The Conundrums of Religion and the Gospel of Free Will...!

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“Religion” creates the ‘disease’ and then provides a ‘cure’ which, in reality is no cure at all…!!! But it serves as a placebo designed to keep the human mind enthralled to the same shared ideology for all eternity, if possible if we have Free will…???

If we have free will, then we are also free not to believe in the male Jewish-Arab God/Allah or Jesus in the first place …without risking eternal hellfire or any other sadistic punishments by the megalomaniacal and tyrannical the Almighty...! We can be free not to believe in some hallowed god person separate and apart from his wretched creations but, rather than, to perceive the entire cosmos as solely divine and mystic... Out of our free will, we can choose not to harm the other sentient beings (and even humans), regardless of what their religious leaders beckon them to do... We can choose to reject being part of a herd of panicky sheep who, turn into raving wolves when it benefits them…? Out of free will, we can be "free agents" who do not belong to religious cult beliefs of any sort... Indeed, without "God's famous plan", we can be free to create our own visions, one of a world not divided by such spurious creeds based in myths and patriarchal belief systems, used to justify racism and sexism… With our boundless free will, we can create a utopia of unified humanity. Free of from all ‘god-addictions’, we can be free to indeed just to be ...human! It is time for the world to wake up to these monogamous manipulations of both the history-hungry political leaders and the religious zealots on this planet Earth... When it comes to politics and religion, the fanatics’ religious audacity in either arena will always interpret incidents in a light favorable to only themselves, at the expense of the defenseless and uneducated followers... It is easy for a person in hindsight to construe a world event in a manner to fit his or her compelled belief systems, and it is even easier for politicos, priests or government agencies to create history in order to suit their provocative thoughts or even prove their chosen faith, creed or party, to be ever righteous...! Whatever the case may be …, the world suffers from it, because of such fabricated and puffed-up renditions of reality, which are exploitative and repeatedly lead to bloody discords and warfare... There can be no peace on Earth, if everything is constantly being viewed through the muddy murky glasses of belief systems, and these belief systems as they apply to "religion" are no different than their selfish greed of power and lusts... It is our destiny to become more universal in our perspectives and behavior, perceiving the cosmos as one, yet filled with utterly unique and marvelous creatures... And this prophecy must come true, or we will face an apocalyptic nightmare of our own makings, the so-called End Times also laid out in the Bible/the Quran/the Torah, as a blueprint in ‘Revelations’ that far too many millions of people are enthusiastic about bringing to pass...! As they are currently presented ...many religious holidays are just plain bogus celebrations, in that they do not really represent the days sacred to God…??? There are many people who can see the ethnocentricity and the bigotry involved in these festive holidays; however, even they may go along with them, perhaps thinking that if there is an anthropomorphic deity somewhere "out there" they may also be able to win points in his holy Book of Life and Death...? Let us develop or re-develop truly our universal holidays not based on how many other cultures we have trounced, or how many people we have slaughtered, or even the day "our Lord" was viciously murdered or our prophet suffered martyrdom, or some other such violent and life-denying thing...! Let us abandon such ugly concepts and instead create beautiful celebrations of humankind, the rest of the natural world and the awesome vastness of the cosmos, since their origin of their creations...! As I wonder, ‘Why would God create human beings in this manner? Why then does the all-powerful Lord of the cosmos need to engage in the human sacrifices in order to fix his creatures, which are poorly created by him in the first place? Can the Almighty not just snap his fingers and change humanity, forever? If mankind's so called original sin is removed via a mystical and supernatural scapegoat ritual, i.e., the sacrifice of Jesus, why cannot some other mechanism equally as supernatural be utilized …such as that ‘snap of the fingers’…? The Christian baptism too is supposed to remove magically the taint of original sin, but, as we can tell from the state of the world, this mystical mumbo-jumbo has little to no effect...! If, baptism were so effective then why to conduct a brutal, bloody and barbaric human-sacrifice ritual, murdering God as his own son…???? To those who know the true nature and the potentials of the human being, this "born-in-sin" propaganda ranks as calumny, slander and libel, pure and simple. Human beings are not-born in sin, and therefore there is no need for a savior of any kind…? It is by these crippling beliefs in the first place that, humanity becomes sickened enough psychologically and spiritually in order to need a savior to fix it...? In other words, the religion creates the disease and then provides a cure, which in reality is no cure at all but it serves as a placebo, designed to keep mankind enthralled to the same mystic ideology for all eternity, if possible ...while fervent believers bleat and wail about "witchcraft," à la "Harry Potter" for example, the typical prayer represents mere voodoo and witchcraft itself, as the person praying is attempting to affect supernaturally some aspects of life, whether it be a global concern or a personal worry, such as the status of an "unsaved" loved one... In other words, the Christian who fervently prays for the soul of another, haughtily believing that he or she is "saved" and is superior to the subject of the prayer, and therefore has a direct pipeline to the "right" God; is there a little difference from the Pagans or the Wiccans…? Despite these fallacious claims otherwise, except that the intent of the modern Pagan or Wiccan seldom seems to be one of the conceit and the arrogance…! Our curiosity requires us to ask why Muslims are praying for five times a day..?  -For World peace or for Global domination?  Or to top the next guy over in a business deal? What kind of God needs this sort of prayer several times daily??? If God is omniscient, "he" already knows what we want and need... Praying to him becomes an exercise in futility, while in essence a very potent form of mind controls...! If God were real and omniscient, this pesky behavior could be deemed obnoxious and disrespectful, unless this god is a giant sadist and egotist…??? “He” is in need of a constant exaltation, praise, groveling and so on... In that case, however, such a creature could not possibly be considered as God…??? The bottom line, then, is that prayer for the sake of pleasing a god several times a day is completely unnecessary and useless... Indeed, a case could be made that such prayers is insulting and disrespectful to God, presuming he needs it for either his egotistical purposes or because he is in reality not omniscient and therefore does not already know what we need of him...? Under such circumstances, the prayers would be ungodly and unholy, especially bowing several times a day....? People who claim to be religious often aren't...! Such individuals truly believe that following some doctrine, dogma or egotistical self-appointed "agent of God" makes them religious, when in fact following anything, like a brainless sheep; represents the antithesis of a true religion...! Not being able to think for yourself is not a mark of great religious piety but a sign of being cut off from creativity, which is the realm of the Creator Itself...!!! No person, who is blindly following the uncreative life prescribed by a religious doctrine is close to the Creator but, is in reality deadened to the creative life force, which is "God"; hence, he or she is unreligious...! In fact, not knowing yourself represents the unenlightenment, which is considered the opposite of a religious experience in many cultures and religious traditions... Even the writer of the biblical texts of Galatians (4:19) invokes his followers as, "My little children, with whom I am again in travail until the Christ be formed in you." (Emphasis added…) What this remark clearly means is that until you become Christ —"Christ" being a spiritual state of union with divinity, not a Jewish man —you are still a child, and not a completed adult…! The whole point of a real religion is to create enlightened, awakened, fully formed adults who take responsibilities for themselves and do not pass it off on any savior, messiah or father god… A religion that causes one to become crippled, self-mortifying and self-deprecating is not a religion but a social system of controlling the masses through psychological deformation and retardation....! Despite the strides made in the past centuries, in this day and age, the non-religionists, the freethinkers’ and the unbelievers’ remain under constant assaults from these religious fanatics and maniacs, who would terrorize and enslave mankind if given the chance …! And they continue to attempt to silence us with their holy laws designed to make criminals out of us; if we object to their archaic, brutal and backward religious doctrines ...we are to be butchered and slaughtered as a free ticket to eternal paradise…!!! The global political entity called the United Nations is currently being hijacked by such would-be spiritual enslavers, who want to outlaw "defamation of religion" and to silence such critics with the "anti blasphemy laws" straight, out of the Dark Ages...! For this reason, there is a sense of urgency attached, as I do not wish to see the true human civilization fall to these plotters and manipulators’ of religious conundrums who would subjugate us all —and make no mistake about it, that is their goal, as it has been for many centuries...! In this regard, I do wish the readers will take to heart these various freedom inducing concepts and make sure that they are not stamped out by the religious tyranny and fascism, by using the same tactics as those employed by the destroyers of free speech and human rights...! So claim these liberating and freethought concepts as your right to religious beliefs, and do not allow these spiritual terrorists to blaspheme your god and your religion; which herein are themselves free speech and human rights...! Their religious terrorism and mania -their desires to enthrall you under their spiritual tyranny -represent defamation of your religious freedom... Stand up for your liberty, freedom and enlightenment, and do not let these subjugators take them away from you...! There is strength in numbers, and we currently have the numbers to defeat the religious terrorists, so let us use them wisely and with all due haste...! Let us also emphasize using wisdom because, while we want to inspire people to be passionate in their protection of themselves against tyranny, we ourselves do not want to produce tyrants…! In this "Gospel of Free Will", I hope to impart to all …of this sentiment and more, and hope to provoke just such wisdom and passions....! If you are atheistically prone and do not enjoy discussions or definitions of God or spirituality, you may still wish to read the colorful essays and rants; posted on this website… So consider it not as doctrine but as "mystical poetry" addressing to some of the most important and profound concepts to face humanity in the present day...!!! It is my experience that, most people enjoy these mystical or spiritual subjects and that the notions of God will not disappear from the human psyche… so let us at least drag it out of the Stone Age and we can redefine it...??? ...there is a feeling of urgency to the works of many true believers (who write and unmask the religious bigotries and intolerance of hatred of the unbelievers), in trying to keep the religious tyranny and spiritual enslavement at bay, as millions of religiously deranged and God-obsessed individuals attempt to crush all aspects of the true human enlightenment and liberty; covering up and subduing all wonder, beauty and awes... If we do not cherish and uphold sacred the freedom-inducing concepts contained in these “gospels”, we may find ourselves very well staring down the black hole of the New Dark Age...!!! In the end, it is our sincere desires to impart a sense of delight and celebrations of life that, will act as an antidote to such darkness and dire straits... Please join us in this effort…!!!