Questioning All Organized Religions

Learning to think for ourselves is easy, and is nothing to fear.

The Creative mind is open for all to access.

We must learn to trust ourselves and see the truths before us.

Thinking is actually a chore to be mastered.

The greatest priorities in life are to always seek truth, logic, knowledge, and do no harm to others.

This article is informational only, with no vested interest, or intentions, in trying to dissuade anyone from their personal religious beliefs and convictions. These beliefs belong to each of us individually and are ours alone to keep and cherish.

I do believe however, that faith and religious beliefs should be based on truth, reality and logic.

With these 2 statements made, i am writing this article to update, upgrade, and clarify all previous hubs regarding organized religions - an addendum , if you will.

Those who cannot handle truth, or are unable to incorporate reality into fantasy, might want to not read any further than this.

This is for spiritual enlightenment purposes only.

Recent new discoveries have verified my past comments with more clarity than i was able to provide, based solely on my intellectual deductions, as they have been.

It is difficult to challenge historical facts, even for the most stolid religious zealot.

If one is a religious "schussboomer" they will probably not have the mental capacity to comprehend the significance of this article. (For those not familiar with the term 'schussboomer' it is a skiers' term meaning to ski downhill at high speed. One direction. No desire to stop, slow down, or veer off in another direction).

History tells us that Jesus lived 33 years and died in our calendar year - Zero.

Ergo, all time thereafter is considered A.D. (Anni Domini) (after death). He was not a christian , obviously, as this term was coined sometime in the 10th century to describe those who followed the "teachings of Jesus Christ".

There in lies the beginning of the falsification of what that statement really means.

Jesus was a Gnostic. That term is (and was) not considered heretic until the Roman Catholic Church declared it to be so.

Gnosis is a fundamental knowledge of spiritual truth held by the ancient (Gnostic) to be essential to salvation. This is what Jesus stood for - nothing more - nothing less. {Aside from his political views of course}.

He was quite the political rebel and just a man made of flesh and blood like all the rest of us.

Gnosticism is profound and provocative: and is the true meaning of the term "the teachings of Jesus Christ" until it was bastardized by the church officials sometime between the 1500 and 1600 centuries. The followers of Jesus (the apostles) were also Gnostics and there were fractionated sects of the residual of the original "teachings of Christ" amongst them after his death.

After the death of Jesus there were multiple written accounts of his life and "accomplishments" as related by those who penned those accounts. Some were loosely based on reality, most were based on stories, passed down through the ensuing 200 - 300 years after his death.

People in those days had no formal education. Not very many people were able to read or write and there were very few accounts reduced to writing, until many years after his death. And those writings were done by un-named people who only recounted the stories passed on down through the years.

Around the year 313 A.D. Constantine the Great, issued the "Edict of Milan" that made "Christianity" a lawful religion.

By the end of the 4th century, it had become the "State Religion". Historians refer to the church of this period as the "Constantinian Church", designating the privileged position of the church within the state.

This is when the fallacious teachings started.

During the 'middle ages' (1500-1600A.D.) the Roman Catholic Church was already established and developed the hierarchical structure that endured largely unchallenged until the Reformation.

There were many writings and stories about the life and time of Jesus; and Constantine decided there needed to be one text that 'personified' his (Constantine's) idea of a unified religion. So, he and a group of his cohorts created the first universal "bible" (A Holy book, as declared so, by state law and the Roman Church). This was the birth of the Bible as we know it today.

This book only consisted of 4 parts:

• Mark
• Mathew
• Luke
• John.

They were created from letters, stories, poems (psalms), etc.. that supposedly depicted each of their teachings. The authors of those letters and stories were unknown. These stories were consolidated and were entitled "the teachings" of each of them, to imply that they were actually written by these men. They, in fact, were not.

All the other writings, were discarded because they did not fit into the intended agenda, or purpose, of having ONE holy text, that unified the beliefs they wanted to portray.

There was extreme upheaval, dissension and scandal over the years, as the Roman Catholic Church sought independence from the State control it was under. (These stories are irrelevant for the purpose of this article, although they were quite interesting and the politics were not much different than those of today). (Perhaps, some of them might make interesting articles in the future).

The actual original "teachings of Jesus" (Gnosticism) were discarded and declared "heresy", by both the State and the Church.

Not because they were not the truth, but because the times called for conformity, and control, by the state and the church, over the people.

So the "Christianity" that is so defended and revered today was in actuality a creation of politicians who were NOT so "holy" men.

This new Bible had to provide for intermediaries between man and God, otherwise the church and state would have little relevance, and lose its power and control over their minions..

Gnosticism has no need for intermediaries between man and God. It is this personal connection to God that Jesus taught to be the "Salvation of Man".

This belief was what the state and the church had to conceal from the public.

It would have rendered them both, redundant and superfluous and thereby unnecessary to the people.

And so it continues today.

The corruption of all that is 'holy', by greedy men, power hungry governments, and masses of individuals who have relinquished their souls to those corrupt few; because they lack the courage and the fortitude to seek their own personal destinies and salvation's.

The truth be now known!

• How will we handle this new truth?

• How does it feel to know we have been duped for centuries; brainwashed into submission?

• How do we all deal with the fact that we have such fear instilled in our hearts, minds, and souls, that we are unable to see that truth, or face it, or counter the damages of the ravages of time, on our belief systems?

• How do we reconcile the fact that our religion, that we cling so steadfastly to, is nothing more than the results of an elaborate, wily, subterfuge, concocted by one Roman magistrate (A POLITICIAN), 1500 years ago?

This 'book', 'bible', 'holy scripture', etc, is reduced to a book of fairy tales innocently accepted by people who needed to believe that they are not responsible for themselves, their own destinies, their own desires, and their own salvation.

So they have willingly embraced these fairy tales as fact in order to make sense of it all.

For the enlightenment of man:

What fools, we mortals be.

Suffer mankind; and deservedly.

Even the truth, won't set us free.

Fear and deception is our true decree.

Blindness will lead us, to our dismay,

for no one will accept the truth today.

Easier it is, to let guile lead our way.

We can keep our deceit, or 'will' it away.

Open our eyes so we can see

that this is not our true destiny.

Before we falter, and go on astray,

plead to God, that the truth, He display.

by: d.william 03/01/11