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Bullshit and Overrated!: Organized Religion
B.S.: Overrated
by: BluLight
Organized Religion: Autocracy in the Name of God
How separate is church and state when the state goes to the church for money? We’ve all seen it. We have all witnessed it, either first hand or on television; the politician campaigning for election or reelection, heading to the nearest church for “support”. We all know what kind of “support” they are looking for and it isn’t a pat on the back and a secure promise of votes. It’s a hand out. It’s a hand out of green backs from the all powerful, money hungry, industrialization in charge: Organized religion. And yes…I said industrialization.
Religion is a business. Get real. It’s all about money and control. People who are in power want to stay in power. What better way to do that, than to pull out a book bearing the words of God Almighty himself, and thumping it until their fingers bleed- or until you believe? God says… don’t cut your hair, don’t have sex, don’t like it if you do, only have sex to procreate, don’t drink, don’t do drugs, don’t show skin, and give me 10% of all your earnings and yes! that includes child support checks. Welfare checks, too if you get them.
Well, kiss my black ass. “I” go to work for this money and unless God tells me Himself that He needs my money to pay a bill, then I will “think” about giving it to him.
The Lord does not need MY money or anyone else’s. I don’t think by “charity” God meant giving it to some already rich preacher so that he can pay his Benz off this month instead of next month. Hell, if I dare set foot into a church, I’m going to church to pray, not pay. No way. My idea of being charitable is helping people you know and love and giving to the less fortunate. It means having a kind heart, giving your last cold drink of water to someone who is thirsty. I believe that the earth and karma will reward you for these things. I don’t believe that by going to a church and putting my last dime in the collection plate is God’s idea of “charity”. At least I hope it isn’t because I’m not doing it. I don’t believe that treating people like crap on Saturday, going to church on Sunday and giving most of your earnings away, and then treating people like crap on Monday makes for a “charitable” and God-fearing individual.
Many circumstances that I have witnessed involving bible beaters, helped to shape my feelings and thoughts of them long ago. I have one memory of a particularly hot Sunday morning, when my sister was on her way to church and caught a flat tire. A member of the same church was also on her way and saw my sister on the side of the road, struggling with this tire. The “charitable” and God-like thing to do would have been to stop and render aid, or at least offer my sis a ride to church and perhaps she could have found someone to go back and help her. But what did this devout churchgoer, this faithful member of organized religion do? She past my sister up on the street and headed on to church. Her reasoning? Had she stopped, she would have been late for church.
This is what I think about churches and churchgoers. They are some of them most evil, intolerable, finger-pointing class of populace that I have ever known. I don’t know anyone more evil than a devout churchgoer. Granted, not ALL churchgoers are evil, but they sure do put out an abundance of evil folks by the truckload. And this makes me look at all of them with the “peoples eyebrow”. I proceed cautiously when dealing with a religious freak. And I do so for good reason.
Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, an open atheist, was quoted by Playboy as saying, “Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.”
I say Amen. (No pun intended)
Now I am by no means an atheist or a disbeliever of anything less than tangible. Not everything in life has to be scientifically proven for me to believe it exists, but I just don’t see a need for religion to play a part in my life. At least, not such a large part where I don’t think for myself, point fingers, and tell people that I don’t even know that they will burn in hell just because they don’t see things the way I do. That is called a cult. Jim Jones led hundreds of people to an agonizing death with his cult, cleverly disguised as a religion. He had all them black folks in Guyana, of all places, sipping on cyanide kool-aid, and even giving it to their children. All because some fool said he was on the gospel train with Jesus…follow me. And these weak minded individuals found strength in bonding with other weak-ass individuals and ended up splayed out, in a foreign country with no running water…and dead. Religion is no better than the gangs that infest the youths of America. As with gangs, they provide a false sense of protection and safety, but underneath can use a hardnosed and even violent method of keeping authority over its “members”. Radicals of the religious rights are no better than violent street punks who strong arm lost souls into serving their selfish needs.
I happen to also believe that religion makes for the stuff of Taliban dreams. Some jackass hops into an airplane, flies it into a building killing thousands of innocent people, and all in the name of religion. Oh yea, that really makes me want to become a devout bible freak. And let’s not even begin with this breakout of pedophilic priest.
I knew long before it hit the news about the scandals involving clergymen and young boys. In a small town where I grew up, I met a young man who was gay and a drag queen. Almost every night, he’d climb into his most adorning female attire and head to Houston to join in the gay life limelight. There, unlike in the small town where we lived, he was accepted. There, unlike the arms of his very rich parents, he was embraced and welcomed. One night, while at a tattoo shop with some of my girl friends, we met this young man, who became a friend to us, and he told us a little about his life.
It all started with a man that he should have been able to trust; A man of the cloth from his catholic church; A man who took him as a young teenager and made him into his little undercover boyfriend. One day, this “man of the cloth” decided to trade him in for another, even younger little boy and needless to say, my friend was hurt. Doing what any jilted and desperate lover would do, he made his feelings known. He stood before his fellow church members and announced that the priest was his lover, had been his lover for years, and had dumped him for another young man. Well, they kicked him out of the church. Denounced him. His parents disowned him and vowed never to speak to him again. He was young, not even of legal age yet, and was homeless.
What do I think about organized religion? Do I really have to say? Organized religion serves only those in charge of it, helping to keep their asses in power. Flakey taboos aid in keeping them in power and in doing so, keeps those with little or no power in fear for their very souls. Give me your money-God said so! Or burn in hell forever and ever. Amen.
It all comes down to power and politics: money and a system. It is democracy only in theory. Autocracy disguised as democracy- to keep us at bay and from questioning the powers that be. I have my own bible. It’s the bible of me; The bible in my heart and it’s called instincts. My instincts keep me safe and tell me right from wrong. Don’t misconstrue, I am a believer in God and Jesus. I believe in a higher power. I just pray to Him on my own, of my own accord, and in the privacy of my own home. Whatever rules and regulations that work for me, may not work for anyone else, so why try to make others follow my system? Unfortunately, that is exactly what religion tries to do.
Its purpose is purely one of selfishness, greed, and control in the masses. As long as it can be the supreme ruling, then no one can question the harmful, shameful, closeted misdeeds that are being committed. They can defraud, cheat, break every rule they say the rest of us will burn in hell for, and not have to answer to anyone or anything, because to question religion would be to question God.
And nobody questions God.
That would be blasphemy.
Any you will burn in hell.
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