Taking the Mask Off of Christianity, page 2

Originally posted by MorninG StaR 21

The Judeo/Christian Bible has always used extreme fear as a tool to keep people away from the workings of the mind. be a good sheep, and just "believe."
Biblically, blind faith is asinine. It was never a tennant of the faith. The New Testament was written in such a short period of time that the people who read the letters were alive and saw Jesus die, and many of him saw him after his death, alive...and they saw him in large groups, too. Not just the Apostles. Some of the wonders surrounding his death are found in historical documents...like the sun going dark for as long as it did....across the whole Roman Empire...at least. You can find another document trying to explain it away as an eclipse....multiple hours, recorded as at least spanning parts of 3 continents. Almost all of what Paul put down as Rules you can find Christ's sayings on it in the first 4 books. Paul wrote opinions, and when he did, he wrote down that he was writing opinion. Much of his books were more about thinking things out than actual rules, anyway. Other writers wrote the same things, some of which were directly arguing agianst Paul about some little thing, but they were all in unison about the rules...

The Gentile people have been force fed Christianity in order to strip us of all knowledge and power. Those at the top play both sides against the middle. What this means is the enemy works from within both sides- each side bashing the other while they both move ahead. This is analogous to a cop who is heavily involved in an open and public anti-drug crusade and secretly sells and pushes drugs unbeknownst to his family and community.
Early on, they were not. Christians died in the early years for just confessing that they believed. Paul confessed that he used to kill Christians for the ruling Jews because he was a ruling Jew, and a zealous one at that.
And what power do you speack of the power to speak to the dead? That's not safe, even when you aren't inhibited by a christian upbring. Yes, many Christians were illiterate. Most of them were peseants. That wasn't about religion, but what control the ruling class wanted to have over them. And the peseants beleieved both Christianity and Pagan bleiefs. The ruling class teneded to lean only toards Christianity. The often had the learning to read it.

Following the Roman sacking of the Temple of Solomon 70 CE, Christianity was invented by the Jews the best known is (Paul aka "Saul of Tarsus) so they could control the world using the ancient known powers of the mind and the soul. The Jews themselves know the Nazarene is a fictitious character based upon some 20 crucified heroes from Pagan pantheons.
The book of Matthew fragments were found before 70 CE...they were dated at at least 50 CE. And Matthew, (the historian/doctor...historians can follow his methodology and sytematic research and consider him to be an excellent his along with the other 4 gospels was supposedly written off an earlier document. That's the latest it could have been written. That leaves less than a 20 year gap between Christ's death and the time of the book of Matthew, and even less for the origional transcript.

[wuote[In the case of Christianity, all of the former Pagan (Gentile) Gods were bound and replaced with fictitious Jewish deities. The Hebrew Virgin Mary replaced Astaroth, the Hebrew Moses legend was stolen from Sargon (both were born in secrecy, left in a reed basket to float down the river and adopted by royalty), Hebrew Abraham was stolen from Hindu Brahma. "Brahma in Sanskrit means "many." The endless list goes on and on. There isn't anything in the Christian religion that hasn't been stolen from Pagan religions pre-dating it from hundreds to thousands of years. The Pagan Gods, being a powerful racial memory in the minds of Gentiles were replaced with Hebrew characters to be slavishly obeyed and worshipped. This set the stage for immense power and control.

Moses had a foregion wife. Whose to say that Moses and Sargon aren't the same? Diffrent languages. Jus tmroe likely to mean that there was an origional out there. So the name of Abraham was "stolen." You want you child to be named Many, you go through your English and find some synonyms for many and name them many. That's not theft. Anyway, Abraham means "father of many", and his origional name Abram means "father of none." Why so many dictionaries leave off the "father of" part is confusing, and almost none of them have any of the original language which to base their definition on, so I'm not likely to beleive them, anyway. Depending on which sect you go to, Mary isn't all that holy, and isn't a virgin anymore.

And I don't doubt that Catholicism pulls much in from Paganism. After all, every time I go to one of their masses, I feel like I'm going into a Wiccain holiday. Not all Christianity is like that. Religion is expressed as individually as people are individual.

With Christianity, it is hit and mostly misses.

According to you. I look at some of the things you wrote on this one thread, and I see some hits, and what I'd say are mostly misses. You're just quoting 2 Opinions 3:24.

The few and far in-between hits keep the deluded believing, unknowing this is not any "miracle" but only the power of the mind. The end objective is atheism. The atheist believes in nothing and disregards anything "supernatural" or of the occult. He/she is a sitting duck just waiting to be manipulated by those who possess occult knowledge and power.

Atheism can't prove Atheism without being God itself....and thus defeats the purpose. If you are God, the supreme ruler, then there is a God. And there are true Athiests who turn to Christianity after careful study and medityation. I can get a lot fo their books, so you can see why they tured their lives over to the one thing they said didn't exist. There's enough of this happening on both sides of the equation to tell me that many of the ideas you have are just as wrong as many of mine. And for me to believe the way I do, I have to believe that you are more wrong than me.

Simple game:
Look back at what you believed only 10 years ago.
Do you believe exactly the same then as you do now?
No, you can't...because you aren't static; you are a dynamic human being.
Based on this past, look forwad 10 years. What beliefs are you going to change? Can you predict that now?
Guess what. Some of the ideals you held to 10 years ago that you gave up are the right ideas, and you replace dthem with some wrong thinking. In some instances, you got some right ideas. And in probably the majority, neither one of them was right.
That's called being human. You are fallible.
Hell, this game can be played witin only the space of a few minutes, with almost every human on the face of this planet. We're that dynamic.

"According to the Internal Revenue Service, church donations total over 19 BILLION dollars a year. "This does not include profits from businesses, stock holdings, bond holdings, retirement centers or lease back arrangements."

Lumps all Christian groups together, no?
This doesn't show where the money goes, and is therefore grossly insulting. Some of it is wasted. Preacher has to live (some places, the preacher barely lives, and he's not got a 401K). Building has to be paid for. The poor fed. The injured healed. The blind made to see, etc.
Our congregation helps out a church orphanage in Oklahoma, and I know an Athiest who grew up in that same orphanage...happens to be distantly related to me, and to General Rober E. Lee . We also sent money to congregations that were destroyed in Katrina. Some of us went down the Bayou and gutted the houses of old folks/women who were left on their own--that isn't reported as money earned. Genralization without details.