by Alberta Parish
When I come across the typical religious person, I wish I could just knock some sense into his or her head so this individual can then realize that his version of God is no more than a mythical anomaly, a figment of his or her imagination gone wild. The fictional God is like the imaginary friend that a child sincerely believes with all of his heart is real. The only problem with the imaginary friend is he's always been invisible. Therefore, blind faith is the only thing the child has to rely upon for his friend's existence. There are too many religious people in the world, which is one reason the world has gone to hell. I often wonder were it not for religion, would the world be a safer place? Would there be strife and warfare between the Muslim, Jew and Christian? Would there be a need for peace talks in the Middle East? Would homophobia exist? Would there be an Anti-Homosexual Bill outlawing same-sex relationships in Uganda?
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What all religious fanatics fail to realize is same-sex marriage was legal throughout the Roman Empire before the rise of Christianity. The Roman Emperor Constantine banned same-sex marriage shortly after legalizing Christianity as Rome's state religion in the 4th Century. The religious doctrines designed to control the uneducated masses two thousand years ago should be null and void in the minds of today's so-called educated generation. After all, we have a wealth of knowledge and history available at our very finger tips.
The reason I think many people hold on to their religious fairy tales even after they've been exposed to knowledge that their faith in a mythical being is a waste of time and energy is they need something to make themselves feel better about their small existence on this planet. When one faces the fact that we just may be alone in the universe, this forces the individual to contend with his or her minimal existence. Let's face it: all of us can't have the fabulous life of a rock star or Hollywood starlet. Many people are doomed to live an ordinary, small, and poor life. The people who control and shape the religious attitudes of entire generations know that God does not exist. Of course they have to sell us the belief system in order to keep their Matrix of religious control afloat.
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Religion is for the weak and easily controllable. It is for this same reason that religious people are easily the most dangerous people on the planet, because they can be manipulated into carrying out so-called religious prophecies and feel justified by their imaginary friend who sits among the clouds. Their holy books condone genocide, rape, and terror against those that are deemed as the ungodly. Entire nations have been slaughtered in the name of Allah, Yahweh and Jesus, all of whom have origins in ancient mythology. What is the history and mythology behind YHWH, Jesus and Allah? YHWH is said to have been one of the seventy sons of El, a Canaanite god. Jesus comes from Hesus, a Druid pagan deity. Christ derives from the Greek name Christos, a mythical figure worshipped throughout the ancient world thousands of years before the Christ of the Four Gospels. Allah was one of many deities in the pre-Islamic Arabic pantheon before Muhammad made Allah Islam's supreme being.
As an atheist, I see religion more clearly now than ever before as the enemy to mankind, and is the very reason why there is racism, genocide, war and human inequality. God was created to maintain the balance between rich and poor, between the elite and the mob. God was never created to come to the aid of the poor or to be the savior of humanity. He is the ultimate imaginary friend, and like all imaginary friends they soon disappear from the life of the child.
bullet columnist Alberta Parish is best known as a take-no-prisoners Youtube commentator, you can also follow her writings on Myspace and Twitter.
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