The events which have transpired within the last 5 days have forever changed me. I feel that I reached a new level of spiritual enlightenment. It began with a sudden struggle with the concept of God. Not that I hadn't wrestled with this problem of problems before but there was a sense of urgency this time. After many continuous hours of searching and searching I found my answer. SPOILER ALERT!!! Man invented all religion, regardless of form or sect. I know big whoop right? There are millions of people who already believe this Joel they call themselves ATHEISTS you friggin retard. Well I think I may have stumbled upon something that will help their cause as opposed to the "divine" cause of the church.
I began at the only logical place to begin - the basis for many of the religions of the world; the "seven deadly sins". These of course being greed, gluttony, sloth, pride, lust, envy and wrath. The church says that sins are each based on one or several of these forbidden vices. If the church would have their word undisputed, then he who looks upon his neighbor's success and wishes to have the same in order to replicate his own hapiness is guilty of envy. All of us who have ever wanted to have more of a good thing (money) regardless of whether or not we actually needed more are guilty of greed. Every year when we celebrate Thanksgiving we are all committing gluttony. I could write pages and pages about the examples of how man commits these "sins" while going through the daily grind of his entire life. The examples are not, however, important. What is important is that it happens. We all do it. We all have a built in need to pursue these "vices". I asked a friend of mine today what emotion she felt drives her to live instead of die. What drives her to succeed? She gave the reply I am sure 99% of humanity would give. Happiness. We hear about the allusion of the pursuit of happiness from the time we are in grade school. Our country dedicated 1/3 of its entire cause to it. What we do not study quite as deeply is how, exactly, this happiness is achieved. Secret time...the vast majority of all of mankind's happiness stems from the fulfillment of one or more of the seven deadly sins. Every single time we fulfill one of these "vices" we are rewarded with happiness. It is the nature of man to strive for this type of fulfillment. Happiness is therefore a sort of secondary emotion granted to us by living out our constant needs of greed, gluttony,sloth, pride, envy, lust, and even wrath. All necessary to the advancement of Humankind. So where does all this guilt we hear about stem from. We made it up. I realized that there could only be two two reasons to feel guilty about our human nature. The first reason would stem from fulfilling our needs at the significant loss of another. This would certainly instill guilty feelings in the vast majority of good people. It can not, however, be attributed to the fulfillment of the "vice". There could be numerous reasons one would create a situation to wrong his fellow man. Most attributed to some sort of mental disorder or another. It does not necessarily stem from the "vice" itself. Therefore the "vice" cannot be solely blamed. The second reason for this unnecessary and often overpowering feeling of guilt, the very same guilt that can drive a man to take his own life in the most dire of situations, is simply that the church has told us that it is bad to embrace these "seven deadly sins" and therefore we should feel guilty for wronging our God. They made it up for reasons of sheer brilliance and possibly even greed. The only way to ensure that man will keep sinning is to take the very things that make him human and declare them the basis for their sins. Brilliant move really. By doing this the church alienates man, makes him seek forgiveness for his overwhelming feeling of guilt. Interesting that the very thing we ultimately seek, Forgiveness, is the very thing that keeps us prisoner to the illusion of guilt. Why would the church do such a thing to us? I don't think I need to point out that the church exists to herd man's spiritualism into a controllable, manageable group, soothing his fears and the things he cannot explain. Offering the concept of guilt and the path to forgiveness in one convenient package. And hey lets not forget that the church accepts charitable donations for their divine services rendered. It stands to reason then, that they would attempt to gather as many followers as possible and protect their assets by means of a great crusade in "god's" name to purge or convert the heathen non believers. They even convinced EVERYONE that this killing was the one and only exception to the exemption of self defense rule. An exception suddenly made up to serve their urgent purpose, as was the whole concept in the first place. By turning man against himself, the church has solidified its position of power GLOBALLY, a feat I would like to point out that no great army of the known history of the world has ever come close to accomplishing. This is the power of deceit. The same power that commands 95% of the world in one form or another. The Christians were not the only ones to do this they just did it best and with more willingness to kill in order to procure their seat of ultimate power. Sound at all familiar? Greed perhaps? Maybe, wrath? How about mans insatiable lust for power? As evidence to the basis upon I perch this essay I offer to you who will listen, the simple and obvious fact that not even the men who run the very organization that declares these sins are exempt from pursuing and fulfilling their fair share. It's our nature to derive happiness from these Seven Lively Virtues. The only reason you feel guilty about it is because someone told you ought to. Wake up and fight the lies people! We no longer live in an age of wondrous mystical unexplained phenomena, which creates panic in the masses, and which can only be pacified by the comfort of a higher power with your best interest at heart. With the advancement of modern science and medicine, we have outgrown our infant need for such pacification and as such it is time to cease the lies, deceit, and total corruption of a plague that the church now represents to mankind. You don't think so? How many millions of campaign dollars to fight topics like abortion, gay marriages, and other religious taboo topics do you think came from the very collection plates to which you so ignorantly fund? Judging from the current standpoint on some of these topics I would speculate (which is all anyone can do because the church does not have to report all of its donations for fear of a tax audit ) at least half. It would appear to any man of logical reason, that the church has become a machine, a tool, to further its own income and survival in order to maintain power over topics in life that should be ours to vote on for ourselves! There is a healthy representation of greed for you. This essay which begs of you to act is proof that even wrathful feelings can be healthy.
Was there once a purpose for organized religion? Most assuredly. Did they serve a purpose? Absolutely. But times have changed and the only lesson from this that has always, and will always, stood the test of time is that power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and DIVINE power corrupts oh so DIVINELY. Only man, the one true entity that actually possesses the present ability to change anything in our physical realm of function, has the power to decide that enough is enough and it is time to live life as we were intended to live it. Through our obvious free will, our insatiable thirst for happiness and, finally, the means to procure that happiness without being subjected to religious slavery. Think about it. Did I say anything that didn't resonate within the fibers of those of you who aren't given to your own deception? That feeling is the feeling I felt earlier today. That is self realization shining a new "holy light" upon you. Embrace it and be born anew, free to live, free to be happy, free from the lies of the clergy!!
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