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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist, founder of Planned Parenthood (1883-1966).
"No Gods, No Masters
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Sir Alfred Hitch****, British film director (1899-1980).
I have heard that in later life, Hitch**** become areligious. If you have any information on his beliefs, please let me know. Here is an anecdote that may illustrate his growing anti-religious sentiments. (Though at the time he was apparently still a church-going Catholic.)
Driving through a Swiss city one day, Hitch**** suddenly pointed out of the car window and said, "That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen." His companion was surprised to see nothing more alarming that a priest in conversation with a little boy, his hand on the child's shoulder. "Run, little boy," cried Hitch****, leaning out of the car. "Run for your life!"
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain"
"Faith is believing something you know ain’t true."
"If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian."
"It (the Bible) is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies."
"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."
"Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light … by contrast."
"I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force."
"If there is a God, he is a malign thug."
"'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true."
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
"Man is a marvelous curiosity . . . he thinks he is the Creator's pet . . . he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." [Letters from the Earth]
Mr. Clemens was once asked whether he feared death. He said that he did not, in view of the fact that he had been dead for billions and billions of years before he was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist (1835-1
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Robert G. Ingersoll
"With soap, baptism is a good thing."
"The inspiration of the Bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it."
"Fear believes—courage doubts. Fear falls up the earth and prays--- courage stands erect and thinks. Fear is barbarism---courage is civilization. Fear believes in witchcraft, devils and ghosts. Fear is religion, courage is science."
"Hands that help are far better then lips that pray."
"Ministers say that they teach charity. That is natural. They live on hand-outs. All beggars teach that others should give."
"For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
Environment is a sculptor -- a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enough for them."
"The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know."
"All who doubted or denied would be lost. -- To live a moral and honest life - to keep your contracts, to take care of wife and child – to make a happy home - to be a good citizen - a patriot - a just and thoughtful man – was simply a respectable way of going to hell."
"God did not reward men for being honest, generous and brave, but for the act of faith. Without faith, all the so-called virtues were sins. And the men who practiced these virtues, without faith, deserved to suffer eternal pain. All of these comforting and reasonable things were taught by the ministers in their pulpits -- by teachers in Sunday schools and by parents at home. The children were victims. They were assaulted in the cradle -- in their mother's arms. Then, the schoolmaster carried on the war against their natural sense, and all the books they read were filled with the same impossible truths. The poor children were helpless. The atmosphere they breathed was filled with lies -- lies that mingled with their blood. "
"Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?"
- Robert Green Ingersoll, American politician and lecturer (1833-1899
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three--War
pter 43 : In the Name of God - The Christian Wars
In the New Testament, Jesus Christ is quoted as saying that he had come to bring the sword, to "set father against son and mother against daughter" (Luke 12:53) and called on his followers to "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me" (Luke 19:27).
These words have, in the history of Christianity, been enacted in bloody reality many times - starting when an important political rebellion against the Roman Catholic Church took on a religious slant - leading to the split in European Christendom between Catholic and Protestant. This split sparked off a series of religious wars which were ultimately to be responsible for the death of nearly a third of the entire White race.
The Reformation is the name given to this 16th century religious uprising. Its major outpouring happened in the middle of the Renaissance, there can be little doubt that the two events were linked: added to this was a political problem which the countries in Northern Europe had with the all powerful role the pope had assumed from Rome.
Emerging European nationalism objected to the fact that the pope - usually an Italian - had to approve the appointment of any head of state everywhere else in Europe. The pope's ability to even charge tax from foreign countries to support the Church headquarters in Rome also irked those living thousands of miles from Rome. It has been estimated that the Church ended up owning as much as one third of all the land in Europe in this manner: what the various national states must have secretly thought of this does not need to be imagined.
THE ANTI-POPE
The Catholic Church, while pretending to serve the Christian god only, itself betrayed its political agenda when a dispute over succession to the papal throne erupted between the Italians and the French. In an event known as the Great Schism of 1378, the French set up their pope, Clement VII, in Avignon; while the Italians installed Urban VI in Rome.
Both popes then proceeded to excommunicate each other from the church. Finally the dispute was resolved in 1415, when both popes were thrown out of their jobs and one new pope set up in Rome. The authority of the Church was severely reduced by the farcical proceedings, and many Europeans saw for the first time that the popes were all too human and lusted after power more than service to their god.
http://www.white-history.com/hwr43.htm
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The trouble with religion
Overview
"The Troubles" refers to approximately three decades of violence between elements of Northern Ireland's nationalist community (principally Roman Catholic) and unionist community (principally Protestant). The conflict was the result of discrimination against the catholic/nationalist minority by the protestant/unionist majority[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
This compilation of quotes, from some of the worlds greatest thinkers, gives me hope that our battle is just.
there is a chance that some day the realities of Science will overcome the obscurities of Theolog
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
The Thirty Years' War
General Introduction
The Thirty Years' War had its roots in the ongoing religious struggle between Protestant and Catholic, which became bound up in the dynastic and imperial ambitions of the house of Hapsburg. Nevertheless, Princes would readily trade religious conviction for political advantage: Catholic France was prepared to support the Protestant states against the Holy Roman Empire and Spain. It was this heady brew of faith and traditional rivalries that was to ensure that the war would be a protracted one. By the beginning of the Seventeenth Century Catholicism and the Protestant faith had reached parity among the tiny states and principalities that made up Germany. Three of the electors that voted for the Emperor were Protestant, and the other three Catholic, the Seventh and final one was the Emperor himself, in his capacity as King of Bohemia. The Hapsburgs were initially prepared to tolerate this situation as the main threat was from the Muslim Ottoman Turks, and both Protestant and Catholic fought with equal enthusiasm in the defence of Christendom. But it was a delicate balance, and a swing either way presented a new danger, as each side began to arm to defend themselves from the other.
The crisis came in 1617 when the Holy Roman Emperor, Mathias, wished to place the heir apparent, Ferdinand, on the Throne of Bohemia to ensure a Catholic succession to the Imperial title. Ferdinand was a known Catholic zealot, bound to alienate the largely Protestant Bohemians, who tried to restrict his power to make religious edicts in Bohemia. When Ferdinand ignored their entreaties, a group of Protestant nobles marched into the Royal Palace in Prague in May 1618, and threw the king's advisers out of a window into a midden in the moat. This 'Defenestration of Prague' was the signal for a Protestant uprising in Hungary, Transylvania and Bohemia, which was a direct threat to the continued prosecution of war against the Dutch, who would doubtless find new allies among the truculent Protestant population of central Europe in their struggle against the Spanish allies of the Empire. Yet no single prince was willing to set themselves up as a rival King of Bohemia in opposition to the legitimately constituted sovereign
http://www.strategos.demon.co.uk/tywhome/index.htm
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
has now been proved by scientists that mass/energy/
matter/ was always there [C.E.R.N]. It cannot be destroyed or created. Thus Christianities God did not create anything. Also the EU [27countries]has banned creationism. The big religions are just being arrogant.
Never the less their pews are emptying because it has been proven that god 'probably does not exist'
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
EXAMPLES OF FAMOUS BIRTHS ON DECEMBER 25TH BESIDES THAT OF JESUS
The reverence for December 25, as the Day of Birth for the Sun (Son of God) goes back into pre-history. The hollowed reckoning for this day did not begin two thousand years ago with the Christ. Jesus Christ, so called, was simply the latest personage to be linked to this ancient date of December 25, depicted as the birth of the Sun God.
Some of the others that were revered on this day are as follows:
Chrishna, of India, born on December 25, his mother was a virgin, mother's name was Maia. The name Chrishna means Black or Dark. His uncle, Kamsa, the ruler at the time of his birth sought to kill him (Chrishna) because he had heard a Prophecy that Chrishna would overthrow him. Chrishna escaped death by being smuggled out of the area to safety (sounds like Herod and Jesus does it not?).
Mithra, of Persia, born on December 25, his birth was witnessed by Shepherds that brought gifts to honor him. He was styled as a Mediator between God and Man. Witness this quote from the Encyclopedia Encarta,
"Mithraism was similar to Christianity in many respects, for example, in the ideals of humility and brotherly love, baptism, the rite of communion, the use of holy water, the adoration of the shepherds at Mithra's birth, the adoption of Sundays and of December 25 (Mithra's birthday) as holy days, and the belief in the immortality of the soul, the last judgment, and the resurrection. Mithraism differed from Christianity in the exclusion of women from its ceremonies and in its willingness to compromise with polytheism. The similarities, however, made possible the easy conversion of its followers to Christian doctrine" ("Mithraism," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1994 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation).
Horus, of Egypt, born on December 25. His mother, Isis, gave birth to him in the swamp, she was warned by the god Thoth, to flee and conceal the child from the evil Set. Set had killed the father of Horus, whose name was Osiris, and sought to kill Horus, |also. Isis was able to keep Horus hidden from Set, till he (Horus) grew to manhood. Horus sought to avenge the murder of his Father, and made war against Set, and defeated him.
Buddha, of India, born on December 25, his mother's name was Maya (similar to Mary) she was a virgin. He was immaculately conceived, and at birth, he announced that he was a savior to the world. His birth was announced by a star. At his birth, he was visited by Wise Men who declared that they had seen Signs of his birth, that is to say, signs of the royal birth (coincidence?).
Beddou (Fot), was a god of the orient born 1027 BC, his mother was a virgin, he was born of royal blood. The king sought to kill him at birth, because he felt the newborn infant posed a future threat to his Throne. The god child was saved by shepherds, and lived in the desert till he reached the age of thirty, at which time he commenced teaching his spiritual doctrine to that religion
http://paganizingfaithofyeshua.netfirms.com/examples_dec_25_births.htm
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