Invisible Religion

Jesus was a Jewish rabbi who had 12 Jewish disciples and spoke to crowds of Jewish people. 70-80 years after he was killed, some Romans, Scribes, Kings and Kingdoms created Christianity as a tool to frighten uneducated people so they could more easily be misled, misused and abused.

Numerous scholars claim Jesus was myth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_myth_theory#

If we examine the  historicity of religion, it seems apparent that gods, devils, angels and demons have always been invisible… and/or living in imaginary heavens and hells which are also invisible.

“Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time!  But He loves you!”

― George Carlin

Joy, Blues & Trouble: Invisible religion

Sometimes…. fervent and sincere beliefs about truth, lies, science and fiction are tiny guesses about confusion, misapprehension, bias, fear, myths and magic.

https://youtu.be/eMuzFQTpjDE?list=RDeMuzFQTpjDE
~Lightnin Hopkins ~ Trouble in mind

Curiouser and curiouser.

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
― Karl Marx

https://youtu.be/BKY8KIt9kqc?list=RDBKY8KIt9kqc
Albert King – 1981 – Born Under A Bad Sign

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

https://youtu.be/LIGxeQKQs-0?list=RDLIGxeQKQs-0
ELMORE JAMES – Dust My Broom

“Anthropomorphism is, of course, literally wrong. But, it is also a natural cognitive attitude, grounded in the human biology and consisting in many natural inclinations that lead human beings to consider a certain individual in the world as a person, no matter if that individual actually is a rational agent, or not. As above argued for, anthropomorphism can be considered as a frugal heuristics both for everyday life and the scientific explanation.”

Alternatives to Anthropomorphism…

“…I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism.”
― Albert Einstein

“the blessings we bestow upon one another, a nod, wink, hug, touch or a kind word… are more important than prayer and more essential than worship. The rest is commentary, art, science or fiction…”

“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.”
― Albert Camus

Sometimes fervent and sincere beliefs about truth, lies, science and fiction are tiny guesses about confusion, misapprehension, bias, fear, myths, magic and fairy tales of yore.

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.”
—Chief Tecumseh

Some people are so afraid they cannot find the courage to debunk the junk and face facts. And increasing numbers don’t want to know truths which may be too terrible to bear.

https://youtu.be/rnk8WKhYW4o?list=RDrnk8WKhYW4o
J.J. Cale – I Got the Same Old Blues

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

https://youtu.be/0P5jV4lHHR0
“Hold On” by @tomwaits from the album ‘Mule Variations,’ 1999

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
― Anais Nin

Fear-based Religion…

Hell is a fairy tale

https://youtu.be/RNMFXRy51Vo?list=RDRNMFXRy51Vo
John Lee Hooker – Graveyard Blues (1959)

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
― Oscar Wilde

https://youtu.be/lp3wZEC4rco?list=RDlp3wZEC4rco
Stranger In A Strange Land

“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin,

Mystery, Imagination, and Wisdom…

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

So where do we go from here?

How Can You Be in Two Places at Once, when you’re not anywhere at all?

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