A truth is true even when no one believes it, while a lie is only "true" to the degree you’re willing to believe it is true, even if it ain't. Since everyhing works as part of God's plan, including genocide and child rape, lies too serve God's divine will. How do they do that? Lies serve as a true test of one's loyalty to God. How ironic it is that God created the entire universe, along with our own particular version of intellgence, and all just to test if we “believe” enough in his Church to save ourselves from eternal torments, regardless of whether that Church is correct or not. And nothing serves in this test more than errors and lies. Indeed, errors and lies play a far more important role in God's plan/test than any truth ever could. This is because a lie is ONLY empowered by people’s willingness to “believe” it is "the truth," while what is true is immune to people’s beliefs about whether it is true or false.
People believed for centuries that the sun revolved around the earth, even though this is clearly false, but this "false belief" never affected the sun’s true relationship to the earth. So it was clearly NOT an issue of a "belief" destroying the world as much as the social order of civilization depended upon people's willingness to "believe" that the Catholic Church had divine authority over everyone else, regardless of how fallible it was in its claims. Since the Catholic Church was defending this error as “the truth,” however, it did affect how that Church instructed its flock of followers to treat all those who questioned the Church’s authority to declare that the “truth” was that the earth had to be the center of the universe, because it was the apple of God’s eye.Why was this the case? Because the church said so! ("now shut up and fix me a turkey pot pie!")
To defend this error as “true,” simply because the Church had decided and declared that it was true, that Church was willing to burn Giordano Bruno at the stake and imprison Galileo and countless others were tortured or imprisoned (read Susan Jacoby's "Strage Gods: A Secular History of Conversion") and all to show its faithful flock what happens when you questioned God’s “true” Church.
What was actually true was therefore subordinate to the “believers” duty to believe whatever the Catholic Church (God's prefered brand of Church) had declared to be true.
Why? Because while God had flooded the whole planet at one point to punish those who did not obey, God then mutilated his own son in order to establish a new Church to which God could delegate the duty of doling out similar punishments to those who questioned it the same way Jesus questioned the Sandhedrin, human as the Catholic Church is in its pronouncements and sexual perversions, and all to keep God’s people fearful of God’s judgements for daring to question whether the claims of his “Church” were actually correct.
Instead, God NEEDS his followers to “believe” in his Church even more than they believe in Him or believe in that Church's ability to find the actual truth of anything on their own, even though such “belief” is the only thing that will empower a lie and enable it to operate as a “truth,” and such “belief” exerts absolutely NO EFFECT on any actual truths. Indeed, imagine if Albert Einstein declred "E equals MC squared, but this is ONLY true IF you believe it!"
While belief in an error does not affect the stars or the laws of the universe, it does affect the social order of things, where the Church must remain always as the king of the hill of ideas. This is why the church not only bans books (which it still does, by the way), but also assures its followers that failure to “believe” in God and his "true" Church leads god to “withdraw” his love and grace which holds the universe together, which only allows the devil to do his worst. This therefore means there is no greater test of a believers loyalty to God than to believe a Church even when that Church is wrong or lying, or engaging in the protection of child rapists among its ranks.
How then is the devil not God’s henchman who God empowers to terrorize and torture us all into submission to God's church, regardless of how often that Church is wrong in it pronoucements or how many children it rapes? How then is paying the Chruch 10% of your yearly income any different than the Mob "withdrawing" its "protection" from what the Mob will do to you for failing to pay the Mob for such protection?
People believed for centuries that the sun revolved around the earth, even though this is clearly false, but this "false belief" never affected the sun’s true relationship to the earth. So it was clearly NOT an issue of a "belief" destroying the world as much as the social order of civilization depended upon people's willingness to "believe" that the Catholic Church had divine authority over everyone else, regardless of how fallible it was in its claims. Since the Catholic Church was defending this error as “the truth,” however, it did affect how that Church instructed its flock of followers to treat all those who questioned the Church’s authority to declare that the “truth” was that the earth had to be the center of the universe, because it was the apple of God’s eye.Why was this the case? Because the church said so! ("now shut up and fix me a turkey pot pie!")
To defend this error as “true,” simply because the Church had decided and declared that it was true, that Church was willing to burn Giordano Bruno at the stake and imprison Galileo and countless others were tortured or imprisoned (read Susan Jacoby's "Strage Gods: A Secular History of Conversion") and all to show its faithful flock what happens when you questioned God’s “true” Church.
What was actually true was therefore subordinate to the “believers” duty to believe whatever the Catholic Church (God's prefered brand of Church) had declared to be true.
Why? Because while God had flooded the whole planet at one point to punish those who did not obey, God then mutilated his own son in order to establish a new Church to which God could delegate the duty of doling out similar punishments to those who questioned it the same way Jesus questioned the Sandhedrin, human as the Catholic Church is in its pronouncements and sexual perversions, and all to keep God’s people fearful of God’s judgements for daring to question whether the claims of his “Church” were actually correct.
Instead, God NEEDS his followers to “believe” in his Church even more than they believe in Him or believe in that Church's ability to find the actual truth of anything on their own, even though such “belief” is the only thing that will empower a lie and enable it to operate as a “truth,” and such “belief” exerts absolutely NO EFFECT on any actual truths. Indeed, imagine if Albert Einstein declred "E equals MC squared, but this is ONLY true IF you believe it!"
While belief in an error does not affect the stars or the laws of the universe, it does affect the social order of things, where the Church must remain always as the king of the hill of ideas. This is why the church not only bans books (which it still does, by the way), but also assures its followers that failure to “believe” in God and his "true" Church leads god to “withdraw” his love and grace which holds the universe together, which only allows the devil to do his worst. This therefore means there is no greater test of a believers loyalty to God than to believe a Church even when that Church is wrong or lying, or engaging in the protection of child rapists among its ranks.
How then is the devil not God’s henchman who God empowers to terrorize and torture us all into submission to God's church, regardless of how often that Church is wrong in it pronoucements or how many children it rapes? How then is paying the Chruch 10% of your yearly income any different than the Mob "withdrawing" its "protection" from what the Mob will do to you for failing to pay the Mob for such protection?
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