Religion & Using fear to control "White" America.

[Joanne98]

For OpEdNews: Joe the Voter - Writer

I want to preface this article by stating that I do not claim to be a devout "anything" except an American and a patriot. I am "Christian" by birth but not by conviction. I make no claim to being an authority on the Bible, the Koran, Torah or any other religious document. This does not mean I don't understand what "faith" means in a literal sense. I am absolutely convinced we are not alone in this universe and that we are not the only beings with intelligence here or in the cosmos. We are not the only beings with advanced civilizations. No one can convince me otherwise"that is faith. A belief you hold because you just "know" it has to be true because the alternative seems impossible.

Faith is what you hold to be true even where evidence is lacking. This is what religious faith is about, believing because you believe. Believing in something even where that has no material factual basis for that belief. Religions typically lack hard evidence or factual basis outside of their own writings.

Were this not so, and if everything that is written in each of the major religions could be proven factually, we would find irreconcilable conflicts between these facts. Their "mysticism" allows for multiple belief systems that all rely on faith for their continued practice. If one could prove beyond any reasonable doubt the non-existence of Christ what would be the fate of Christianity as a religion? I am not talking about the existence of an actual physical person described as Jesus Christ but proof that he was, in fact, the son of a deity, conceived as if by magic. This would first require the provable existence of a deity, whether you call him "God", Jehovah, Allah or what ever name you assign to him or her. The idea that this deity must even have a gender and that must be male is a chauvinist position that probably says more about those who wrote those sacred texts. Men.

There was a time, before Christianity, before Judaism, when man kind worshiped many gods. We had a god of fire, a god for water, for Earth, the sun, and so on. One common thread, however, was that these were all things earlier civilizations had no explanation for. We were ignorant of so much of what makes our planet and our universe function. Man always demands answers, it is our nature, so when early man could not conceive of an answer he ascribed what he could not understand to one or more gods. "It is the will of the gods" was the answer when no other would do.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Religion--Using-fear-to-c-by-Joe-the-Voter-100808-416.html

[UndertheOcean]

1. Self Delete

Manic phase

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I wish that was applicable in real life. "Ignore that last thing I said. Pressured speech.)

[UndertheOcean]

4. You can say that again

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3. Thanks for posting this...

excellent article!