Ok, I agree. This is not an original title nor a unique concept. However, I think by the end many will think, “Well, he’s not that far off! Maybe I don’t believe in God!”
It’s a known fact that more people have died over religion than any other manmade construct. Before you start defending your particular imaginary friend, know this; every major religion has had a hand in wars, thievery, and destruction. Christians, Jews, Muslims, all of them. Ok, not so much the Sikhs but you get the idea.
No “yeah, but.” Every one of them, even the Hindus and Buddhists.
So, if the book these people preach from basically say that killing is wrong, stealing is wrong, cruelty is wrong, then why do they persist? Why do these people behave this way?
Because they don’t really believe in a God…
My favorite target in this debate is Israel. GASP! Not Israel! Oh yes! Keep reading and I’ll explain. They’re just one of many examples.
A quick run up; when the state of Israel began illegally occupying Palestine through the 1947 U.N. partition, it was decades in the making. A secular movement, begun in the late 18th century, Zionism was an admitted secular concept. Its adherents were mostly atheists or nonobservant Jews who were more about a nation state than adherence to orthodoxy. In 1901, rabbis from Europe and Haifa decried the idea of a state for the Jewish people in the Or LaYesharim, a sort of ersatz white paper on national Jewish identity.
The reasons were both spiritual and practical: 1) there could be no Israel without the Messiah’s return as spelled out in the Torah (that’s Old Testament for us goyim), and 2) it wasn’t their Mideast neighbors who issued the pogroms, murdering Jews, fomenting hatred, stealing property and money. It was the Europeans and yes, it was pretty much all of Europe. They contended that since the Arabs had let them live peacefully among them, without threat, it would be a bad idea to displace people from their homes to allow white colonial settlers to steal their land, namely Palestine. Their Arab neighbors would naturally side with Palestinians and Israel would never know peace. If this was of God, there would be peace throughout the world as the Messiah has finally appeared and thus an Israel would be achieved by said God.
Of course, over the next several decades, stomping their feet, turning blue, they went the secular route and I think we can all agree that there is really no peace in the Middle East. And yes, the Holocaust had everything to do with it. Let’s atone for Germany’s sins by throwing Palestinians on the altar, who had nothing to do with mass murder, eh? Anyone, deigning to cop out to “it’s complicated,” really must study the subject. It seems it’s only complicated when it’s criminal.
Now, Apartheid Israel murders innocent civilians, continues to steal property, and relegates an entire indigenous Palestinian population to a marked 4th tier status in their own land. L’Chaim!
Throw into the ungodly mix the Saudi monarchy, there’s not even a parliament with 81 beheadings in one day, a new record, and wholesale slaughter in Yemen. Tibet, with its CIA connected Dalai Lama. The Church of Rome, with so many sex abuse lawsuits, they’re selling off real estate to pay off victim’s claims, not to mention American Christian fascists. These charmers routinely get nailed, on video, not knowing the difference between The Bible and Mein Kampf.
Point is people don’t act like they believe in God. We believe in gravity because we act like it. We’re careful on stairs, hope the plane doesn’t crash, drive as carefully as we can, avoid dropping glassware… all because we’ve seen what gravity does. We don’t believe in God because what see “God do” are normally the actions of the same garden variety assholes, war mongers and idiots. Wanton death and sorrow is often attributed to God’s Plan and the ever popular Free Will. Free Will is the excuse for an impotent god.
These are the same dullards who get caught with minors, same sex hook-ups, strippers, tons of drugs or whatever else they say is sinful but that their God liberated them from. Ahh… that pesky flesh and desire always rearing its head.
The bitter truth (plug intended) is that if this crap worked, you’d all behave better.
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You've got to understand the impact of priestcraft. Satan exists and he has priests. The priests despise and exploit the populace. There are priests everywhere in all walks today. The three letter federal agencies are filled with priests. Hollywood is filled with priests. Popular music is nothing but priests doing priestcraft. Priests do Satanic ritual witchcraft and many are adrenochrome addicts. Society has always been dominated by priests. The more the Catholic church seems to be pathetic and weak, the more its invisible priests are dominating society. Priests use fear to control the population. They foment wars using fear of the unknown, fear of disease. They can make the populace do anything they want. Being religious means submitting to ritual priestcraft. George HW Bush (Scherf) was a Nazi priest as the head of the CIA, his wife Barbara was the daughter of A. Crowley. The banking and medical cabals (AMA) are just aspects of priestcraft.
Some questions that might be useful for you: What is faith? Is Christianity a religion or a system of ethics? Is Christianity at base biblical or at some level are the parables and example of Christ extra-biblical? Is the bible Christian or Satanic?