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by Rene' Descartes
March 2017
from
HumansAreFree Website
Spanish
version
There are a variety of reasons that can be behind the founding of a
religion:
some are good, and many are bad...
Thus both good and
bad
religions have been created.
There are religions that started as a means for worship.
Some to
help people improve themselves spiritually or otherwise.
Others were specifically created just to
control and have power over
the people.
But even religions that started with good intentions,
degenerated over time into self-serving power structures whose main
function was to control people, and to make money (And the profit
shall lead them).
Religions vary in their methods and functions.
Most offer their
members personal salvation through following the religion's tenets
(beliefs, rituals, scripts and dogma).
And thus, they insinuate you will not find God/The Creator or
salvation, if you don't follow their particular religion/scripture/dogma.
Many religions also aim to fill an emotional, intellectual or
psychological need in people's hearts and minds.
Generally, each
have their own 'dogma',
Some religions control by using people's insecurities, and have even
been formed based on the insecurity of an ignorant society.
Some were based on fear.
There is the fear of
hell (religion as
'fire insurance').
There is also the fear of God.
This idea basically comes from need
to worship and serve a God, or some kind of powerful supreme being,
because you actually need to fear Him if you don't - because
'He' is
all powerful and has negative emotional attributes, commits
atrocities when angry or jealous, and allows great suffering and
disasters when 'He' could easily stop them.
Worshipping that kind of a
God is not much different than being
respectful to, and paying homage and taxes to, an evil king, or
warlord of the realm, because if you don't, he may come burn down
your hut or your fields, or kill you and your family, rape your
wife, etc..
In fact, that is precisely what many religions did, and how they
used their concept of God.
But as opposed to being just a King or a warlord, people were told
it was an all-powerful being, like a super powered evil alien from
outer-space, bent on taking over and controlling all the people of
this planet.
And of course the next step in such a religion, is,
dealing with the
abusive power of its leaders...
The religion's leaders, being self-appointed representatives of such
a God,
would even torture and burn people alive for not 'believing',
or behaving precisely as they dictated, or precisely as their 'God'
dictated.
Millions of people have been murdered, burnt and tortured as the
result of this.
Let's just say for now that people throughout time, and of various
religions, have used their particular God, or even their particular
'name' for their God and their 'Holy' scriptures, as an excuse to
control, torture, and murder.
That's one reason we prefer to call
God 'the Universal Spirit',
rather than anything that personalizes, or segregates the concept.
But there have been legitimate or sincere reasons and beginnings for
religions too.
Some have been formed based on faith in, or the moral ideas of the
religion's founder.
Some have been based on visions or insights of a great spiritual
teacher (unfortunately, when the founding visionary dies, usually
theology, dogma, scriptures and 'religion' take over).
Others provide a more direct means for personal salvation, within
the framework of dogma.
Some spiritual traditions are so rooted in the culture they are
from, that people from 'foreign' cultures or lands find them
difficult to adapt to.
Sometimes there are even language barriers and cultural customs that
have become part of the religion.
For instance, some paths require learning or chanting in Japanese,
East Indian or Latin languages, rather than translations of those
languages.
Many require performing or participating in rituals that are unique
to a foreign culture, even though they evolved specifically because
of those cultures.
While some paths have legitimate reasons for such things, most do
not, and their requirements are limiting, and often nothing more
than obsolete dogma and cultural bias.
Unlike other traditions, the
true ancient spiritual teachings lack
any emphasis on religious dogma and have no cultural and ritual
embedding.
And the universality of the teachings and methods easily adapt to
those individuals from any culture who have an open mind, and are
truly spiritually inclined.
Thus, it is a path that is readily accessible and useful to people
from any land, if they wish to take advantage of it.
The ancient teachings were not formed and based on faith. Most of
the basis of them came from the old world, and thus to us, our
knowledge, philosophies, and practices are simply gleaned from the 'Scientific facts' of Universal Laws that govern all things in the
Universe, including the use of the mind and energy.
They are merely the result of
'observations' of the Universal forces
that are involved in the practical applications of our spiritual and
physical existence.
Thus, even today, understanding the substance of even the ancient
'beliefs', requires no faith, but rather a certain quality of
'intuitive logic'. In fact, the path urges us not to take the
teachings on faith, but to EXPERIENCE the
Creator and higher
consciousness directly.
That way we can really know, rather than just taking something on
faith and 'hoping really bad' that it's true.
There is no more powerful way to change your life in a real and
lasting way, than to directly experience Universal Consciousness,
and thus experience and know Oneness with the Universal Spirit/God.
The ancient teachings both give us methods to expand our awareness
and directly experience the Creator and Universal Consciousness,
while also explaining to us the effects of Universal Laws in simple
terms, even if,
"the Law itself is difficult to under-stand"...
Writing for Religious inclined people is not always an enjoyable
experience.
Many readers want to have their prejudices
confirmed,
not challenged. Emotions rule their reason, and they are capable of
a determined resistance to facts and are not inhibited from displays
of rudeness and ignorance.
Indeed, some are so proud of their shortcomings that they can't wait
to show them to others.
Some simply cannot read and confuse explanations with justifications
as if the act of explaining something justifies the person or event
being explained.
Thankfully, all readers are not handicapped in these ways or there
would be no point in trying to inform the Scripture loving people...
The following may shed some light on why so many people in the
western world are leaving orthodox religions in droves.
Conventional philosophical, historical, scientific and religious
sources should have explained WHY you are here in this world and
what your purpose and objective for living here are and what you
must do to achieve what you were meant to achieve in this life and
how to fulfill your life's purpose and objective.
And to do that, you first have to understand WHAT you really are,
because you truly don't know, do you?
Don't kid yourself, you don't...
What you look at in the mirror is just some mechanized
ape-like-clay-body in a mini skirt or a tie, but it's not the real
YOU.
So, if you don't know WHAT you really are, how can you get anything
right in your life? Your life is just an accident waiting to happen.
And for many of you, your daily doings are totally accidental and
most likely far from successful in achieving your life's purpose and
objective.
You may choose to believe in the story of Adam's rib, seven days and
talking snakes, etc. but it is not clear to anybody what was
originally meant by those metaphors.
The transliterations and misinterpretations you hear from the many
"Orthodox taught" are varied and imaginative (and at times
well-meant), but only the truth can help you understand.
Accidental interpretations, wishful thinking, faith or metaphors you
don't understand, cannot.
The root meaning of the word
Philosophy is "Love of Wisdom".
The root meaning of the word
religion is… re-binding, or re-connect
or re-establish or re-ligament or re-combine or re-unite, or re-join
(Again becoming One).
This clearly indicates that the purpose and objective of all
"religions" was meant to somehow re-unite man to the Creator, and
man to man.
It also indicates something previous, that we once were connected
and now have to re-(again)-connect.
Religion was apparently meant to explain to us, show us, and teach
us the way to achieve this re-connection. That is why it is called
"Re-ligion" (Again-Uniting).
On this issue, religions clearly appear to have been abominable
failures, or at least most of them and many times to the detriment
of mankind as a whole.
Most people simply don't know the Spiritual
truths needed to evolve spiritually and now, they all crave it.
It has become painfully clear even for the most discerned people
that we have been deceived by well-meaning people who themselves
were deceived for thousands of years about the truth of our origin,
our purpose for living, our real origin history and our final
destiny, hence mankind as a whole have failed to become spiritually
enlightened.
Things are not as we have been told by any stretch of the
imagination neither in religion, philosophy, history, science and
specially the fake daily news of late and they all sadly had some
very bizarre reasons for not telling us the truth.
If you had been told
'the truth' you would long since have reached
some sort of spiritual perfection, so we know 'they' have been
deceiving.
You see, if mankind knew better, they would do better, hence we know
they lied to keep you consciously ignorant about Spirituality.
All the insight and understanding that has ever been hidden
(Occult), has always been hidden for one purpose only, so whoever
hid it, could take advantage of the people it was hidden from.
That which is hidden is what they don't want you to know, because
then they can't bamboozle you.
When people are unaware and ignorant
it is easy to take advantage of them, and lead them astray.
If a Pastor,
Politician or your wife/husband asks you to have faith
in something they tell you, it generally means they cannot explain
the subject due to their own lagging knowledge and doubt.
If they could tell you the truth, I am sure that they would, in
which case, no faith is needed, but sadly many times, a pastor or
politician will assume that something is the truth, and then tell
his assumption to his congregation as if it were the cosmic truth,
instead of telling that it is only an assumption.
To look in old books and scriptures can help you at times, but
don't
overestimate that by any stretch.
In days of old, people were just as partial to record their
assumptions and thoughts as if they were the cosmic truth, not
knowing what it really was, as people do today
(Fake News is an old practice...)
They do this because most people are selfish. But only the truth can
set you free, so ask and you shall receive.
Darwin's theory of 'evolution', your school teacher told you about, is
made-up stories and wishful thinking and only a THEORY that are not
EVOLVED very much.
And the Creation story your priest told you appear mostly like some
rabbi's interpretation, stretched with a lot of creative and
imaginary thinking.
Seven days? Adam's rib? Talking Snake? Get real...!
They simply don't know the truth about the creation, they just hope
and have faith that it is the truth, so they stick to the story
in
the Bible, or Darwin's theories as well as stopping people from
looking elsewhere for the real truth.
Lately they threw the bizarre 'intelligent design' story into the mix.
New versions of the Bible come to light every day.
In English alone there are about 37 versions that we know of and in
most of those Jesus himself only spoke for about 16 minutes in his
entire life.
So please understand that there are a lot more teachings of truth
than the many very different Scriptures present and recorded.
All Scriptures have been, over many years, influenced by liars,
using splinters of Truth as bait, to trap us and to dictate to us
what Truth is.
Of course the package sold to us is meant, in reality, to blind us
to the whole Truth.
The purpose for writing the old scriptures has long since been lost.
Ask yourself,
what was the purpose or objective for writing a
'Bible'… and did they ever achieve that purpose or objective?
All the Masters of history, including,
Hermes, Enoch, Melchizedek,
Krishna, Buddha, Zoroaster, Tao, Enoch, Joseph, Joshua, Confucius,
Jesus,
...and many more gave us spiritual guidance in order to
awaken us
and liberate us from untruth, and to set us on the Path to Truth.
Not one of them came to bind us into the falsehoods of constraining
religions or questionable scriptures.
They wanted us to know the truth about what we really are, why we
are here (our purpose) and how to achieve what we were meant to
achieve, as well as explaining our true Origin and final Destiny to
help us grasp our full potential.
Another big problem is Bibliolatry (Bible Worship)
Pre-literate people handed down their best guesses about gods and
goodness by way of oral tradition, and they made objects of stone
and wood, idols, to channel their devotion.
Their notions of what was good and what was real and how to live in
moral community with each other were free to evolve as culture and
technology changed.
But the advent of the written word changed that.
As our Iron Age ancestors recorded and compiled their ideas into
sacred texts, these texts allowed their understanding of gods and
goodness to become frozen and static.
The sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam forbid idol
worship, but over time the texts themselves became idolized, and
many modern believers practice - essentially - book worship, also
known as bibliolatry.
"Because the faith of Christianity is
'perfect', it does not allow for
any innovations to the religion," says one young Christian
explaining his faith.
His statement betrays a naïve lack of information about the origins
of his own dogmas.
But more broadly, it sums up the challenge all religions face moving
forward.
Imagine if a physicist said:
"Because our understanding of physics is known and perfect, it does
not allow for any innovations to the field."
Adherents who think their scriptures and faith is
'perfect,' are not
just naïve or ill informed.
They are developmentally arrested, and in the case of the world's
major religions, their mind is anchored to the Iron Age, a time of
violent slavery, desperation and early death.
Only the truth is helpful and the only thing that help you grow
spiritually and the only thing that really matters.
Religions made their teachings and their scriptures more important
than the purpose behind them.
But, Who is to be
Condemned because they do not Understand?
Because our opportunities on Earth for spiritual growth are limited
time-wise, we should realize that indoctrinating children with
Religion, belief systems and scriptures before they are old enough
to reason can spoil the learning value of their lives.
In some cases this is worse than murder because it may spoil their
whole lifetime instead of just a few years.
This is pure
priest-craft.
"They" tell you: two thousand years ago a man by the name of
Jesus
Christ, who had no earthly father (immaculately conceived), who
descended from David came "down" and "he died for your sins".
By this they are telling you that God is a God of anger and he is a
God of wrath and that he punishes the innocent and reward the
guilty.
What we are also being told is that because Jesus Christ was
crucified on the cross, God is going to forgive everybody forever
for everything they have ever done, and are saying that God
'himself'
demanded it.
They say, that there are 13 friends and one of them is innocent and
without sin; the rest of them are born in sin and are sinners.
In order for the 12 to be saved and forgiven, the last one (the
innocent one) will have to be sacrificed.
This is what they say
God demands and only by sacrificing the
innocent one will the rest be saved.
Even our own legal system of justice, corrupt and flawed as it is
most of the times, has not thought of punishing and executing the
innocent for the crimes of the guilty so the sinners can go free.
Well,
do you still think they are telling you the truth, or do you
now understand religious interpretations can be misinterpretations?
Only truly enlightened teachers can enlighten you, orators cannot.
Maybe that is why a Papal letter is called a
Bull...
Stop learning so much and start thinking more
yourself...
I truly hope
this makes you think.
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