Politics, Religion, Intolerance, and the Fate of Humanity

Woops.... Sorry I meant your article not the quote I just wrote.

Religion itself is an invention of mankind.

everything we do is an invention? the very words you used to express yourself is an invention. what is the intention of your words?

Early civilizations didn't have the capacity for scientific understanding.

hence, faith. (the term faith is not to be construed as religion). Faith is necessary. the very nature of consciousness depends upon it. imagine knowing everything. there would be no room for a question, contemplation, language, etc. Knowing the absolute truth would destroy what we are. Do you understand the implication?

Superstition and fear of the unknown was rampant, and individuals used that superstition and fear to gain power for themselves. Lies compounded superstitions and enhanced the fears of the people.

Iraqi has weapons of mass destruction; giant mushroom cloud!!!;.. did not come out of the mouth of a priest.

If something went wrong, well the spirits must be angry. So they started holding rituals, sacrifices, etc. to appease these non-existent "spirits".

what are the military men and woman dying on the battlefield (alter of the ultimate sacrifice)?

And, of course these rituals had to be performed by chieftains, or high priests, or by whatever powerful figure that was invented for that purpose.

the president & congress?

Countless religions and deities were created. Religion quickly became a control mechanism for those in power. And, some leaders eventually promoted themselves to the status of "living gods". Their word was law. People lived and died at their whim.

look around kyle! countless countries (ideologies). just take your statement and insert government in place of religion, and tell me what is the difference aside of a name change. don't you see that religion comes in many flavors. for Americans, the apostles are the founding fathers, and just like religion, there words have been twisted to accommodate the times.

Differences became evil, and a threat to the established power bases of each tribe. Many wars were fought by those who rose to power, and as always, the people suffer and die over the folly of the few. Whether it is a holy war or just the greed/lust of bad leaders.

differences is the ally of the minority who want control (divide and conquer). they just wait in the side lines until the atheist and people of faith exhaust themselves fighting with one another, and then come in with one knockout blow . they are not stupid kyle; they have been doing it for a long long time, and know their Kraft well. many wars were not fought by those in power; they were fought by suckers like us.

And, yes. Mankind is weak. Then, and today as well. We still fall victim to the lies and deceit of religions and political "leaders" who would sacrifice millions of people to stay in power. I say that mankind is weak, because we still let it happen to this day. We still accept lies as truth, and fight over it. Right is left, left is right, up is down. Corruption runs rampant.

this is the part of your shotgun blast that hit dead center of the target. i agree with (let me look again); yes, i agree completely with what you said above. this of course leaves me somewhat puzzled, in light of everything you stated beforehand seems to but the burden of error on the premise of theological interferences.

Are you familiar with the story of the Whore of Babylon? Essentially describing a "false prophet" or "false religion" that will trick the people into killing one another in the name of "god", thus ensuring the perpetuation (or victory) of evil. Sound familiar?

here. consider this.......

On August 15th of this year (1871), Albert Pike writes a letter (now catalogued in the British Museum) to Guiseppe Mazzini in which he states the following,

(before reading the rest of this, i wish to add that the curator of the British Museum announced that he had no such letter in his possession catalogued. Nevertheless, as you say there is rampant corruption that always enters into the equation. This is a readers choice offering)

"We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists and we shall provoke a great social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to all nations the effect of absolute atheism; the origins of savagery and of most bloody turmoil.

Then everywhere, the people will be forced to defend themselves against the world minority of the world revolutionaries and will exterminate those destroyers of civilization and the multitudes disillusioned with Christianity whose spirits will be from that moment without direction and leadership and anxious for an ideal, but without knowledge where to send its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out into public view.

A manifestation which will result from a general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and Atheism; both conquered and exterminated at the same time."

Pike, who having been elected as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry's Southern Jurisdiction in 1859, was the most powerful Freemason in America. He would retain that post for 32 years until his death in 1891. He also published a book on the subject in 1872 entitled, "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry," in which he candidly states the following,

"LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darknesss! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!"

http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Rothschild.htm

Some invisible dude in the sky that no one has ever seen?

when you use such terminology, you offend many people who have such a belief, and that promote peace. Who's side are you on? you do realize that their are very, very, very intelligent people who believe in such things, and there are very, very, very, many people who don't have the time or ability to look into things with such depth. consequentially, the energy need to survive in this world, make the latter more numerous. kyle, i gave you the long list of Christian thinkers that contributed to the field of science. The list is overwhelming. the very theory of the big bang was the idea of a priest who believed in that ...

invisible dude in the sky that no one has ever seen?

if i were to do a search of all the Buddhists, Muslims, Hindu, etc. who contributed to the field of science ( also people who believe in" invisible guys" Exluding perhaps Buddhist), the list of atheist would be in comparison, in your words......

"as insignificant as a single grain of sand on an endless beach."

i do not mean any disrespect by pointing this out, as there is no doubt that atheist are very, very, very, intelligent people; and there are some that don't have the time to improve. but it is important to keep things in the correct perspective. Your time spent sighting people of belief, regardless of the "let's all just get along" does not work together well. The argument you are engaging in is a difficult, well ......

you want people to stop engaging in the activity of telling others that they are wrong and how to think and live their lives, and then this....

I will not judge you on your beliefs, and I expect you to not judge me for mine.
Unless we as a people, can learn to be tolerant of others and accept others for who they are, without regard for religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or any of the other petty differences that separate us

listen kyle, the future is scary as result of our own doing, but you have got to clear your understanding of what is at work. everything that you bring up is the surface of the problem and not the underlying reality. as a person who appreciates science you should understand this concept that runs deeply into the very fabric of our knowledge. even though these underplaying realities (i am not talking religion here), they are at work. some of us are comfortable with the classic view of reality; these are the Newtonian's(practical world people (body)) of our society. some are relativist (Einsteinist's (logic)). some are quantonian's (quantum (spirit)).

When a apple falls on the head of an Newtonian's he/she thinks that it is the invisible gravity god.

when an Einsteinist's considers his paper theory that e=mc2 he turns to his bible; to the book of Euclidean and reads.....

"things that are equal to each other are equal to the same thing"

and he/she ponders the thing equal to each other by what is the invisible same thing.

this is funny ....you got to watch it..........

Perpetual Motion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvRzWYCZ2e0

when the Quantonian's (already well adjusted to the weirdness of reality) consider how an electron can know that it is being watched, and then consider that they can only observe a small portion of reality, they are left to wonder about the invisible eyeball that is responsible for the image that reality holds.

this is interesting ......you have got to watch it.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

i being the wackaloon that i am, proudly fit into anyone of these three categorize!!! these categorize can also be attributed to theology (not religion), and philosophy, and i have a membership card to all three (not a church). i must say that i have tried to let my membership to politics' lapse, but they automatically extract the dues. thank god the church & NASA, doesn't have such power.

one last video to make my points here. look into this scientists (he is not the pope) eyes and feel what he is feeling. next listen to the theological analogy he is comparing himself to. there is wisdom in the old words of the past Kyle........you have shut the outside interference off and take the time to dig for the gold. Don't worry about if you are digging in the wrong place; everywhere is the right place.

in alamogordo, new mexico, on july 16, 1945

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8w3Y-dskeg