almost every war, act of violence and sex crime perpetrated in past 2500 years
can be laid at the feet of one of these three religions
because these three religions of hatred, Judaism, Christianity & Islam, teach bigotry, elitism and self-righteousness
Abraham may well have been a "friend of God" but the religions that have come forth in his name have not been very friendly to humanity. Since they began,
these three religions have engaged in killing, enslaving or debasing
other people based on their race or religion.
Read about the three religions of hate.
Christianity is rooted in elitism
Islam is rooted in violence
MY VIEW by Homer Wilson Smith
The primary source of strife on this planet in the past and in the present is 'institutionalized bigotry', either of the form that says some races are inferior and should thus be enslaved like we had with the blacks, eradicated like we had with the native Indians and Jews, or just plain suppressed like we have with women. Most of these issues have been resolved in present time, the 'civilized world' has pretty much won that game and except for a few stragglers who don't really stand a chance, the world is well on its way towards legal equality for all. But there is still an area of bigotry that has not been resolved and which is older than old, and going to be really hard to eradicate.
That is bigotry engendered when a religion teaches that some people go to hell forever and others go to heaven forever. In the first place it is wrong, its like teaching that the earth is flat, or is the center of the universe, or the only planet with life on it. It's just plain wrong. People get reborn and don't remember, the reasons for which are still under study and which are very hard to confront. Many people would rather go to hell forever *THEMSELVES* than remember why they don't remember. Now some religions teach that only bad people go to hell and good people go to heaven. On the surface that seems reasonable, but it is just as insidious as the rest, for it implies there are people who can not redeem themselves, and thus relieves the rest of us of the burden of making sure they do. "This dream ends forever when the circle of friends are ALL holding hands again."
The idea that some people cannot redeem themselves to everyone else, keeps us comfortably numb in our righteous hate, as long as we hate the proper people. It creates a state of eternal unforgivenness in everyone else that was harmed, which acts as a yoke around their neck sinking them to the bottom of the spiritual sea. This yoke alone will eventually turn any 'good' person into a 'bad' person just like the one he hasn't forgiven or tried to understand and help redeem. People can only redeem themselves within a supportive context that allows that they do and in fact insists on it. Part of that context is they get as many lifetimes as they can stand to do it in. on an array of different planets and places to be. Eventually everyone comes clean, owns up, and becomes civilized and worthy of the inward state called 'heaven'.
At that time however they have also, in the same breath, mastered 'hell', and can hold both in their hands with equal aplomb. That is called enlightenment. People actually only end up in 'hell' when they themselves are trying to send something or someone else to hell forever. Since it can't actually be done, they end up in hell themselves, its quite automatic. It's like the recoil of a gun, no way around it. Eventually they see the folly of their ways and give it up and take up a more enlightened life. It might take them 1000 lifetimes though. Hell is not some place you go after you die, hell is someplace you live after you are reborn. So is heaven. Worse though are the religions that teach that deeds do not determine who goes to heaven or hell, but mere acceptance of ideology, doctrine or particular prophet, messiah or savior. No matter how good the Jew is, if he doesn't accept Christ on his death bed as his savior, off to hell he goes. We call these Cults of Personality or the Cult of the True Believer.
We call them Cults of the 'True Believer', because the fate of a being after death depends only on what they believe, not on the inherent goodness or love in their heart, the quality of their lives, or the repentance we all feel for our sins once we recognize the craziness of our ways and the ill effects they have had on the Cosmic All. All of these religious are particularly odious in that they condemn a person to hell FOREVER for the sins of one life. That is just hideous, vile, unspeakable and insane, there are no other words for it, no matter what the miscreant has done, or how bad, or to how many. The sanest religions are the ones that teach we get born again to come back and live life in the mess that we made. It is unfortunate that we forget what mess it was exactly that we made, but this is part of the mess that was made, mass amnesia alloyed with delusive religions of hate and eternal damnation. We have all had our hand in the web of lies and suppression that we live in across millions and millions of years not just on Earth but elsewhere. It just has all come home to roost here for us now.
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