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 Have you ever noticed how the Book of Revelation, if it is interpreted as a prophetic vision of the end of times on earth, only demonstrates that Christianity is a plan that God "intelligently designed" to fail?  This is obvious when we consider that as the last book of the Bible - spoiler alert! - it tells us that God knows his best efforts to "save" humanity are ultimately doomed to fail, leading God to lose his holy shit and utterly destroy the whole of humanity just to start over with a "new" and better plan.  Why didn't God just START with the'New" and better plan to begin with? Why do we see a trend of God repeatedly destroying cities, wiping out creation with a flood, and eventually opting for an apocalypse? Is that NOT what he did with the flood, yet nothing improved? In fact, humanity seems to have even gotten worse, and used Christianity to justify acting like the God of the OT to do so!  Why does God repeatedly punish Humanity for ...

🔵 The following passages are taken from a not very widely known interview with Michel Foucault, containing some of the most crucial statements by him on his stance on morals. "In a sense, I am a moralist, insofar as I believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of human existence—the source of human freedom—is never to accept anything as definitive, untouchable, obvious, or immobile. No aspect of reality should be allowed to become a definitive and inhuman law for us." "We have to rise up against all forms of power—but not just power in the narrow sense of the word, referring to the power of a government or of one social group over another: these are only a few particular instances of power." "Power is anything that tends to render immobile and untouchable those things that are offered to us as real, as true, as good." "This doesn’t mean that one must live in an indefinite discontinuity. But what I mean is that one must consider all the points...

 “All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes — all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the earth into a graveyard, into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its rememberance. Then we become the grave diggers.” ~Rod Serling, from “Death’s Head Revisited” (1961)

 People are religious to the same degree they feel unsafe. And they feel unsafe to the same degree they are unable to control their environment.

 Have you ever noticed how the immaculate conception of Mary undermines the crucifixion of Jesus?  First, it's important to distinguish the Immaculate Conception of Mary from the Incarnation of Jesus, where Jesus took on human flesh in Mary's womb. Most people confuse the former for the latter.  According to Catholics, the "immaculate conception" of Mary refers to the generative conception of Mary by the sexual relations of her parents. What makes that conception "immaculate" is that, at the moment Mary was conceived through the natural sexual relations of her parents, God decided to preserve Mary's soul from the stain of original sin. Everyone else on the planet, however, who is conceived the same way, is not so lucky. The question is why?  Only Mary, and Mary alone, did God decide to preserve from this stain of original sin from the very first moment of her conception. Why? Well, according to the Catholic Church it's because, in anticipation of...