nicholas8regan

Religions that tie in with the political, are based on the beliefs of a wrathful God, have a clergy or priesthood, shun information from the public, cloud and distort the truth of our world history, instill ignorance in the general population, force beliefs and doctrines upon the public, use dogma as a way to promote fear to keep the general population controlled, promote wars in their favor, and murder people who don't believe as they, are religions that can go straight to hell in my opinion.

Folks, as an entire species living on a world we all share, we've been lied to about our history.  The Bible is not based on factual events.  I believe the Bible is a distortion of the truth.  I believe wars are unnecessary and that human beings lived in societies, communities, and nations of peace before the advent of war.  I believe religion is a personal matter and I'll be damned before any so-called authority is going to force me to believe what I choose not to.

You see folks, the reason why it's so frustrating and abominable that governments and politicized religions feel that they can tell us what to think, what we can and cannot put in our mouths, what can and cannot see on TV or read in books or wear on our backs, is because governments and religious leaders worldwide are out of touch with the people they govern.  As a non-practicing catholic, I've embraced other religious or spiritual concepts from other cultures that I find to be more acurate and make more sense.  When I was a full-fledged catholic (only because I was forced), there came a time when I felt that the Pope didn't really care about me as a human being.  I know there's a lot of catholics that want to reach him and he doesn't have time for all.  But it's all the same folks, he's out of touch regardless.  That's why, I believe religion should be a personal matter for everyone.  Each person should be able to choose what beliefs they want to pursue and should be able to choose if they want to be social or private about it. 

I really don't think the devil exists and heaven and hell are questionable places.  Anyone can have a heaven on earth if they learn to be positive minded and work towards goals that make them happy without hurting other people in the process.  I believe hell is not a place of eternal suffering but a condition we put ourselves in that comes in the form of Karma when ever we do evil to others.  This revolving punishment can hit us three times worse than the evil we committed and can come at us quick or in the next lifetime.  Folks, if there is anything eternal about that is if we don't learn our lessons and keep repeating the same mistakes, we're going to be repeatedly punished!  That is the HELL I believe in!

To view God as wrathful is to put a human face on God and deem God as petty or able to lose self-control.  I believe that GOD is above all that nonsense and it is we as human beings that are petty and are wrathful when things don't go our way.  GOD is GOD and beyond anything we humans can understand and interpret.  But the GOD I choose to believe in is one of everlasting forgiveness and love, who smiles upon those who live and work in this world towards goals to not cause unnecessary suffering to other human beings.  Because, the bottom line is, folks, that is the only EVIL that exists in the world.

Do me a favor folks, try to keep an open mind but look up an author by the name of Ann Moura.  Read one of her books or thumb through it.  If you're a person who's so fearful of seeing a different perspective and it ruins what you believe in then don't bother, continue living in your cloud of ignorance.  The real goal is to create a world free of fear, hatred, lust, greed, envy, violence, maliciousness, judgement, hypocrisy, torture, starvation, and just plain ole' unnecessary suffering.

I went to see a Doctor in Syracuse NY the other day.  I asked him, "Do you believe that the only EVIL that exists out in the world is unnecessary suffering?"  You want to know what his response was,

"No I don't--I believe that there are other kinds of evil out there in the world."

Ridiculous notion because ALL EVIL results with unnecessary suffering.  Maybe if you all would take a closer look at these "politicized relgions" out there in the world (you know which ones I'm talking about) and see if they're worth believing in.  IF any religion promotes hatred or to do harm to others than it is a religion I care not to be involved with.  I believe religion is a personal matter and I'm not going to allow any authority on this earth who is out of touch with me because they really don't care about me but rather to keep their control and greed and power over me to force me to believe what they think I should believe.  Who gave them the right?  GOD?  I don't think so.