The Great Biblical Omissions

Most Christians will tell you instantly that all the answers pertaining to Jesus of Nazareth and Christianity are to be found in the Bible. That is especially true of the Protestant Christians. However, in my extensive reading and research, I have found two seemingly glaring omissions. Number one; nowhere in the bible does it tell us exactly why the Jewish hierarchy considered Jesus to be a traitor and wanted him crucified. Number two: nowhere in the bible can I find where Jesus explicitly states that he was sent by God, his Father, to die as a sacrificial offering in appeasement of Him, an angry, vengeful God. Yet, If I can read and understand plain English, that is exactly what has evolved as basic general Christian teaching and belief worldwide.

Of Course, as I have pointed out many times, those general beliefs have evolved with more than forty-four thousand interpretations and applications, otherwise known as religious sects.

I should point out here once again that we have absolutely no way of knowing what the original writers said because the bible has been translated and rewritten and copied so many times since the original. I have heard hint of the fact that there is at least one original or near original copy buried in the archives of the Roman Catholic Church at Saint Peters Basilica in Rome. It is very doubtful if it will ever be exposed to public view and understanding.

I am of the firm conviction that Jesus was a mental genius, and a patriot beyond measure. I believe, without any doubt, that Jesus saw how his brethren were being tortured and tormented by both the Jewish religion and the Imperial Roman government. The Jewish hierarchy were making a fortune by forcing the peasants to purchase their perfect offerings from the High Priest and then pay him an extortionist’s price to make that offering in their name as appeasement of their vengeful God.

Jesus knew that God is all love and could not possibly demand or expect any appeasement. That is exactly what Jesus was teaching and preaching. His purpose was to educate the entire Jewish nation to that effect and therefore eliminate the Jewish sacrificial religion and supplant it with a religion of Love and acceptance. That would, of course, destroy the hierarchy’s monetary extortion base — they were not about to let that happen.

You will recall that when Jesus knew he was doomed, he made his final onslaught on the Temple. He whipped the money changers and overturned their tables. He called them a brood of vipers, a den of thieves and told them to get out of his Father’s house— such was his valor and patriotism.

Then, at his last supper, he revealed to them his eternal secret — the bread he held in his hand and his body were one. Jesus knew no particle physics, but he instinctively knew that the spirit of God was in everything — else it couldn’t be. I will digress to say that I have known of only three other people to acknowledge that fact, Francis of Assisi, Meister Eckhart, a German monk, and I. Likely, there have been many others that I have not encountered.

My personal recognition came through my chance encounter with Quantum Mechanics (particle physics). There I learned that the substrate of every gravid existence was particles of energy with the following characteristics ; there are many different types of particles but each is perfect in both form and function, each of its kind is indistinguishable from its counterparts, none could change nor be changed, none could be created nor destroyed my man, none could be further reduced. Since none can change, they all already exist in eternity. With that understanding it seems obvious to me that they are God.

Those same particles combine to make the protons and neutrons of every atom in existence. Those atoms make up ever gravid object in this universe and exist in as ever changing state of being. With that knowledge and understanding, we must conclude that, if there is a God, he must reside in every particle of energy in existence. Please note — that conclusion is based upon both sound scientific and sound philosophical principles. To their great credit, Jesus, Francis of Assisi, and Meister Eckhardt had only extreme insight to rely on—they knew no science.

It is apparent to me that the origins of each of the fragmented Christian sects is a combination of ignorance and greed. Once upon a time, ignorance could have been forgiven, but not now—greed could never have been forgiven then or now without contrition.

The great irony manifests itself in the fact that those who formulated the first major religious organization, the Holy Roman Catholic Church during the First council at Nicaea in the year 325 AD, did exactly as the Jews had done—they formulated a sacrificial religion still attempting to appease an angry God, with them in hierarchical control, for financial gain and Empire building just as the Jews before them had done—you know the rest of the story.

Regrettably, the bible(s) we have do not tell the compete story —we’ve had to read between the lines to extrapolate the truth. Obviously, what seems to be truth to one may seem like fiction to another—hence 44,000 results of fragmentation with some huge pieces, and many smaller ones with each one claiming righteousness and validity —most using an incomplete bible as their crutch and base.

WHAT A SHAME

1 JOHN 3:2

I am aware that the above referenced quotation is and has been a periodic recurring reading in Roman Catholic liturgy service for several decades. I am also aware that during those six decades or so, I have yet to hear it or its meaning addressed in any homily. As a matter of usual routine, the selected epistle and gospel readings and their significance are addressed in the homilies with specific application to us, the communicants. Having noticed this aberration has caused me to ponder its reason, and after due consideration, I believe I know the “why”. It has to do with the basic fundamentals of religion.

You will recall that the God of the Jews was a vengeful God who demanded sacrifice to soothe his brow. Those sacrifices were usually burnt offerings which were both provided by and offered by the High Priest for a “pretty penny” –– a real money-making scheme. The Jews thought of their God as residing in some ethereal place called heaven who would send a messiah to restore paradise right here on earth just for them. When Jesus appeared, they recognized him as that messiah but when they ask him when he was going to restore the Kingdom, Jesus told them the Kingdom of God was spread out all over the earth around them and they didn’t see it. Their consternation became really magnified when Jesus told them he first had to die, but before his death at his last supper, he instructed them to recreate his body and blood from bread and wine.

Those Bishops who formulated the Holy Roman Catholic Church in 325 AD, honoring their Jewish heritage, created a new ‘sacrificial religion’ known as Christianity. So, now we have the ‘sacrifice of the Mass’ — still attempting to appease an angry, vengeful God, and awaiting Jesus’ return so he might ‘restore the Kingdom’.

It seems quite clear to me that John recognized God in everyone of us. We, however, are blinded now and cannot see our glory, but when we die and see our reflection which is God, we will know and understand all just as our Father God — we are his children — his reflection. Obviously, John’s understanding is in total conflict with us making sacrificial offerings to ourselves. Both Catholic priests and Protestant ministers alike have nowhere to go with John’s philosophy except to negate the validity of their own existence — so, that reading gets routinely ignored.

Likely, there are many others, but I am aware of only four people who recognized God’s presence in all creation, Jesus, the Apostle John, Francis of Assie, and Meister Eckert, a German philosopher. It took me sixty years of intense study, reading and investigation before I stumbled on a course in Particle Physics which made it very clear to me that everything in this universe is made of identical perfect particles of energy which because of their basic characteristics, already exist in eternity but make the substrate for everything that has a temporal existence. Cumulatively, they form a ‘perfect rationality’ and a perfect ‘truth system’ outside of which there is no truth. That understanding not only allowed but demanded an essential definition of God as ‘A Perfect Rational Being’. When we die, our immortality will be exposed and we will see ourselves in that state of Perfect Rationality just as the One who created us — that will truly be ‘heaven’.

1 JOHN 3:2

Likely, there are many others, but I am aware of only four people who recognized God’s presence in all creation, Jesus, the Apostle John, Francis of Assie, and Meister Eckert, a German monk and philosopher. It took me sixty years of intense study, reading and investigation before I stumbled on a course in Particle Physics which made it very clear to me that everything in this universe is made of identical perfect particles of energy which because of their basic characteristics, already exist in eternity but make the substrate for everything that has a temporal existence. Cumulatively, they form a ‘perfect rationality’ and a perfect ‘truth system’ outside of which there is no truth. That understanding not only allowed but demanded an essential definition of God as ‘A Perfect Rational Being’. When we die, our immortality will be exposed, and we will see ourselves in that state of Perfect Rationality just as the One who created us — that will truly be ‘heaven’.

JESUS–THWARTED LIBERATOR OF THE ISRAELITES–HILARY L HUNT MD

It seems rather obvious to me that, when Jesus began his public ministry, he was already prepared to accept an ignominious death for his traitorous teachings. Otherwise, he would not have stayed on the periphery of Israeli society during his early endeavors. He knew he must educate his followers and fellow countrymen alike in sufficient numbers about his new concepts of God and God’s perfect love so that after his death they would be able and willing to spread the ‘good news’ despite resistance from the Jewish hierarchy. His plan entailed a vigorous education of his closest associates, the twelve apostles so that after his death they would be equipped with both the understanding and determination to continue his mission — converting the Israeli populous to an understanding that God is all Love rather than the oppressive vengeful God of the Jews who demanded sacrificial offerings as appeasement.

That ‘sacrificial religion’ of the Jews had become a money-making sham scheme for the hierarchy, while simultaneously, created a double whammy of oppression of the poor peasant populous — bilking them of their hard-earned money by virtue of having to pay the High Priest an exorbitant fee for his ‘perfect offerings’, plus oppression from the Roman Empire for whom they were forced to labor.

Likewise, it is clear to me that Jesus had a genius mind. He knew nothing about particle physics (Quantum Mechanics), but he did understand that the Spirit of God resides in every existence — otherwise, nothing could be. For me, that understanding is borne out by his last-ditch effort at enhancing their understanding by telling them at his last supper that the bread he held in his hands was the same as his body. The Gospel of Thomas relentlessly reinforces the idea that not only is the Spirit of God in Jesus’ person but also in everything in existence, and I accept that concept without reservation.

Three hundred years after Jesus’ death, so-called Christianity had spread to all the civilized world most of which was under control of the Roman Empire. There were 1800 Bishops in the Empire and each Bishop was the ultimate dictator in his domain of all things pertaining to Jesus and his teachings. The problem was that literally no two of them seemed to have identical understanding of Jesus, what he said and what he did. There was a great need for copies of the original writings about Jesus and those copies were made by people who were not always either capable or honest about their work. There was much squabbling between various jurisdictions. Consequently, those copies were frequently altered to suit the whims of the bishop. Other times, honest mistakes were made by the transcribers. The net result was (is), we have no way of knowing exactly what Jesus said and did.

What we do know is this; by the year 325 AD, productivity by the squabbling Christians was at a low ebb. Additionally, both the Roman army and treasury had become depleted by the expense of all the foreign wars they had been waging. The official religion of the Empire was called Mithraism which was accepted very well by the populous. However, Emperor Constantine reasoned it would be much wiser to make Christianity the official religion of the Empire rather than further deplete his army and treasury by attempting to coerce the Christians into productivity. Accordingly, he called a Council at Nicaea of the 1800 bishops. He offered to pay for all their travel and lodging expenses. Despite that, only a mere 300 or so attended — Constantine presided. The council lasted from May till August when a consensus was finally established. During the Council some twenty to thirty were excommunicated. The remainder chose to relent to the most vocal and numerous and the Holy Roman Catholic Church was formed and made the official religion of the Roman Empire.

As a direct ‘slap in the face’ of Jesus, they totally ignored his teaching of an ‘All-loving God’ and reverted right back to the sacrificial religion of the Jews which Jesus despised. Just as the King, the High Priest and Sanhedrin had done, they set themselves up in positions of power with Pope, Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops. The lowly priests and deacons did the ‘scut-work’. So, just as any house built on a rotten foundation, it began slowly crumbling. Seven hundred years later a big power split occurred with the Great Greek Schism, the final blow came a few hundred years later when Martin Luther and others has seen enough of the corruption and bolted the Roman Catholic Church — the Protestant Reformation began and continues incessantly.

The net result of all that activity is this; as of last accounting, there are currently over 45,000 so-called Christian religions and sects in the world — each claims authenticity and righteousness. The larger ones are continuously attempting to ‘steal’ the other’s constituents through the process of ‘missionary’ work — build the empire and power base at all costs. So, what we have today is 2.2 billion Christians in the world each of whom believes in a ‘mythical god’ just as the Egyptians and others did thousands of years ago —not one of them can tell you ‘Who God is’ — I can, and I did.

At this point, I will digress and apologize for being repetitious but, even though many, many of you have seen and heard this before, there are also many ‘new readers’ who have not. So, for their sake, I ask for your forbearance.

Through the process of understanding the fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics (particle physics), I was able to understand that there is a Perfect Rationality in this universe. That Perfect Rationality exhibits a Perfect Truth System outside of which ‘there is no truth’. That recognition and understanding mandated my mission and permission to define the essence of God— God is a Perfect Rational Being. ‘It should be noted again that no one can prove the existence of God — neither can anyone disprove it. However, observing this Perfect Rationality mandates me to accept the presence of God in all existences.

I am aware of no person nor religion who shares this similar understanding. So, for the benefit of new readers and as reinforcement of understanding among previous readers, I will describe a graphic of Trinity God: a perfect Rational Being, God the Father, with his Perfect Intellect reflects upon himself and sees a mirror image of himself. That mirror image, being in the supernatural, is a living being, God the Son. Two Perfect Identical Rational Beings perpetually viewing each other have no choice except to love, choose, will accept each other. That perpetual loving, choosing, willing, accepting each other carries the image of its generators and is The Holy Spirit, the Will of God, the third person of the Trinity — one Godhead, three identical Persons.

In the real world, God the Father’s reflection is registered in all the perfect particles of energy (quanta) which exist in eternity, but which form the substrate of all gravid existences which, themselves are temporal. And what does that mean? It means that those particles of energy which are the Son are Eternal but the gravid objects they make (protons and neutrons) are temporal and will one day (75 billion years hence is best estimate of our most noted scientists) return to the singularity of God from whence they emanated. Who knows how many trillions of times that cycle has repeated itself? Nobody but God himself.

You might ask just how does Jesus fit into that equation? And I would say nowhere except in the imagination and scheming of the Jewish Christians who were determined to have a Vengeful God who demanded sacrifice for appeasement. Those scheming Christians were the three hundred or so Bishops who formed the Holy Roman Catholic Church. They and their predecessors are the ones who dreamed up all the fairy tale stories and ideas about Jesus.

Jesus was a traitor to the Jewish religion. He knew from the beginning that he would be killed for his treason, but his zeal, compassion and love for his fellow man drove him to be my hero. As for his endeavor, he was, in fact, a total failure. He has been totally misrepresented to billions and billions of unsuspecting followers.

All of that means little — God, our Creator has Perfect Love for each of us — none more so than another. We can hurt each other, but we can’t hurt or please God — he is Perfect.

Many of you are aware that I have written extensively about this subject with near four hundred blog post and three books, Wilderness Cry, Peace in Spirituality, and Provocative Catholic. If your interest leads you there, you should read Wilderness Cry – a scientific and philosophical approach to understanding God and the universe, first. Then you will likely want to read the others. In addition I have written an historical and humorous little book, Growing Up In Fancy Farm Kentucky. all are available both paperback and digital from Amazon-Kindle and from me (handg@comcast.net).

THE MYTH OF ‘FREE WILL’– HILARY L HUNT MD

Have you ever wondered where the idea of ‘free will’ came from? I, like you were brainwashed into thinking there is such an ‘entity’, and for that reason didn’t question it until after years of study and research, I was able to do something never before done — define the essence of God — “God is a Perfect Rational being”. That startling definition of God’s essence ‘blew out of the water’ everything I had ever been taught about God and religion, including the erroneous concept of ‘free will’. In fact, I was forced to reconsider everything I had ever been taught about God, the Bible, religions in general, and specifically, Roman Catholicism. I discovered that Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament. So, we are forced to attribute the fairytale stories of creation, Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, and everything through the Book of Deuteronomy to his imagination and his ever-present overlording of the Israelites for purpose of control.

The most compelling of Moses’ control methods was his ability to convince the Israelites that he, and only he, could converse directly with God. God gave him the Ten Commandments which, of course, being human, they violated perpetually, and thereby generated a stockpile of God’s wrath — the framework and cornerstone of ‘sacrificial religion’ for appeasement of a vengeful God were laid. That religion would, in fact, eventually become the stimulus which incited the heroism of Jesus of Nazareth to attempt liberation of his brethren from that oppression by instructing them that God is ‘All Love’ and needs no appeasement. The moneygrubbing, power mongering Jewish hierarchy were not about to have their playhouse disrupted — they hung Jesus on a tree for that treason.

Three hundred years later, those who formulated the Holy Roman Catholic Church at the behest of Roman Emperor Constantine totally ignored Jesus’ teaching of an ‘all-loving’ God, but using the fame of his name created a Church patterned exactly after the sacrificial religion of the Jews and set themselves up in position of power and total control— the exact thing which Jesus despised and willingly died for.

So, with that backdrop, we see a Church that put God in Heaven, sitting on a throne with Jesus sitting at his side, overlording his kingdom from which he was totally separated. As time marched on and the Christian theology was gradually being developed, the great Dominican Friar, Thomas Aquinas formulated a philosophy which explained everything the Church needed for understanding. Aquinas recognized a rational person has an intellect and a will. His interpretation of their functions was designed to satisfy the Churches concept of how sin comes about. He reasoned that even though the intellect may think one thing the will was free to choose as it liked at its own discretion —that was his fatal mistake which has shackled the world with erroneous understanding ever since. I have explained this many times before but let’s do it again.

A very simple test will dispel forever the concept of ‘free will’ for you. Let’s use the example of a red-hot stove eye. We must assume two things — we have been burned before and know that it is very painful and to be avoided, and we must assume we are rational (not crazy — irrational). Now, it is our intellect which ‘knows these things’, not the will. So, if I tell you to lay your hand on that red-hot eye, you wouldn’t dare —that is your common-sense rational intellect which tells you ‘That would be a terrible choice and to be avoided’, not your will. The will must always do what the intellect decides is the better of two choices. In this case, quite obviously, the better choice is keeping your hand away.

Likewise, if you’re standing on the edge of a cliff, you have two choices, jump off or stay put. If you are rational, your intellect tells you to stay put and your will must obey. The will is simply the ‘executive’ arm of the intellect. Synonyms for ‘will’ are choose, love, accept. They represent the ‘driving force of the intellect. They are the Holy Spirit or Will of God in the Trinity — they are the perpetual willing, loving, choosing, accepting force between the Perfect Intellects of God the father and God the Son.

The truth of the matter is there is no such thing as’ free intellect’. Yes, we are free to think and analyze but whatever final choice we make must be what our intellect considers to be the better of the final two possible choices. That does not mean nor imply that another rational human might not make a different choice based on previous experiences — that is what makes each of us distinct individuals with no possibility of any two being alike. That is the foundation of Jesus’ teaching of love — Jesus readily saw that peace could never be achieved without love of each other. His teaching has been totally ignored and world strife is ever-present.

Thomas Aquinas was simply attempting to satisfy Catholic Church philosophy. He knew absolutely no science of any kind. That ignorance allowed him to proclaim male masturbation to be the most grievous sin that could be commit because all the babies were in the male semen and were being spilled to their deaths. Aquinas’ attitude is understandable because from Moses’ time till Thomas Aquinas, three thousand plus years, the Jewish and Western world existed in a strict ‘Patristic’ society. Women were little more than glorified slaves. So, there was no way that a woman could have been thought of more than just a simple ‘brood sow incubator’. The almighty male injected the babies into her, and she simply incubated them till birth — such was the ignorance that prevailed from Moses time until Vatican 2 Council.

I still hear the term ‘free will’ occasionally and it makes me cringe because I know that person lacks a proper understanding of rationality. We would be much better off if we replaced the term ‘will’ with ‘love’. We would better understand that we are free to love what our intellect tells us is good (better), and we are free to reject what our intellect tells us which is least desirable.

Most of you reading this already know from my previous discourses and from reading my books Wilderness cry and Provocative Catholic that I have addressed this concept before, but for the few who have not, I feel compelled to visit it again — the cornerstone of ignorance found in every religion with which I am familiar.

If each of us did not have a rational intellect with which to discern truth, we would be like identical robots, all with identical programming. However, since our individual intellects have been exposed to dramatically different stimuli, each has been formulated into dramatically different individuals which allows (causes) us to make decidedly different judgements about seemingly identical information. Just consider an election of any public official. The majority will always vote for the winner but for a multitude of different reasons — each person’s intellect dictates its choice of winner based on a variety of different considerations.

Jesus was brilliant. He could clearly see the blatant scamming of his brethren that was going on by the Jewish hierarchy and their sacrificial religion. He became so incensed that his ire finally drove him to make an onslaught onto the temple — while thrashing the moneychangers with a whip and overturning their tables, he called them a brood of vipers and a den of thieves and demanded them to leave his Father’s house. Jesus was so determined to liberate his countrymen from the guilt driven sacrificial religion of the Jews and supplant it with a no-religion understanding of God’s Perfect Love that his intellectual common sense became overwhelmed by momentary irrational anger which drove him to that final fatal act — it seems apparent that he knew it was going to happen anyway.

My firm belief and understanding are that at his last supper, knowing full-well that he had failed to completely indoctrinate his illiterate apostles to his way of thinking, he made one final attempt at gaining their understanding. He explained to them once again that he, they, and all of God’s creation were of one substance — God is in all, and all is in God— God is All Love and cannot possibly reject himself.

Jesus’ final instruction and advice went totally unheeded by those who formulated the Holy Roman Catholic Church some three hundred years later. As a direct slap in the face, they ignored Jesus’ teaching of an All-loving God and formed another sacrificial church of appeasement, the likes of which Jesus despised. They used their collective intellects to ‘spit in Jesus’ face’ all for their own personal power, control, and money (empire building).

—eternal strife prevails to this day and always will until The Worldwide Communion of Spirituality, which I called for several years ago, is heeded. That means that each of us must understand and accept that we, and every gravid object in this Perfect Universe, are made of identical Perfect Particles of Energy which collectively represent God. Each of us shares a commonality with the Perfect Will of God, The Holy Spirit, which is imbedded in each particle and keeps it Perfect. That understanding stems from the knowledge that there is a Perfect Truth System in this universe outside of which there is no truth, and that truth is exhibited by those Perfect Particles of Energy. That knowledge and understanding mandated me to define God as A Perfect Rational Being.

AS an addendum, a few years back, I came to the sudden realization that I had many, many questions but absolutely no one alive to answer them. That realization mandated me to write a brief history of my life in Fancy Farm, Kentucky. I believe you will find it both informative and humorous.

MYTHOLOGY AND IMAGINATION IN RELIGION — HILARY L HUNT MD

During the last seventy years, as I have studied history, philosophy, psychology, medicine and religion, I have experienced a gradual evolution of understanding concerning religion — more importantly, Christianity. It seems rather obvious that Jesus of Nazareth was the most notable figure the world has ever encountered. During his lifetime, his apostle, Peter, recognized him as the Christ or King. After his death, his followers continued and propagated that understanding — hence Christianity.

Much has been written and rewritten about Jesus — what he did, what he said, and what he meant. It is the “what he meant” that has been interpreted so many different ways — hence, we have 45,000 different so-called Christian religions, each proclaiming righteousness. Any rational person would be correct in asking why and how that can be.

My study and understanding of Jesus make the answer to that question quite simple — the very first official proclamation about who Jesus was, what he said, and what he meant was biased and overtly incorrect for a very specific reason. The people who formulated the Holy Roman Catholic Church were so ‘hell bent’ on perpetuating a ‘Jewish religion with a sacrificial twist’ to the new Christian religion that they completely ignored Jesus’ basic teaching of love. Not only that but they camouflaged Jesus’ teaching and intent which was to liberate his people from the oppressive, costly, sacrificial religion of the Jews with an understanding that God is ‘all love’ and has no ‘needs’, especially appeasement.

They were very careful in their propagated writings to hide the exact cause of Jesus’ execution for treason — they say only that the crowd was incited to yell “Crucify him. Crucify him”. The hierarchy wanted Jesus dead because they recognized his intent to educate the public to God’s ‘Love’ rather than God’s ‘Vengeance’ as was proposed by the Jewish religion. The High Priest, of course, were making a fortune off the peasants who were forced to purchase ‘perfect offering specimens’ from him, and, in addition, pay him an equally extortionate price to make the offering in their behalf. It was a money-making racket and Jesus perceived it as such. Therefore, the bible tells us Jesus drove the money changers from the temple with a whip and overturned their tables.

Now, fast forward 300 years. During that time Christianity had spread throughout the Roman empire and there were 1800 bishops, each with his own ‘twist’ of understanding about Jesus. They were noted to be constantly squabbling amongst themselves and, consequently, were not producing as desired for the Empire. Constantine, the Emperor at the time decided to solve the problem once and for all — make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. So, he called a general council of Bishops at Nicaea. Of the 1,800 Bishops in existence at the time, only 300 or so attended. They pow wowed for three to four months before reaching a consensus — the Holy Roman Catholic Church was formed — and the Jewish sacrificial religion was perpetuated. They set themselves up in positions of power and control with the Pope as official head and with Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops controlling selected parts of the world. Priests were the workhorses who attended to the day-to- day needs of each parish. That set-up ensured the upper brass lived in luxury, and all the while, Christian (Catholic) philosophy, theology, and liturgy were constantly evolving — a never-ending process.

Soon enough, overt abuses became apparent with bad popes and bishops using their power for evil purposes. Eventually, the power struggle between Rome and the Eastern Church became so strong as to prompt the Great Schism in 1062 or thereabouts. Then, the Medieval Church again became so corrupted as to prompt Martin Luther and others to bolt the Catholic Church, and the Protestant reformation began — it continues incessantly to this day with, with more and more sects and churches appearing annually — and why?

The answer to that question seems very apparent to me — power, control, and money generated basically by the mythological and imaginary wishful thinking of those in control. The Jewish religion fostered an idea that Adam’s long-suffering progeny had been promised a Messiah who would restore paradise just for the Just. The rest would be cast into torturous oblivion forever. This past Sunday, at Catholic mass service, the first reading in the Dioceses of Owensboro was from Daniel where he describes a time when Michael, a great prince shall arise and all the good shall live in eternal happiness including many who shall arise from their tombs whilst, simultaneously, all other shall be in everlasting horror and disgrace (paraphrased). Then, the second reading from Paul suggest that Priests offer daily sacrifices of appeasement, but Jesus offered himself as the ultimate sacrifice for or sins and now ‘sits at the right hand of God’ (paraphrased). Then, the gospel reading taken from Mark depicts Jesus describing the ‘last days’ and saying no one knows when they will happen but the Father, not even the Son. But all will happen before the current generation (forty years) passes. (paraphrased).

Now, lets dissect those readings and compare them with our current Catholic, Christian teachings and beliefs. The last sentence of the Nicene Creed which summarizes Catholic belief, says, –“I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and life of the world to come” — a direct holdover from the Jewish sacrificial, imaginary, mythical religion. Then, concerning Christianity’s propagation of Paul’s suggestion that Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins — nowhere in the bible does Jesus say he came to die for our sins. My understand is that philosophy was gradually developed or several hundred years, but there again, is based on someone’s imagination, and not on anything Jesus said. Now, concerning Marks description of Jesus describing the last days, it seems apparent that whoever wrote that did not comprehend what John had to say and what our Nicene creed has to say, “God from God, Light from Light, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made”. Now, if that is true, it would be impossible for Jesus not to know everything just as the Father does. But all that demonstrates the miniscule, imaginary, mythological thinking at the time and has absolutely nothing to do with reality. Consider this, there are no seats or places in heaven as the ancients are continually imagining. Heaven and eternity are a ‘state of being’ where no change is possible. It has no places, no seats, no amphitheaters. It is a state of spiritual being of oneness in God not oneness with God — God is in us, and we are in God.

It is this total lack of understanding which has created the religious morass we see today. Will it ever cease or change? I believe will in time but not for the better. More and more, people are becoming disenchanted with religion. Each person has his own reasons but if asked to explain them, he might find that difficult — he just has a gut feeling of religion’s uselessness.

All that is sad because the world could understand that if there is a God, it loves us each equally because each of us, as is everything in existence, is enveloped in that God — God is in all, and all is in God. With that understanding, we would be justified in gathering as one singing incantations of love, praise and thanksgiving to our God for our existence, our sustenance, and our eternity in him forever.

Everything in existence is composed of identically the same perfect particles of energy which are maintained in their perfection by the Spirit, Will of God. With that understanding, I again call on the world to understand and recognize The Worldwide Communion of Spirituality which means that we and everything inexistence are bonded by the same spiritual commonality in God.

That philosophy is developed and described in detail in my little book Wilderness Cry – A Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe. There I do something never before done — I define the essence of God. That definition has unbelievable implications which are explored and analyzed in detail in its two sequels, Peace in Spirituality and Provocative Catholic. In addition, I have written a semibiographical, semi historical little book, Growing up in infancy Farm Kentucky. I believe you will find it informative, entertaining and humorous. All are available from Amazon-Kindle both hardcopy and digital. and from me, autographed – handg@comcast.net. If you purchase online and would like it autographed, I would be happy to do so free.

HELP — HILARY L HUNT MD

We all know what help is — it is an assist of one kind or another. Of course, it comes in ‘all shades of gray’ from overt to occult, from miniscule to maximal, from intended to accidental or incidental, from desired to rejected, etc.

When we interject God into the equation of ‘help’ as the ancient Greeks did, we create a new dimension beyond our control or insight. They are given credit for coining the phrase, ‘God helps them who help themselves’. The obvious implication of such a saying is that one must help himself first before God will ‘assist’.

When I was a child, my mother often repeated the adage that ‘heaven helps them who help themselves’ — a rather obvious reference to the Greek saying. That entire idea centered on the fact that, if one wanted something done, he must apply himself to the task before any assistance from God could be expected. That was a stern admonition to me and my siblings that we were responsible for our success or failure — work hard and God will assist and therefore, success is likely — be lazy and non-applying, God will ignore you, and failure will likely be guaranteed.

So, I learned at a very tender age of five or six that God would not put our seeds in the ground, cultivate the soil to assist their growth, or remove the weeds from our crops — if we did those things dutifully, then God would assist with warm sunshine and rainfall and a successful crop might be expected. Notice, I said ‘might’ be expected — nothing was guaranteed, but experience had shown success to be the norm. The bottom line was ‘hard work, and dedicated persistence’ was the best way of assuring God’s assistance —a lesson I never forgot.

I didn’t know how God’s assistance worked except I could see that most of the time, God provided the essentials of nature which, combined with my hard work, led to success. There were times however, when God did not provide the essentials for healthy plant growth — usually manifested by either too much or too little rainfall. Those were the times when we, as a devout Catholic community, came together in prayer begging God to assist us with proper amounts of heavenly water.

Way too often, to our chagrin, nothing changed, and our crops continued unabated in their torment — I was dismayed. Seeing my mother and father struggle so hard to provide a living for their six boys, and then seeing God not answer our pleading for help was extremely stressful for me. I was twelve years old and good friends with our parish priest. His answer to my question of ‘why wouldn’t God help’ sent my head spinning. He said,” It’s God’s will”.

That statement tore into shreds my mother’s adage of ‘heaven helps those who help themselves’. The obvious question for my maturing, inquisitive mind was, why? Why were we doing all that praying if God would not listen? I had no clue, but one thing was for certain, I would find out.

The first difficulty I encountered was attempting to understand who God really was. I learned in my history lessons that the ancient Greeks and Romans recognized a God for nearly every niche and cranny of human consideration. They relied on those Gods to bring success to whatever endeavor they chose.

Then, I learned that the Israelites discovered there is only ‘one true God’, and all the others are pagan myths. The latter info came by way of Bible studies and Catholic Catechism classes. All of that seemed well and good but still did not solve my dilemma about why God seldom answered our prayers when we most needed him.

As I grew and studied more, I made a very startling discovery — everyone talked about God as though he was their ‘next door neighbor’ but no one could tell me exactly who God is. In fact, I discovered that absolutely no one had ever been able to decipher the God about whom he spoke. Additionally, no one could prove that a God actually existed.

Out of seemingly nowhere, along came Jesus of Nazareth injecting a dramatic new piece into the puzzle of God. I discovered through research of biblical writings that for centuries the Israelites had been expecting a messiah who would restore Paradise just for them. When Jesus began his public ministry, the Jews were being severely oppressed by both their own government with its money-making machine of sacrificial religion, and the Roman Empire under whose ultimate control they existed and for whom they toiled — with that understanding the plot thickened for me.

I am as certain as I am sitting in my chair right this moment that Jesus has been totally misrepresented. I believe without doubt that Jesus’ representation as God’s only Son who was sent by God to die as the ‘perfect sacrifice’ for forgiveness of our sins is a fabrication of untruth intended to perpetuate the total control over human lives as was the custom of the Jewish hierarchy.

Whereas the Jewish religion offered Perfect Bloody Sacrifices of animals for appeasement of their angry God, the new ‘Jesus-religion’, Christianity, would offer a ‘Perfect Unbloody’ sacrifice to that same God in the form of a ‘recreated’ Jesus. Of course, true to form, that recreation and offering could only be done by the ‘priest’. Consequently, the Holy Roman Catholic Church was formed at the urging of Roman Emperor Constantine in 325AD. Things went well until the death of Constantine’s son who succeeded him.

Later Emperors were not as friendly to Christianity as Constantine. There was a rather constant haggling over unsolved religious concepts as various theologians and bishops struggled to define exactly what ‘Christianity represented’ and how it was to be practiced and considered. Many of those were driven and engendered by ascetics such as Augustine and Jerome whose philosophy was so restrictive as to propose that humans should deny their sexual identity — sex became the ‘whipping boy’ of Christian society and persisted as such until recent years. Of course, as might be expected, the proponents of sexual dampening became its greatest abusers.

Eventually, because of differences in concepts about the Holy Ghost as well as power struggles between the Roman Church and the Eastern Church, The Great Greek Schism occurred in 1065 or thereabouts — the cat was out of the bag. I am not as familiar with the continuing history of the Eastern Church as with the Roman, but it is quite obvious that differences of one kind or another existed there also because of the number of Eastern Orthodox Churches that sprang into existence.

Meanwhile, in the Roman Church, there were periods of relative tranquility. However, because the papacy was not only a religious headquarters, but was also an extremely important and powerful political position, prominent powerful families dominated the papal seat, frequently resulting in the many and frequent atrocious abuses. As time progressed, many Christians had seen enough, and the inevitable breakaway of the Protestant Reformation began.

That breakaway set the stage for what we see today — over 44,000 so-called Christian sects, branches and denominations, each claiming superiority of spirituality. Not only those divisions in Christianity, but, just as importantly, the constant tension between the western Christian world, the mid-east Muslim world, and the far-east Buddhist and Hindu worlds generated continual wars and threats thereof.

All that division and hostility has been, and continues to be, generated by one simple cause — not one of them could then, nor can now, define the essence of its God which led directly to the absolute misunderstanding, presentation, and projection of Jesus of Nazareth. Everything from the first word Moses wrote to this very moment has been and continues to be pure mythology —they always have been, and still are, worshiping a ‘mythical god’.

So, When I came to that stark realization, I was ‘forced internally’ to solve and resolve the problem — if there is a God, its essence must be defined — we must know who God is. My encounter with Quantum Mechanics enabled me to understand who that God must be. I understood from that encounter that there is a perfect rationality in this universe which generates and maintains a perfect truth system outside of which there is no truth. Immediately, I knew who God is. God is a Perfect Rational Being. The implications of that definition are staggering — many, many of them are examined and explored in my two sequel books to Wilderness Cry, Peace In Spirituality and Provocative Catholic.

Additionally, that definition of God immediately explained graphically the Trinity as here described. A perfect Intellect reflecting upon itself sees a mirror image of itself, which is the universe and everything in it, The Son. Father and Son viewing each other perpetually and eternally have no choice except to accept, love, choose, will each other—the Holy Spirit or Will of God.

That realization instantly created a major question — what about Jesus? As I backtracked and studied the New Testament more vigorously, it became suddenly obvious that nowhere does it say why the Jews wanted Jesus dead — the bible we have is very careful to hide that fact. Also. I discovered that nowhere does Jesus say he came to die for our sins — my understanding is it took several centuries for the Church to completely develop that philosophy. What I did observe was Jesus saying he would give us two commandments: Love your God with your all and love (accept) your neighbor as yourself. (paraphrased). Then I chanced upon The Gospel of Thomas which was rejected by the Church Fathers as canonical for obvious reasons — it painted an entirely different picture and understanding of Jesus. In it Jesus kept explaining over and over, using different examples, that he, they, and everything in this universe are one in God —we are in God and God is in us. That’s what he told them one last time at his ‘last supper’ — the bread and wine they were eating and drinking were one in him, and them, and God. He advised them to always remember and reflect upon that truth each time they supped.

With that understanding, it rapidly became obvious that Jesus’ purpose was to eliminate the oppressive, illegitimate religion of the Jews and replace (supplant) it with an understanding that God is all love — he needs no appeasement— he needs nothing — he loves (accepts) all without strings. Therefore, our only justifiable prayer is thanksgiving to God for our existence in him.

Jesus plan for supplanting the Jewish religion was to remain in the outlying areas away from the authorities while he indoctrinated his apostle and acolytes so they might continue to spread his doctrine long after his death — Jesus knew he would eventually be crucified as a traitor.

Quite obviously, Jesus’ efforts were totally fruitless. Villains and scallywags, using his name but distorting his teachings to suit themselves, formulated a Church patterned exactly after the oppressive sacrificial religion of the Jews which Jesus despised — a house built on a false foundation will inevitably crumble. And crumble it did— the grains of meal continue to fall from the loaf which was rotten from the beginning.

So, where does “heaven helps them who help themselves” come into the picture? Knowing who God is makes that answer simple. God has created for us a perfect universe in which to function. All we need to do is apply it by helping ourselves. If we grow food, we utilize the conditions available to us for growing crops suitable to our climate. If we work at a ‘public’ job of any kind, we are helping ourselves by earning money with which to buy food and other necessities and luxuries of life while simultaneously producing equipment, supplies and technology used by others in their endeavors. It should be obvious that all who are capable must apply themselves to a task or possibly multiple tasks so that all may benefit — God has given us a ‘perfect system in which to operate’ and make our efforts productive. That alone is the sum of God’s interest.

Those who beg God to do this or that and those who expect God to perform miracles just for them have been terribly misguided, but they are not to blame — we all have been brainwashed into believing such nonsense — such are the fruits of irrational religion. Religion benefits only those who perpetrate and perpetuate it. Religion is the biggest money-making, empire building, scheme the world has ever known and it is, equally, the most destructive force the world has ever known.

So, if there were a utopia in this life, which there is not, it would be a world where every capable individual diligently applied himself to a task so that collectively, we all might share in the necessities and luxuries of life. That would be Communism. But there is no utopia. Consequently, brave men with great minds and determination have designed the best system of government yet discovered — Democratic Capitalism. While not perfect, it has proven to be the best yet. It only works because it attempts to control to some degree the God ordained, built-in quality of greed which every living entity possesses and exhibits.

As I have noted many, many times before, I have published three books on this subject. I strongly urge you to read Wilderness Cry. Likely then, you will want to read Peace in Spirituality and Provocative Catholic. For a little historical and autobiographical humor, you might like Growing Up In Fancy Farm Kentucky. All available Amazon-Kindle, and from me— handg@comcast.net

EXPLANATION — HILARY L HUNT M.D.

Historically, homo sapiens have always sensed a need to explain various environs and events in their lives. That, of course, is logical since they are rational beings. In ancient times and up until about five hundred years ago their only universe was the earth, which was flat, the sun which rose and set regularly, the moon which changed shapes and positions routinely, an occasional comet, shooting stars, and the Milky Way about which they had no comprehension.

Attempting to explain our beginning and the beginning of the universe, Moses, who is credited with writing the first five books of the Old Testament, concocted a ‘creation story’ which from a scientific standpoint is pure mythology, but which has been accepted by millions and millions as ‘Gospel Truth’. For the uninitiated, his story seems like a very plausible explanation of events surrounding the beginning of time.

Moses explanation of creation involved only one true God whereas, all other peoples recognized gods and goddesses of every shape and description — each with a specific purview. For centuries before and after Moses, those gods and goddesses were given credit for regulating literally every aspect of human as well as vegetative existence.

Moses’ recognition of one God set the Israelites apart from the rest of humanity, and rather instantly created hostilities between them and their ‘pagan’ neighbors.

We know the rest of the story from the Old and New Testaments. The earth remained flat supported on five crocked, wobbly legs, and always in danger of toppling into the netherworld below. Hence the prohibition during the Inquisition of having sex on any elevated structure — the vibrations from such activity might cause the unstable legs to give was and sink the earth into the netherworld. The penalty for such a breech was burning at the stake. That prohibition was not lifted until three years after Vasco da Gama sailed to India and back proving the earth to be round.

A little over one hundred years later Galileo discovered the sun to be the center of our little universe instead of the earth, which belief had been mandated by the Inquisition, with burning at the stake as the penalty for non-believers. Galileo’s explanation was immediately rejected and he, himself, barely escaped execution by fire for publishing his discovery — he was forced to recant his findings and spent the last nine years of his life under house arrest— religion had become the most powerful force on earth — the earth’s policeman — little has changed.

Religion and ideologies such as communism, which is anti-religion, are continually threatening each other with wars while attempting to dominate the world scene. Each is perpetually attempting to explain the nature of existence with either a mythical god or with the denial of a god’s existence at all.

The basic cause for all this division is one simple fact — everyone’s god is different — no one knows who God is. They all talk about god or the lack thereof as though they know for sure but not one except Jesus of Nazareth has ever known to this day except for me. Francis of Assisi and Meister Ekert, a German Monk recognized the presence of God in everything, but both failed an attempt to define God’s essence. Egotistical of me you say? If you think so, I dare you to define the essence of God, or to find anyone else in history who has done so irrefutably as I have. Jesus recognized God’s Perfect Love but even he did not understand how and why it was so — he had no benefit of science for help.

We have little knowledge of the exact words Jesus used to describe God, but the bottom line is this; Jesus recognized God as perfect love. And what is ‘perfect love’? It is the acceptance of all his creation without exception. Jesus was brilliant — to be able to arrive at that conclusion with no scientific support is truly amazing. Jesus intuitively understood that nothing could be in existence without God ‘living’ within it. He knew nothing of particle physics which tells us that everything in this universe is made of identical perfect particles of energy which because of their unchanging and unchangeable perfect size, shape, identity, behavior, and function always have and always will exist in Eternity — they not only represent God, but they are also a mirror image of God — they are the second person of the Trinity. The Perfect Love relationship between God and his Living Reflection is the Holy Spirit or the Will of God — the existence-giving principle of everything. That, my friends, is a clear, concise definition of The Trinity. By God’s very nature, he can exist only in Trinity form.

Jesus perceived that concept and boldly said so in the disguised writing of those who either did not understand or did not want to accept the demise of the Jewish religion. Jesus knew what his fate would be but his zeal for the truth drove him onward. His hope and plan was to replace the lucrative Jewish Sacrificial religion with a’ ‘common understanding of praise and thanksgiving’ to God for our existence and support — the meaning of ‘eucharist’ is ‘thanksgiving’.

However, the long-suffering Jews, who expected a messiah to restore the fairytale Paradise created by Moses, were not about to turn loose of that idea and the lucrative sacrificial religion attached to it. So, in due time, 325 AD, they formed the Holy Roman Catholic Church which was patterned exactly after the Jewish sacrificial religion. However, the new religion utilized the recreated body and blood of Jesus as an ‘unbloody’ sacrifice rather than continue the Jewish custom of ‘bloody sacrifice’ of animals. That recreation of Jesus is performed by the priest during the ritual of the Catholic Mass. That religion was established as the official Religion of the Roman Empire and remained so throughout the lives of Emperor Constatine and his son who followed his reign.

With the loss of Empire support, abuses galore began to appear and they persist to this day. Because of disagreements and dislikes of Roman Catholicism authoritarianism and dominance, the Eastern Church split from the Roman Church in the eleventh century. Several centuries later the fragmentation of the Roman Church skyrocketed with the Protestant Reformation. That fragmentation has escalated into near logarithmic proportions until, at the last accounting, there are over 45,000 so-called Christian religions and sects in existence — that number continues to climb at a rapid pace.

So, back to my statement about God’s essence. Nothing in existence has meaning without an essential definition, God included. When I became aware that God’s essence had never been defined, I determined at a rather young age to do so myself. I am not only unashamed but rather, very happy that finally, after years of persistent study, analysis, and considerations of all sorts, I was able to do so.

So, here’s my answer to your claim of my egotism. Having an awareness that everything in this universe is composed of perfect particles of energy, having an awareness that there exists a ‘perfect truth system’ outside of which there is no truth in this universe, and being aware that all truth is contained in those perfect particles and their behavior compelled me to recognize that there is a Perfect Rationality in this universe. So, no one can prove there is a God. Neither can anyone prove there is not God. However, I believe the perfection exhibited in this universe lends more credence to the existence of God than not. Therefore, I am justified and mandated to proclaim an irrefutable definition of the essence of our God.

God is a Perfect Rational Being.

In all humility, I feel so blessed be able to proclaim and explain that God to you. It has been eight years since I first published my little book, WILDERNESS CRY – A Scientific And Philosophical Approach to Understanding God And The Universe. In that little treatise, I state clearly that I welcome all meaningful dialogue and/or rebuttal. To date, not one person has attempted rebuttal. However, there have been many requests for clarification and better understanding of the basics of Quantum Mechanics (particle physics) — I have graciously and eagerly obliged all. I am always eager to explain and discuss the many important concepts related to the understanding of God’s Perfect rationality, and its many, many ramifications and implications.

I know for certain that all religions which are based on concepts of the Mosaic God are illegitimate because all are worshiping a mythical god created by Moses. Not one religion or person except Jesus has come forth with an acceptable definition of God’s essence. Jesus’ definition of God as all Love was bitterly rejected by the Jewish hierarchy because it would have destroyed their power base — he had to be quieted before his teaching caught on among the public. Accordingly, he was sentenced to crucifixion which was the penalty for treason.

Jesus is my hero.

Since publishing WILDERNESS CRY, I have published two additional books, PEACE IN SPIRITUALITY, and PROVOCATIVE CATHOLIC. Those books explain the many automatic ramifications stemming from God’s Perfect Rationality. I believe, without any doubt, that they are a must read for your happiness. Their understanding will enable your spirit to relax and begin to bask in the warm glow of God’s never-ending Love. I strongly encourage you to engage them. All are available both e-book and paperback from Amazon-Kindle. Additionally, I have published a semi-historical, semi-autobiographical account of the first twenty-two years of my life, Growing Up In Fancy Farm Kentucky. I think you will find it rather educational, entertaining, and humorous. It is also available from Amazon-Kindle. Additionally, each of my books is available autographed directly from me – handg@comcast.net.

FEAR OF GOD — HILARY L HUNT M. D.

This component of human, as well as all animal emotion in general, is one of the most dominant factors driving the actions and reactions of our everyday lives. As with most emotions, fear can be driven and generated by both rational and irrational circumstances — what one person considers as a fearful situation, another person may consider to be ordinary and non-fearful. For instance, some people find driving an automobile in heavy traffic to be an everyday, ordinary experience while others cannot help being terrified by the same circumstance.

Rationality demands us to be respectful of the possibility of accident and injury but simultaneously, allows us to function without fear and dread. Contrarily, irrationality presents itself in people who cannot help being terrified by such circumstances — they are constantly acting and reacting in a frightful manner which is demonstrated by sudden stiffening of their bodies as though braking, grabbing for something to hold on to, making sudden dodging movements, and making various sudden, seemingly unprovoked, exclamations of fear.

So, why is one person able to negotiate such circumstances with no visible actions or reactions of fear while another person cannot? — very simply, it has to do with the basics of personality development. And you may inquire about what personality development has to do with it and I would say ‘everything’. Simply stated, every living creature acts and reacts to every stimulus applied to it and, generally speaking, that action and reaction is based on a storehouse of actions and reactions to similar stimuli previously encountered. For instance, just to use a common example, every rational person knows to not touch a red-hot object with a bare hand. Contrarily, an irrational person such as a baby or an insane adult would not know to avoid such a hot object and would get burned, Likely, none of us remembers the first time we touched a hot object but regardless, that first time was stored in our subconscious so that from that first time on, we know to avoid such objects — we have a ‘rational fear’ — an irrational person might do so repeatedly.

That simple example is about the shortest lesson I can give for ‘personality development’. One person has no fear, just ‘healthy respect’, for driving in heavy traffic because of a list of previous healthy driving experiences (parents, school bus drivers, etc.) and therefore, has mostly healthy experiences stored in subconscious, while another may have been emotionally traumatized at an early age by reckless drivers, accidents, etc. and therefore, cannot help but act and react ‘defensively’ to those identical circumstances.

So then, how does ‘fear of God’ enter the picture? As one peruses the Old Testament, it seems clear that every age or period features someone having a special, superior relationship with God. Simultaneously, God seemed always to have a subtle way of punishing wrongdoers. And who wrote those first five books of the bible where an imaginary mythical god created everything in six days? Biblical authorities have attributed those writings to Moses. Remember, he was a murderer who managed to gain control of the enslaved Israelites. He is the one who supposedly wrote the Adam and Eve story, the Sodom and Gomorrah tale, Noah’s Arc and the great flood, the enslavement of the Israelites by the Egyptians, and finally, the escape into the Promised Land tales. Now consider this, since Moses wrote them all and he lived only through the last hundred years or so of their four-hundred-year enslavement, where did he get his information? Remarkably also, there is no picture of ‘fear of god’ painted by Moses in any of those stories, just last-minute terror, until the Israelites became stranded in the desert and began worshiping idols. That particular episode marked the beginning of the end of straight forward rational thinking which was based on everyday experiences and ‘common sense’ and was supplanted by a fear-driven rationality which has persisted until today —fear of God.

Prior to that time, each of Moses’ stories features one or a few of god’s chosen benevolent who found favor with him and who were spared the ‘total wipeout’ of the remaining civilization involved. Those few ‘torchbearers’ carried on the good-god’s plans until the next chapter of god’s wipe-out occurs. Then we come to the desert — Moses loses control.

Moses obviously was a smart, cunning guy. He painted a picture of being raised secretly by the Pharaoh’s wife, escaping punishment for murder, gaining control of the Israelites, bargaining with the Pharaoh, performing miracles in god’s name, escaping by the parting of waters of Red Sea, striking a rock in the desert for the miraculous flow of water, and the miraculous appearance of manna and quail for food. Then he ran into unmanageable trouble — a clientele of followers who would not obey him.

Of course, Moses had already demonstrated many times how he could influence god to do miracles for them at his behest — he was the only one who could talk to god and bargain with him. So, his followers knew and respected that — not so much Moses himself, just the circumstance. In fact, they complained to him and basically rebelled against his authority — they thought Moses had led them into a death trap.

The Bible says Moses went up on a mountain and god gave him the Ten Commandments. The Israelites laughed at Moses and his commandments and continued their debauching activities. That angered Moses. So, he threw those stone tablets down, breaking them, and proceeded back to the mountain where supposedly, god gave him a new set. This time, Moses presents them as god’s rules with the admonition that any violators will be punished by god, himself— official sin was created and fear of god was instituted.

As a side-note, anyone who has read that portion of the Bible will note that the listed commandments and their extrapolations when chiseled out of stone would stretch at least a mile, would require at least a one-hundred-foot square stone block for writing, and would require an ordinary skilled chiseler at least a year or two to accomplish. Furthermore, it is likely that the ‘Twenty-Mule-Team Borax’ wagon could not carry one of them. However, Moses is depicted as doing it all in one day or so and bringing them down the mountain and presenting them to his brethren by himself— one monstrous giant of a man, or rather one giant myth — obviously, Moses had one monstrous imagination and one notorious scorn for the intelligence of his fellow man. It seems very likely that he never dreamed of 2024 — or maybe he did — he’s still being quoted authoritatively.

It seems obvious then that Moses is responsible for producing ‘fear of god’ in people. As time progressed, the Israelites reasoned that their angry god must be appeased so he would love them again and would make them prosperous — sacrificial religion began. It persists today in the Catholic Churches and their near mimickers worldwide. The Catholic mass is correctly titled ‘the sacrifice of the mass’. In that ritual, the presiding official is believed to convert bread and wine into the real body and blood of Jesus which is then offered to God the Father as an unbloody sacrificial offering of appeasement.

The Israelite High Priest made burnt offerings of prefect animal specimens to god as an appeasement. Those bishops who formed the first Holy Roman Catholic Church at the behest of Emperor Constantine in the year 325 AD totally ignored Jesus’ teaching of an All-loving God and reverted directly back to the Jewish concept of a vengeful god who needs constant appeasement. It seems ironic to me that a fairytale religion could persist and develop into such a worldwide movement — but it shouldn’t — it instills fear — no rational person wants to be hurt, especially by god.

But there’s a catch. Religion has increasingly become less and less relevant in people’s lives — churchgoers are diminishing by the millions annually. That fact seems to have prompted an abrupt about-face by Pope Francis. He stated that there is no such place as ‘hell’ — it is a contrivance created to instill ’fear’ in people for purposes of control over them. Additionally, he has done an about-face regarding marriage, premarital sex, birth control, and abortion. Whereas, before Francis and Vatican 2, those were among the gravest sins, now Pope Francis is personally blessing and giving Holy Communion to two of the staunchest supporters of abortion and birth control, President Biden and former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Additionally, it seems that very few couples get married any more without first living together for a few years as Francis recommended.

It seems this ‘sudden change’ in attitude by the Church is aimed at stemming the exodus of churchgoers — to hell with morality.

I am nearly ninety-one years old and have lived through a hellhole of austere, controlling, and fear-instilling sacrificial religion begun by Moses and his progeny. What we have today is a mockery. Better said, it is an expose of the self-serving, power mongering, moneygrubbing, controlling, and more importantly, fear instilling religion which has existed in one form or another since Moses and his Ten Commandments were written.

The Ten Commandments are, in fact, a great set of civil rules — respecting God and our fellow man. We sin against each other, not against God. We hurt each other with our sin. My irrefutable definition of the essence of God as a Perfect Rational Being precludes any possibility of God being hurt, pleased, displeased or changed in any way. Any change in God would involve a time factor — God exists in eternity, a state of being where there is no time. Additionally, God’s Perfect Nature precluded any possibility of alteration — any alteration would destroy God’s Perfection.

So, what’s the bottom line? Simply stated, for twenty-four hundred years or so humans have been shackled with the concept of a vengeful god who would condemn them to the burning fire of hell forever for any major breach of his commandments — what rational person would not be afraid?

Consider this; all animal life is instilled with two major drives, nutrition and reproduction. If we accept the concept of a God, then we must acknowledge that God, in his wisdom, made it to be that way so all animals would have opportunity to live and reproduce. I am firmly convinced that God cares naught about what we eat or drink — he just gave us the drive and rationality to procure food and water. Likewise, I am convinced God has no concern about how or with whom we reproduce — he just gave us the drive and the tools with which to do so.

It seems clear to me that, beginning with Moses, humanity has been impaled with fear by restrictions on sexual activity with warnings that any deviation from the commandments and their extrapolations justifies eternity in hell. Telling people to avoid sex is tantamount to putting a big juicy steak in front of a starving dog and then whacking him across the nose with a big stick each time he makes a move to eat it.

Ever since Moses’ time, but more especially since the first Council at Nicaea, sex has been used as a controlling tool by organized religion. Of course, normal humans are driven to violate the ‘sex’ commandments and therefore, have been perpetually threatened by fear of a vengeful god and hell. That state of affairs became so bad as to prompt Taylor, in his thorough book, Sex In History, to describe Medieval Europe as “a giant cesspool of psychosis” which was caused by a constant guilt-generated anxiety and fear of hell.

Now consider this; the Catholic Church lists seven Capital Sins, meaning they are the worst that can be commit and a violation of any of them libels one to an eternity in the ‘deepest fires of hell — a real fear generator for sure. Those sins are Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, and Sloth. Ironically, I am ninety years old and during my entire lifetime I have never heard a homily delivered by any priest or bishop about any one of them except Lust. Sex is the only tool the church has ever needed to control people, However, ‘that old dog won’t hunt any more’.

People are finding such sexual restrictions to be irrational and consequently, are ignoring them and dropping out of religion.

The ‘about face’ by Pope Francis concerning sexual matters is an enigma for some, a frustration for others, and an anger generator for still others. We will likely never know what his true motives are, but it seems certain that they are intended to slow the departure of young and old from the Church. Personally, I think he is one hundred percent correct and his suggestions should have been in effect since day one. Marriage and divorce are civil matters of the state for the purposes of establishing property rights, taxes, etc., not morality.

I believe without doubt that Jesus understood that God is all-loving and all-accepting. He also understood that all things are in God and God is in all things. He had been attempting to educate his apostle of that fact for three years. At his last supper with them, he was attempting one last time to tell them that God was in all things; the bread they were eating and his body were the same thing — all are God, including them.

. We will never know exactly what Jesus said or what was written by whom, but it seems clear to me that the Jews wanted Jesus dead because he was a traitor to their religion. For centuries the Jewish hierarchy had made a fortune through their sacrificial religion and Jesus despised it. His purpose was to supplant the Jewish sacrificial religion with an understanding that God is all love. He knew his fate would be crucifixion, but he had hoped his apostles would promulgate that understanding among the Jewish people and, thereby replace the Jewish sacrificial religion — it is obvious that Jesus was a total failure.

We really do not and cannot know what his apostles attempted to do but whatever they did resulted in a final ‘slap in the face of Jesus’ with their descendants reverting to a sacrificial religion by forming The Holy Roman Catholic Church in 325 A D — they used his name but ignored his teaching. The only writing I can find that shows the ‘real Jesus’ and his teachings about God is the Gospel of Thomas. That Gospel was rejected by the Council of Bishops at Nicaea for obvious reasons — it would nullify their presentation of a vengeful god demanding sacrificial appeasement.

For those of you who have not read my books Wilderness Cry, Peace in Spirituality, and Provocative Catholic, I believe you would do yourselves well by their reading. My philosophy is explained in detail in both sound scientific and philosophic terms. Those of you who have read them would do well to re-read them for better understanding and contentment. The bottom line is this; God loves you all the time. There is nothing you can do to hurt or please God — you cannot change God’s Perfect Mind under any circumstance. Our only justifiable prayer is a great big ‘Thank you God for my life, my sustenance and your Eternal Love’.

As president Roosevelt once said during the Second World War, “We have nothing to fear except fear itself”. He, of course, was referring to our conviction, determination, and ability to defeat our self-imposed enemies.

I am always available for discussion of any part of my philosophy. In addition, if you would like to know more about my upbringing, I believe you would enjoy Growing Up In Fancy Farm Kentucky.

All my books are available Amazon-Kindle and, autographed, from me – handg@comcast.net

PLAGUE REVISITED–HILARY L HUNT MD

PLAGUE-This word is derived from the Greek word plaga which means strike and the Latin word plaga which means stroke or wound. In everyday usage it carries the implication of some disease or condition which annoys, aggravates or impedes us as individuals, family groups, communities, cities, or nations.

For instance, we may hear someone say that she has been ‘plagued’ by migraine headaches all her life. Or we may observe that a family seems to be plagued by chronic poverty. On a larger scale, a community may have been ‘plagued for years’ by a very poor water supply. In modern times it seems that certain cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and others in the US are ‘plagued’ by homelessness and filth—Chicago is ‘plagued’ with gun violence.

In the fourteenth century a disease caused by a rat borne bacterium known simply as the ‘Plague” wiped out millions of people in Europe, Middle East and North Africa. The ‘great potato famine’ in the mid 1800’s killed nearly half the population of Ireland—they simply starved to death. The Plague of 541 killed 10,000/day in Constantinople—it was caused by the same rat-borne organism as the Back Death in Europe centuries later. The Old Testament speaks of ‘Plagues and Pestilence’.

Throughout history there have been several other major ‘Plagues’ in Europe and elsewhere. The general idea is that a plague is something that strikes without warning and severely wounds and/or aggravates.

Currently, the entire earth is recovering from a devastating pandemic ‘plague’ caused by the Covid-19 virus. It certainly seems to have struck an unsuspecting and ill-prepared humanity with virulence and vehemence—and it rages on. It has killed millions worldwide and will likely kill many more before it runs its course—likely, it will be back. Hopefully, we will be better prepared the next time.

There is one ‘plague’ which has beset the human race on an unrelenting, persistent basis since the beginning of recorded history. Anyone who has the meagerest familiarity with world history knows that continual strife among mankind has been perpetuated by one source— religion. There is no way I have of knowing the exact number of deaths caused by ‘religious wars’. However, because of their persistent occurrence, it is safe to say that the war-tally would at least equal the plague-tally. The United States alone has lost nearly three million soldiers in its wars—a span of a measly 250 years.

Many wars have been generated by the godless trying to defeat the godly. Some notable examples are Fascism, Communism and some forms of Socialism. In general, these ideologies are anti-religion—-a religion in reverse.

The Jewish people have been embroiled in some form of strife and conflict ever since their exodus from Egypt. During the last fourteen hundred to two thousand years, the three Abrahamic religions have been in constant turmoil among themselves. In addition, intrareligious hatred and rancor have perpetuated unrelenting upheaval.

During my 90 years, I have not known a single day of prefect peace, and today the hatred, fighting and killing continues at a torrid pace, and why? — religion. Everyone’s god has mandated a vendetta against their neighbor’s god. In Christianity alone, we have 45,000 different gods and guess what—not a single one of them is willing to ‘give an inch’ to the other. So, they are not ‘overtly’ fighting right now, but they have in the past—I’ll guarantee you that, given the opportunity, they would again. Basically, they are a like a pit full of venomous snakes banded together for the purposed of self-defense against an intruder—I won’t bite you if you won’t bite me. They have a larger ‘common enemy’—hostile Islam and Communism. Just let those two common enemies disappear and see what happens—all hell would break out among Christians just as it was when Constantine called the first council of Nicaea, and the ‘all powerful Catholic Church was formed.

Hopefully, in this ‘civilized world’ that would be an overstatement, but no guarantees. Human nature dictates that each person wants every other person to think the same way, and if they don’t, there’s an undercurrent of aggravation—even under the best of circumstances. If that undercurrent ‘boils over’, as it frequently does, then overt hostility, either verbal or physical, breaks out—such is our selfish nature.

So how do we overcome such adversity and eliminate this most major plague—the answer is simple, its application complicated—we must all have the same God.

That may sound like a ‘foolish’ suggestion—everyone knows who God is—or do they? If you cannot define the essence of your God, then you have no God—you have a myth. Guess what—everyone’s myth is different just like ever child’s Santa is different.

How then do we all have the same God? The exact same way we all have the same pencil, or brick or toothbrush—we can define their essences.

Take note of this—no one before me has ever defined the essence of God. I did it with six simple little words so full of astounding meaning—God is a Perfect Rational Being. I was able to conclude that essential definition by virtue of my encounter with Quantum Mechanics (particle physics) wherein I learned the most basic identical and perfect nature of all physical existences. That perfect rationality pervades everything in existence. More importantly, it refutes and eliminates the Biblical mythology associated with God. It defines clearly the Trinity nature of God. It shows the absolute necessity of Jesus’s heroic sacrifice by which we all are liberated by love from the shroud of guilt imposed by organized sacrificial religion. It shows, with absolute certainty, God’s perfect love which precludes any possibility of Hell, Purgatory, Limbo or Heaven as a place with seats closer to God. It shows without imagination that heaven is an eternal state of being in oneness with God— a state of perfection which supersedes any human happiness.

In my book, Wilderness Cry, I define the essence of God and outline its implications. In my sequels, Peace in Spirituality and Provocative Catholic, I show the absolute only way that peace may ever be achieved—we must all be likeminded. The only way that can happen is for everyone to have the same God—adherence to present-day religions makes that absolutely impossible.

As we all become likeminded, the terrible plague of war will be eliminated, and peace will prevail. Several years ago, I called for the Worldwide Communion of Spirituality which is the recognition and acceptance that we and everything in existence are of the same substance, the perfect particles of energy which constitute the Perfect rationality in this universe — God.

You will learn more about me and my upbringing by reading Growing Up in Fancy farm Kentucky.

I encourage you to read and study my books so you may have a clear understanding.

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