Friday, January 2, 2004
Icarus Complex
Behavioral characteristics displayed by the Icarian individual include preoccupation with fire, excessively high ambitions that melt in the face of failure, craving for admiration, and exaggerated self-esteem." (Henry Murray (115) ) Another character flaw of the juvenile mind of the biblical God is one that depicts him as a jealous god, a god so consumed and absorbed with its own greatness of being, (116) that failure to recognize and worship it will bring everlasting torment and damnation in...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Angry Wizard
"... And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury..." (Isaiah 63:4, 6) (Note: Fury: 3. A violent, uncontrollable person, especially a WOMAN. Websters New World Dictionary of the American Language, College Edition) The Bible begins with the childish notion that a god merely speaks magical words and poof!... the world comes into being, (110) so that all of life and existence is nothing more than an act of sorcery from the imagination of this supposed supreme...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Rape Mentality
"But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased." (Psalm 115:3) "Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate..." (Isaiah 13:9) The culturalistic idealism of male superiority existed during biblical times as it does in much of our modern world today, so in creating this god, the male warrior mentality of dominance, control, power and dictatorship were applied to its character. (95) The dominant characteristic or...
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Sunday, December 28, 2003
Supreme Ruler of the Universe
"There must exist at least one being that which no other is higher; hence there must be but one such being and this is God." (Saint Anselm) In the above statement, we find the absurd assumption that life has always existed in the exalted form of a supreme being. Scripture ascertains that this supreme being created all existence, (89) claims ownership of humanity, and aspires to control all human life and activity. (90) Those who tried to define the spiritual for mankind, did so by assuming that...
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Thursday, December 25, 2003
Damnation From on High
"... we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnessess are as filthy rags." (Isaiah 64:6) The very nature of an imperialistic religious system is a formula for disaster. While those on top of the lofty mountain shout down messages of fear and damnation "repent or be tormented," they condemn the vast majority at the base and leave them to suffer the terrible consequences of feeling unworthy, to believe that self-abandonment or denial are the only courses left to them. Self-abandonment...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Unbridled Arrogance & Delusions of Grandeur
" "F or though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers... Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me." (1 Corinthians 4:15-16 ) Today there is no shortage of people who are willing to come forward to wear the self-anointed mantle of authority, identifying themselves as God's spokesperson and supposing themselves called to lead God's flock. (77) Many of these modern day ministers proclaim the Creator of the Universe actually talks to them personally, bestowing...
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Sunday, December 21, 2003
Prophets and Priests
"... it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." (1 Corinthians 1:21) Creators of Fear and Superstition For thousands of years mankind has been plagued by the prophets of fear and superstition, men whose mental faculties have been guided by ignorant misconceptions of reality, supposing life exalts itself into a supreme being who is attributed with creating and controlling all existence. They wove their spidery webs of ritual and religious deceit deep into the...
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Friday, December 19, 2003
Mental Suicide
"But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness" (1 Corinthians 1:23) The Bible depicts man as merely a servant, created to worship and obey the rules of a god, a god who instills the perverse threat of death if either man or woman initiate an act of free will to think for themselves and seek knowledge apart from what God gives them to think. (54) This kind of relationship between man and his imagined god, causes mental and emotional conflict, for...
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Monday, December 15, 2003
Sin, Shame and Guilt
"Now we know that what things soever the law saith it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." (Romans 3:19) "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and Earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." (Matthew 5:18) As American citizens we have the Constitutionally protected right of being innocent until proven guilty. Yet, with audacious impunity, supporters of Christian...
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Sunday, December 14, 2003
Fear Mongers
©Immorality of Christianity, Stewart & Sommers, 1999 All Rights Reserved " But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him." (Luke 12:5) It is of the utmost importance to the well-being of American citizens that we hold fast to the inalienable right to life and liberty, and that we never allow the oppressive power of dictators, imagined or not, to abolish these rights. Long have priests labored to create...
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