What if Jesus was merely tha teacher of a social gospel and moral philosophy

A friend of mine, who’s a Christian and a very insightful writer, recently wrote an article that started me thinking about both Christianity and organized religion in general.  In his article he asked a pivotal question that I believe goes right to tha core of Christianity – “What if Jesus was merely tha teacher of a social gospel and moral philosophy . . .?”In my opinion, that question captured tha essence of what Jesus was all about.  Jesus wasn’t a superhuman; he was simply a very intelligent and insightful human being, a philosopher. But after he espoused his philosophy, ignorant, self-serving, and superstitious people – people who believed in talking snakes – took his words out of context and turned him into some kind of superhuman being, and gave him powers that contradicted tha laws of nature, tha universe, common sense, and God.If we hadn’t been conditioned all our lives to believe in this counter intuitive nonsense it would be clear to us that tha Christian belief system holds just about as much validity as voodoo: Dead men don’t walk.  No man can walk on tha water. No man can tell the Red Sea to scoot over. And if Adam and Eve were tha first people on Earth, where did tha people come from that Cain went to live with after he slew Abel? For real people just take a moment to consider tha following.  All of your religious beliefs are merely an accident of birth?  If you’d been born in Israel, chances are you’d be a Jew; if you’d been born in Iran you’d be a Muslim, or China, a Buddhist.  So your religion isn’t so much God-inspired as it is a result of tha environment that you were raised in. You were SOCIALIZED into believing what you believe. Thus, if you truly believe that a person born in Israel, Iran, or China is going to Hell because they weren’t socialized to believe what you believe, you’re stupid.

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This is a serious problem, because people are doing more “believing” than thinking. Hoards of people are taking MAN’S word for tha fact that tha Bible is “tha word of God.” So they’re placing all of their “faith” in MAN, not God – and a very evil man, at that. On tha other hand, we KNOW that God gave us our minds – and by “God,” I mean whatever force is responsible for tha existence of tha universe and what we consider reality –  so we need to start using it, because it religion-word-2015 makes absolutely no sense to place more “faith” in what man TELLS us about God than what is obvious that God has clearly done. And man has clearly shown that he has more faith in tha words of other men, than he does in tha actual deeds of God.Take Black people for example. African Americans are some of tha most devout Christians in tha world, even though they were taught Christianity while they were tied up next to tha mules – and every rule, law, and tenet of Christianity was being brutally violated while they were being indoctrinated – yet, they still believe it, that a blond haired, blue eyed Scandinavian was born in tha desert with supernatural powers. God forbid that they would point out that if Jesus was born in tha desert that chances are he was a man of color; and since they’re inclined to lie to us about what tha man even looked like, how can we even begin to believe what they claim he said?No wonder so many Black people are finding it so hard to get their act together; they’re walking around in a state of zombie-like somnambulism, and it seems that tha worse they’re treated, tha more they cling to that ridiculous myth –  “Oh dear Lord, please forgive tha White boy who walked into our church and blew nine of our church member’s brains out. He simply doesn’t understand your word.” What kind of insanity shut was  that!!!? That racist baster shouldn’t have gotten out of there alive, house of worship or not. But tha reason he did is very simple. Black people have been conditioned to believe that no matter how bad they’re treated, they shouldn’t worry about it, because God is going to take care of them when they die.  OH, REALLY!!!?  Then why is everybody else killing one another trying to get theirs now – including tha preachers? So it’s no accident that everyone who is willing to believe that nonsense are victims, at tha bottom of tha social chain, and unless they’re very lucky, suffering. Because they’re victims of tha perfect hustle, where tha hustlers (Black and White) don’t have to worry about nobody ever coming back to say they’re lying. How sweet is that!!!?

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Here’s another thing that should be considered. If God HAD decided to put religion on Earth to guide man, don’t you think he’d have had sense enough to create just ONE religion so religious dogma wouldn’t be tha most hate-inspiring, murderous, and destructive forces on Earth? Look around you – here in America, in tha Middle East, and literally all over tha world – organized religion is THA  primary source of most of tha  agony, pain, and misery on tha planet. Thus, organized religion isn’t a blessing, it’s a curse. Would a loving God place a curse like that on  mankind?  I don’t think so. God gave us spirituality, which is found within. It’s a state if existence that’s only between you, God, and tha universe. Man has absolutely nothing to do with it, because everything man touches, he corrupts. God made birds to fly, fish to swim, and man to THINK, not to follow a users guide written by other men. Man is much too ignorant, self-serving, and greedy to write anything sacred.  Yes, man says tha Bible was “inspired” by God, but he also said that God told him in tha Manifest Destiny to slaughter tha Native Americans and take their land, and Zionists are saying the\a very same thing with regard to the Palestinians today.  Do you actually believe that God is telling them to kill children? And what about Boko Haram, do you really believe God is telling them to kidnap young women and sell them into sexual slavery because he doesn’t want women to get an education? That’s not God saying that; that’s self-serving men placing their words and beliefs in God’s mouth, and the exact same thing is happening here in this country. Organized religion is man-made nonsense designed to manipulate the ignorance of the masses and promote the prejudice and greed of the elite.  You can trace virtually any form of bigotry in a straight line right back to some form of religious dogma. So again, organized religion is a curse on man, that’s been created by man, and it’s ultimately going to lead to our destruction – even global warming is being defended in the name of God.

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