MISUNDERSTANDING GOD — HILARY L HUNT MD

When a dam breaks, initially the water flows at a rapid rate, with high pressure and speed, through channels that existed before the dam was constructed. Eventually, the water exhausts all available preestablished channels, and runs outward in all directions forming new shallower channels until, finally it seems to flow as one giant shallow wave with no perceptible boundaries or channels out over one massive flat. There is a simple reason for the lack of new channels being established and that has to do with lack of a pressure-head which results in reduced speed or rate of flow with resultant less friction and erosive effect. That simple, observable, intelligible, analogy may be applied to the plight of Christianity.

There was a near three-hundred-year time frame after Jesus’ death that his teachings and their interpretations had spread like wildfire throughout the civilized world from the Near East, through all of North Africa and southern Europe all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. A hierarchy of sorts had been established whereby bishop had been consecrated through a power transfer from a previously established bishop extending back to James, John, Peter, and likely, the other apostles. It seems that most candidates for consecration qualified for that position by being the most influential man in the settlement. Regardless, after consecration, he was the sole authority in his domain concerning faith and morals.

As time progressed, eighteen hundred such bishops existed. As might be expected, there was no universal agreement among them about what was to be believed nor about how God and Jesus were to be considered. That lack of agreement created friction and, at times, outright squabbles among certain bishops causing a gross lack of production for the Roman empire under whose domain they existed — the peasants were fighting among themselves rather than working for the Empire.

That situation created the necessity for construction of a dam. Accordingly, the ‘chief engineer, Emperor Constantine, called the bishops (workers) into a conference (council) at Nicaea. Only three hundred or so bishops of the eighteen hundred in existence attended, but they were sufficient to devise and finish construction of the mightiest dam ever heard of, the Holy Roman Catholic Church.

That newly constructed dam was rock-solid and remained so while Constantine and his son who followed him in power were alive. But, when Rome fell, the dam lost it main support — leaks began to appear. They were small and seemingly insignificant initially but became major with the Greek Schism in the year 1054 which led to the loss of about half the dam’s water.

During the next five-hundred years, the dam deteriorated to the point of final rupture with the release of much of its remaining water in 1521 when Martin Luther bolted the Church. During the next five hundred years, the flow of so-called Christian doctrine in both the East and West, but mainly in the West, continued at a torrid pace until now its pressure head has been reduced to a trickle — a massive, creeping flat of forty-five-thousand Christian churches is what remains. In the meantime, the pressure head in Rome has been reduced to near non-flowable levels — and why?

A clear, succinct, answer to that ‘why’ seems to me to be very short and very simple — the dam was built by inept builders using inadequate materials. They constructed their dam on a foundation of fairy tales and hearsay while applying those materials with the mortar of a mythical god who did/does not exist.

You might ask how or why I am allowed to say that. Well, In the first instance that dam was constructed by bishops (builders) who reluctantly agreed to the final ‘blueprint’, and in addition, they represented only seventeen per-cent of the builders. More importantly, they had no idea about the nature of the water (God) they were attempting to dam. They could not define the essence of their god, Therefore, there were as many gods as there were workers —each god demanded his own individual domain, church.

The flow of water (churches) has slowed into a massive flat but continues to trickle forward in all directions albeit at a slower pace — between the years of 2016 and 2024, the number of so-called Christian religions increased from 35,000 to 45,000. Meanwhile, the headwaters in Rome continues to weaken and dribble. The big fish are splashing wildly in their landlocked potholes — the division created by changes in Catholic Church philosophy has emanated into major discord worldwide —some are considering schism — other screaming and pulling their hair while hollering, “heresy” — the biggest fish seems not to mind — neither do I.

The materials used for building the dam in the first instance were laden with mythology, astrology, imagination, ignorance, and magic. The builders, themselves had no realistic concept of the god they were damming up. They could not and did not define the essential nature of that god. Therefore, there were more gods than their dam could retain and restrain.

Had they known that their God is a Perfect Rational Being, their dam would still be intact. In fact, the longer it stood the stronger its building materials would become from the process of coalescence into one rock-solid structure — a Church of Thanksgiving to our all-perfect, all-loving God. Had they known that their dam was constructed of the identical perfect particles of energy as the God they were restraining, not only would their task have been simple, but its effects would also have endured forever.

Regrettably, what we have today is a massive flat of religion built on false narratives with absolutely no understanding of the nature of the god they are worshiping.

Had the early Christians known science, none of this dam breaking would have ever occurred. The word science comes from the Latin word scientia which means knowledge, and knowledge, of course is truth. Since God is all truth, it follows that God is all science, and all science is God — Perfect Rationality. Everything in this universe operates under a cause-effect principle. For every cause there is a perfect effect, and every effect has a perfect cause. To start the wheel rolling, there had to be an initiating cause, a prime mover. That Prime Mover, we call God. He made one move and only one move — he released his Perfect Energy in the form of Perfect Particles each with its own task. Immediately, they began doing what they were designed to do, and the cause-effect’ wheel was set into motion. That singular event which scientists refer to as the Big Bang is the only action God has ever taken regarding this universe. From that moment on, God has taken a hands-off attitude and has allowed his nature (Perfect Energy) do as it was designed and commissioned to do.

Had the designers of the first Holy Roman Catholic Church known and understood that science (truth), the dam would never have broken, and we would not have the massive flat of diverse ‘Christian’ churches, each proclaiming to be the only correct one, as we see today. More importantly, we would all be of one like-mind of understanding about the Perfect Rational Being we call God. We all would be reaching to that God, not in quest of favors, but rather in thanksgiving for our lives, our sustenance, and our eternal destination in the bosom of that Perfect rational Being — there would be peace.

Furthermore, the world would not be filled with ignorant people who not only believe, but also expect God to do the impossible, change his nature and perform a miracle, just for them. They would know that God could not possibly change his Perfect nature without self-destructing, and immediately destroying the entire universe. However, today, self-serving religion suggesting such is still just as active as in Jesus’ day — controlling the minds and pocketbooks of people for its own gain. Jesus was the greatest hero to ever live. He railed against that unjust religion and told the world about the real Perfect God Of Love.

He knew that teaching would get himself crucified but his zeal and determination to liberate us from the terrible persecuting religion of ‘appeasement of a vengeful god’ drove him onward. No greater hero ever lived, and I vouch to say, never will.

As many of you know, I have written extensively about this subject which I believe is so important for us to understand. The effects of ‘misunderstanding the nature of God‘ have overwhelmed the earth and created perpetual turmoil. I have written three books and over four hundred blog posts about this most important subject. If you have read my books Wilderness Cry, Peace In Spirituality, and Provocative Catholic, please read them again until you have full understanding — you will regain internal peace like never before.

Mind you, I am not advocating that you cease going to church. I believe gathering is good — gathering in ’one mind’ is perfect. As you go to your individual churches, and listen to your priests or preachers, their words will fall on a different set of ears — you will be gaining an understanding of ‘spirituality’. The Worldwide Communion Of Spirituality is what I called for four-five years ago. I hope and trust there are more and more acceptors and adherents.

If you have not read my philosophy books, I implore you to do so. In addition, you may find my Growing Up In Fancy Farm Kentucky entertaining. All are available Amazon-Kindle and autographed from me handg@comcast.net.

HOLY MEN (revised) — HILARY L HUNT MD

Doesn’t that term send shock waves of imagination through your entire being—both exhilaration and guilt? Exhilaration, because we marvel at the thought of someone being so pious, benevolent, holy, and perfect. Guilt, because, instantaneously, either consciously, subconsciously, or both, we realize we do not fit that mold. Then, we must ask ourselves how we came by those ingrained ideas in the first place, and secondly, are they justified? I can’t answer with certainty for you, but I can for myself.

From day one of my earliest memories until this very day, I have been schooled in the idea that certain people are known to have followed ‘God’s Laws’ to perfection, and thereby, are known, and have been certified, to be saints in heaven. The question then arises; ‘who makes those observations and certifications?’. Early in my Roman Catholic schooling, training, and upbringing, I didn’t really question such ideas—I just marveled at them. The disappointment came rapidly as I soon realized I couldn’t be one of them—I was too bad—I felt guilty.

As I got older, and the level of understanding and interpretation expanded with specifics about certain saints, I learned there might be a glimmer of hope for me after all. One prime example, touted with great exuberance, was Augustine of Hippo. I learned from the Catholic sisters, who taught me, that Augustine had been a womanizer of the highest degree—a real no-no for becoming a ‘saint’. But he had ‘an ace in the hole’, his mother, saint Monica. Throughout all the seventeen years of his life of debauchery, he squandered everything he had. Not only that, but he also tried every religion he could find—none fit. In the meantime, Monica continued to pray for his conversion. Finally, after years of indulgence and a burned out, spent life, he converted to Roman Catholicism.

Augustine was an intelligent man. Soon after his conversion, he became a priest. Realizing there was an unsettled controversy in the Church about the specifics of Original Sin and the Trinity, he developed a philosophy which explained them to the Church’s satisfaction—he was made Bishop of Hippo. He was canonized a saint some nine hundred years later—Monica, his mother, also was canonized.

A contemporary of Augustine, Jerome, was also a Catholic priest in Italy. He spoke both Greek and Latin. He is tributed with having translated the Bible from Greek to Latin. However, Dr Bart Ehrman, professor of Bible at North Carolina University, and a celebrated author about biblical concerns and events, asserts that, in his translation of the Bible from Greek to Latin, Jerome either eliminated or drastically changed most texts portraying ‘anything good’ about women—sex had become the absolute greatest evil in the Church’s eye, and ‘women were sex’. G. Rattray Taylor, in his insightful book, Sex in History, relates that Jerome became a staunch ascetic. In fact, to scourge himself more meaningfully, he moved from Italy to the Middle East desert in Judea where he became a hermit. He took three women with him. However, he made them dress as men, rub their face with dirt and ashes to hide their beauty, and torment their bodies continually, as he did. One of the women had four children. The oldest child died, and Jerome scolded her severely for weeping, telling her she should be thankful because, now she would have more time to devote to God—such was the ideation of ascetics—modern-day Opus Dei. Jerome was canonized three hundred-fifty years after his death.

Those two examples will serve to set the stage for who are considered to be ‘holy men’. Now, let’s back up thirty to forty years before Augustine and Jerome came along. The year is 325 AD. Jesus had been dead about three hundred years. The Jewish Kingdom was still under Roman control—a government within a government. The Jews were basically like sharecroppers under Roman rule, just as they had been in Jesus’ time. Christianity, of sorts, had spread eastward to all of Europe and North Africa along the Mediterranean Sea. Each town had its own bishop who was supreme ruler in his jurisdiction, However, there were many differences in Christian belief and practices from one Jurisdiction to another. Consequently, among the Christian Church, there was much squabbling and infighting, sometimes with outright hostility. Instead of working and producing for the Roman State, the Christians were spending their time bickering and arguing with each other. In the meantime, Emperor Constantine, and Emperors before him, had depleted both the Roman army and resources by engaging in perpetual conquests. The official Roman Religion at that time was Mithraism, a pagan religion which had been brought to Rome in 60 A D by the Roman Army from Persia—it was readily accepted by the Romans. Taylor asserts it is very similar to Roman Catholicism—the Church denies it. Be that as it may, Constantine reasoned that it would be more practical to make Christianity the official religion rather than attempt coercing the squabbling Christians into meaningful production. Consequently, He called the eighteen hundred world bishops into council at Nicaea—only 180 attended. At any rate, he commissioned those ‘holy men’ to form a religion of their liking—it would be enforced to the death by the Roman army. After much squabbling they formed a consensus, and the Holy Roman Catholic Church was born. In my humble opinion, it bore no resemblance to Jesus’ teaching. It reverted right back to the Jewish sacrificial religion which Jesus despised, and which got him killed for saying so. However, it did put those ‘holy men’ into a position of total control just as the King and High Priest were in Judaism—it gave them unadulterated control of our souls and our pocketbooks. As far as I can observe, nothing has changed to this day.

Oh, other ‘holy men’ finally split off from the ‘parent company’ and ‘set up housekeeping’ on their own. The visible result is forty-five thousand different churches and sects, each proposing to represent the real Jesus—all headed by ‘holy men’—all are imposters.

If you have not already done so, please read my little books, Wilderness Cry, Peace in Spirituality, Provocative Catholic, and just for kicks, Growing Up in Fancy Farm Kentucky. Amazon-Kindle and me, handg@comcast.net. You will get an earful and get your eyes opened.

SCIENCE AND RELIGION — HILARY L HUNT MD

Many of you have heard the expression that someone or something ‘hates …. like the devil hates Holy Water’. I firmly suspect that nowhere in history has that dictum been more applicable than in the relationship between religion and science. So, we are free to apply it here—Religion hates science like the devil hates Holy Water.

From an historical perspective, we are aware that all religion was generated in the pseudoscience of astrology, combined with mythology, superstition, and imagination– that was all those ancient philosophers had to rely on. It started for mid-east and old-world western religions some twenty-four hundred years ago with the Egyptians recognizing the ‘Zodiac’ and assigning certain influences to it. From there, it evolved into a myriad of gods and goddesses who exerted specific controls and influences on their lives.

Eventually, the Hebrews recognized a singular God who created and controlled everything in their universe which amounted to what they could see—sun, moon, stars, comets, and planets. They had no idea about the real universe they lived in—trillions of galaxies containing billions and trillions of stars and other celestial bodies. They had no idea that a light beam traveling 186,000 miles per second would require 100,000 years to traverse the face or our galaxy, the Milky Way, alone — recorded human history is only forty-five hundred years old — such was their collective ignorance.

Simultaneously, the Far-easterners, and inhabitants of the New Western world, the Americas, recognized the presence of eternal being(s) which existed in everything as well as in some faraway places in the sky—whatever their collective imaginations dictated. In turn, each group worldwide developed its own set of understandings of their god(s) and, furthermore, many devised methods of honoring and/or appeasing their god(s). That appeasement came in the form of sacrificial religion with some sacrificing live humans as the offering.

As far as I can determine, the Hebrews were the only group who developed a God patterned exactly after their own nature—he could be loving or hateful, merciful or vengeful, accepting or rejecting. More importantly, he could be bargaining. Even though he was all-powerful, the Hebrews believed they were obliged to create contracts with their God and ‘hold his toes to the fire’. By their own admission, they ‘got their tail feathers singed’ when God reneged on the first contract and allowed King Nebuchadnezzar to destroy the temple. But they were persistent and ‘made God’ honor the second one—such was their collective imagination, arrogance, and audacity.

We are familiar with ‘the rest of the story—Jesus. The Jews had Jesus killed for teaching heresy—love of God and neighbor. In fact, I am convinced that the Jewish Christians who formed the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and those who wrote and rewrote the Gospels were very careful not to state specifically what Jesus was teaching that justified his being called a traitor, thereby mandating crucifixion — we have to ‘read between the lines’ to extract that understanding. Had they openly admitted to his traitorous teachings, they would have been forced to humble themselves to ordinary human existences as Jesus suggested.

However, those bishops who formed the Holy Roman Catholic Church in the year 325 AD, having already experienced the bonanza of power, control, and lucre, were not the least bit inclined to honor Jesus’ teachings of humility and love. Instead, in direct defiance of Jesus, they formulated a Church patterned exactly after Jewish sacrificial ritual with them as the controller and dispenser of Divine graces.

Mind you, at that point in time, there still was no scientific information available—the earth was flat; the earth was the center of the universe; the celestial bodies exerted supernatural powers over them, ala astrology; the earth was supported on five crooked, wobbly legs and was always in danger of falling into the netherworld below. They knew no truth, but they did know how to put and keep themselves in total control while milking the hard-earned resources of their subjects—the very thing which Jesus railed against that got him killed.

Things went well for them and their new-founded Church as long as Constantine and his son who followed him as Emperor of the Roman Empire were alive. However, with the fall of the Roman Empire, their powerbase was destroyed and, to put it mildly, all hell broke loose. There was a parade of bad Popes; priests and popes alike became sexual predators; squandering popes depleted the Vatican coffers prompting the sale of indulgences to rich people who aspired to have a glimmer of hope of getting to heaven — an indulgence is vehicle by which a certain amount of time in Purgatory can be reduced. Not all popes were bad, but many turned to ascetics such as Jerome and Augustine for answers to philosophical questions such as original sin and the role and/or value of women in the church. Women became so deprecated in Jerome’s estimation that they represented sin—were it not for women, men wouldn’t/couldn’t sin. According to Bart Ehrman, professor of Bible and Religion at North Carolina University, Jerome, in translating the Bible from Greek to Latin, either eliminated or dramatically changed any reference to anything good about women.

In the meantime, because of power struggles between Rome and the Eastern Church, generated mainly by disagreements about married priests and sexual matters in general, plus a lingering argument about the Holy Spirit, a complete split occurred beginning in 1054. In 1095, the Pope instigated the Crusades to win back the Holy Land which had been conquered and occupied by the Mohammedans. The Crusades lasted intermittently until 1396.

Two hundred years earlier, the inquisitions were instituted to eliminate witches and to protect the earth from falling into the netherworld by unlawful sexual activity—sexual intercourse was prohibited on any elevated structure and violators were burned at the stake. That prohibition was generated by the superstitious idea that the shaking caused by sexual activity on an elevated structure could cause the earth to topple from its wobbly legs into the netherworld below. The Church seemed to be in near-total shambles — there still was no science— witches ran wild and even managed to get to the New World —witness the Salem Witch Trials.

In the year 1497 science began to rear its head — Vasco da Gama sailed to the Far East and back proving the earth was round but three years passed before the Pope ceased burning people at the stake for denying it was flat. Then, in the early 1600’s, Galileo discovered the sun to be the center of our solar system. He escaped burning at the stake by making a public recantation of his findings before the Inquisition. However, he spent the last nine years of his life under house arrest.

Science was beginning. The word science comes from the Latin word Scientia which means knowledge which of course, is truth. Prior to Vasco da Gama and Galileo there was little if any pure truth known. The great Greek and Roman philosophers based all their premises on astrology and mythology. Therefore, all their conclusions were false. Thomas Aquinas, whose philosophy the Catholic Church adopted, also based his methodology on Aristotelian philosophy. Aquinas, for purposes of staying in line with biblical and Church teaching, developed a dualistic philosophy which puts God in one place and his creation in another–not only two different places but also two different natures.

So, fast-forward to today. Shortly after taking office, Pope Francis is said to have stated that there is no such place as hell — that idea had been dreamed up by the Church to scare people into submission. In addition, in response to the conservative outcry at his apparent liberalism, the Pope said: ‘None of the rules have changed. We just got to stop talking about them’ (paraphrased). It seems obvious to me that statement was intended to infer that ‘with the passage of time, the Church could pretend the rules never existed in the first place and purge them from the system’ — all that designed to stem the tide of people dropping out of the Church.

Many great thinkers, among whom I disclaim membership, throughout the centuries, have recognized the presence of God ‘in all his creation’. That is, in fact, what Jesus taught us— ‘split a piece of wood, and I’ll be there; lift a rock and find me there’ (paraphrased).

Since I have irrefutably defined the Essence of God as; God is A Perfect Rational Being, and since the understanding of Quantum Mechanics (particle physics) clearly demonstrates that everything in this universe is ‘perfect’ in both form and function, it is not only logical, but I believe mandatory, to accept the premise that nothing in existence can be unless the Holy Spirit (Will of God) resides within it. That understanding means that God is certainly in everything as Jesus, Saint Francis of Assisi, Meister Eckart and many others have proclaimed. That understanding also brings God and science into ‘perfect unity and harmony — God is science — God is Perfect Truth — there can be no truth outside God’s Perfect Truth System which is demonstrated conclusively by the perfection of every basic particle of energy (quantum) in existence.

So, where does that leave us? I do not know about you, but I do know about me— it left me ‘crying out for truth’ from a wilderness of mythology, astrology, witchcraft, superstition, Ignorance, and imagination’. I was forced to embark on a journey of understanding.

What I have observed during the last seventy years is a continuous ‘squirming’ by the Church to gradually bringing itself into some scientific alignment without losing credibility. Its plan seems to be a subtle, long-term acceptance of scientific principles, and an equally subtle ‘sweeping under the carpet’ of archaic and erroneous ideas as the generations go by — knowing that those who remember will soon be gone, and those remaining have little or no interest in studying history. So, the Church pretends — ‘it’s always been that way’.

It truly breaks my heart to say this, but I know of no religion or ‘so-called Faith’, now or ever, which teaches anything remotely similar to God’s truth — I know of no legitimate religion.

I have elucidated these findings and many, many more in my books, Wilderness Cry, Peace in Spirituality, and Provocative Catholic. In addition, I have published a semi-autobiography, Growing Up in Fancy Farm Kentucky. All are available Amazon-Kindle.

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