Chapter 5 Religion and Government
1. Man created religion to explain the unknown because much was unknown to him. Much was unknown because he was an evolutionary animal and knowing most things was unnecessary.
2. Since man created religion he was susceptible to being controlled. He had falsely concluded that he was controlled by a prophet of god. These prophets only allowed for salvation after the death of the body of man.
3. This prophet control opened up the possibility of government control. Weak people that did not want to do the work but wanted others to do it for them became the government leaders.
4. The government leaders enslaved the mass of the man species for its own benefit. Had not the men accepted this prophet of god as the one an only true savior then they would not have accepted a government to enslave them.
5. To enslave the mass of man the government created false threats. The false threats were used to hold the people together to fight a false enemy.
6. The creation of false enemies led to the death of many innocent fellow men. This was all so the government could keep its power over the common man.
7. These false enemies were created by the suppression and distribution of information to the mass of men. The truth was suppressed because the government controlled the media and it could only distribute the information that the government gave it. False information was then put in its place and distributed to the mass of men.
8. Since men in a civilized world receive their information by the use of the word. The false distribution was easy.
9. Man evolved to receive his information by visual means. That is why his sense of vision is so predominate and highly sensitive.
10. Religion and government becomes one and the same since they are both created so the mass of men can accept an authority.
11. The use of the word is the enslaving tool for both government and religion.
12. Trust no word.
13. Trust not even these words.
14. God is no more than a giant math type formula that makes everything do as it does.
15. Who created the math formula? It created itself out of the mass (objects) of the universe. It is capable of change as the objects themselves may change.
16. This doesn’t mean a tree lives and dies therefore changes. It means that a totally new object enters the universe. Similar to a new chemical element,
17. The nearest thing to God that we can find is the math formula that controls evolution.
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I sit in my kitchen with the long Oxygen tube attached to a gray noisy machine fifty feet away. I am watching a light February rain as it drops onto the patio. The drops create ripples that move toward each other and cascade into themselves obliterating each other. Then another raindrop falls nearby and the ripples start anew.
I think of my Grandfather’s house. As a child we all sat on the porch to watch the gentle rain. I could hear the ping on the tin roof. The house did not have gutters so the rain would just run off onto the small rocks below. There were chairs on the porch. Rockers and wood laced. The children got to sit on an old car seat. Well, not really a car but a seat from a WWII jeep.
The conversations of the elderly hummed in my ears as I listened to the rain drops. My attention was more focused on seeing than hearing. In a long line along the front of the porch were these sparkling multicolored rocks. They had been dull and dusty before the rain. Now, to my young eyes, that by that time had not seen much of the world, they were like a King’s crown jewels.
Those beautiful days on Grandpa’s porch passed and I saw the ugly of the world. As a Vietnam veteran I became aware that politicians start wars to hold the people together. Like school spirit. You have an enemy and you must defeat him. These artificial enemies became a staple of my life. We would go out, in the name of Democracy, in the name of America, in the name of team spirit and kill the innocent. We still kill. For the same reason.
We. Who are we? We are not killers. We are children that watch the rain make the rocks sparkle. We are lost in this vast Garden of Eden.
As humans, the man species, we see beauty without being told, without it being pointed out to us. We are kind and feel love without being told we must or without it being pointed out to us. We can get all the food we need. We are the greatest hunters that have ever been on this earth.
In Eden we find toys. Many, many toys to play with. We use our adult life to obtain these toys. We ignore Eden. Eden just beyond the patio. Just beyond the porches edge. Where the rain falls and gives life and beauty. We have many, many false prophets. The one we should worship is the first man that was brave enough to pick up the burning stick and use it as a weapon against the predators and a tool to work wood. A tool to cook food so less would go farther. The false prophets demand your soul for a dream of life after death. The true prophets say, “Pick up the burning stick and march onward”
In our Eden we have to have massive garbage disposal conglomerates to do something with all that we throw away. We do not need to make less go farther. We do not need the true prophet because oil, coal and radiation are our burning stick. We have time to listen to the false prophets, the false leaders. “Praise the Lord. Onward Christian Soldier. Long live Democracy.”
We are lost in the Garden of Eden.
© Jack Bowman