the disadvantage of religion
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The Disadvantage of Religion
If the goal of God is that man, each one, will
ultimately learn and come to love Him above all,
and his neighbor as himself, then, upon quick
scrutiny, religion has failed.
All we have to do is a simple test: Do in our heartwe really love God above all, so that, in every
situation, when we are pressed to make choices, we
chose Him or chose His will than the pull of our base
desires?
Is He the most important and most beloved person
in our heart or our wife, or women or in the case of
the women, their men or their fashions or
themselves?
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It often follows that God is in reality a second,,, far
second in our love as well as in our time and
thought allotment.
In this case, religion has not succeeded to help us...
as a matter of fact, it is content that it is able to
control us and thus cause us to support its churches
and priests/ministers.
When someone of us wanted to be independent
and personally take charge of his first tithe and no
longer give such tithe to the church but directly to
the poor, the priests and ministers do not allow it,
but tell the congregation that it is not the system,
even threatened the infidel with ex-communication
(the old term) or disfellowshipment (modern
name).
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So, the churches are not going to set free the
people, but continue to control them, and under
this control, actually have them become immature,and severely stunted in their Christian growth.
If a Christian is still in need of his/her church, for
example, to dispense or manage his/her tithe, then,
to me, that is a gross evidence of undependability,
immaturity, and the likes. The Christian is not still
able to serve or support his fellowman without the
skillful management of his spiritual mother, the
church. He does not yet know how to help directly
his fellowmen without the need of his mothers
intervention. Or so that is the image being depicted.
In my understanding, religion or church, to be true,
must act like a good and wise parent, to wit: guide
and train the child to become fully independent. Inthis case, applying the principle to the church, the
church must train each member to be able to stand
on his own able to disburse his own tithes, without
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anymore giving the tithes to the church but directly
to the poor beneficiaries, not only to prevent abuse
of priests and ministers of the tithes, but also to bea stand alone Christian, able to help others without
depending on any church. That is to me the sign of
maturity, which the churches are not allowing to
happen. Instead, each church is acting as a
DETENTION CENTER, where every member isdetained and prevented from becoming free and
independent.