- Normally, I would not expound on this subject. I don't
believe in wearing your religious beliefs on your sleeve and I don't approve
of trying to push your convictions upon others, however, I feel it's necessary
to expose teachings -delivered within the framework of religious instruction
or Biblical instruction- which are untrue and ultimately lead to harm for
those who subscribe to them. I'm referring to the myths of Christian fundamentalism.
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- A belief is not the same thing as knowledge. A belief
is an idea that we are conditioned to believe is true, yet we
possess no concrete way to know or prove to ourselves (or to others) that
it is true. In order to accept a belief as true, you must first possess faith we
are told. But all faith is blind faith by definition and that's
the rub. All victims of belief manipulation are first convinced that
they must possess faith in order to be 'saved'. But faith in
what? Faith in whatever the preacher says is the "Word of
God" while holding up one of the 650 different versions of the "Holy"
Bible and declaring it to be the unchallenged written Word of God.
I can get you to believe inanything, if you will first surrender your
intellect and common sense and allow me to supplant them with a firm conviction
in the notion of "faith." That's why preacher-propagandists spend
so much effort touting the supposed virtue and desirability of possessing
"faith" and will repeat well-worn Biblical mantras like "Oh
ye of little faith" or "doubting Thomas" to reinforce the
idea that blind acceptance-based on faith- is a good thing
, while entertaining any sort of doubt (meaning questioning the validity
of what's being shoved down your throat) is a bad thing .
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- How reprehensible it is to treat people in this way,
yet that is the mind wash that's being pushed upon a very large group of
people in America who refer to themselves as "Christians." But
are these self-described Christianstruly followers of Christ and do
they emulate His example and adhere to His teachings? I don't think so.
If anything, they are grossly unaware of the true teachings of
Jesus Christ. They are mislead by false teachers into deception
and calculated manipulation. They may refer to themselves as non-denominational,
or charismatic, or evangelical Christians, but ultimately
they are fundamentalist Christians and they are the most duped
people on the face of the earth. .
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- Being a fundamentalist anything is undesirable
because a fundamentalist is a zealot-and zealots can be dangerous.
A zealot believes in a set of acquired postulates and will go to extremes
to coerce his beliefs upon others. The false postulate that the
fundamentalist Christian has an obligation, or duty, or mission to "save"
other people on behalf of "God" or Jesus is an affront to the free
will and self-determination that every soul in God's creation is entitled
to-and no one has the right to try to impose his beliefs or will
upon others.
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- I recently saw a documentary on Mormons on public television.
It may have been Frontline or The American Experience, I
can't remember, but it was a revealing expose of the underside of the Church
of Later Day Saints and their evangelical 'mission' to brainwash young
men into giving up two years of their young lives to go to a far-away place
and engage in the very sort of un-welcomed coercion that I'm describing
here. One disillusioned ex-missionary remarked that after two solid years
of daily accosting, haranguing, and 'evangelizing', he had not succeeded
in obtaining even a single convert (what a surprise!). Had this
individual retained the capacity tothink for himself and not allow
himself to be blindly brainwashed, he would have recognized that
Jesus never engaged in 'evangelical' behavior. The people who
listened to Jesus sought Him out, not the other way around.
Jesus gained followers by example and the wisdom of his counsel,
not by any form of coercion (if even one self-described fundamentalist
Christian reading these words acquires an understanding or realization
that's it's fundamentally WRONG to try and force your beliefs on others-the
very core of "evangelism"- then I will have succeeded in serving
humanity with this article).
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- Evangelism, however, is not the only false postulate
that Christian fundamentalists embrace. There are many destructive notions
that are seeded into the fundamentalist psyche that cause him to engage
in behavior or hold beliefs that lead to strife and conflict. These include
the concepts of "judgment", (whether against others on the earthly
plane, or the judgment that they assume they will face when they
arrive at the Pearly Gates) and the concept of "sin", which carries
a debt of guilt and the need to atone in some punishing way. That atonement
includes the idea of burning away in Hell for eternity (or burning for
a time in the halfway house, Purgatory) which is offered up to impressionable
youngsters in order to scare them straight so they in turn will pass the
Fear torch on to their children ( and on and on it goes in a
continuous Merry-Go-Round of pulpit-inspired deception, generation after
generation).
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- At the heart of Christian fundamentalist myths is the
idea that man is a lowly sinner who must be "saved" by the grace
of God (or Jesus) in order to obtain salvation and buy a ticket to Heaven.
This concept (which includes the myth of Original Sin) is erroneous and
leads one to think of himself as being separate and detached from the Creator
We are not detached from the Creator. We are part of
the Creator and therefore we possess the capacity to create. It riles
the Christian fundamentalist dogmatist to no end to confront the notion
that his lowly, unworthy "sinner" is possessed of a divine nature
and can create himself, but this is exactly what Jesus told
us when he said "you can do all that I have done, and more."
Is that not so?
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- Therefore, we have a divine nature, since we
have God dwelling within us at all times, whether it appears that
way or not. Every single human being possess a divine nature and we
are ALL sons and daughters of God-without exception. Yet, consider the
rank hypocrisy of Christian clergymen everywhere who refer on one hand
to their congregation as "children of God" while in the same
breath declare that Jesus in the ONLY Son of God. You can't have it both
ways.
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- (By the way, Jesus never said He was the Son
of God. He referred to Himself as the "Son of Man". The Roman
emperor Constantine decided that Christ was the "Son of God"
in 323 AD at the Council of Nicea).
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- What we see in the mirror is a reflection of a fleshy
garment which we wear while on the physical plane, but it is not the
essence of who we are. We are an immortal consciousness, a Being of
Light, who is temporarilyhoused in that fleshy garment while on earth to
learn spiritual lessons. Besides the skin we wear, we also have other "bodies"
nested within our form like layers of an onion.
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- We have a sensual 'body' that can be so captivated
by pleasurable sensations that it can lead us to addictive and obsessive
behavior such as drug addiction, alcohol addiction, sex addiction, or food
addiction, if allowed to run unchecked and uncontrolled by our inner consciousness.
We have an emotional 'body' that can respond wildly to the stimulus
of emotions and especially to the dictates of the ego unless
we recognize its influence and can learn to contain it. This is the 'body'
that is most manipulated by Christian preacher-propagandists
who employ the use of charged emotions (the fired-up emotional
delivery of the preacher, the power of music toemotionally sweep us
off our feet, the powerful dynamics of group reverie (or pseudo-reverie)
to suspend thinking and carry us along on a river of emotionalism) to install
their Illuminati-inspired British Israel programming in their highly suggestible
and pre-primed congregations. This is precisely what British Israel con
artists like Benny Hinn, John Hagee, Paul & Jan Crouch, Rod Parsley,
Jesse Duplantis, etc, etc., are doing with their congregants. They are
using the facade of Christianity to install ideas and beliefs
(E.g. Christian Zionism) that will ultimately lead to the destruction
of Christianity and the imposition of the Satanic New World Order.
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- Duped fundamentalist congregants are not going to be
able to recognize or free themselves from this deception unless they begin
to temper the hypnotic influence of emotionalism and
start engaging their under-utilizedintellectual "body" to
discern and examine more carefully what they are being taught as the
indisputable "Will of God." They are being brainwashed and manipulated to
serve the agenda of the New World Order and they don't know it.
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- Thankfully, a few books have been published recently
which address this issue head on and more Christian pastors-who still have
their heads screwed on straight- are now beginning to publicly lambaste
the deceptions being promoted by the likes of Hagee or Hinn, but much
more awakening needs to take place within the ranks of congregants
themselves. They are the ones who are funding and underpinning
the very scaffolding upon which they will hang themselves.
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- Ken Adachi
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