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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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.

Below are press releases and short YouTube videos prepared by Covenant Books.

906242_Press Release for Wilderness Cry Download

Press Release Letterhead Peace in Spirituality Download

Wilderness Cry by Hilary L. Hunt, M.D. – YouTube

Peace in Spirituality by Hilary L. Hunt, M.D. – YouTube

PHILOSOPHY-HILARY L HUNT MD

PHILOSOPHY- just what exactly is ‘philosophy’? Well, philosophy has been defined several different ways, and I will offer you my definition. Simply stated, philosophy is a set of understandings about any given subject based on known or presumed facts. Please note that word ‘presumed’. Throughout recorded history, presumptions have created constant turmoil in our world society(ies).

For instance, literally all of our philosophy has been based on premises which later were proven to be incorrect—the earth was flat and supported on five wobbly legs continuously in danger of toppling into the netherworld below; the earth was the center of the universe; the sun, moon and stars held the keys to our health, wealth and wisdom; there was a god for literally every aspect of our existence; the one and only ‘true God’ was a grizzled old man sitting in the clouds ever ready to shower you with glorious gifts of good fortune (if you were good) and equally ready to bring torments of all sorts upon you (if you were bad)—just to name a few.

Now, lets examine the consequences of such fallacious premises and their resultant philosophies. Flat earth–people, for fifteen thousand or so years, were fearful of sailing out to sea too far because they would fall right off the edge of the earth into the netherworld. Earth supported on five crocked, wobbly legs–during the ‘Inquisition’, sex on any elevated structure was strictly prohibited and punishable by burning at the stake ,because the vibrations from such activity might cause the earth to topple into the netherworld. Earth as center of the universe–again, when Galileo published his scientific discovery that the sun was the center of our universe (solar system) and that the earth and other planets rotated around the sun, he was brought before the inquisition, and he barely escaped burning at the stake by virtue of a ‘forced recantation’ of his discovery—in spite of that, he was held under house arrest for the last nine years of his life. The sun, moon and stars (astrology) held the keys–astrologers proved to be nothing better than skalawag magicians who tricked people into believing all sorts of untruths. Parenthetically, those structures do, in fact, exert extreme influences on our earth but not in the way astrologers portrayed. Gods (gods)–in the early cultures worldwide, there was a recognized entity (god) in charge of literally every aspect of life (god of love, fertility etc.). Eventually, the Israelites came to recognize ‘one true God’. However, as I will show post haste, their ‘one true god’ is a myth also just as all the other ‘pagan gods’.

The Israelite God was patterned exactly after them. Even though he was all powerful and created the universe, basically all of his other traits were strictly human-like. He could love you or hate you; he could coddle you or kill you; he seemed to always be vengeful. He demanded strict adherence to his ‘laws’ (mind you, those laws were fabricated by Moses)—religion (Abrahamic religion) was created. That (those–Judaism, Christianity, Islam) religion reasoned that such a vengeful god would demand sacrifice–and sacrifice he got.

Now, lets address the fallacy of all that ‘philosophy’. Obviously, people were thinking. They could see plainly that both bad and good things happened in their lives. So, they were trying to understand why everything wasn’t ‘good’. Obviously, they concluded that there was an over-lord who didn’t appreciate some of their activities. That (those) overlord(s) was/were given the general name god. In the pagan world, each god had a specific domain. In the Israelite world, their ‘one’ God was in charge of all. More importantly he had to be appeased—a formal religion of attempted appeasement was born.

Fast-forward a few thousand years and Jesus appears—another sacrificial religion was born (Christianity). Six to seven hundred years later Mohammed appears—another Abrahamic religion appears (Islam). While not strictly ‘sacrificial’, Islam seems to derive it ‘appeasement’ from a strict prayer routine and strict adherence to Islamic Law. In any event each such religion is based on ‘false premises’ and therefore is doomed to be false in nature. While the Abrahamic religions busy themselves with appeasement, the other two great religions, Hinduism and Buddhism seem more contemplative—they have always attempted to understand the ‘nature’ of their god. In so doing, they each have established general rules of good living—those rules (guidelines) are their understanding of what their god might expect of them.

So, what is the truth? Simply stated, all religion(s) of which I am aware are based on ‘false premises’. The reason being that not a single person in the history of mankind has ever defined the Essence of God. Absent an essential definition, nothing has meaning. So all of the gods and the religions derived therefrom are pure myths. At this very moment you likely are astonished, and possibly dismayed, that I would/could make such a statement. I am allowed such privilege because of one deliberate consideration—I, Hilary Leo Hunt, have defined, in irrefutable terms, the ESSENCE OF GOD.

GOD IS A PERFECT RATIONAL BEING.

Let’s examine that definition:

When we say ‘God’, we mean Supreme—there is no other.

When we say ‘Is’, we mean always in the ever-present—not yesterday, nor tomorrow.

When we say ‘A’, we mean singular (triune in nature but singular in Godhead).

When we say ‘Perfect’, we mean complete—cannot possibly be added to nor deleted from—cannot possibly be pleased nor displeased.

When we say Rational, we mean an intellect which perceives and a will which achieves.

When we say Being, we mean it is a living entity.

The implications of this ‘perfect’ definition of God’s essence are unbelievably astonishing. In the first place, it shows that all religion is mythical and fallacious. All prayer is nonsensical. God is perfect, and his will cannot possibly be changed (it truly is blasphemous for us to ‘beg’ God to change his will). Our only ‘justifiable’ prayer is a hearty Thank you Lord for my existence, my sustenance and my salvation.

So, back to philosophy—now that we have a concrete definition of God’s essence, we can develop a meaningful philosophe of our existence based on ‘truth’. That philosophy has ramifications unheard of. However, I have begun its development in my two books, Wilderness Cry, and Peace in Spirituality. I strongly urge you to read them both.

As a matter of information, Wilderness Cry has received a 4 of 4 review rating. Furthermore, it will be featured as On-line Book Club’s ‘Book Of The Month’ this coming December. Peace in Spirituality will be featured by On-Line Book Club’s ‘Book of the Day” on my birthday, Oct. 23, 2021.

FAITH vs. RELIGION-PART 2–HILARY L HUNT MD

Due to a glitch in navigating WordPress yesterday, I had to cut short my comments—my apologies. Today, I will continue with my conversation about faith and how it relates to Religion.

To begin with, just what is ‘faith’? Strictly stated, faith is the acceptance of something as being true without concrete evidence of that truth. In addition, there are two basic kinds of faith, ‘implicit’ and ‘explicit’.

A common example of ‘explicit faith’ would be a warranty on a new automobile—from past experience and hearsay, we know that manufacturers typically stand good for their stated warranty. So, we are legitimate in having explicit faith that they will again.

A common example of ‘implicit’ faith is demonstrated in our willingness to believe that when we get on an airplane, it will take us to our destination safely. We know from historical experience that commercial airline crashes in the US are rare. However, we are willing to ‘take that’ chance under the umbrella of ‘implied faith’ that all will be well.

Understandably, you may say ,’what’s that got to do with God and religion?’—and I would say ‘everything’, and here’s why. Those, among both the ancients and relative neophytes, who have concocted religions, have done so based on their version of ‘explicit faith’. In other words, God has ‘revealed’ to each of then a set of absolutes. So what then? Gradually those ‘absolutes’ demand interpretation and in that process of ‘implied faith’, a gazillion different religions have been formed (created). In truth, every human who ever existed has had a different faith and a different religion.

You may object, saying ‘I know twenty people who go to Saint ‘so and so’ Catholic church, and twenty more who go to ‘such and such’ Baptist Church, and so on and on and on. That may be absolutely true—-they go to a certain church, but no two of them have the same identical ‘faith or religion’

The reason for all that is very simple indeed—each of them knows (visualizes) a different God, because as I stated yesterday, no one before me has defined the ‘essence of God’. Therefore, not one of them knows the God about whom they think—each of those billions of gods are pure myths—they are like Santa—each similar but different, and all mythical.

It is impossible to know about any entity or concept without first defining its essence. Jesus didn’t know ‘particle physics’, but in his brilliance he recognized that the Spirit of God pervaded all existences—otherwise nothing could be. He set about to enlighten (Christ) the world about the universality and Perfect Love of God—that activity got him killed. He knew it would, but seeing himself as the ‘sacrificial lamb’, he willingly chose an ignominious death so that the world might be ‘enlightened’ (I am the light of the world) to the truth of God’s essence—Perfect Rationality.

It seems very doubtful if anyone either understood his message, or if they did understand, were willing to accept it. Remember, The Jews killed him for treason—teaching anything contrary to the Jewish religion was treason. Guess what—the formation of so-called Christianity followed in the Jews footsteps. They set themselves up in hierarchal arrangement. I guess one might call it ‘trickle-down power. Regardless how one may perceive it, the result was/is the same—power, control, money.

So what are the implications of defining God’s essence as Perfect Rationality. Very simply, something perfect cannot be changed. Time is a measure of change. Since God is perfect he exists in eternity, a state of no change nor time. God cannot be hurt. God cannot be pleased. God cannot possibly ‘change his mind’ about anything. So all of this praying, sacrificial ritual, begging God to change his mind, etc.. could, in fact be considered blasphemous. However, God’s Perfect Love precludes any possibility of ‘retribution’ on his part.

In fact, out only justifiable prayer, while not expected by God, but to keep us humble and appreciative of his love, is a great big ‘Thank you God for your loving acceptance of me , a selfish sinner’.

So where does religion fit in? My belief; it is the most major deterrent to tranquility and peace that the world has ever known. It is also the most ‘monstrous’ money machine the world has ever known.

I mentioned my two books about these subjects yesterday. I will attempt to insert info about them.

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