Keep Trump and Friends from Stealing Your House

The Christians say they believe in the ten commandments but yet they killed 6 million people during the witch hunts. How many would they have killed without the ten commandments? It is quite likely that those 6 million would have lived without the superstition and ignorance we call religion. The 6 million were killed for religious reasons, they were seen dancing with the devil in a clearing in the woods or over differences over religious dogma. What about the commandment "Thou shall not kill?" It seems there are a whole lot of religious exceptions.

"In the dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man that can see. When the daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind old men as guides"

Heinrick Heine

I would beg to differ religion contributed to if it was not responsible for the dark ages. Religion continued push the idea that human sacrifices pleased God. It was a time when witches were believed to be real. When you continue to put garbage into the heads of the people you can only expect to get garbage out.

The dark ages took place between 476 CE and 1,000 CE. The dark ages was the period when Europe was gradually Christianized, and monasticism was established as the ideal form of religion." Dark Ages is right this is when a blanket of ignorance and superstition was pulled over Europe. The Roman Empire had collapsed, and ignorance flooded into fill the vacuum. The multitude of Gods were slain and replaced with a single God. The fact that Christianity became popular during this time period, says a lot. The worlds knowledge at the time would have been a tiny fraction of what it is now but each Sunday the dark ages beckon us back to a time when ignorance ruled.

Christianity not only spread across Europe during the dark ages it preserved the Dark Ages ignorance and superstition as divine knowledge. Once something is labeled divine, reason can no longer be applied to it. When the bible says you "cannot suffer a witch." You cannot argue that there are no witches. The bible has spoken and directed you not to suffer a witch. If the bible says there are witches, there are witches and plenty of them. The divine was designed to quash any argument to start with. Once the divine is stamped on something reason can no longer be applied. Christianity has always demanded respect from others, but respect cannot be demanded it must be earned. Christianity is organized as a dictatorship demanding that others follow as they are told. That is clearly a Dark Ages concept. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" and when Christianity had absolute power no one was safe.

One thing the Dark Ages did is to make the Pope the most powerful man on earth. The divine right of kings became the rule across Europe. The divine right of kings meant that God decided who would rule a country. Since God was not going to make the trip to earth his representative, the Pope, would decide who would be king. There is a reason the Kings kissed the Pope's ring. If a King wanted a divorce the Pope had to approve it. Members of the catholic church also had to get permission from the church to get a divorce and could not remarry because they were considered still married. That was a prescription for corruption. Henery the VIII quickly found a loophole if his wife lost her head that meant he was no longer married. You may imagine your God is not corrupt but not so with men self-interest quickly overcomes their religion.

"We sacrifice the intellect to God"

Ignatius Loyola

Truer words were never spoken you can either chose to believe your intellect or the superstition and ignorance that was manufactured in the Dark Ages.

Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in your name, and beyond the grave they will find only death. But we will keep the secret, for their own happiness we will entice them with a heavenly and eternal reward.

The Grand Inquisitor To His "Savior" in

The Brothers Karamazov

The Christian con is conman 101 they get their part deal now moneyand supporting the church with your time. You of course will get your part of the deal only after you die. If a conman said he would give you twice as much for your house than you were asking the only catch was that he would only pay you after you died. How many people would take the deal?

"Where Questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor."

Sigmund Freud, the Future of an Illusion of An Illusion.

Yesterday's quote from Sigmund Freud makes a good point though we blame the religious cult leaders for the spread and maintenance of religious cults there is also personal responsibility involved. In the end we all know what is rational and what is irrational. When we choose to be dishonest with ourselves, we choose ignorance and superstition over reason. We choose the ignorance of the dark ages and deny the light that knowledge brings us.

Being intellectually dishonest when it comes religion is one thing, but it also violates commonsense. There is not a little old man buzzing about the universe being everywhere at the same time. That violates most of the laws of the universe.

Why do religious cults continue to spring up? They promise a reward and rules to live by. The reward is often eternal life. Cult members don't want to take responsibility for their own life. They would rather the cult make rules for them to live by. That way they don't have confront the hard realities of life the rules have already been given to them prepackaged.

I watched a documentary on a cult the other day. The reward was a soul mate it called Twin Flames. The cult leader soon sported a beard and looked more like Jesus than Jesus. He converted the cult into church. Soon the cult leader began matching couples. He would much two women tell one they were the divine masculine and the other the divine feminine. These women were not lesbians. Evidently there was a shortage of men in the cult. The members of the cult did not want the responsibility of finding a mate on their own and the cult promised them the one perfect mate. There is a template for a religious cult.

I was addressing city council one night and I told them they were all faithful follower of the PLR. One councilman asked what the PLR was? I said it was the Path of Least Resistance. That is how politics works if you can apply heat to one side of an issue politicians will inevitably chose the other side of the issue. People go through life that way always looking for PLR. That why people chose religion. They don't have to think for themselves the rules are provided to them. It lets them avoid personal responsibility. They don't have to think for themselves they can let someone else think for them. It is always easier to let someone think for you and there is no shortage of people who will tell you how to think.

Do you ever wonder where people come from that joined the Jim Jones cult or the David Koresh cult? Does it take a monster to feed you children cyanide? Three hundred and sixty-six children were murdered by their parents. The Jim Jones cult was spawned by a mainstream religious movement, Pentecostalism. In any religious cult you owe obedience to the leadership. If you are susceptible to belief in the supernatural than it opens the gateway to control. If you believe in a God than you believe he is represented by men on earth. That lets men like Jim Jones and David Korsh gain control. The people at Jonestown were just ordinary church goes who were manipulated by belief in the supernatural.

David Koresh led his followers to fiery death. He believed that he was their savior but led them to their death. Koresh was the only one that was allowed to have sex with the women and girls of the commune. That seems a bit overly ambitious to me but belief in the supernatural distorts people in different ways. All religious cults gain control of people some more than others but remember religious cults are a gateway and a loss of control.

The Christian right was outraged when the mentally ill woman killed her three children, but when 366 children were killed in the Jim Jones compound by people mainlining religion there was not nearly the outrage. Why these child murders were simply doing what their preacher told them to do and after all he is God's representative on earth. When you grant control to a preacher, he might just be mentally ill, or he may get that way when he gets drunk on control of all those people who follow him.

Though not all cults are religious cults most are. All religious cults have a foundation built on the bible, whether it is the Moonies or Jim Jones they all claim that the roots of their organization spring from Christianity. There may need to be a new classification of mental illness that is specific to religious cults. When a man gains so much power over others it distorts his character when he sees himself as his admiring followers see him it is almost predictable that he will go off the rails. It becomes a vicious circle that feeds on itself. Is it the bible that is the wind beneath the wings of these monsters? Certainly, it is the bible and the belief in the bible, that is the source of their power.

There are all kinds of religious cults that we have never heard of like "The Order 0f the Solar Temple." They are preparing for the second coming of Christ and believe that they are spiritual heirs of the Knights of the Templar. In the 1990s 74 murders and suicides took place in across Switzerland, France, and Cannada. I guess they had to find something to do while they were waiting for the second coming. The group's leaders convinced their followers that death was a mere transition to a higher plane of existence. Isn't that what Christianity teaches? Death is only the doorway to higher plane od existance.

You bet the next Jim Jones is already out there as long as Christianity exists it will continue to spin off cults like Jones.' All it takes is a charismatic leader, the Christian scam and a bunch of followers indoctrinated from birth to believe in the supernatural. It is a formula that will be repeated again. The cult leader will tell his followers what God wants and in a strange coincidence it just so happens that is exactly what the cult leader wants.

not all heroes where capes...

I saw that one, but the man is correct in some aspects, many have observed. The Trump political movement is closer to a cult than a political movement. Who knows the man may be right. After Trump loses the midterm election, he may call on his followers to take cyanide rather than serve the next two years with diminished political power. However, you will have to buy your own cyanide.

Many parents of religious cult members can't understand why their children joined religious cults like Jim Jones' cult. The answer is they need to look in the mirror. The people in the mirror taught their children that group think is superior in every way to independent thought. That magical thinking is superior to reason. When their child encounters a cult leader like Jones he has already been indoctrinated and only needs a refresher course. Lesson one the cult leader is always right. If you ever doubt the cult leader is right, see lesson one. There are consequences to teaching a child that magical thinking is right and they may not be the ones you expect. You are enrolling your child in a religious cult why would expect that they would not join a more extreme religious cult when they become an adult you gave them the foundation in religious cults.

Contemporary surveys indicate there are over 5,000 cults active in the United States today. There are between 300,000 and 3 million cult members. We don't know many of these cults are being run by Jim Jones like figures. Cults and mental illness go together like a horse buggy. You don't have to be mental ill to operate a cult, but it helps. I just read a book where the man had been a high placed member of the Moonies and believed all the things good Moonies believe. He eventually escaped the cult and became a psychiatrist and helped others out of the cult. All of those churches you see on the corners supply primer coursers for prospective cult members. If your child believes that magical thinking trumps reason, he is a good prospect for the next member of a Jim Jones like cult.