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.

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

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

BIBLICAL DECEIT — HILARY L HUNT MD

All Christianity is based mainly on two suppositions or inferences lacking a basis in biblical fact. Simply stated, nowhere in the Bible does Jesus say he came to die as a sacrificial offering of appeasement of God the Father for our sins. In addition, nowhere does the Bible clearly state the reason why the Jewish hierarchy wanted Jesus dead. Furthermore, it seems perfectly clear to me that the ‘second neglect’ is prompted by the ‘first neglect’. Please allow me to explain.

As you will recall Moses psychologically impaled the Israelites with Ten Commandments and associated threats of certain retribution from God for infractions. Those in charge reasoned to a conclusion that God was perpetually angry with them because of their continued noncompliance. Therefore, it became obvious to them that God must be appeased. That appeasement came in the form of sacrificial ritual. Accordingly, a High Priest was appointed — he, alone, was allowed to make that sacrificial offering. Those offerings were of material goods, usually produce or animals, and were required to be a perfect specimen of its kind. Furthermore, because the specimens were mandated to be perfect, only the High Priest could produce them. Of course, they didn’t come free. The peasant sinners were required to purchase the perfect specimens from the High Priest — it became a lucrative mandate for the High Priest and King

Now, fast forward to Roman control of Judea. The Jewish hierarchy had established an agreement with Rome whereby Rome would allow the Jews to keep their form of ‘religious government’, but the Jewish peasants were required to produce for Rome. In other words, the Jewish people were being enslaved by both Rome and their own Jewish sacrificial government.

Enter Jesus — during Jesus’ lifetime, according to self-proclaimed historian Aslan, there were literally hundreds of zealots who, because of their oppression, aspired and conspired to organize armies and overthrow both the Roman and Jewish governments. They all met the same fate, crucifixion, which was the mode of death reserved for all traitors. Furthermore, those crucifixions were staged on the highest hill, Golgotha, along the road approaching Jerusalem — high visibility and warning to would-be traitors.

Jesus was a traitor of a different kind. He had no intention of overthrowing the rulers by force, but rather by subversion. Please allow me to elaborate this point — it defines Jesus — neither is it made clear by the writers and rewriters of the Bible. It is very clear to me that Jesus was a brilliant observer and thinker. He recognized a God far different from the vengeful God of the Israelites. Jesus’ God was perfect in all respects and differed from the Jewish God in two major aspects. He was all loving rather than vengeful. Just as important, God was in everything and everything was in God rather than a ‘grizzled old man-like God sitting in a cloud somewhere overlording his creation with a perpetual angry frown on his brow. Jesus saw God as all love — he could not possibly hate, hurt, or reject any part of his own creation. “Hear ye. Oh Israel, I’ll give you two commandments. You shall love your God with your entire being, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself (paraphrased)”. Jesus despised the Jewish sacrificial religion which constituted a double-edged sword for his people — oppression by the hierarchy and oppression by God as presented by that religion.

It is clear to me that it was Jesus’ teaching of an all-loving God which angered the hierarchy. Knowing that he would be crucified for his heresy, Jesus had hoped to have his teaching of love spread worldwide by his apostles and disciples. Therefore, he spent most of his public life in the hinterlands away from Jerusalem in the hopes of spreading the ‘good news’ (Gospel) to as many as possible before his apprehension. It is likely we will never know whether or not he was immediately successful, so corrupted is the written word. It certainly is obvious that ultimately, he was a near total failure — overtly, there have been few of us who shared his views throughout the centuries.

Those bishops who established the Holy Roman Catholic Church at the request of Emperor Constantine, some three hundred years after Jesus’ death, most certainly ignored his teaching of love. They explicitly reverted to the sacrificial religion of the Jews, only with a new twist — Jesus became the unbloody sacrifice. It is my understanding that such philosophy was not proclaimed immediately but rather was developed over several hundred years. In any event, Jesus has become the sacrificial lamb of appeasement of God the Father for our sins — I am convinced Jesus would reject that teaching one hundred percent.

Jesus’ only purpose for his teachings of love was to supplant the sacrificial, oppressive religion of the Jews. He wanted the world to know that God loves all his creation and accepts it just as he created it to function. He wanted us to know that so-called sin is not against God but rather against our fellow man — ‘thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself’.

So, with that explanation, it should be obvious that the generators of the 45,000 so-called Christian religions worldwide have distorted the written truth over the centuries to accommodate the validity of their existence — not one of them knows or preaches the Jesus and God whom I know. Not one of them has successfully, irrefutably defined the essence of their God. In truth, they can’t because their God is the God of the Jews — a total myth. I have made that definition of God’s essence — God is a Perfect Rational Being.

But, just as in Jesus’ day, the God of the Jews provides them with trillions of dollars annually to enrich their pockets while maintaining power and control over their constituents. That is what Jesus railed against — that’s what got him crucified. He was a traitor to the Jewish religion.

Jesus seemed to know, just as I know, that “God is a Perfect rational Being”. No one can refute that. I thank God that crucifixions are outlawed these days, or I would be hanging there with him. Jesus only intention and purpose was to be our Liberator — he would free us from the oppressive God of the Jews as imposed by Moses and show us the God of Perfect love.

I have elucidated that philosophy in succinct detail in my little book, Wilderness Cry. In addition, I have expounded on its ramifications thoroughly in my two books, Peace in Spirituality and Provocative Catholic. If you care to know more about my upbringing, Growing Up In Fancy Farm Kentucky may be to your liking. All are available Amazon-Kindle and from me, autographed. handg@comcast.net.

SELFISHNESS – THE UNIVERSAL EVIL — HILARY L HUNT MD

You may wonder at the validity of this title – just what does it mean. Well, selfishness may be defined as ‘anything directed at self’. So, as we observe and investigate, we note that literally nothing escapes that singular notation. And, of course, as with every truth in this universe, selfishness is no different –God made it ‘to be that way’.

It is likely that, just as I, you were taught and led to believe that selfishness was a sin. That’s because we did not understand the parameters of selfishness or sin. We know that the concept of sin was introduced by Moses to help him in the civil management of his flock. So, considering that, let’s examine the parameters of selfishness.

Every living thing in this universe has needs —food, hydration, shelter, reproduction. For those needs to be fulfilled, it is an absolute necessity that those requirements be directed at self. So, are they to be categorized as sin? – I think not. Extremes of selfishness which we call greed has not been catalogued by the Catholic Church as one of the seven Cardinal Sins — Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. However, I’d bet a bunch that the cataloguers squabbled quite a bit about whether or not it should be.

Sin, of course, was/is considered to be an offense against God — we hurt God’s feelings — make him unhappy — displeased him. I have shown many, many times in my books and other writings that such ideation is pure foolishness. God is A Perfect Rational Being and, as such, cannot possibly be hurt, displeased, or pleased. Such change in demeanor or attitude would immediately negate God’s perfection and, would, simultaneously, bring him out of eternity — remember, change equals time — there is no time in eternity.

What we are doing with extremes of greed, and any other activities known as sin, is hurting and displeasing our fellow man —we are sinning against our neighbor —we are violating ‘The Golden Rule” and Jesus’ command for us to love our neighbor as ourselves. Again, I have shown that we do not have to ‘like’ (like implies a pleasant sensual experience) anyone or anything, but we must ‘love’ (accept) our neighbor as he/she is.

Then, how is everything in the universe selfish? Again, I have shown in my writings how that even inanimate entities are perpetually selfish. Every grain of sand is constantly bearing down on its neighbors in an attempt to create a bigger, better spot for itself. Likewise, ever solid gravid object is doing the same. Gases will distribute themselves evenly throughout the extent of any space. The elements of wind and precipitation are gradually wearing away the rocks, mountains, and any structure which attempts to block their paths — in time, all will be reduced to a flat surface which offers no resistance. Why do you suppose that is? Without doubt, if there is a God, and I believe there is, it is because God allowed his universe to begin and evolve through a process of built-in imbalance called entropy. That imbalance ensures that change is perpetual — everything is changing in an attempt to come to an equilibrium.

That imbalance(entropy) creates a perpetual ‘need’ in everything. Those needs demand change, and change is measured in units which we call ‘time’. Consider this; if there were no needs, there would be no change; if no change, there would be no time; if no time, only ‘eternity’. We know that God exists in eternity. We also seem to know that at the moment of the ‘big bang’ God release his energy in the form of quanta of several different types. A quantum is the smallest particle of energy, which is perfect in both form and function, is unchanging and unchangeable, is indistinguishable from its counterparts, can neither be created nor destroyed by man, and cannot be further subdivided. As such, each exist in eternity just as God — collectively, they are God.

At the moment of their release, they instantly went about doing perfectly what they were designed to do — they formed the protons and neutrons which make up the nuclei of every atom, and together with electrons, they ultimately formed all the atoms of every element in the universe. Those atoms, of course, have needs and thereby react with other atoms to form compounds of all sorts and descriptions, and ultimately formed all the structures in our universe today. More importantly, at the moment of their release, change in the universe, time, began.

So, here we are nearly fourteen billion years later, and perpetual change continues. Knowledgeable physicists tell us that the universe will likely last another 75 to 100 billion years before it finally ‘balances itself’, and selfishness and time ceases — all will have returned to the ‘singularity (God) from whence they came.

So, you see, without selfishness, we, nor anything else, would be here. Likewise, do you see how ignorant, superstitious, and greedy men have created innumerable cultist religions, all feigning an attempt to appease an angry God?

The native Americans and many other cultures recognized the presence of God in everything. They had no scientific knowledge, but their instincts told them so.

It is scandalous to say the least, but I’ll have to ‘cut the early Israelites a little slack’ — they were stone-cold ignorant — they knew not one basic scientific fact. However, the King and High Priest, soon discovered how lucrative their religion could be. Guess what — they seized upon that discovery with selfish ’greed’. Remember what Jesus had to say about them? He called them ‘a den of thieves’ — a brood of vipers — he overturned their moneychangers’ tables and drove them from the temple — such was his zeal.

Three hundred years later, those who formed the Holy Roman Catholic(universal) Church at the behest of Emperor Constantine, totally ignored Jesus’ teaching of an all-loving God, and, while using his name as a shield, fashioned a church exactly after the format of Judaism — with them in total control, of course —I doubt their sincerity.

I cannot, however, cut modern-day churches any slack. The science has been exposed now — ignorance, mythology, superstition, astrology, and witchcraft have long-since gone ‘out the window’. They persist, however, in religion — I wonder why.

Have you ever taken note that power and control = money? I have, and I’ll bet my last dollar that, if the ‘money-well dried up’, those who masquerade as our ‘spiritual caretakers’ would vanish like ghosts in the night. What do you think?

I have elucidated this concept to the fullest in my books, Wilderness Cry, Peace In Spirituality, and Provocative Catholic. In addition, I have published a semi-historical and humorous book about my ‘pioneer childhood’, Growing Up, In fancy Farm Kentucky. I believe you would do yourself well by their reading. All are available at Amazon-Kindle and from me, autographed. (handg@comcast.net).

HISTORY OF BAPTISM — HILARY L HUNT MD

A cursory review of ancient history will reveal that baptism, as a form of ritual cleansing and purification, was practiced by literally all cultures in ancient times, including Hindus. It seems likely, that the Egyptians were the earliest to employ it. A ritual washing in the waters of the Nile River was a surefire means of obtaining closeness to and favor of the gods. In fact, one account shows that drowning in the Nile or submersion of a corpse in its waters was a certain means of restoring life with their gods in the afterlife.

I can find no reference to Jewish baptism prior to Moses. You will recall that the Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptians for over two hundred years. Undoubtedly, during those entrapment years they adopted the Egyptian custom of baptism – hence it’s appearance in Mosaic law and its continuance till the time of John the Baptist. However, John’s baptism was a ritual cleansing of repentance.

Most Christians are taught to believe that Jesus, by his submission to baptism by John, gave sanctifying significance to the event – hence we have the ‘sacrament of Baptism’ in many Christian religions.

Now, let’s consider the plain, simple facts. Jesus was a Jewish male aged thirty-three. Number one, it would be unthinkable for a Jewish male of his age not to be married. Number two, it would be just as unthinkable for him not to have been baptized – maybe many times before — after all, it was a ritual purification. The bible writers glorified John’s baptism of Jesus by having God speak directly from the clouds to a local audience verifying his pleasure with the event and certifying Jesus as his only Son.

I have shown many, many times that all those ‘miracles’ are impossible because God would have to ‘change his nature from that of ‘a perfect rational being’ to a nilly-willy overlord who acted like a drunken sailor and could not be trusted under any circumstance – not a chance. In my humble opinion all that represents the mythological, astrological, superstitious ignorance of those writers who were determined to have their vision (version) of religion come true. As I have noted many times before, we simply do not and cannot know what the original writers said. The versions of the bible we have now represent the writing and rewriting ad nauseum of a single copy which was made from possibly thousands of recopies. It was the only surviving copy and was made two hundred-plus years after the original.

We can and should be very suspicious of all accounts from any current bible. That justification stems from the known fact that three hundred years after Jesus’ death, the Jews remained under Roman control. Rome, as it was in Jesus’ day, still allowed the Jews and their newfound Christian religions to be self-governed concerning their religion(s). The only thing Rome cared about was their productivity. By the year 325 AD, there were 1800 so-called bishops in the Christian domain of Rome. A bishop was the most prominent person in his community. Each Bishop had his own ideas about Jesus – what he said, and what he did, and what he meant. Hardly any two of them agreed with any others. Therefore, they were squabbling and infighting among themselves. They became so involved in their differences that their productivity diminished noticeably. Emperor Constantine became alarmed by their lack of production. His coffers were already depleted by all the wars he had been fighting. At that time, the official Roman religion was a pagan religion known as Mithraism. Constantine reasoned it would be wiser to make Christianity the official religion of the Empire, rather than further deplete his treasury and resources by trying to coerce the squabbling Christians into productivity.

Accordingly, he called a conference at Nicaea of the so-called Christian bishops. All eighteen hundred bishops were invited but only about three hundred attended. They squabbled among themselves from May till August before a consensus was reached. Some dissidents were excommunicated. Thus, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and it had full support and protection of the Roman army. Any dissenters had two choices: beheading on the spot or banishment into the wilds.

The religion so formed represented the collective wishes of the consensus attendees. More importantly, it put each of them into positions of high power and influence. So, it is unthinkable that they would not have patterned their newfound Christian religion exactly after the lucrative father-religion, the Jewish religion – sacrifice and all. Only, this time the sacrifice was to be unbloody (they didn’t want all that mess). They devised a plan of actually recreating Jesus out of bread and wine, and then offering him to the Father in an unbloody sacrificial way – the Catholic ‘sacrifice of the mass’ was instituted.

Of course, baptism became the rite of initiation into the newformed church. Anyone not baptized could not enter heaven. Even though one might have led a holy life, if not baptized, he was relegated to a place in eternity known as ‘limbo’. When I was a child studying and learning Catholic catechism, I was taught that early infant baptism was imperative so that a newborn baby might not die and be committed to Limbo forever. Later, as a medical student and medical doctor delivering babies in a Catholic institution, Saint Louis University, that same urgency was instilled in me. I was to immediately baptize any newborn who might appear unlikely to survive the usual seven days allowed before average infant baptism. It is a curious thing that I haven’t heard the word Limbo mentioned from any pulpit in the last 40-50 years. Curious too, I have heard no protest from any pulpit about parents waiting two years or longer to have their child baptized – think I know why – it’s called alienation – don’t lose any prospects at any cost – to hell with limbo.

The Church gets away with this dictatorial overlording in a sly and cunning way. They know young people growing up don’t know the difference – they never heard of limbo, And the Church knows the old dudes like me who do know and who do remember will soon be gone. So, it’s conveniently ‘swept under the carpet’ as though it never happened.

It not only happened with limbo’, but also, it’s happening with nearly all the Church’s dictatorial, controlling rules, the breach of which would send one straight to hell or limbo. Again, I think I know why – it’s called ‘money honey’. People are dropping out of religion like dead flies falling off a wall. The dastardliest observation yet is the Church’s occult stance on abortion. The Church has gone from absolute prohibition against artificial birth control of any kind to overtly condoning the vilest of birth control devices or techniques, abortion.

Not only has the Pope given his blessing to the two biggest proponents of abortion in this country, Joe Biden, and Nancy Pelosi, both of whom profess to be Catholic, but now he has made a pro-abortionist bishop in California a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. Again, I think I know why – it’s called ‘money-honey’. It is intended to stem the outflow of young nonconformists from the church. Such hypocrisy, I have never witnessed in my lifetime of over 90 years – but the youngsters will never know the difference –another ‘sweep it under the rug’ deal.

So, to sum it all up in one neat little package – it only has value if it benefits the money flow of the Church – to hell with morality. And might I quickly add, I seriously doubt that my observations, or at least similar ones, are not applicable in most other churches besides the Catholic Church.

If you can relate to what you have just read, please share with your Fb friends — many may appreciate you more.

If you desire a full explanation and understanding of the fallacies and failures of religion, please read my little book Wilderness Cry. You will then eagerly want to read its sequels, Peace in Spirituality, and Provocative Catholic. If you want to know more about me and my childhood upbring, you’ll enjoy Growing Up in Fancy Farm Kentucky. All are available Amazon-Kindle, and from me, handg@#comcast.net.

THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS (revised) — HILAY L HUNT MD

It is very likely that many, maybe most, of you have never heard of The Gospel Of Thomas. In truth, neither had I until about thirty years ago. In my research, I accidently discovered a reference to it, and being inquisitive, I purchase a book, edited by Ron Cameron, titled, The Other Gospels. What I discovered was a rather ‘eye-opening’ history of which I was unaware. It represents part of a cache of Coptic Christian writings found in a cave in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Furthermore, it seems clearly to predate the Canonical Gospels for two reasons. It appears to be Jesus talking directly to his disciples, with Thomas as the transcriptionist, and more importantly, it contains no mention of Jesus’ Pasion, Crucifixion, Resurrection, etc., as do the four Canonical Gospels. That, of course, implies it was written while Jesus was alive.

While first reading it, I was taken aback by some of Jesus’ statements and proclamations. His apparent description of God as being in all things, and being the ‘soul’ of everything, seemed to me to be in stark contrast to the ‘dualistic’ nature of the God which I had been taught in my Roman Catholic upbringing and education. I had always been taught that God was separate from his creation. He resided in Heaven, a ‘place’ somewhere in the sky where he was able to observe everything that went on in his universe. In fact, in the Old Testament, God is described as being very ‘vengeful’ and ‘hostile’ at times. However, he could show ‘mercy’, but one had to beg incessantly, and even ‘bargain’ with God to get it.

Well, also, there was a time when rich people could actually buy God’s mercy. You know, that seems like a paradox to me because, in one of the Canonical Gospels, Jesus is quoted as saying, “it would be easier for a camel to go through the needle’s eye than for a rich man to get to heaven”. Think about that for a second—the very thing that separates man from God, money, could be used by that same man to buy a ticket into God’s Heaven—hmm. Well, we know, of course, what he really was buying was a ‘clear conscience’, while, at the same time, enriching the Vatican coffers which had been depleted by squandering Popes. By the way, for the uninitiated in Roman Catholicism, that ticket was/is known as an ‘indulgence’. Later on, those tickets (indulgences) were attached to prayers—every prayer in my thick daily missal granted a varying number of days indulgence (reduced time in purgatory) by its reciting.

Certainly, there was never any notion taught to me that God lived in me, or a rat, or a grain of sand, or a flower etc.. It is possible, however, that God, once upon a time, might have lived in snakes, because snakes could actually talk to humans way back when—of course, they can’t now—well, maybe they do, and we just can’t understand them. Anyhow, years later, after Jesus’ death, the Apostle, Paul asserted that we are ‘temples of the Holy Spirit’—don’t you just wonder what his understanding of that statement was? —I do. It seems clear to me that likely no one, including Paul, understood what he was saying. I am allowed to say that because roughly three hundred years later, the squabbling Bishops who met in Nicaea, at Emperor Constantine’s behest, to form an ‘official Christian (catholic) Church, certainly didn’t know, and still don’t—they have yet to define the essence of God or the Trinity—I have done both.

It was several years later, while studying particle physics (Quantum Mechanics), that the Gospel of Thomas (Jesus’ direct words) began to ring true. Jesus was instructing them, unequivocally, that everything resided in God, and that God resided in everything. The Gospel of Thomas gave me the ‘Philosophical basis’, and Quantum Mechanics gave me the ‘Scientific Basis’ for defining unequivocally, and irrefutably, the essence of God—God Is A Perfect Rational Being. That definition not only allows for, but demands Trinity, and, furthermore, makes a graphic, visual understanding of Trinity God possible. I will explain one more time here:

God, with his Perfect Intellect reflects upon himself. That reflection, being in the supernatural, is a living being, God the Son, identical to the Father and Perfect in every respect. Those two Perfect individuals visualizing each other perpetually have no choice except to love, choose, accept, will each other. That loving, choosing, accepting, willing each other is the Holy Spirit or The Will Of God. So, there you have a simple, clear, easy to visualize, graphic pictorial of the Holy Trinity — something we have always been told was unintelligible to us humans. The reason we were always told that was because the tellers didn’t, and still do not, know the essence of the God of whom they speak. Without that essential definition and understanding, they could not possibly understand a Trinity God. The Church, in its ignorance has ascribed the Son (second person of the Trinity) to Jesus — nothing could be farther from the truth. Jesus was a zealot of the highest degree. His intention was to supplant the oppressive religion of the Jews with an understanding that God is All Love. Jesus was a human genius who recognized God’s presence in everything, including himself. He knew he would be killed for his zealotry, but he had hoped to convert the entire world to understanding and accepting God’s Love through the missionary work of his apostles — he was a monumental failure.

His failure is clearly demonstrated by those who formed the Holy Roman Catholic Church some three hundred years after his death. They reverted right back to the Jewish sacrificial religion, as exhibited by their institution of the sacrifice of the mass as a substitute religion for Judaism — it’s still going strong to the tune of over two billion Catholics worldwide.

The Gospel Of Thomas clearly shows Jesus’ genius mind at work, disparaging organized religion as being, not only of no practical value, but rather a major detergent to peace. Instead of being a uniting force, religion sets people against each other—witness the constant turmoil existing among Christians, Muslims and Atheistic Communists today. Rather than worshiping and attempting to appease a mythical god, sitting in some ‘ethereal palace’, Jesus commands us to see God in everything in order to find inner peace and communion with God and his creation.

We have to understand that every creature is ‘our friend’ in God. You might object by observing that snakes, ticks, spiders, mosquitos, chiggers etc. bite us—so would bears, wolves, alligators, lions, tigers, etc. kill and eat us. However, we, in turn, do the same to them. The reality is that they, as well as we, have to eat in order to survive. Just as we, they are doing what God designed them to do. When we come to recognize God’s presence in everything, we see clearly that, in reality, all of God’s creatures are feeding off him—we exist in a massive, self-contained and self-sustaining selfish system of perfect rationality, which is God. Simply stated, homo sapiens just happens to be the latest creature to appear in Gods evolutionary plan—wouldn’t you love to know what comes next—I certainly would. However, I might not like being here— very likely, I would be the hunted rather than the hunter. Since the earth is predicted to exist another five billion years or so, that creature, and, maybe, many more are in God’s evolutionary plan.

Jesus ‘exhortations’, found in the Gospel of Thomas, continue to be ignored, as they have been since his death—they actually killed him because of them. He was a traitor—his philosophy would have destroyed their power base and eliminated their ‘money-grubbing’ control over their subjects by supplanting their sacrificial religion of appeasement with a communion of ‘lovers’ —all would see God in everything —all would accept Jesus’ command to love God and our neighbor— peace would prevail.

Four or five years ago, I issued a plea for the recognition and acceptance of The Worldwide Communion of Spirituality. That plea is for the recognition and acceptance that the Spirit (Will) of God is imprinted onto every particle of energy of which everything in existence is made. Therefore we, and everything in existence represent a ‘mirror image’ of God—should God be fighting himself? I think not—what do you think?

I have outlined my philosophy, as supported by The Gospel Of Thomas, in my two books, Wilderness Cry, and Peace In Spirituality. You could enrich your New Year by their reading with an ‘open mind’.

Since the above post was made, I have published another book, Provocative Catholic. It shows how religion of any kind is the main cause of discord in the world. It also shows that all religion is false and cultist because all worship a god which is mythical. I am not only allowed but mandated to say ‘mythical’ because not one of them can define the essence of their god. I have defined the essence of my God thus: God is a Perfect Rational Being. That definition dispels the myth of all known organized religions. Furthermore, it shows conclusively that our only ‘justifiable prayer’ is thanksgiving. Also, it offers a ‘foolproof’ plan for peace.

By the way, the word eucharist means thanksgiving, but the Catholic Church and its near mimickers have made it into a ‘sacrificial’ offering–-they are still trying to appease an angry god just as the Jews were doing two thousand ago when Jesus called them hypocrites, a den of thieves, and a brood of vipers. Jesus despised religion and readily said so.

In addition to Provocative Catholic, I have published a semi-autobiography of my formative years, Growing Up in Fancy Farm Kentucky. I believe you will find it both educational and entertaining. All are available worldwide Amazon-Kindle, and from me, autographed—handg@comcast.net.

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