Please be
informed…it is not only Christianity that is deserving of constant criticism
and persistent suspicion. Religion if it is going to be promoted as a means to
save one’s soul and create a life of bliss, it is worthy of constant scrutiny.
For me, I have
always been amazed by the power religion conjures within people. Not a poised power
of overcoming odds – but the power that should regulate people to the status of
mentally ill if one does NOT remove the religiosity that brings forth bizarre,
and for some peculiar behavior e.g. speaking in tongues, believing that a man
survived in the belly of a whale, believing that 20 virgins in heaven await a delusional
man, or believing that exorcisms are healthy alternatives to medical and
psychologically healing.
An approximate total
of 30 million people –as tradition dictates- bathe in Sangam, the confluence of
the Ganges, the Yamuna and the Saraswati rivers in India as a form of devotion -
and the confident belief if done (bathe) he or she is washing away/removing
their sins…transgressions…and frees one from the cycle of rebirth. The latter –fear
of rebirth- is a telling example of what religion does to the mind of the
individual who lives a life of preventable misery…as if returning to a human
life form is that tragic particularly if the present life has been a
self-induced problematic consequence.
Nonetheless, there
was an unusual concluding twist to the Indian tradition that’s performed every
12 years,
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Dead in Stampede at Hindu Festival in India
I encourage you to think
on this for a brief moment…
You mean to tell me
after bathing and having faith in their deed of devoutness and hopeful removal
of sin, thirty-six of the devoted Hindu Believers were crushed to death in a
stampede at a train station immediately following their religious act of
conviction…?
Was this their
reward for opting to cleanse their souls…are they now heaven-bound…are the
Hindu followers removed from potential renascence - or is this tragedy another disturbing
occurrence that mirrors ‘God’s Work or
God’s Neglect’ that we should mentally transport to the unexplainable
category of
Thou shall not
Question…Thou shall not seek an answer via Seeing…
We must eventually
examine religion without a faith lens…but with reasonable questioning and with
intellectual –not emotional- veracity!
If not, the
Believers of any religious faith particularly the religions that if questioned
with reason and logic would be considered a Flock of Foolishness; and the
adherents would be committed to insane asylums.
The Pseudo Preacher
