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Religion is the Love & Worship of Fear

Religion can be defined in as many different ways as there are people willing to offer a definition. And in the sense that anyone who offers such definitions actually "believes" those definitions, ranging as they always do from good to bad, each definition can therefore be said to be equally "true."

The Christian will no doubt deny this, of course, convinced as they are that there is some absolute objective "truth" to their own miraculously favorable definition, which always has some incorruptible and unconquerable love as its source and soul.

 That so many unfathomable horrors have been piled upon horrors in the name of that very same religion, is universally attributed to human error, not the religion itself, which, the Christian will argue, is simply the flawed and human manifestation of the love of a God who is incapable of ever committing any evil, ever.

 And they do mean ever!

In "truth," however, religion has a track record that shows it is much more likely that it came from the devil then any benevolent, loving God, especially if we consider that it has the power to convince the vast majority of people to do the unthinkable in the name of some greater cause, far more than even Satanism or atheism ever have.

The millions of German and Russian soldiers who threw themselves into the meat grinders of WW I and II, for example, certainly did not do so because they were all quite convinced that there was no God, and therefore no afterlife of which to fear eternal damnation for having broken all of the ten commandments, and engaged in a world wide orgy of the wholesale slaughter of human life, on a scale that no doubt surpassed in carnage even that which God had wrought in Sodom & Gomorrah, or even the death toll that resulted from God's infamous flood.

There can truly be no greater miracle in the world, then, and perhaps the universe - and this can only and unequivocally be called a "miracle" - then the fact that slavery could be defended in the name of Christianity for centuries in both North and South America alone, as were all of the horrors and brutality inflicted upon countless indigenous tribes and others, but never cause a single devout "Christian" to ever suspect for a second that their sacred "religion" were anything but pure peace and love.  I mean.. wow! Holy shit!

Yet there has never been a single act of evil committed in the name of a religion by a person who was not quite convinced, in their heart and in their soul, that what they were doing was unmistakably in the service of, and out of a complete devotion to, a "love of God."

The "miracle" of faith, then, is that Christians would rather die a martyr then ever admit they could ever be wrong about any of this.

And they call this kind of supreme hubris, ironically enough, "humility." 

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