You might view this article’s heading and scream in outrage, horror, and disbelief, “blasphemy”. Then, on the other hand, if you are an open-minded, inquisitive person, you may say to yourself, “I wonder what this guy is up to? I think I’ll stick around and see what he has to say”. Very likely, there are many of you who, for one reason or another, have some doubts and questions about religion and particularly, so-called Christian religions. I am allowed to say ‘so-called’ because, from my perspective, no so-called Christian religion is valid.
So-called Christianity is patterned exactly after the oppressive religion of the Jews. The perpetrators of that religion wanted to use Jesus’ fame as support of their ‘new’ oppressive religion while totally ignoring his basic message of God’s perfect love. They totally ignored Jesus’ teaching about God’s love which was so foreign to the Jew’s way of thinking. They had been born into a world of a ‘vengeful God’ who demanded recompense for their misdeeds.
Jesus, on the other hand, perceived a different kind of plan which ultimately would have replaced the Jewish concept of a vengeful, punitive God. Jesus’ subversive plan was to implant the idea that God was all-loving and, therefore, could not possibly react negatively to any of his creation — ‘See the lilies of the field. they neither sow nor reap. Yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory is arrayed like one of these’.
Jesus could clearly see the corruption of the Jewish government and religion which was bilking the masses of their meager hard-earned existences under the guise of making expensive ‘perfect offerings as appeasement of a vengeful God. Moses had planted that idea of God several hundred years before for purposes of control. As time went on, the hierarchical elite determined that their God must be appeased with offerings, both animal and vegetable. Those specimens must be ‘perfect’ and, for that reason, not only must they be offered by the High Priest, but they must be provided by him also — always for a ‘pretty penny’.
At that point in time, Judea was under Roman control. Even though the Roman empire was a pagan nation, the emperor reasoned that it would be less costly to allow the Jews to continue with their corrupt internal government than to attempt forcing paganism on them.
Jesus seems to have been the first human to recognize the presence of God in everything — God is in everything and everything is in God including Jesus, himself — ‘Split a piece of wood, and I’ll be there. Lift a rock and find me there.’ He wanted the world to know that ‘God is all love — with that understanding and acceptance, Judaism would have eventually disappeared — the terrible persecuting ‘blanket of guilt’ would have finally been yanked from the Jewish people — they would have become free to honor, love, revere, and thank their all-loving God rather than attempt appeasement of an irate, vengeful God.
Those who formulated the gospels decades after Jesus’ death were very careful, not to overtly disclose the cause of Jesus’ crucifixion. He was already a legend but a legend in a different way. They wanted to use his name and more importantly his title, Christ, as a footing for their new-found ‘sacrificial religion’ which mimicked the Jewish religion. Of course, they positioned themselves and their progeny in positions of authority and power with Pope, Cardinals, Bishops, and priests.
With that backdrop, we see what happened. Constantine gave the new Catholic hierarchy absolute control and power backed by the Roman army. Quite obviously, in the minds of the hierarchy, they had special powers which no one else had — they could recreate Jesus’ body and blood and, not only that, they would also offer it to God the Father as an ‘unbloody sacrifice’ of appeasement. Therefore, the oppressive religion of the Jews was replaced with a new oppressive religion labeled Christianity. One must wonder why they didn’t label it ‘Jesusanity’ or something of the sorts. I think I know why — the chicanery would have been too obvious. This was a ‘King’s religion’ — Jesus was the exceptionally notorious ‘fall-guy’. They did not want to recognize the real Jesus. They simply wanted a newer version of Judaism. Even today, most Churches I’m familiar with spend as much, and sometimes more, time honoring the God of the Old Testament rather than honoring the God of love about whom Jesus taught.
Obviously, they took Jesus’ words at the Last Supper of. “Do this in remembrance of me”, to mean what they assumed to have happened at the Last Supper — Jesus turning bread and wine into his own body and blood. I think they ‘missed the boat’ completely. I believe, without doubt, Jesus understood that God is present in everything in existence including his own body. He was simply telling them to remember that fact and to remember him when they ate — to recognize that everything they ate was God, himself. Jesus knew that God is all love and is in all things which he had created — he could not possibly reject any part of himself.
Jesus knew nothing of the scientific basis for his assumption of God’s love — neither did his illiterate associates. Had they known, it seems very likely that a different version of Christianity would be the only worldwide religion in existence. Neither would we have the fragmentation we see now. Furthermore, and more importantly, it would be a religion demonstrating our understanding of God’s Loving nature. It would be a religion of reverence, praise, and thanksgiving to God rather than the sacrificial religion patterned after Judaism. We would be thanking our all-loving, all-accepting, God rather that attempting to appease a ‘vengeful God’ as did the Jews. WE would be reverencing a book which clearly demonstrates Jesus’ all-loving demeanor rather than a book which continually speaks of a vengeful God as do all so-called Christian religions in one form or another.
Clearly, God is a Perfect Rational Being. That perfection is exhibited by the perfect rationality which pervades ever existence in our universe. All truth is exhibited in that perfection and is contained in a ‘perfect truth system’. Scientifically, it is exhibited by, and contained in the perfect particles of energy (quanta) which are the substrate of every atom which make up every gravid existence in the universe. That perfect state of God means; he cannot possibly be helped, hurt, pleased, displeased, bargained with, or influenced in anyway by anything. Therefore, all religions past and present are invalid and, ultimately are hoaxes. They represent the collective arrogance and or ignorance of a few who wish to control, and leech off the masses for their own personal gain.
However, there was no unanimity of thought and understanding among those bishops about who Jesus really was and what he really taught. So, they squabbled among themselves and even came to local blows at times. Of course, that distracting demeanor greatly reduced their productivity for the empire. As a consequence, in the year 325, Constantine, who was emperor of the Roman Empire, decided upon a course of action for increasing their productivity. Instead of attempting to force them to work and produce, he would make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. But first, he had to have unanimity of thought about the religion. So, he called a council of the world’s bishops at Nicaea. Of the 1800 bishops, only three hundred or so attended. Constantine presided, and after a few months of haggling with some unrelenting bishops being excommunicated, a consensus was reached — the Holy Roman Catholic Church came into being. A few years later, it was declared the official religion of the empire.
Simply observe the world as it is at this very minute. Literally every nation is aligned with others in either instigating hostilities or defending against hostilities all of which are generated by religious and/or ideological differences —all for power control and, ultimately, riches.
The entire human race must rapidly become likeminded about the ultimate nature of our universe or likely it is doomed to extermination by some irrational authority with a ‘red button’ — it only takes one —then it’s game over. The only way we can become like-minded is for our educational systems to begin teaching truth about the ultimate nature of things. It is not mandatory for one to believe in God to recognize the ‘perfect rationality’ which pervades all existence — I prefer to believe that Perfect Rationality is a living being. We can still be like-minded about the Perfect Truth system which invalidates all known religions. In light of that recognition, a few years ago, I called for the Worldwide Communion of Spirituality which is the ‘only way’ the earth and its inhabitants can be rescued from total destruction.
Peace is possible but not if current religions and ideologies are in play. We must recognize that each of us is in total communion with every other existence. I prefer to see that existence in the Perfect Rational Being whom I call God. By the way, it seems logical to me that ideologies came to be because men saw the ultimate failings of religion and were attempting to replace it with a reasonable alternative. However, there again, their efforts led to organizations of oppression which basically worshiped a domineering system rather than a system of like-minded people who understood and ‘cherished’ their communion with all existences. Will it ever happen? Not in our timeframe. The reason being the universal evil of selfishness.
As I have shown in my little book, Wilderness Cry, ‘selfishness ’is the universal evil shared by all existences. To our knowledge, homo sapiens is the first and only entity in existence to have the ability and know-how to produce weapons capable of mass destruction. Currently, there seems to be enough of those weapons in existence, that if all were deployed in a relatively short time frame, to destroy every living thing on this planet. Again, I have oft repeated that ‘anything which is possible to happen in this universe, will eventually happen’. I am not an alarmist, only a realist. It takes only ‘one irrational person’ with a finger on the ‘red button’ to trigger a chain reaction of retaliatory nuclear weapons to produce that total wipe-out.
So, here again, we see the parallel between religion and ideology — selfish controllers who care naught about others — only their lust for power and lavish lifestyles. You don’t see Cardinals of the Church living in shanties and preaching from log cabin churches. Rather, they live in mansions and preach from monstrous edifices which costs billions to build and maintain — all that under the guise of appeasing a vengeful God — nothing is too good for God.
I am convinced that Jesus, his identity, and his intentions have been sorely and totally misrepresented by the perpetrators of so-called Christian religions whose ultimate goals were/are power, control and money.
For a more complete understanding and appreciation of what I just said, please read my little books which explain this philosophy in detail from both a philosophical and a scientific point of view.
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WILDERNESS CRY by Hilary L Hunt MD 