The True Power Of Conservatives And Their Use Of Religion
- Conformity and Authority -
WARNING:
If you are NOT prepared to have REALITY challenge ALL YOUR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
do not read any further.
Conservative Christianity and all other religious beliefs are based on inequity and group control based on FEAR.
Understanding the psychological need for conformity and the response to an authority figure explains the perpetuation of religions born out of beliefs that included animal and human sacrifice, torture and abuse.
Let’s take Christianity for example, a religion that has become socially acceptable and a norm for our society.
We indoctrinate our children from a very young age into this religion and beliefs. We pass them on to others without really having any insight into the origins of or the context of these beliefs. We follow the group dynamic, never giving it a thought that this religion and other related ones has at their core a belief that God is pleased by KILLING!
The Israelites in the Old Testament practiced animal and human sacrifice. Sometimes even children were sacrificed. The tone may have changed with the New Testament but the same idea of a human needing to be sacrificed for God to accept us was maintained. The blood lust was just turned toward Jesus as he was tortured and killed as God, his own Father, watched. Christians have been programmed to see this as normal. No sane parent would ever treat their own children as we perceive God is treating humanity.
Christianity is a shame based religion (all have sinned) seeking to control people much like a domestic abuser controls their victim by belittling them and making them feel unworthy.
People are duped into believing that an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God who is also all wise would not only be pleased by blood and killing but would require it! They attribute to such a God great wisdom while at the same time they associate the most barbaric traits and characters imaginable. Even the idea that a wise God would ever create humanity for the sole purpose of worshiping him sounds childishly narcissistic.
After coming out of a Christian fundamentalist cult myself whose staff psychologist was trained at the 700 Club’s CBN University I began my journey of recovery.
I learned all I could about where these beliefs I once believed in came from. I learned of the pagan origins of monotheistic religions. I learned how the 10 Commandments came first from the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the concept of monotheism from one of the Pharaohs of Egypt. I learned how the Israelites passed on their religious beliefs for over 600 years before it was ever written down and how those beliefs evolved from many other different beliefs. I learned how Christianity mimicked other beliefs present at the time like Mithraism. And that Christmas was actually Mithras birth date not Jesus. Many of the dates in Christianity were actually adopted from pagan holidays to try and eliminate the practice of those beliefs. I learned that Jerusalem was conquered about 70 AD and as a result all original records were destroyed. I learned that in an effort to solidify control, Roman Emperor Constantine adopted Christianity for his people even though he didn’t personally follow it himself until on his death bed. I learned about how a committee of 200 decided what books would be included in the Bible and what would not be. Then these leaders attempted to destroy anything that contradicted their interpretations. Their failure became evident later with the discovery of the Gnostic text which portrayed a much different version of Jesus.
The group dynamics need for compliance and the respect for authority created a religion built on BLIND OBEDIENCE. Nothing was ever challenged. Not even the worship of killing and blood sacrifice. Even genocide, if God commanded it, was allowed (see God’s command to Saul in the Old Testament to kill all of a people). We just can’t see the obvious evil from inside the group.
How can we see a God who is perfect and the Bible as his divinely inspired text yet acknowledge it is re-written and edited later during the Protestant Reformation?
How can we see God’s Holy Catholic Church engaging in torture and killing in the name of God as demonstrated by the Crusades, the Inquisitions, the witch trials and later the sexual abuse of children and never realize that no God with true wisdom would ever condone such a history at all?
Religion sees God with blood on his hands and dripping from his mouth and a hunger that feeds on the fear of humanity and the worship of followers. At the core of most wars is religion yet we fail to learn from that history.
Why it is that no one sees a God asking for a child to be killed by Abraham as a human sacrifice as evil? Why we don’t notice that since such a sacrifice wasn't written as a departure from religion it was normal and acceptable for them to kill children. No one sees God and Satan gambling over the torture of Job and the killing of his family as evil. No one sees the order by God for Saul to kill all of a people as genocide as evil either.
How about a Father offering his own daughters up to be raped in the story about Sodom and Gomorrah? Are all these events about obedience or abuse? Later in this article you will see how at the core of all blind obedience is an element of abuse. (Compliance video)
Solomon Asch’s Conformity Experiment explains one of the most powerful psychological factors in society, the need to conform to the group. Here is a video about this experiment.
Solomon Asch Conformity Experiment Or How People Believe Obvious Lies
http://www.youtube.com/...
This desire for compliance along with respect for an authority figure has allowed religions to prosper. By creating inequity and promoting abuse of other groups in society the religious make up spiritual enemies around every corner.
The Milgram Experiment demonstrates how average people can be convinced to abuse and torture others with the prodding of an authority figure. Take a look at this clip from the Milgram Experiment.
Milgram experiment clip
http://www.youtube.com/...
But you say “Christianity is a good religion that inspires people to do well.”
No, Christianity forces people to follow and not think for themselves. It creates a group structure that eliminates logic and reason. Knowledge and enlightenment are the enemies of religion.
Creationists within the Christian faith are attempting to re-write the history books and eliminate all science that disagrees with their beliefs. Evolution, the age of the planet, global warming, and even genetics are being corrupted by religion.
Those who seek power use Christianity to manipulate the masses.
Read: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
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http://www.amazon.com/...
The following video about the movie “Compliance” will shock you. The movie is based on events that really happened. It gives you some idea the extent of the power authority and the need for compliance has over people.
Compliance: Most Disturbing Movie Ever?
http://www.youtube.com/...
This last election we saw an alliance among competing religions. Religions that were formerly considered by each other a cult embraced each other. Biblical ideas about how we treat the poor, sick, and elderly were abandoned as religious power brokers waged a war on women’s rights and health. Their true motives became clear.
It’s time we all see all religions for what they are, abandon them and embrace humanity.
Note:
For further information about religious evolution check out the following.
"The Bible's Buried Secrets" - Israelite Origins
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http://www.youtube.com/...
Also, here is a great book to give you information about ALL MYTHOLOGIES including Judaism. The author also wrote one other specifically on the Holy Bible. You will be amazed at how little you really knew.
Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned by Kenneth C Davis
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http://www.amazon.com/...
Also by Kenneth Davis
Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned
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http://www.amazon.com/...
ADDENDUM
This article proved more successful than I could have imagined. I understand the challenge of taking religion head on. I knew there would be some trolls, some attacks. But I never imagined the potential insight gained from a Jewish person about their ethnic group’s use of mythology.
First some background. Years ago I scored the highest in my state to that point on the military induction exam. I was offered a job in Military Intelligence. Later I was offered a job interview with the CIA. I ultimately ended up working for the largest auditing firm in the World at that time. A psychological test scored me at 99.9% on social awareness (the highest core allowed). Social awareness is the measure of “cause and effect reality.” I’d say my instinct is as a cipher or code breaker. I see things from the ground up and it has been a useful tool through the years.
I don’t believe I have any special talent or ability that others cannot learn. My goal in writing this article was to expose the mechanism used to control people and exploit society, one of the greatest being religion Once exposed it gives people opportunity to be free of the negative control, prejudice and oppression. Understanding the power of mythology to create authority gives people the tools to see life from a different perspective. It will help you better understand others and it will help you understand yourself.
A book I read years ago showed me how to first look at "results" to gain insight into "motives."
Here is the book on Amazon for further reading.
People Reading: How We Control Others, How They Control Us
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http://www.amazon.com/...
Some trolls attempted to discredit me in the comments and thus discount the validity of what I said. They provided insults rather than examine further the links about “Dominionism”, “The Family” also called “The Fellowship.” I supplied links to further info and reading as well. I am confident anyone who looks seriously will discover what I have also discovered.
I made the core point pretty obvious. Basic to the Judeo-Christian belief system is that God sees “Killing as an acceptable sacrifice.”
Watch the following video about the power of the myth.
The Greatest Story Ever Told Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/...
Now you can challenge parts of this video but if you do a search of mythology you will find this substantively valid. Check out the “Epic of Gilgamesh.”
For those of you who have had experiences with trolls before you might see similarities in the comments.
First a troll starts his statement about your content with an insult. Like this one, “If you're going to get all upset about another religion - ie Judaism - learn something about it first that's actual facts.” Or they try and label you and thus minimize your contribution by saying something like, “oh you're one of those.” They will pick apart everything and minimize the elements that they agree with trying to drag you down the road to dilute the conversation. They attempt to provoke anger rather than offer discord and they accuse you of “being angry.” Usually by the time a troll is done it is hard to ferret out who is really the cause of the breakdown. Then there is their attempt to control the conversation saying things like, “wow. You just can't stop, can you?”
To give an analogy here, it is like someone coming into your home, insulting you, not willing to substantiate their claims or review additional material you provide, and in the end asking you to shut up and leave your house.
One of the ways to recognize someone genuine is that they aren’t afraid to accept when they are wrong. Like when someone corrects my spelling mistake. A thank you is appropriate, especially when a mistake substantively changes the meaning of the sentence itself.
Enough said on trolls. I hope if you go to the Comments now I have provided some context.
But the most significant thing to come out of that dialog was an admission about the relationship between the Jewish known mythology and the Christian faith giving insight into the power of knowledge over ignorance.
When I was a Christian I pondered how Jewish people did it? Christianity has one thing Judaism does not have, “grace.” There is no forgiveness just the law. I knew a Jewish owner of a CPA firm in adultery. According to their law he should be put to death. How do they reconcile reality with their beliefs? Well the Jewish person in the comments clarified that quite well for me. They don’t actually believe their religion. They know it is “mythology”. This explains a lot.
2.2% of the population in America is Jewish. Yet they appear to have a much greater influence in America than other ethnic groups. The United States supports Israel both financially and militarily. What power could they have over America? The God of the Jewish mythology is the Christian God! That gives them quite a bit of leverage in America, a country where approximately 78% of Americans believe in Christianity to some degree or another. Knowledge is power.
Seven out of the top eleven media moguls are Jewish and Hollywood is still controlled majorly by Jewish people whose historical expertise is mythology. Isn't marketing a form of mythology? Sheldon Adelson, the Jewish casino billionaire conservative in Las Vegas funded the Republican’s last election with millions of dollars. Sheldon Adelson is also buying up media in Israel to become the dominant force in Israel. Just like Rupert Murdoch did in England and the United States. The word “Conservative” really means “controlling.”
It never dawned on me that without the Jewish mythology there would be no Christian religion at all. That is the insight I gained from the comments. Thanks…
Here are some videos to understand the Religious climate today I noted in comments.
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Here is a video to update you on the attacks being waged on SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
CREATIONISM IS CREEPING INTO SCHOOLS
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http://www.youtube.com/...
Here is one describing DOMINIONISM - The 7 Mountains
Lance Wallnau Explains The Seven Mountains Mandate
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https://www.youtube.com/....
Here is one about the religious power brokers (with WORLDWIDE INFLUENCES)
Jeff Sharlet on "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power"
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DEMOCRACY NOW INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR OF "THE FAMILY"
http://www.democracynow.org/...
IN ADDITION TO THE DEMOCRACY NOW LINK ABOVE I WAS ABLE TO EMBED THIS VIDEO.
I still highly recommend you watch the Democracy Now interview (ABOVE).
MORE POLITICAL POWER EXPLOITING THE FAITHFULL
Ralph Reed: From Purgatory To Power
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http://vimeo.com/...
Ralph Reed: From Purgatory to Power from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
EXAMPLES OF THE RESULTS OF RELIGIOUS POWER -- THE ATHOLIC CHURCH
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The Vaticans Colossal Wealth
The Roman Catholic Cover up
Catholic Slavery - Magdalene Laundries disgraced Irish Catholic women
Oranges & Sunshine - movie trailer (based on true story)
Deliver Us From Evil
Catholic Child Abuse - Breaking The Silence (BBC Documentary)
Abuse of Trust (part one of five)
Lest you think I'm just talking about Catholic abuse here is a short clip on the Evangelical money machine. --
Christian church RIPS OFF Donors!!