen, not able).
It is easier for a non-believer to ask questions and try to find answers than for a believer, who must find answers without being able to ask questions.
Believer and belief (sincerity).
How to approach this rather delicate subject? The “project” should be an entry point.
What is the project? The projects of a fascist belief and a liberal belief are profits and death. The projects of a God belief and a social belief are balance and life. The social belief and the believer have the same goal, but they do not always have the same motivation. Take two different ones, a believer and a (let’s call him) non-believer, despite an important difference in the “motivation” they still have in common, the same “base”. The believer and the non-believer both have to “eat and drink”, you will admit that this is not a scoop, yet they sometimes seem to forget their base! If I allow myself this remark, it is because despite the generous action of associations, hundreds of millions of families of the so-called human species are in deplorable conditions and millions of our children “die” each year from under-nutrition, malnutrition and disease. Not because of unpredictable disasters (even if they do bring their share), but above all because of the fault of the “multinationals” and our selfishness as believers and non-believers who let them do it.
After the “project” and the “base”, let us come to the “motivation”. Let us suppose that at a table there are two believers (valid also for non-believers), one believes that he has food and drink and the other one drinks and eats, the one who has nothing to eat will be able to believe, pray and believe again, but after a certain time he will be a dead believer. Belief in God (motivation) is an individual freedom, each believer can be sure, he can formulate his assertions as a convinced believer, there can even be millions of believers, they will always be only millions of times “one” convinced believer the number can have no effect on reality. The only possible statements are: if I have nothing to eat… I am dead, if I eat… I live, this last reality is the safest “basis and project” for the believer and the non-believer… but to each his “motivation”… sincere?
The sincerity of the believer cannot be doubted, like that of the little child for Father Christmas, what imposes doubt is the “asserted” human intelligence, not so long ago, the very great religious, philosophers, scientists and politicians were “all” persuaded of their knowledge and their certainties… the sun revolved around the earth! Today any eight year old child knows that this is false, our intelligence is very relative and… “believing’… is above all… “maybe”.
Believers and non-believers alike, we need to establish TLT... only after this minimum of human action can we talk about believers in God and social belief.
The “big families” use religious hierarchies to manipulate, sow divisions and violence, this brainwashing combined with the political, military and economic brainwashing is dumbing down the world, as evidenced by the ridiculous adulation by a part of the population of crowned heads, religious leaders, heads of state and financial gurus. Fortunately, advances in science, even if they are largely hijacked for the benefit of the economy, make religious texts and their assertions look like what they really are, aberrant and distressing stupidities, or too often dangerous lies. Believers do not need religions at all, each believer must be able to think and act autonomously according to his own vision and conscience. The believer will have to choose between continuing to indulge in medieval rituals while hypocritically turning a blind eye to those responsible for inhumanity and misery, or fighting for freedom by seeking the best possible equality. To do this, the latter must organise themselves and come together in a huge global association.