When. I gave up on religion(man made crap) i finally found Christianity.
I have no problem with "Christianity," if by Christianity you mean the teachings of Jesus. What I have a problem with is believing that the Source of All Things is speaking through a book written by people who were murderers, liars, cheaters, stealers, rapists, eugenicists, slavers, child abusers, child rapists, child murderers, child eaters, genocidal maniacs, master illusionists, and overall world dominating psychopaths who believe they are the most important race/culture/society/gene line to ever exist, and the only one that really matters. THAT is who wrote the bible. They wrote it specifically to control society. The evidence is obvious, both internally and in the larger scope of the archeological and genetic evidence.
I don't have any problem with the teachings of Jesus. On the contrary, I find them to be quite insightful and enlightening. I have a problem with believing the bible, and more importantly (and relevantly), the bible we have today is some sort of guide to that teaching, rather than a purposeful obfuscation of it.
Getting people to see how the bible (as we understand the term) performs that task of obfuscation is near impossible. The entire world has been brainwashed to believe the opposite. "Everything in this book comes directly from God and is thus the Ultimate Truth. Oh ya, and it's also complete. All the other books, Jesus' quotes, and any writings you may find in a cave somewhere that were previously canon are decidedly not God's word." Take just that one line, add millennia of brainwashing to get people to believe it, throw in the occasional "this is how you're supposed to interpret this," and "this is the proper context to understand why it is totally reasonable for "God" to demand that his "chosen people" murdered/raped/enslaved/wiped out innocent people," etc., and you can do anything to an entire society. The cognitive dissonance and confusion that comes with an honest reading of the bible, when you add in "this is God's True Words" helps enforce the brainwashing when the brain tries to rectify it. In fact, this technique of first creating cognitive dissonance and then guiding the brain's "making sense of it" is an essential part of brainwashing, and it is replete in the bible as presented.
This creation of a perfect brainwashing tool to control society is exactly what happened. With regards to the NT, they took out the most important bits, and obfuscated the truth contained in what remained. The deeper truth of the teachings of Jesus supports an appreciation of our connection to Source, a true self empowerment, and an appreciation for what anarchy really means (AKA no ruler). Of COURSE his message had to be purposefully confused. The stuff they left in is only that which helps the ruling power to control society, congruent with the original work of fuckery we call the "Old Testament."
I suggest the Source of All Things had as little to do with the construction of that book, or any of it's original source material as It did in say, the writing of Hamlet. Like the bible, that story has some very interesting lessons and some solid historical underpinnings. Yet no one says that one is "the voice of God." Maybe Shakespeare should have included that line as well. Who knows where we would be if he had. Of course he would have needed to construct the authoritative infrastructure to ensure it took, and I suppose that might have been problematic, since that role was already fulfilled and entrenched by the Holy Roman Empire.
Looking at who did write/construct our modern day version of the bible (where it really came from) and its encompassing infrastructure is, I suggest, the best place to begin to unpack the social manipulation.
Having said that, I have yet to have much success with that no matter how I present the evidence. I can't even get anyone to look at it who isn't already on that path to discovery.
I have no problem with "Christianity," if by Christianity you mean the teachings of Jesus. What I have a problem with is believing that the Source of All Things is speaking through a book written by people who were murderers, liars, cheaters, stealers, rapists, eugenicists, slavers, child abusers, child rapists, child murderers, child eaters, genocidal maniacs, master illusionists, and overall world dominating psychopaths who believe they are the most important race/culture/society/gene line to ever exist, and the only one that really matters. THAT is who wrote the bible. They wrote it specifically to control society. The evidence is obvious, both internally and in the larger scope of the archeological and genetic evidence.
I don't have any problem with the teachings of Jesus. On the contrary, I find them to be quite insightful and enlightening. I have a problem with believing the bible, and more importantly (and relevantly), the bible we have today is some sort of guide to that teaching, rather than a purposeful obfuscation of it.
Getting people to see how the bible (as we understand the term) performs that task of obfuscation is near impossible. The entire world has been brainwashed to believe the opposite. "Everything in this book comes directly from God and is thus the Ultimate Truth. Oh ya, and it's also complete. All the other books, Jesus' quotes, and any writings you may find in a cave somewhere that were previously canon are decidedly not God's word." Take just that one line, add millennia of brainwashing to get people to believe it, throw in the occasional "this is how you're supposed to interpret this," and "this is the proper context to understand why it is totally reasonable for "God" to demand that his "chosen people" murdered/raped/enslaved/wiped out innocent people," etc., and you can do anything to an entire society. The cognitive dissonance and confusion that comes with an honest reading of the bible, when you add in "this is God's True Words" helps enforce the brainwashing when the brain tries to rectify it. In fact, this technique of first creating cognitive dissonance and then guiding the brain's "making sense of it" is an essential part of brainwashing, and it is replete in the bible as presented.
This creation of a perfect brainwashing tool to control society is exactly what happened. With regards to the NT, they took out the most important bits, and obfuscated the truth contained in what remained. The deeper truth of the teachings of Jesus supports an appreciation of our connection to Source, a true self empowerment, and an appreciation for what anarchy really means (AKA no ruler). Of COURSE his message had to be purposefully confused. The stuff they left in is only that which helps the ruling power to control society, congruent with the original work of fuckery we call the "Old Testament."
I suggest the Source of All Things had as little to do with the construction of that book, or any of it's original source material as It did in say, the writing of Hamlet. Like the bible, that story has some very interesting lessons and some solid historical underpinnings. Yet no one says that one is "the voice of God." Maybe Shakespeare should have included that line as well. Who knows where we would be if he had. Of course he would have needed to construct the authoritative infrastructure to ensure it took, and I suppose that might have been problematic, since that role was already fulfilled and entrenched by the Holy Roman Empire.
Looking at who did write/construct our modern day version of the bible (where it really came from) and its encompassing infrastructure is, I suggest, the best place to begin to unpack the social manipulation.
Having said that, I have yet to have much success with that no matter how I present the evidence. I can't even get anyone to look at it who isn't already on that path to discovery.
I'll keep trying.