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Religion See other Religion Articles Title: Religion Is A Gigantic Fraud Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason. [Some] 433,000,000 Mohammedans believe that the Koran was brought by an angel from heaven; 335,000,000 Hindus believe one of their gods, Siva, has six arms; 153,000,000 Buddhists believe they will be reincarnated; 904,000,000 Christians believe a god made the world in six days, Joshua stopped the sun by yelling at it, and Jesus was born of a virgin and nullified natural laws to perform miracles. There is absolutely no scientific proof of any of these claims. Science has shown them to be contrary to all known facts. It is more intelligent to classify them as false. Religions are all based upon the primitive superstitions of ignorant, stone-age men who had no knowledge of science and thought the world was flat. The Catholic Church imprisoned Galileo for life and burned Bruno at the stake because they disagreed with these superstitious beliefs. These primitive beliefs have been kept alive by a vast army of priests, preachers, and rabbis because it is to their great profit to promote them, first, by imposing them on the helpless brains of children, and second, by saturating the air, TV, press, and schools with their childish superstitions and unreasonable claims. They fool the ignorant and make the gullible and the intelligent alike pay tribute to them. Their multi-billion-dollar properties and incomes are exempt from taxes; they get half-fare on trains, busses, and planes; and receive billions of dollars in grants of taxpayers' money to help build up their political power, wealth, and luxurious living. Taxes could be cut 10 percent if churches paid their just share. That would mean a probable saving of 20 billion dollars a year to the people of the U.S. every year of their lives. Some priests also indoctrinated with superstition from childhood probably believe what they preach. It pays them handsomely to do so. Religious beliefs are against common sense. There is no god, just because priests say so. There are no angels, devils, heavens, hells, ghosts, witches, nor miracles. These superstitious beliefs are promoted for the purpose of making the gullible believe that by paying money to the priest-class, they will be favored by one of the gods. There is nothing supernatural -- nothing contrary to natural law. Religion has caused untold ignorance, murder, torture, fear, poverty, unhappiness, wars, and has kept the world 10,000 years behind the times. It still does, while the millions support the priestly loafers in comfort and ease. For ages the independent thinkers have been murdered, ostracized, tortured, and suppressed and their writings destroyed. Only in recent years have a few courageous thinkers been free to criticize religions. Great thinkers and scientists -- Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Charles Bradlaugh, Luther Burbank, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Henry L. Mencken, Charles Smith, Joseph Lewis, Rupert Hughes, Bertrand Russell, H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Huxley, Clarence Darrow, Chapman Cohen, George McDonald, George Bernard Shaw, and hundreds of others -- have discarded all or most of the religious beliefs. This leaflet will be shocking to the unfortunate victim brain-whipped by religious indoctrination from childhood. But those who have a spark of intelligence will examine the facts, will stop paying tribute to the religious profiteers, and lose their fear of a mythical god and mythical hell. If the gods which foolish people pray to were decent beings they would not permit innocent children to die of cancer, be blind, suffer from polio, muscular dystrophy, syphilis. A good god would not have manufactured fleas, bedbugs, chiggers, lice, rattlesnakes, sharks, deadly germs, sickness, diseased brains, idiots, and insanity. All these things are the result of blind, natural evolution. A just god would not cause some innocent people to die or be disabled for life in airplane, train, and ship disasters while others survived. The Thinkers Club appeals to you to examine both sides so we may all escape from this religious oppression which degenerates the minds, forces all to pay tribute to the priestly parasites, and retards human progress.
Poster Comment: After assuming I had defeated all of these questions, being divorced 5 years ago has brought them all back. If it isn't a FRaud, it sure feels like one about now, especially without my sons here tonight. I have never questioned my faith more than at this moment in my life, especially in light of the FRaud we have been sold by the PoliticoWhores..and then we're told to "go along" with it by the preachers.
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Religion is destructive of truth to obtain blind allegiance and financial enhancement. Scriptures are clues to answers and riddles that man has regarding the unknown, and in some instances the unknowable. Our perception of time distorts infinite reality and causes us to focus too much on the immediate and too little on the infinite. We seem to need measurements that are mentally digestible, while at the same time bring existence into a focus that finite minds can absorb and understand. Another thing that intrigues me about scripture are prophecies and multi- layered levels of informative gleenings observed by others with less distractions in their daily routine. I think we under estimate the miracle of existence on a beautiful sphere that rockets through space and time at 1,000 MPH without throwing us off into the ether. Just getting here and experiencing whatever this life is, is something amazing in my opinion ... I mean with all of the famines, plagues and wars in the past cutting off lives that prevented many from having the experience we are having because someone in our past was able to survive long enough to generate another and another for generations, until finally we appear and do the same. We have no idea the universal purpose or our part in it and sometimes I feel like we think to own it (life), when in fact it's a very mysterious gift. We take this gift, and tend to abuse it for our own short term gratification, with inclinations that we are the center of the universe ... and maybe we aren't at all. Biblical relevance can be summed up as an explanation of the gift, a description of the gift giver, and provides us with a means to cope with the many inexplicable occurrences experienced in our short lives that we tend to over estimate the importance of because of ego. I know this time of year causes anxiety for many of us that have a hard time understanding the complexities that cause the disintegration of families, and our memories of them. We tend to recall the favorable moments to the exclusion of the unfavorable ones ... it's our nature. It doesn't appear to me that ones financial status or celebrity immunize us from experiences that call us to reflection upon those things of real import, family, friends and freedom. And apparently the great gift giver knows what we need in order to form a more precise concept of real life values ... and sometimes the lessons are difficult to understand and bear. [But here we are]. We tend to ignore and sometimes abuse things that once removed attain a new level of relevance to us, you don't truly appreciate what you have til it's gone. Experience is the best teacher, and at times appears cruel. Get over it, get up and get on down the road ... time's a wasting !
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