Religion
The two leading methods of controlling the masses are
Nationalism and Religion. In this article we will look at how
Religion influences people into doing things that they would not
do normally.
Practically every religion has some bad logic associated with
it. Most Americans follow some form of Christianity. This
involves reading both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.
There are a lot of things that don't make sense about the Bible
( especially the Old Testament ), but practically all Christian
denominations treat this as the word of God. How can mortal man
ever question the work of the Lord?
One of the most logically and morally troubling things that I
find in the Bible deals with the Book of Joshua. In this book
God orders Joshua, the leader of the Israelites, to conquer a
city called Jericho. Joshua has the priests march around the
city for seven days. Then they blew their trumpets and the walls
came tumbling down. What the Israelites did next is what really
gets me to question the divine origin of the Bible.
(Joshua 6:20)The people destroyed everything in the city. They
destroyed everything that was living there. They killed the
young men and old men, young women and old women, cattle, sheep,
and donkeys.
It seems that they did spare a prostitute named Rahab and her
family, for hiding two spies that Joshua sent to the city prior
to the conquest.
(Joshua 6:24)Then the people of Israel burned the whole city.
They burned everything in the city except the things made from
silver, gold, bronze, and iron. They put those things in the
Lord's treasury.
These days we call this "racial cleansing". I haven't heard any
Christians complain about God being a terrorist according to the
book of Joshua. But what about the Moslems that interpreted
their Koran in a way that treated New York's twin towers as
Jericho, and on 9/11 the walls came tumbling down killing
everyone within. According to this way of thinking, this was
God's way of punishing the infidel.
As in many instances in history, religion is responsible for a
lot of the bad things that happened to the human race. Here, I
don't want to question the existence of God, but how illogically
humans interpret His will. If you look at all the people in the
world, they are made up of assorted skin shades and creeds. If
there is a God, since He made everyone, He must be the God of
everyone. If this is the case, no race has the right to conquer
Jericho, or to destroy the World Trade Center.
In my opinion suicide bombers are so controlled by a silly,
oppressive religion, that they fail to see reality. It is never
right to do harm to innocent people. If we are all God's
creatures then no one race has the right to wage "holy war"
against any other. There really are no chosen people because
everyone on earth is racially equal. If there is an afterlife,
instead of being greeted by beautiful virgins, the dead suicide
bomber, is more likely to be tormented by all the innocent
victims whose lives he so cruelly snuffed out.
Furthermore, how many suicide bombers' names do you remember?
It's slime like Osama Bin-Laden and Zarchawi, who are always in
the headlines. They probably know that this has nothing to do
with God, yet push their perverted philosophy on young,
illiterate Arab men. These boys take their own lives and those
of the innocent, just to feed the thirst for power that
motivates their leaders.
How long are people going to listen to their priests or mullahs
telling them to do things totally against common sense?
Logically, God must be for everyone and not just for a group of
backward Arabs, Jews, or Christians that interpret scriptures
written by ancient prophets preaching hate and bigotry. But this
is why people should start thinking and questioning what their
leaders say. World peace will never happen until people start
thinking for themselves. After all, most of our religious
leaders are nothing more than greedy Corporate Aliens seeking
personal wealth and power. If they had their way, we still would
be burned at the stake for saying that the world is round.