The value of religion is to keep the gullible masses in check. Unfortunately the apposing forces of domination, the trouble makers like Jesus or myself have not been doing our job in stimulating the masses to question the authority of the religions or wake them up from their unconscious gullibility. Religions are not like educational […]
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The Value of Sloth & Apathy
When I think of sloth I am reminded of something that Jesus said, “Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy burdened and I shall give you rest” (Matt 11:29). Then I think about the “Protestant Work Ethic and how Protestant Christianity teaches people to work harder and be slaves who are “good […]
My Contention with Christianity
I like Jesus. I have been and am inspired by Jesus. As a young man when I came to my midlife crisis I was inspired by Jesus to seek a way out of my feelings of being trapped in a meaningless world. I realized I wanted what Jesus had. I did not know what that […]
10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy
by Jen Angel http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=3022#2 In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and ethicist Stephen Post have studied people all over the world to […]
Love Yourself First
“The measure you give is the measure you shall receive.” Jesus If you love yourself then you are loved.If the whole world loves you but you do not love yourself then you will not know love.If the whole world hates you but you love yourself then you will know love. It does not matter whether […]
Impending Doom
I wonder if people who are about to die have some sense of impending doom, some ‘knowingness’ that they are about to die. Just before my father died of a massive heart attack he called my mother, whom he had not talked to in almost twenty years, to wish her a happy birthday, which was […]
The Virtue of Laziness
Jesus was lazy and so was the Buddha.Both of them could read and presumable write but neither of them wrote anything down; probably because they were lazy.They were too lazy to be industrious and they did not ‘create’ anything.They just enjoyed talking and that is all they really did.They had no home to support or […]
Unholy Religion
From a web page titled “All Have Sinned” (http://www.santacruzbible.org/findingGod/allHaveSinned.php) Man is SINFUL and SEPARATED from God, so we cannot know Him personally or experience His love Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 6:23 “The wages of sin is death” [spiritual separation from God]. Romans 8:6-8 “The […]
Atheists
I find that atheist tend to “throw the baby out with the bath water” in that they reject the god concept while missing the underlining REASON for creating the concept of god. The etymology of the title “Holy Bible” shows that it means Health Book; meaning that it was a primitive attempt by primitive people […]
What is Love?
I saw a video on YouTube that asked the question, What is Love, so I thought I would offer my experience of my exploration of that questions.