Blessed are the poor (donate heavily). Blessed are the meek (obey). Blessed are the humble (don’t question authority). Blessed are the hungry (make us rich while you starve). Blessed are the merciful (if you catch us doing something wrong, let it go). Blessed are the pure of heart (switch off your brain). Blessed are the timid, the cowardly, the fearful. Blessed are those who give us their power and become our slaves. Muahahaha!
That’s the kind of nonsense religion pushes on people. They train you to turn your back on courage, strength, and conscious living. This is stupidity, not divinity.
Religion will teach you to fear being different, to fear standing up for yourself, and to fear being an independent thinker. It will erode your self-trust by explaining why you’re unable to successfully manage life on your own terms: You are unworthy. You’re a sinner. You’re unclean. You belong to a lesser caste. You are not enlightened. Of course the solution is always the same — submit to the will of an external authority. Believe that you’re inadequate. Give away your power. Follow their rules and procedures. Live in fear for the rest of your life, and hope it will all turn out okay in the end.
When you practice faith instead of conscious living, you live under a cloak of fear. Eventually that cloak becomes so habitual you forget it’s even there. It’s very sad when you reach the point where you can’t even remember what it feels like to wield creative freedom over your own life, independent of what you’ve been conditioned to believe.
Faith is the coward’s substitute for courage. It’s also really good marketing if you’re the one who controls the faith. If you’re afraid or unwilling to assume total responsibility for your life, you’re a perfect match for religion.
Fear in one part of your life invariably spreads to all other parts — you can’t compartmentalize it. If you find yourself frustrated because you’re too afraid to follow your dreams, to talk to members of the opposite sex, to speak up for yourself, etc., then a good place to start is to rid your life of all religious nonsense. Don’t let fear get a foothold in your consciousness.
Stop trying to comfort yourself by swallowing religious rubbish. If you really need something to believe in, then believe in your own potential. Put your trust in your own intellect. Stop giving away your power.
Dump the safety-in-numbers silliness. Just because a lot of people believe stupid stuff doesn’t mean it isn’t stupid. It just means that stupidity is popular on this planet. When people are in a state of fear, they’ll swallow just about anything to comfort themselves, including the bastion of stupidity known as religion.
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Religion is spiritual immaturity.
It’s entirely possible to enjoy your life without spending so much of it bent over in submission. Pull your head out of your rear, and look around with your own two eyes. If you need something to worship, then feel grateful for your own conscious mind. Pull it out of the cobwebs, and boot it up.
Besides… if some popular religious version of God does exist, there’s a good chance he’s a complete and total idiot. He made us in his image, right? So perhaps we shouldn’t be so quick to worship an entity so lacking in intelligence. We’re better off on our own.
God isn’t going to smite you for not formally worshipping him. If he didn’t smite me by now, it’s a safe bet you’ll slide beneath the radar as well. And if that doesn’t work, you can borrow my fake ID. I’ve been baptized and confirmed, and I’m the son of an altar boy and the nephew of a priest, so I’m sure I’ll be fine. ;)
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i am disinclined to respond to your verbal diarrhea. In response to your question, not all the blather following it, here's my take on it: You stated "Faith is the coward's substitute for courage." Faith, described as a belief in things not seen or otherwise experienced, is in what way a substitute for courage? I believe in God, or a Higher Power, or whatever else it's called. I am also a free-thinking individual. Therefore, I have faith that God is.
I think you meant to say that using organized religion as a method to control people is a substitute for courage, because you don't need to think for yourself if you follow dogma slavishly. It is important to accept whatever you believe as a result of thought, observation, and analysis, I would recommend you read the following sourced link for another viewpoint. (Pascal's Wager)
Sorry i didn't read it all but how do you think Christianity came about in the first place? 12 dudes who hung out with Jesus who claimed to be son of God. That's courage to me. Sticking to their story years after His death and being tortured while still believing and daring to be independent and strong? If that's not courage, I don't know what is. Even if you don't believe in it, you can't deny Christianity is big and had to be spread someway.
And might I add you're not going to get your point across to anyone by being so rude. This is the religious section. If you want to rant about how stupid you think religious people are you should get yourself a diary.
Your diatribe seems to be that faith, religion, and spirituality are interchangeable and all should be denunciated. This is not true. To me, faith is the belief that God is real and guides us through life. Spirituality reinforces the tenets that God gives us. Religion is a formalized means of showing our faith, spirituality and dedication to God. I am not actively religious, but my faith and spirituality in our God are as strong as the most tempered steel and titanium. Why? Because He has shown to me that He is here through varying actions and circumstances throughout my life that cannot and have not been otherwise explained. Mere chance and probabilities don't explain them. Part of His beauty and blessings are that whether you believe in Him or not, He still looks out for you and loves you as He does all His children. What a pity that you haven't recognized this. But then again, perhaps you're here as reinforcement to our beliefs. God has lessons for us all.
ALEX THE AWESOME (What a HUMBLE name!) has no business posting on RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY, because he obviously has neither Religion nor Sprituality. With all his pomposity, he could not Answer any part of your Question, and has probably killed it so that no one else will Answer into it.
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Your Question is very important because, to the shallow mind, without the Attention Span to read a simple message of less than 5,000 characters, it looks like Jesus is Commanding people to be complete wimps, who give all of their stuff away, for nothing!
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FAITH HAS SEVERAL FUNCTIONS.
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FAITH is the ability to perceive and utilize The Will of God. The Location of The Will of God is shadowed by The Word of God, but they are not one and the same. It is not that God Says one thing and Men hear another, but that God Says one thing, and Men imagine ninety-nine things they want God to rather have said, only He didn't.
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FAITH is the ability to eliminate those ninety-nine extraneous data, and lock on to the one significant datum.
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Jesus was asked what the Greatest Commandment of The Law of Moses was, and he responded with what he considered were the two greatest Commandments (Deut. 6:45; Lev. 19:18).
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If one puts God's Wishes and Our Neighbour's Welfare ahead of our own, The Gospel is easy to understand, receive, believe, and obey.
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People whose minds are too shallow to conceive that The Commandments of God issue from a PERSON- Who DETECTS obedience to His Will and RESPONDS have to stumble over every little thing, which should have been their launch pad.
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Those who can not conceive of having love for their neighbours can see no benefit in doing this for them- because it is not one of their life goals.
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The exercising of Faith charges the Human Spirit like a battery, so that the dormant spiritual senses and faculties come on-line.
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In time- as long as it takes- one is able to perceive the evidences of God's Existence, and to follow the trail to perceive God Himself (John 8:31-32).
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Faith runs contrary to Physical Reality. When one resists Physical Law enough- for instance, Giving away what you need, instead of keeping it for yourself; Forgiving Enemies instead of punishing them; one's Spirit becomes powerful enough to supersede it completely.
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There are seven Powers higher than "Faith" to which Faith is a non-starter (2nd Peter 1:5-7).
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PATIENCE is one of them.
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The first stage of extracting Divine Power from The Word of God requires MEDITATION (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1).
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This entails repeating Scriptures aloud, until Total Understanding is achieved. This can require thousands of repetitions daily.
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To someone who has won Knowledge from The Kingdom of God through this practice, reading a few thousand characters on a webpage is nothing.
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You can never learn when you think you have nothing to learn.
It takes a lot of courage to have faith instead of sliding beneath the radar and having a fake ID...your interpretation of courage and all the rest truly comes from a confused and angry being, but God bless you anyway...
Theory and Practical is a different thing.
Anyway if everyone hate muslim or christian or jews and wanted to kill them, then why be religious.
I only see 2 words in your question Coward & Stupid, and why is that? are you annoy with something? keep being scared can lead to annoyance.. and then explosion of irrationalities released with big sign on your forehead that says "I HAVE SMALL DICK & LEFT BALL, MY RIGHT ONE IS BIG".
and the " ;) " symbols doesn't do anything you intend to do.
now turn off your computer and go to bed. And don't touch yourself. or you'll be like this for the whole month.
" I’ve been baptized and confirmed, and I’m the son of an altar boy and the nephew of a priest, so I’m sure I’ll be fine. ;)"
are you sure about that?
that is like saying.. I will make it to heaven because I am a good person. you certainly have allot of flaws in your heart, and God looks at the heart
Obeying God's commandments doesn't make you a slave, it makes you free from addiction, free from the consequences of sex outside of marriage which include many std's, children out of wedlock, etc which are all harmful to society. Living God's commandments sets you free from all the pain and suffering that comes from a life of selfish indulgence. It also keeps you out of jail, again granting you freedom.
Please understand that I'm trying to be helpful when I say this, but try to keep your questions small or people will refrain from reading them. This post could've been significantly shorter and far more coherent.
I agree with the general concept of what your saying, but not necessarily the exact details.
You make a ton of assumptions in your statements with 0 facts to back up the statements.