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Title: Religion Is A Gigantic Fraud
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URL Source: http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/johnson.htm
Published: Dec 27, 2006
Author: James Hervey Johnson
Post Date: 2006-12-27 03:53:54 by IndieTX
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Comments: 10
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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#1. To: ferret mike, morgana la fay, christine (#0)
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looking for answers ping.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act - - George Orwell When people cease to believe in anything that transcends themselves, they believe only in themselves, such as Marx and Bakunin. They have to make themselves into gods, which automatically entails making others into devils. Hence, the slaughter of so many people in the name of Communism. Or Nazism, for that matter. I understand why centuries ago atheism was illegal. I suspect people instinctly understood what the most militant ones would have done had they gained political power. The author of this article looks like a prime example.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
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 !
"They say Justice is blind and I agree ... so much so that she hasn't found her way into a courtroom since 1938" noone222 12-17-06
Wow, so science has unraveled every mystery that man has asked himself since his first thoughts as a living person with self awareness? Wow! So the men in white coats, in a few thousand years, now have an almost complete understanding of an existance whose size and scope is potentionaly limitless? Is this the same science that cut open "lesser" races to see if they were really humans or just bi-pedal animals and used to measure intelligence by the size of our skulls? Okay bright boys, answer me this. Where did the matter that makes up our universe come from? You can't make something from nothing. (And for you religious folks reading this, the addition to this question is where did God(s) come from?) The only thing that frightens me more than a Jesus or Allah or whatever freak saying that the Gods speaks through him is a man who just comes right out and says "I am God." This leaflet will be shocking to the unfortunate victim brain-whipped by religious indoctrination from childhood. Yeah, I mean, giving someone hope that maybe out there some where in existance is a God, Godess, or whatever higher power is out there loves us and will some day comfort us when we pass on and maybe, just maybe fix the mess that man and science has made of this world. I don't have much faither in God, but I have more faith in Him/Her/It because I've already seen and had my fill of man's perpetual and never ending stupidity. Most of the troubles in my life can be laid squarly at the feet of the action of other human beings; not some invisible force in the sky.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
No truer words have been spoken. Humanism is destined to failure for exactly the reasons expressed by you here.
"They say Justice is blind and I agree ... so much so that she hasn't found her way into a courtroom since 1938" noone222 12-17-06
Idiots like Starwindbag are prime examples of this. The bad situation is compounded when our foes employ disinformationist and psyop tactics.
"It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order; and those who have once got an ascendency and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantages." Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1798
Religion is very nearly universal if you look across the spectrum of human society everywhere on this globe. It is so for many reasons, and while we bewail its most injurious effects as many have here this morning, Yertle has touched upon one of religion's most salient reasons for being. Religion binds the aristocrat as well as the peasant. It ensures that our rulers, as even the sacred kings of our most ancient ancestor were bound by law. Materialists tread on dangerous ground when they actively seek to stamp religion out, for when it is gone no one really knows where our common ethos will be drawn from. You cannot create such things by committee. For myself, while I espouse none of the doctrines mentioned above, I will not speak against them. There is quite enough chaos in the world we're living in. I hesitate to add to it. It is enough for me to live in quiet skepticism.
THERE'S NOT ONE DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT WE WILL FAIL - GW Bush
I leanred, and am still, learning some things about my family I never knew. A few of them wonderful, but most...I don't feel comfortable posting on a public forum. I think my grandfather had the best system. While deaply spirtitual with a little dash of christanity tossed in, he literly told the "organized" churches to go to hell. I knew of at least three priests that he cussed out because they were skimming money from the collections; and lord have mercy on any poor sot that came knocking on his door pushing something. The best thing he said was: "When you've been there and back, call me. Until then you don't know shit!" His mother was the same way. I fiesty Ukrainian who went to a Russian church here in the US. One day she was helping clean up and went into an area where women weren't allowed to go in. When the priest went all spastic she looked at him and said in her broken english: "What you think? God going to strike me down? This place is dirty like pig pen and I need to clean it. Now go away!" Ironic, but "humanism" is why I've never stepped foot in a church. I've yet to find a bible or Koran signed by God/Allah or a preacher's sermon penned by Jesus himself, or the telescope setting to see heaven or the edge of the universe itself. I'll stick with the title of "agnostic" until I find one of the above.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
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. I'm very sorry about your personal situation, and I wish you had your sons with you. Whether you believe it or not, though, you have brothers and sisters here. For myself, I believe there is a God and I believe Christ was his son and was God also. I get there by reading what he said. Either thirteen extremely clever men got together to perpetrate the greatest fraud ever, or God came to earth and spoke with us, leaving many of his words. How to judge? Read the words. Then think about them, that's all. As for you personal situation, it will get better. Family and love are the things that tie us to each other, and for the believer, to God also. Love is the greatest gift we've ever received, not treasures, which are fleeting; not sensations, which are here today and gone in a moment, and not even life, which is fleeting, too. But love endures. Love is the one thing that we have that grows the more we consume it. It is the one gift you can leave to those that follow. You are loved. Peace, brother.
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
In church it's called fellowship, and sometimes it's worse inside church than outside.
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
---Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1814- 1876)
---Russian anarchist and political theorist who opposed Karl Marx Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
In a CorporoFascist capitalist society, there is no money in peace, freedom, or a healthy population, and therefore, no incentive to achieve these - - IndieTX
#2. To: IndieTX (#1)
#3. To: IndieTX (#0)
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.
#4. To: IndieTX (#0)
There is absolutely no scientific proof of any of these claims. Science has shown them to be contrary to all known facts.
#5. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#4)
I don't have much faither in God, but I have more faith in Him/Her/It because I've already seen and had my fill of man's perpetual and never ending stupidity. Most of the troubles in my life can be laid squarly at the feet of the action of other human beings; not some invisible force in the sky.
#6. To: IndieTX (#0)
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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.
#7. To: YertleTurtle (#2)
I understand why centuries ago atheism was illegal. I suspect people instinctly understood what the most militant ones would have done had they gained political power. The author of this article looks like a prime example.
#8. To: noone222 (#5)
Humanism is destined to failure for exactly the reasons expressed by you here.
#9. To: IndieTX (#0)
After assuming I had defeated all of these questions, being divorced 5 years ago has brought them all back.
#10. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#4)
Most of the troubles in my life can be laid squarly at the feet of the action of other human beings; not some invisible force in the sky.
---Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973
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