A Layman's Guide to Religion
All You Ever Wanted to Know About Religion Before You Put the Subject To Rest and Get On With Your Life!
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THEOLOGY & ALCHEMY
Alchemy was the ancient pseudoscience that sought to turn base metals into gold. Theology is the study of the nature of God and His relationship with mankind.
Theologians and alchemists are in the same league and both spring from the same dubious source. While the alchemists ponder how best to achieve the transmutation of base metals into gold, theologians and religious scholars pontificate in lengthy books, using the most convoluted reasoning to convince others or themselves how to transmute a base soul into one worthy of heaven.
In an unbiased view, a Catholic or Jewish seminary or a Koranic school might easily rank several notches below a school for alchemy. The same would hold true for other religions.
DIVINITY SCHOOL- a professional school having a religious curriculum. Brains washed, programmed and reprogrammed.
PICK YOUR AGE!
AGE OF REASON! AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT! THE INFORMATION AGE! AGE OF KNOWLEDGE! AGE OF IGNORANCE! AGE OF BLIND FAITH! AGE OF STUPIDITY!
Before the Age of Enlightenment, there was the Age of Conviction which for the majority of humans still continues. In a theocracy, it is better and safer to hold convictions than opinions. Opinions can be dangerous and even cost one his or her life.
In a mere several centuries, the human species has advanced scientifically and technically at an ever increasing accelerated speed. In the matter of religion or superstition, however, there is often arrested evolutionary development. The same person capable of devising an entirely new technology will remain as primitive as his cave dwelling ancestors when it comes to religion.
It is arrested evolutionary development that likely accounts for otherwise intelligent people evoking "God" as some supreme being in human affairs. Rational reasoning is lacking based on any evidence.
What has become known as the Dark Ages began roughly with the fall of the West Roman Empire in the 5th century and lasted until the Renaissance beginning in 15th century. Since the United States has never known such "Dark Ages," religious fundamentalists, the light extinguished in their brains, are once again asserting the doctrine of creationism.
In spite of all the advances in science and knowledge in virtually every field, they would like our schools to teach creationism which hold that all life forms, including humans, were fully formed by a Creator and did not evolve through evolution. These mentally-challenged zealots, mostly from the South, even advocate laws against evolution whereby anyone caught evolving would be sentenced to a long prison term.
All through history, in virtually all religions, people killed those of a different faith for the greater glory of God. All the major present day religions have any number of offshoots along with various cults, some benign and some dangerous.
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A Layman’s Guide to Religion
One scholar, who prefers anonymity, remarked after reading the manuscript, that when published, this one thin volume would contain more common sense than the hundred of thousand dusty works by so called theologians over the past several millennia.
The comment was most gratifying as the author world rather have the admiration of one intelligent person whom the author highly regards than the admiration and even reverence of a billion fools!
Bold, blunt and unflinching, this thin volume, cuts through millenia of B.S.!
The author’s purpose is not offend one religion but to denigrate all of them and, hopefully, replace religion with reason and common sense.
Targeting historical unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner, and the role of evolution, the author shows where religion has today become a compost of hypocrisy and pretense and the root cause of all evil!
Plainly, this volume contains “All You Ever Wanted To Know About Religion Before You Put The Subject To Rest And Get On With Your Life!”
About the Author
I’m 79 years-old, 80, if you include the time I spent as a fetus, a period when due to a mutation I became evolutionarily advanced. At age five, I shed the shibboleths of religion preferring reason and common sense. Incidentally, today I am a happy, disgruntled, disagreeable curmudgeon who has survived the Great Depression, World War II and much, much more which has given me a unique perspective. In some of life’s darkest hours while others prayed, I remained an atheist. I believe that the title of my manuscript is challenging, compelling and with a touch of sarcasm. It is certainly a catchy title for a book that is timely! Finally, if ever there was a need in the present 21st century to inject a blast of reason and common sense into today’s religious climate, it is now! It will offer any rational, thinking person (a threatened minority) much to ponder and reflect upon.