My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

People often ask me my thoughts on religion and creation - to me they are not one and the same thing - religion has nothing to do with whatever god you want to worship. A half arsed poorly spelt and never edited for grammatical errors commentary I wrote 9 years ao g(except for an update on the intro to make it seem more relevant a few years ago) will give you an inkling into my thoughts on religion, some of my feelings have changed since I wrote it, but for the most part I still feel I agree - personally I'm not totally sure why people are even concerned with what I think, but alas, the question has once again been asked. My thoughts on creation will follow later this week - now for religion:

God Damned Religion

Now I think I will try to tackle the most talked bout, controversial and ridiculous thing known to man, no I’m not talking bout Bill Clinton feeling the need to have his pet Whitehouse pig on bended knee, or even the supposed assassination of JFK by a homicidal maniac, who just happened to be killed by a homicidal maniac loose in FBI headquarters just before his trial, I am of course, as the title suggests going to talk bout religion.

Religion is what seems to control this world as much as money or power does. Sure when you talk religion you think church, you think bible, you think good but it is what you don’t realise that is the issue. The Catholic Church is one of the largest organised crime syndicates in the world. You don’t think the pope (the leader of the catholic church, whom the present one says there is no heaven nor is there hell) got assassinated for nothing do you? The screwing of alter boys, the screwing of nuns, the screwing of the poor, the raping and pillaging of Africa and South America and the screwing of the needy. Some of the atrocities that the Vatican has condoned within its walls for centuries are appalling. Is this godliness? Is this goodness? How can God let these type of people work under his name?

So how is it that a place such as the church and religion can create so much havoc, destruction, and general chaos? More wars are fought over religion than anything else and both sides are fighting for their god! And what’s worse than all this inevitable raping, rioting, pillaging and havoc is the church says it stands for right - is this right? Is war ever right? How can God condone something like war when he stands for good? How can people march under this false banner of righteousness and sleep at night?

The hypocrisy of religion astounds me. The church is meant to be there for the poor, for the needy to give them hope, to give them something to live for and yet the first thing that happens in a church is they pass round the plate for you to put cash in, the poor can’t do this, the needy can’t do this - so who exactly do they think they are catering for?

You never see a drug addict in church, you never see a street person in church, you never see a poor person in church, these are the people who need religion, these are the people who need hope, who need to know there is someone who cares for them and yet the church who claims to do this does not accept them in its doors.

Those charities out there run by churches, when you have figures in excess of 80% of the profits going into advertising, marketing, and book keeping, what does this say bout how much they work for the good of man? Are they even helping the people they claim they are at all?

Now that gets me onto another issue, the bible. How can one say that the bible is something to run ones life by when it has been changed, sections omitted to protect the religious cause, translated, re-translated, has been written by god knows how many people who each contradict each other more than I damn well do ! thou shall not kill, but thou shall take the guys eye out if he takes yours out - is there anything more contradictory? Then there’s the whole part in the bible taken out in the Middle Ages about reincarnation - Jesus believed in it! They couldn’t have him saying reincarnation existed or the whole heaven thing would look damn stupid wouldn’t it?

There have been reports of great floods in all forms of religion for thousands of years before the birth of Christianity, the story of Mosses has been told before in other religions before the birth of Christianity, great fires, plagues, famines the end of the world has been told before in other religions before the birth of Christianity - which wasn’t even documented correctly by a few decades. (Editors note: if they can’t even get the birth of Christ right, something you would think important in a book about his life, how in the hell can they get anything else in the bible even remotely correct?)

Is this collection of plagiarized short stories, lies, and half-truths something we should admire, and run our lives by its message? The bible was merely a book that was in the right place at the right time, it's not meant as something to live by!

My dog is not the brightest thing in the world, hell he’s been hit by a car 3 times as he insists on running down the middle of the road the same way as the cars go, when it rains he thinks hmm wonder what causes that - maybe it’s god, there is wind hmm wonder what causes that maybe it’s god again. Perhaps my dog doesn’t think that, in fact I’m not so sure he thinks at all, but it is with this train of thought that religion has been founded upon. There is thunder “oh, ‘tis a vengeful god� there is a bumper crop “’ tis god helping us for making those ritual sacrifices of naked virgins smeared with pigs blood in the fields�. It’s like the way a 2 yr old would answer things, there was no investigation, no thought, no knowledge of weather patterns, no knowledge of a lot of things, we were young, naive, innocent, dare I say stupid? . Saying a figment of our imagination made it flood is no different to blaming an imaginary friend for eating the last cookie in the jar.

If you’re not Catholic you will go to hell and face eternal damnation, if you’re not Seven Day Adventist you will go to hell and face eternal damnation, if you’re not Buddhist you will - is there anyone left who will ultimately make it into heaven?

I’m not against religion as a philosophy; I think it can be very spiritual and calming. I think religion can make you feel at peace not only with yourself but also with the world. What I don’t like is organized religion. If you want to contact your God you should be able to do it in your own way, in your own time. You should not have to go to church, you should not have to pay, you should not have to sacrifice. I know religion can give hope where previously there was none and I realize how powerful hope is, for if we were without hope we would have nothing to live for. I don’t believe in the Bible and its obviously plagiarized fables, I don’t believe in the wrongs man has carried out in the name of his God. I believe religion something that preaches about togetherness is very hypocritical in that it practices separation and division.

A 3 yr old child; “why did God kill mummy?� “It was God’s will, sometimes he works in strange ways but mummy is in heaven she is in much better place�. My great uncle after sitting there dying of cancer for 6 agonising months looked at peace in his final moment, he had made peace with the world - I only hope that one day I too can find peace in this world, and with the world.

God damned religion - from the start his indifference to the world ultimately lead to religions downfall.