A Secularists Explores the

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Judaism, Christianity and Islam
SECTION ONEOUR BELIEFS page 3 SECTION TWOOUR CONSTERNATIONS page 61 SECTION THREERECAPITULATION page 83
Greetings! You say you are religious? Acquainted with your bible? Relax! This mind-expanding exploration found primitive professional proponents touted visions of devils in a nether world and gods up in the sky. The gods were pawns of polytheisms professional scammers. Ambitious vindictive rapacious kings adopted the specious godly scams as political tools using the gods professional proponents. King Josiahs politically inspired tribal propaganda, fabricated in the 600s BCE, was declared Holy Scripture. The poor public relations of its vain egomaniacal bigoted god caused the second fable about sacrificing Jesus, the new messiah, as penitence for humanitys sins. Judaisms and Christianitys political success persuaded Mohammed that an imaginary god could suppress knowledge, subjugate his people, and would assure his political success by creating another despotic religion; sentencing apostates, blasphemers, nonbelievers and the proponents of other gods to be either beheaded or burned at the stake. Judaic gods disdain for undiscriminating inclusiveness persuaded ancient prestigious professional proponents to seek their gods favor by provoking political hatred, which ignited historys devastating bloody religious wars. U.S.A. was worlds first secular democracy offering freedom from religion. I argue that our global reservoir of perspicacious women is our only hope for salvaging our semi-civilized worlds god-traumatized societies. Samuel Terrill Redwine Sr. Nonagenarian Secularist

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CONTENTS DEFINITIONS 3 FOREWORD 4 INTRODUCTION 7 OUR BEGINNING 10 JUDAISM 13 CHRISTIANITY 23 ISLAMISM 32 SYNOPSIS 38 EDUCATION 50 MATTER VS SPIRIT 54 MY FAITH & FINAL NOTES 56 DRINK MY WINE 60 SECTION TWO 61 OUR CONSTERNATIONS 61 OUR SAVIORS 65 RELIGIOUS TYRANNY 72 ETCETERA 76 SECTION THREE 83 RECAPITULATION 83 OUR FUTURE 89 EPILOGUE 92 BIBLIOGRAPHY 94 HISTORICAL DATES 95 CHRISTIAN ANTI-JUDAISM 96 EVOLUTION 99 PARTY REVERSAL 100 MIDDLE EAST FIASCO 101 UNITED STATES 102 U.S. ECONOMY 103 SCIENCE 104

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DEFINITIONS
Fable; fabulous; fancy; fantasy; fantastic; legend; legendary; mystical; mythical; mythological; phantasmal: connote imaginary and unreal or fictitious. Philosophy: the use of reason and argument in seeking truth and knowledge of reality, especially of the causes and nature of things and of the principles governing existence. Religion: the belief in a personal god or super-human controlling power to be obeyed and worshipped as the creators and rulers of the universe Faith: "unquestioning belief that does not require proof or evidence". Antinomianism: Christian theological doctrine; that faith alone, not obedience to the moral law, is required for salvation. Gods: any of the various beings conceived of as supernatural, immortal, and having special powers over the lives and affairs of people and the course of nature. In a monotheistic religion, the single god is considered omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, and creator and ruler of the universe. Supernatural: that which exists or occurs outside the normal experience or knowledge of man; not explainable by the known forces or laws of nature. Fundamentalism: religious beliefs based on a literal interpretation of everything in the Bible and regarded as fundamental to Christian faith and morals; the twentieth century movement among some American Protestants, is based on those beliefs. The Enlightenment: an eighteenth century European philosophical movement characterized by rationalism, an impetus toward learning, and a spirit of skepticism, and empiricism in social and political thought Science: systematized knowledge derived from observation, study and experimentation carried on in order to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied. Reason: means to think coherently and logically; to draw inferences or conclusions from facts whether known or assumed. Secularisms doctrine: disregards or rejects any form of religious faith; especially that religion and ecclesiastical affairs should not enter into the functions of the state. Secularists advocate tolerant worldly views. We think that it is ignorant and unfair to inculcate the minds of little children with the fallacies inherent in any religious indoctrination. Life: that property of plants and animals which makes it possible for them to take in food, get energy from it, grow, adapt themselves to their surroundings, and reproduce. Ignorance: reassures the less-intelligent, who are unaware of what they dont know, Propaganda: any systematic, widespread, dissemination or promotion of particular ideas, doctrines, practices, etc. to further ones own cause or to damage an opposing one. Blasphemy: any remark deliberately mocking or contemptuous of God. Cult: a system of religious worship or ritual.

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FOREWORD IT has been my intention for several years past, to publish my thoughts upon religion; I am well aware of the difficulties that attend the subject, and from that consideration, had reserved it to a more advanced period of life. I intended it to be the last offering I should make to my fellow citizens of all nations, and that at a time when the purity of the motive that induced me to it could not admit of a question, even by those who might disapprove the work. The circumstanceappertaining to compulsive systems of religion, and compulsive articles, of faith, has not only precipitated my intention, but rendered a work of this kind exceedingly necessary, lest in the general wreck of superstition, of false systems of government, and false theology, we lose sight of morality, of humanity. I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. But, lest it should be supposed that I believe many other things in addition to these, I shall, in the progress of this work, declare the things I do not believe, and my reasons for not believing them. I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. INFIDELITY does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving: it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society.in America, I saw the exceeding probability that a revolution in the system of government would be followed by a revolution in the system of religion. The adulterous connection of church and state, wherever it had taken place, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, had so effectually prohibited, by pains and penalties, every discussion upon established creeds, and upon first principles of religion, that until the system of government should be changed, those subjects could not be brought fairly and openly before the world; but that whenever this should be done, a revolution in the system of religion would follow. Samuel P. Huntingtons 1996 book: The Clash of Civilizations; said Islam is a political ideology; that religion is the principal defining characteristic of civilizations, that Muslims make up about one-fifth of the worlds population, and in the 1990s were far more involved in intergroup violence than 4
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the people of any other civilization. (Im apprehensive because America is the most religious of Western democracies.) Mr. Huntington said that the worlds great religions antedate Western civilization; that our world is moving out of its Western phase; that ideologies typifying Western civilization will decline, replaced by religions and other culturally based forms of identity and commitment; that the Westphalian treatys separation of internal politics from religion is ending; that religion is likely to intrude into international affairs; that intercivilizational clash of political ideas spawned by the West is being supplanted by an intercivilizational clash of culture and religion.He said late twentieth century saw a global resurgence of worldly religions; intensifying religious consciousness and the rise of fundamentalist movements; reinforcing their differences that the worlds Christians peaked at about 30% in the 1980s, leveled off in 1996 and would be about 25% by 2025 that the worlds Muslims will continue to increase dramatically, amounting to 20% of the worlds population by the turn of the century, surpassing the number of Christians some years later; probably accounting for 30% of the worlds population by 2025. Mr. Huntington also said that indigenization and the revival of religion are global phenomena; most evident in the dynamic civilizations of the last quarter of the twentieth century, Asias and Islams cultural assertiveness and challenges to the West; that Islams challenge manifests in its pervasive cultural, social, and political resurgence in the Muslim world; accompanying rejection of Western institutions and values; and that Asias challenge is manifest in East Asian civilizationsSinic, Japanese, Buddhist, and Muslim, emphasizing their cultural differences from the West and, at times, the commonalities they share, often identified with Confucianism; that Asians and Muslims stress the superiority of their cultures to Western culture. In contrast, people in other non-Western civilizations, i.e., Hindu, Orthodox, Latin American, and Africanmay affirm the distinctive character of their cultures, but as of the mid-1990s had been hesitant about proclaiming their superiority to Western culture. Asia & Islam stand alone; at times together, in an increasingly confident assertiveness with respect to the West. He said Related but different causes lie behind these challenges. Asian assertiveness is rooted in economic growth; Muslim assertiveness stems in considerable measure from social mobilization and population growth. Each of these challenges is having and will continue to have into the twenty-first century a highly destabilizing impact on global politics. The nature of those impacts, however, differs significantly. The economic development of China and other 5

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Asian societies provides their governments with both the incentives and the resources to become more demanding in their dealing with other countries, and particularly the expansion of the fifteen to twenty-four-year-old age cohort, provides recruits for fundamentalism, terrorism, insurgency, and migration. Economic growth threatens Muslim governments and non-Muslim societies.To ignore the impact of the Islamic Resurgence on Eastern Hemisphere politics in the late twentieth century is equivalent to ignoring the impact of the Protestant Reformation on European politics in the late sixteenth century.The Resurgence will also have shown that Islam is the solution to the problems of morality, identity, meaning, and faith, but not to the problems of social injustice, political repression, economic backwardness, and military weakness. These failures could generate widespread disillusionment with political Islam, and a search for alternative solutions to these problems. Life teaches: the golden rule is the first step toward world peace. The bible teaches: hate and revenge are sacred obligations, and that the Judaic god is partial to Jews, but during their ignominious history the god failed to save innocent Jews from the Vaticans inquisitions, persecutions, crusades and its complicity in the holocaust (See CHRISTIAN ANTI-JUDAISM). This treatise explores our misconceptions about Yahweh, God, Allah and their holy books. Where, when, how, why and who conceptualized the fabrications? Believers profess a blind-faith: that the bibles perfidious god is our source of all goodness. It is absurd that people grovel and worship the bibles egomaniacal, death-dealing God. Deceitful interpretations by the prestigious professional proponents of Abrahamic religions mystical gods prompted my search for reasonable explanations. I have not found an iota of tangible evidence supporting authenticity of the bibles Pentateuch, but lots of evidence explaining why our world is fraught with a plethora of blind-faith believers in an Abrahamic faith; that succeeded by slaughtering all nonbelievers. Judaism and Christianity forewent the killing about 1000 years ago, but Islam still kills their dissenters. Who abides faith in religions that murdered millions of the innocent, to gain an illogical imposition upon society, but hypocritically consider family planning sinful? I have no faith in ignorance which sired the Abrahamic religions; they thrive on it and beget it. I only fear religious zealots dogmatic killer instinct; instilled by fictitious Judaic-god-Yahweh, who commanded believers to destroy all apostates, blasphemers, nonbelievers and the proponents of other gods.

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INTRODUCTION You say you dont believe in evolution? Not surprising; a 2008 Gallup poll found that only 15% of Americans accepted the proposition that humans developed over millions of years; revealing national ignorance regarding scientific facts versus religious beliefs; its inimical for our future political wellbeing. Wait! Wait! Dont leave; Im working with 14 pt. font, zoomed 100%, on a 24 inch monitor, in order to see punctuation, and a little slow. Prestigious professional proponents of mystical gods blame evolution on educated nonbelievers. Evolution is a natural process of all living things. Survival of the fittest, is best explained by noting that the total quantity of seeds, eggs and sperm produced is an excessive potential for life because it far exceeds Earths ability to support them all, so each faces a life and death struggle against other living things; a natural progression, allowing the stronger healthier living things to survive and reproduce. For billions of years, with occasional mutations, all living things gradually improved; beginning with single cell microorganisms, which evolved into todays living things, where each struggles, competing against other living things. Man abets evolution by selectively breeding his domestic plants and animals. Consider this implausible proposition: ignorant simple-minded societies that destroyed their most intelligent citizens for a millennium became less intelligent; this evolutionary circumstance is pertinent to my premise. (See EVOLUTION) Another fact thats essential to my premise, is our plethora of nonthinkers and dearth of thinkers and their relationship to mans ignoble fabrications of three superficial religions mystical gods, who nonthinkers worship, but thinkers were aware of mans conspiratorial ideas; his conceptualizations seeking opportunities to challenge fellowmen, etc. Since our beginning, thinkers have explored and reasoned the insignificance of mystical gods. Ancient Jews and Christians murdered thinkers who professed disbelief, and Islamic Muslims do the same thing today. You say youve pondered the mysteries of the bibles Judaic God to no avail? I lost faith about fifty years ago, after a family disaster, when our preacher explained: God was testing us. I was familiar with the bible and suspected a god that destroyed the worlds population with a flood, except for one family, was an egomaniacal pathological killer; not benevolent and forgiving, which is more appropriate for a biblical God. My skepticism was confirmed; religion is illogical, but I presumed there was a logical 7

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reason for the Pentateuchs incongruity and perverse stories where God commands Israels army to destroy nations, but to save young virgins for the soldiers. A monstrous god that commands obeisant propitiation, but kills innocent foreign women children and infants, is now acclaimed by many of our worlds people as their creator and daily guide. They fear it, grovel on their knees reverently praying; seeking the fatuous promise of eternal life. Reliance on the intangible holy books cries-out for rational explanations. For fifty years, I have searched history for clues. The bible and two extraordinary books by Jewish professors published earlier this century, connected-the-dots and provided clues to why an ancient king was motivated to compose a legendary epic; which unequivocally solves the specious Judaic Gods equivocations. Marvin A. Sweenys book: King Josiah of Judah, The Lost Messiah of Israel; plus Israel Finkelsteins and Neil Asher Silbermans: The Bible Unearthed; plus our education problems and Islamic terrorism; inspired and prompted this treatise. Many postulate the bibles origin. Amalgamated results from two centuries of explorations by archeologists and epigraphists reveal: the bibles Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel and 1&2 Kings were extrapolated from King Josiahs politically inspired, tribal propaganda. Its leading character was portrayed as a hardnosed, death-dealing tribal god that coerced Josiahs subjects away from polytheism; assuring their allegiance by killing apostates, blasphemers, etc. Josiahs propaganda reveals origins for the Hebrew bibles Pentateuch and Judaic God. I am obliged to respond to the Abrahamic religions absurdities by telling the story comprehensibly, convincingly and factually. The universes infiniteness is incomprehensible and crucial to what 94 years taught me. The Hubbles powerful telescope, above the atmosphere, enables todays astronomers to view the awesome cosmos billions of lightyears away. Without countervailing evidence, we nonbelievers realize that it was not created for the exclusive convenience of Adam & Eve, or for the progeny of Abraham Isaac & Jacob. Life taught: we are obliged to treat our Earth, with respectful affection; and Im obliged to treat others honestly and politely; also that we are attracted to opposing poles; positively, by undiscriminating inclusiveness, curiosity, creative-initiative, and craving, for additional knowledge, or negatively, by foregoing inclusiveness, worldly knowledge, etc.; depending upon the bibles ruthless intolerant exclusive divisive immoral, jealous Judaic god, Yahweh.

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Sunday school impressed Gods altruism on me, but as an adult, I could not imagine an egomaniacal, genocidal tyrannical God commanding believers to kill nonbelievers, even if the victim is a family member; it was unbelievable! Why was God portrayed so iniquitously? Im swimming upstream against vast currents of believers who inherited their faith from ancient ancestors who were forced to believe in aristocracys wrathful god or die; and whose progeny taught children that God must be obeyed as He commands or theyd be killed. Why do descendants worship spurious gods; why do Religion-Lites satiate them with righteous self-satisfaction; and why do Islamic regimes enforce King Josiahs ossified vengeful dogma with totalitarianism? Its all because the precepts of the bible & koran are from Josiahs tribal propaganda, his fabulous biblical saga. Christianity and Muslimism are extrapolated from Judaisms Holy Scriptures, whose origin Ive deduced by correlating biblical clues with other information. Bible scholars attest that the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy were composed during the reign of King Josiah and that after he was killed; his scholars revised it while exiled in Babylon, adding Joshua, Judges, 1&2Samuel and 1&2Kings. Josiahs self-aggrandizing propaganda proclaims himself Yahwehs ideal, most righteous king; denigrating other Israeli and Judahite kings; all in order to strengthen his despotic reign. This is the bible story I have long wanted to tell. Once upon a time, a long time ago, (2,660 years), in 648 BCE, Prince Josiah was born in the restive Israelite kingdom of Judah. At the age of 8 his father was assassinated. Josiah inherited the kingdom, reigned for 31 years, and inadvertently, created what we know as the Hebrew Bibles Holy Scriptures. Josiah did not author a bible, but to survive polytheisms evil divisiveness, and to impress his people with their tribes epical uniqueness, his team of political and religious leaders composed a royal tract of tribal propaganda; his fabulous legend about his tribes mythical ancestors and a tribal god. Misunderstandings, resulting from worshiping polytheisms disparate gods had destroyed several Judahite kings. In order to appreciate King Josiahs political precariousness, we will first explore mans early experiences in the next chapter with a few of primitive polytheisms numerous gods.

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OUR BEGINNING 1. As lifes decisions are influenced by the consequences of our earlier experiences, Ill begin this saga at the primordial spark of life, 3.5 billion years ago; in the shallows of an African lake with single cell organisms, which through eons of time, multiplied, mutated, and developed through innumerable biological stages via natural selection, when only the fittest survive to repeat the reproductive process, known as evolution. Thence, we reached the developmental stage of genus Homo or primate, and after evolving the ability to stand erect and walk on two legs, we became what we now know to have been species Homo erectus. During the Pleistocene geological age, when continental ice sheets were spreading and receding, our brains evolved into the sagacious, discerning species, Homo sapiens. 2. Mystical gods were vital features of primitive humanity. Its obvious that Homo erectus wasnt interested in self-delusion. Indulgence with gods awaited arrival of Homo sapiens exuberant curiosity before we questioned the how or why of our existence. You are probably aware that our first fearsome gods were the terrifying unpredictable forces of nature. Natural phenomena, our slowly evolving intellects, and imaginations, prompted us to ponder god-ideas, i.e., the use of occult powers to politically organize and manipulate our tribal communitys ignorant disoriented members. 3. Females wellspring was venerated as Natures life-giving, energizing power. Our Mother-Earth provided our sustenance. Our long evolutionary development sensitized us to our environment. Our Earths mother was the Sun, which arose each morning, as we did, and traveled across the sky, keeping watch over her plant and animal life; nourishing us with warmth and rain. We eventually realized the Suns magnificent influence as the moving force that constituted the god-idea. The productive power in all plants and animals emanated from Sun, which we worshipped as natures great energizer. The god of light and creation, able to manipulate us with unanticipated rewards of goodness or punish us with natures fearsome outbursts. This is the source of our god-idea, where we first assigned occult powers to the sun and poisoned our minds with its mythologies. To please the seemingly fanciful churlish whims of our sun-god, we performed rituals and sacrificed our children to appease or appeal to Sun. We celebrated Suns summer and winter solstices and its spring and autumn equinoxes. Sun could not be ignored. It appears that early names of the gods were compounded or derived from words that originally meant the sun. We 10

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primitive ignorant males venerated fire and serpents with no consideration for the lives of rival tribes. The Lotus and Fichus Religiosa or banyan trees were religiously significant. Trees were assigned male and female designations; most gods were thought to be androgynous. 4. We men worshiped women as our Suns dearest creation, part of Suns vital system; our source of new lives; we considered them androgynous; their regenerative powers requiring only the Suns consent. Females were the political-social leaders of communal groups. A mothers eminence was proportional to the new lives she had brought forth and to their wellbeing and Sun-god accounted for each childs welfare. 5. We males were fulfilled with matriarchal arrangements; convinced that female leadership served our best interests, we never felt the pangs of unsatisfied sexual desire and Sun-god received credit for womens ability to create new lives. If our community needed new sons, we appealed to the Sun-god. We were not a part of female families, but lived separately as our communitys guardian-hunters; at puberty, boys were sent to live with us. Our matriarchal communities tolerated and accommodated males without jealousy. Women dominated, but welcomed men; their maternal instincts blossomed throughout that golden era, and communal life thrived, under their velvet yoke, but was destined to implode when natures secret was revealed. We assumed the Sun-god was punishing women, who failed to regularly bring forth a new life, so the disclosure was slow to materialize, but when we eventually saw the consequences of coitions significance to our social position in our community, we lost our equiponderance and saw women through a new lens. Without our complicity, women were unable to create new lives, and we stupidly denied their divinity. Ignorance poisoned our perspective, disposition, attitude and opportunities for fornication. We men fought as we, individually, collected women for sexual service. 6. We men were no longer the compliant gender; we were gods and we demanded women worship us. The yoni was no longer our sacred religious symbol; we men worshipped our own genitals; our favorite symbol was the phallus. Todays places of worship feature towers, spires and minarets. The Washington Monument is another example, as well as New York Citys twin erections, the World Trade Center towers, destroyed by Islamic extremists. Significantly, todays worlds tallest towers, i.e., symbolic phallic erections, are in Islamic countries; in addition to their religions many minarets.

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7. Male testes have been mans only god, since the end of primitive matriarchy. After male reproductive power had become God, and when, through superstition and sensuality, the masses of the people had descended to the rank of slaves, monarchs, representing themselves to their ignorant subjects as the source of all blessings, even of life itself, appropriated the titles of the sun, and claimed for themselves the adoration which had formerly belonged to it. 8. After our awakening, gender roles of gods were reversed, depravity ruled; decency was the first casualty of our dominance. Male vanity, ego, pride, jealousy, greed and our stupidity, limited our scope of influence. For eons we men fought for our needs and desires. We could not depend upon womens cooperation, and fellowmen were challenging competitors who formed contentious cliques vying for leadership of our ignorant tribe. 9. Astute conniving jungle men conceived of voodooists sorcery, with gods, fetishes, and sacrificial rituals; a religious scam to outwit their tribe. All gods were male with male prerogatives. We fought and divided into competitive sects. Male homosexual priests prostituted women to fund their sect, formed under the guise of celibacy. Professionals perpetuated this perfidious scam during polytheisms history as we followed receding ice sheets into North Africa and established Egyptian dynasties; then to East Asia, and Mesopotamias Babylonian Empire, ancient Greece, and Europe, beginning in Rome, as ancient dynasties appropriated the con-game, and proclaimed gods; building altars within their lands to facilitate sacrificial slaughtering. Primitive prestigious professional proponents of mystical gods collected portions of the meat, perpetuating the scam. 10. Male obsession with righteous self-importance subdued women, and their progeny belonged to us males. Primitive professional priests enforced dynastic monarchs commands by sanctifying the killing of astute sagacious discerning non-allegiant infidels. King Josiah of Judah rescued his Israelites from polytheisms disparate divisive gods by decreeing an exclusive tribal god; contributing to our worlds god problems. Josiahs saga is the source of the original Abrahamic faith, Judaism. You will enjoy this story; its about a young boy who inherited a kingdom and was inadvertently responsible for creating 11 of the bibles first twelve books. All quotations and much information were gleaned from Eliza Burt Gambles: God Ideas
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JUDAISM In the 6th century the Vaticans Dionysius Exiguus invented the Anno Domini era, which is used to number the years of both the Gregorian and the Julian calendar. Today, bible scholars appear to prefer the designation CE (Common Era) to AD and BCE (Before Common Era) to BC. 1. Egypts first dynasty (4500 BCE), on the Nile river and Mesopotamias Babylon (2100 BCE), in the Tigress-Euphrates river area, worshipped gods, and prepared for an after-life. Mesopotamia invented writing; theirs is the oldest written history. Their Enuma Elish is a Babylonian Creation Myth believed to date prior to 1000 BCE; its Epic of Giglameshs flood and the tower of Babel influenced the bibles Genesis. The two empires vied for control of lands between them. Egyptian forts protected northern Sinais coastal road leading to its military garrisoned Canaan area. By the 900s BCE, wandering Mesopotamian Israelites had settled in both the Niles delta and in Canaan, near Mediterranean Seas southeastern end, forming two kingdoms, Israel in the northern agrarian area and Judah in the southern semi-desert area. Assyria conquered and subjugated its neighbors; amalgamating its future empire, which would be centered in the region of the upper Tigris River, extending from the head of the Persian Gulf to Egypt and Asia Minor and was at its zenith in the 600s BCE. The Israelites had only folktales, but no written tribal record; fabrication of an epical heroic tribal history divided their contentious polytheistic pagan world. 2. My story begins in 734 BCE, when Tiglathpileser 3, king of Assyria, (745-727 BCE), marched against King Pekah of Israel and King Rezin of Syria, (2Kings 15:29 &16:7-9); they made war against his vassal, King Ahaz of Judah. He punished Israel; carrying some of its people into exile, (2Kings 17:1-6). Israel was destroyed and taken in 722 BCE after a three year siege by Shalmaneser 4, king of Assyria (727-722 BCE) who enslaved Israels more skillful people, moved them to Assyrian territories, replacing them with deportees. Political leaders, scholars, scribes, priests and many others eluded capture, making their way south to Jerusalem in Judah where King Hezekiah reigned over his war-weary nomadic shepherds. He died in 698 B.C.E; his 12 year old son, Manasseh, became king; reigned for 55 years. His son, Amon, became king at age 22, but when 24 was assassinated in a coup dtat, (2Kings 20-23); and 8 year old son, Josiah, inherited the restive kingdom in 639 BCE. He was scared. As an astute eager young man, feeling his virility, he attributed his fathers death to the worship of polytheisms 13

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divisive gods. Fearing for his life, he sought sanctification for his reign, and at age 26 renovated the temple, where a Torah scroll of tribal laws was found. In the intervening years, since Israels loss, the migrants had sought duties commensurate with their expertise; bible scholars assume Josiahs team composed and planted the scroll to promote his monotheistic god ideas. The discovery initiated Josiahs reform program. He corrected the cultic transgressions of his predecessors, removed all pagan worship sites, and prohibited polytheism, plus sacrificing small children on religious alters, and dreamed of influential Israelite communities exclusive culture with a tribal god. Josiahs scholars initiated his aspirations to coalesce, invigorate, motivate and inspire his people with tribal uniqueness; thereby assuring allegiance. 3. Over a protracted period of time, Josiahs team of scholars composed an inspirational conspiratorial fable; a tract of political and religious tribal propaganda, as they imagined a retrospective of their history should have been. How King Josiahs alter ego, the mystical Yahweh, created the world and its first inhabitants, Adam & Eve, in the Garden of Eden, the sagas of sons Cain & Able and Noah & the flood, ideas from Mesopotamian mythology; Yahweh chose Abraham to father a nation, through his son Isaac, whose son Jacobs twelve sons fathered the twelve tribes of Israel. While in Egypt, seeking succor from famine they multiplied, and were enslaved by the Pharaoh. It told of Moses birth and that Yahweh promised them a land of their own, overcame the mighty Pharaoh, helped them escape, provided tribal laws and for forty years guided their search, throughout Sinai for the Promised Land. Moses did not survive the long drawn-out search, but genocidal Yahweh intervened and Joshua destroyed all Canaanite cities; killing everyone including innocent mothers and children, allowing David and Solomon to base empires in Jerusalem. The fable tells that when Solomon died, Yahweh divided the tribes; ten selected Jeroboams leadership and developed the nation of Israel. The two remaining tribes went with Reroboams Judah, (1Kings 11-12). Josiah composed his fabulous tale to reassure edgy Israelites; especially to show them Yahwehs personal relationship to Israeli tribes. The deceitful tale failed to relate the two kingdoms factual history. 4. Josiahs self-aggrandizing fable portrays Yahweh naming Josiah the righteous ideal king, Israelites his chosen people, and Jerusalems Temple the only legitimate place of worship. His fable also included 14

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Yahwehs code of laws, (Deuteronomy); covering all aspects of tribal life, with death threats for anyone who dared defy them; it promised that King Davids progeny would rule Judah forever. 5. Egypts dynastic empires left a history carved in stone. Epigraphists have found no record of the Israelites Egyptian bondage, extensive search, or of Solomons vast empire except in Josiahs propaganda; his legendary epical theological fable, falsely claiming Judahs dominance over Israel and events they imagined had happened a millennium earlier; its main themes were the Judahites righteous fidelity to Yahweh, the gods disallowance of all other gods and prohibiting Israelites marrying foreign women. His fantastic tale included deceptive ancient prophesies of recent genealogical and political affairs; not miraculous revelations, but aggregations of deceitful mythological adventures, reinforcing Josiahs tribal propaganda; whose success was two-fold; Yahweh sanctified Josiahs reign; and preached love for his Israelites, but hate and revenge toward all others, plus death for apostates, blasphemers, nonbelievers, etc. assuring compliant allegiance of Josiahs subjects, who treasured his fabulous fable as their tribes legendary epic. 6. Josiah was 39 (609 BCE) when Pharaoh-Nechos army killed him at Megiddo (2Kings 23:29), and Egypt reclaimed Judah. Necho, (2Kings 2324); consecutively appointed Josiahs sons; Jehoahaz age 23; Eliakim age25, known as Jehoiakim, then his son Jehoiachin age 18; followed by third son, Zedekiah age 21, as Kings of Judah. Crown prince Nebuchadnezzar, of Babylon, (Daniel 1:1-7); advanced to Jerusalem in 608, spared rebellious King Jehoiakim, but carried off several princes. Nebuchadnezzar was King of Babylon (608-562 BCE; 2Kings 24:1-16), conquered Jerusalem again. King Zedekiah (2Kings 24:18- 20 and 25:1-30) pledged allegiance to the Babylonian king, (Jeremiah 39:1-10); but proved disloyal. Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem for nineteen months, ending in 586 BCE, executed its community leaders, burned the city and exiled survivors, who revised and redacted their legendary epic while in Babylon; bible scholars call them Deuteronomistic Histories; DtrH1, the Josianic edition and DtrH2, the exilic edition, which includes their tribes subsequent history plus the convoluted solutions to Yahwehs promises, in the Josianic edition to David and Josiah, which could no longer be fulfilled. Bible scholars have studied the revisions for centuries. The Josianic edition was in Hebrew, but all corrections and additions were in the Aramaic lingua franca.

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7. Forty eight years after Jerusalems fall, Cyrus, Persias king, destroyed the Babylonian Empire in 538 BCE and issued a decree permitting Jews to return to Judah (Ezra 1-10 & Nehemiah 1-2). They returned under aegis of Artaxerxes 1, king of Persia (464-424 BCE). Furnished with royal power, Ezra, in 458 BCE and Nehemiah in 445 BCE brought back exiles, rebuilt the wall, reestablished a Jewish community and in 444BCE, with the exilic edition of King Josiahs tribal propaganda for their Holy Scriptures, established new monotheistic Judaism. Monotheisms doctrine: there is one God who rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked; everyone must worship God as He commands or die. Monotheisms Holy Scriptures were: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These narrate the story of the people of Israel from the creation of the world, through the period of the flood and the patriarchs, to the Exodus from Egypt, the wanderings in the desert, the giving of the law at Sinai.& The Former ProphetsJoshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel and 1&2 Kingstell the story of the people of Israel from their crossing of the river Jordan, conquest of Canaan, through the rise and fall of the Israelite kingdoms, to their defeat and exile by Assyrians and Babylonians. Holy Scriptures became the Hebrew bibles first books; followed by: Writings, a collection of homilies, poems, prayers, proverbs and Psalms, apparently from the fifth to the second century BCEin the Persian and Hellenistic periods. 8. The Persian Period (400-330 BCE);-----For about 150 years after Nehemiahs time, the Persians controlled Judea; ruled by high priests who were responsible to the Jewish government, but the Jews were allowed to carry on their religious observances without interference. 9. The Greek Period (330-166 BCE); -----In 333 BCE the Persian armies stationed in Macedonia were defeated by Alexander the Great. He was convinced that Greek culture was the one force that could unify the world. Alexander permitted the Jews to observe their laws and even granted them exemption from tribute or tax during their sabbatical years. When he built Alexander in Egypt, he encouraged Jews to live there and gave them some of the same privileges he gave his Greek subjects. This led to the Holy Scriptures translation into Greek (Septuagint), revealing to the Hellenistic world that Jews God disavowed marriages to foreigners, and preferred killing them. 10. The Hasmonean Period (166-63 BCE); -----When this historical period began, the Jews were being greatly oppressed. The Polemics had been tolerant of the Jews and their religious practices, but the Seleucid rulers were 16

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determined to force Hellenism on them. Copies of the Scriptures were ordered destroyed and laws were enforced with extreme cruelty. Led by Judas the Maccabee, the Syrians were defeated in a series of battles, which secured the independence of the province of Judea and were the foundation of the Hasmonean dynasty. This time period was filled with numerous political struggles, posing many problems to the religiously-oriented Jews. 11. The Roman Period (63 BCE-CE 135); -----In year 63 BCE, Pompey, the Roman general, captured Jerusalem, and the provinces of Palestine became subject to Rome. Martin Goodmans book; Rome and Jerusalem, describes in great detail how the Roman troops attacked a Jerusalem market in 66 CE, killing 3,600 including children and infants, beginning a cycle of increasing violence and rebellious Jewish mobs retaliating. In the first months of the ensuing conflict in Jerusalem the Romans themselves were not directly involved. Factional strife within the Jewish population led to heavy loss of life. For years the Jews harassed and killed Roman troops, which quietly withdrew, but the rebels cornered and devastated retreating troops; humiliating the empire, and delaying their attack until 70 CE, when a massive Roman army arrived outside Jerusalems walls and began a five month siege, starving and murdering rebellious inhabitants, then burned and leveled the entire city to the ground. Rome continued its war against Judaism by refusing to allow Jews the freedom permitted to all ordinary subjects of the emperor, to rebuild their destroyed sanctuary. The resulting Jewish diasporas resentment disrupted surrounding regions with deadly attacks, impelling Roman over-reaction. Jews in the Roman empire hated Roman rule. The emperor Hadrian ruled (117-138). Early in his reign he visited Judaea. The Judaea that Hadrian had in mind was not to be Jewish. At Jerusalem, he founded a city in place of the one which had been razed to the ground, naming it Aelia Capitolina, and on the site of the temple of the god he raised anew temple to Jupiter.Hadrians reformed province was to have at its heart, not a rebuilt Jewish Temple but a Roman colony, named Aelia in recognition of his own family and himself and Cappitolina in honor of Jupitor Capitolinus, whose cult was to be of central importance in the new citywar broke out because the Jews deemed it intolerable that foreign races should be settled in their city and foreign religious rites planted there. Aelia Capitolina was not to be refounded as a Greek city in which Jews might settle and be civilized, but as a Roman colony, inhabited by gentiles, from which Jews were to be excluded.By planting a Roman Colony on the site where the Jewish Temple had once stood, he [Hadrian] made it crystal clear 17

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that the Temple was not to be rebuilt. Leaving the site of Jerusalem empty for sixty years had proven an invitation to the Jews to agitate for a return to their former glories. While Hadrian was visiting his distant provinces in year 132, the Jews revolted and occupied their strengthened rural positions, underground refuges, etc. Hadrians best generals intercepted small groups; starved, exhausted and exterminated them. In the event these Jewish fighters were to maintain their independence for some three and a half years, inflicting heavy losses on the Roman force sent to suppress them, until in 135 they were finally overwhelmed.very few of the Jews in fact survived. Fifty of their most important outposts and nine hundred and eighty-five of their most famous villages were razed to the ground. Five hundred and eighty thousand men were slain in the various raids and battles, and the number of those that perished by famine, disease and fire was past finding out. Thus nearly the whole of Judaea was made desolatemany Romans, moreover perished in this war.After seventy years of tension and conflict, Jews could never again realistically hope to live in the Roman empire with the same freedom as other minorities to practice their ancestral customs and worship their God in their own land.---- When Augustus, the first Roman emperor (27 BCE-14 CE), died it was his divinity that was celebratedthe imperial cult, the worship of emperors dead and alive, rapidly became one of the most powerful forces toward the unification of the Roman worldsome of the temples and altars dedicated to this worship were set up on local initiative, and can be seen as a means for provincials to make religious sense of the irruption of Roman power into the lives of their communities. The city, Aelia Capitolina, flourished as the home of Romes legions. There had been no Jewish state for 175 years, when in 306 CE emperor Constantine ascended to power and converted to Christianity in year 325. In year 361 emperor Julian ordered reconstruction of the Temple, but it was soon stopped. 12. Hebrew bible was translated into Greek Septuagint, about 250 BCE; 600 years later, Saint Jerome, (340?-420 CE), translated much of Septuagint into Latin; then translated the Hebrew bible into Latin Vulgate and adopted it as the first part of Christianitys canon; the Douay Bible; the verses incriminating Yahweh were provided excuses or else removed. 13. Martin Luther, (1483-1546), translated the New Testament into German. More than 1100 years after Saint Jeromes translation, Luther, with collaborators tailored their translation of the Old Testament to his doctrine, which influenced William Tyndales English bible, a precursor of the King James 1 Version for Protestants, published in 1611 CE as the 18

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Authorized Version. In late nineteenth century, it was redacted, revised; and known as the Revised Version. In 1901 the KJV was revised again and called the American Standard Version. In the mid twentieth century, it was revised and renamed the Revised Standard Version. Recently revised again, it is now called: Todays New International Version; TNIV. 14. The Hebrew bible, purports to represent historical events for two thousand tears, from the twentieth century BCE, until its completion by edict of the Rabbinical Council of Jamnia, 90 CE. Deuteronomistic History concocted by King Josiah was a deceitful ruse to convince his people that Yahweh, had guided their ancient ancestors and would protect them as long as they obeisantly worshipped Yahweh and Josiah, the specious gods Earthly emissary. His people needed to believe that their ancestors were epically heroic, and that Josiahs kingdom was assured a great future with its exclusive tribal god, who later in the bible vicariously enjoys destroying his enemies, e.g., commanding the Israelite army to kill them all, including children, but to save young virgins for their own pleasure. It was classic BS. King Josiahs tribal propagandas tyrannical Yahweh is the Judaic God, which precludes the bible being the word of God. We know how the Jews fared with fraudulent Yahweh during their consequential history of Christian, inquisitions, persecutions, executions, and midtwentyth centurys Holocaust.; when some six million Jewish mothers, fathers, children, etc. were maliciously murdered with the Vaticans active complicity. (See CHRISTIAN ANTI-JUDAISM). 15. Ezra and Nehemiah adopted Josiahs tribal propaganda for Judaisms Holy Scriptures; proclaiming an exclusive god, ethnological superiority to rival kingdoms, and that Yahwehs commands to kill nonbelievers assured their tribes future, but Yahwehs egomaniacal stupidity and malevolent lust for the blood of foreigners has been a feverish boil on Israels bottom. Killing all nonbelievers assured Judaism a successful first millennium; an egregious error that rid Jewish culture of its sagacious discerning citizens; leaving the ignorant to propagate believers, which explains our plethora of believers and dearth of thinkers. Josiahs tribal god, Yahweh was adopted by other political leaders because it sanctified killing nonbelievers, etc. Abetted by prestigious professional proponents of mystical gods, progeny adopted specious beliefs; propagating more ignorant believers. Belief in a god is an aberration requiring blind faith. Everything is possible, but blind faith by billions has caused innumerable conflicts that contentiously divide 19

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us. Another fact: men determined sacredness, composed fables, legends, songs and dance; establishing the eminence of spurious gods. We are a restless people; a few seek knowledge; others remain devoid of knowledge, goals or beliefs; while the majority grovel on their knees, clinging to the Big-Lie of devils in a nether world, and righteous gods up in the sky. 16. The bibles first five books divulge Josiahs theological hopes, i.e., his imaginations fabulous tribal gods creation of the world. The adventurous tales of Yahweh with the patriarchs depicts Josiahs grandiose visions. He composed a tribal code threatening death for all who dared investigate or criticize his monotheistic god-idea; attributing the code to Yahweh; intending the gods death threats, and his own compliant killing, to convince his subjects of his divinity. He aspired to be divine, and portrayed himself as Gods ideal, most righteous king and administrator of the gods laws; which convinced his followers of his spurious divinity. Josiah rid his kingdom of nonbelievers, and his fable served as Judahs legendary epic for two centuries before Jews adopted it for their Holy Scriptures, whose origin was not a miraculous revelation, but a youthful kings insurance to protect himself from polytheisms divisiveness. He was astute and prescient; his Yahweh was an effective vengeful propagandist, but a miserable disruptive failure, as God; concocted by sanctimonious vindictive, rapacious men. Supernatural is not responsible for our Moral Code and the holy books are not axiomatic, but deceitful divisive threatening propaganda. 17. King Josiahs concept of the genesis of humanity, i.e., Creationism: is the doctrine that ascribes the origin of matter, species, etc. to acts of creation by God; its also the doctrine that God creates a new soul for every human being born: opposed to Traducianism, defined as the theological doctrine that the soul is inherited from the parents. Antinomianism: is a Christian theological doctrine decreeing: faith alone, not obedience to the moral law, is necessary for salvation. It is clear that this allowed clergy and believers to lie, steal, etc. as well as kill nonbelievers, with divine impunity. Mans concocted specious godly doctrines are deemed indisputable; but are obviously designed to present religions ordure in a palatable manner. 18. Josiah did not seek to mislead posterity, but to coerce his people away from polytheisms many gods by proclaiming his alter ego as their exclusive tribal god, for their psychological advantage; to unite, inspire and invigorate them; it also protected his personal security. Should Josiah be held accountable for the despoliation and desecration caused by a belief 20

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in the malevolent god of his pernicious ruse? Josiah was not composing the Holy Scriptures, but unholy propaganda he deemed necessary to manage his Judahite kingdom. King Josiahs deceitful ruse, the bibles early books, is the basis of Judaism, Christianity and Muslimism; whose subjugated multitudes were forced to obey the official god and to kill all naysayers. 19. Yahwehs exclusivity is stupid, and is opposed to the heterogeneity necessary to sustain our existence on Earth. Doubts about King Josiahs biblical fable persist. For the past 200 years, epigraphists, archaeologists, scholars, and others searched biblical regions and found a history much simpler than the bibles; which is the only reference found of the Patriarchs, the Exodus, the Conquest of Canaan, and the empires of David and Solomon. Hebrew were originally Canaanites who worshipped Israelites angry jealous God. And The Jewish sects: Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes flourished in Jerusalem from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE. 20. The most egregious consequences of King Josiahs self-aggrandizing pernicious ruse: is religions deceptive perpetration and perpetuation of it upon an ignorant gullible humanity for the past twenty six centuries. Why did the Israelites and progeny believe Josiahs tribal propaganda was Holy Scripture? What resulted, and why, after their ignominious history, is it considered sacred? Its because semi-developed intellects follow paths of least resistance to resolve conundrums; and gods are simple solutions to unfathomable queries. Faith in specious gods does not require developed intellects, as ignorance, imagination, and emotion are sufficient; therefore: blind faith in mystical gods is inversely proportional to intelligence. To comprehend Yahwehs adamant barbarity toward all Jewish opposition you must read the bible. Gods irrational criminality is a strange unbelievable behavior for peace-loving people to emulate, but Josiahs fable, the Pentateuch has been believed by billions of the ignorant and gullible. Its obvious unreasonableness is blatantly mythical and untrue. It is impossible to understand how God can be perceived as good as the bibles portrayal is not commendable. To know Gods true character, read the following bible verses: Genesis 7:20-23 and 19: 3-8/Exodus 12:29-30 and 17:14-16 and 21:7-8
and 22:24/Leviticus 24:16 and 25:44-46/Numbers 21:31-35 and 25: 3-9 and 31: 1-18 /Deuteronomy 7: 1-6 and 13:6-16 and 20:10-18 and 22:20-21 and 25:11-12 and 28:1568 and 31:3-5/Joshua 6:20-21 and 7:24-25 and 8:1-8 and 10:12-14 and 11:12-15/ Judges 11:30-31 and 19:22-24/ 1st Samuel; chapters 5 & 6 and 15:1-3/2nd Samuel; chapters; 11 & 12/ 1st King 14:10/1st Chronicles 21:8-12/ Ezra 10:10-11/ Esther 2:2-4/ the book of Job/Isaiah 3:16-17 and 13:15-20/Jeremiah 3:1-3 and 7:29-34 and 19:9/Ezekiel 3:20 and 4:12-13 and 6:3-7 and 9:5-7/Psalm 137:8-9; these verses

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show Judaic-gods true character. The original Holy Scriptures were tribal propaganda; composed by King Josiah because his fathers assassination indicated a rift of tribal non-allegiance. Fear of rebellious subjects inspired Josiahs famous biblical fable, but fictional god-Yahweh is impotent; unable to help his chosen people in their struggle to survive, replenish, sustain, and promote their primitive repressive regressive religion. 21. King Josiahs deceitful fable about his tribes ancient history with its misbegotten mystical, Yahweh, decreed: racial-purity, hatred of foreigners and revenge as sacred principles, proved self-defeating; begrudged by all, especially the insistence on circumcision, killing apostates, blasphemers, nonbelievers and proponents of other gods. Neighboring nations resented Jews ambitious resourcefulness, exclusive god and culture. To amend their steadily deteriorating situation in a contentious pagan polytheistic world; Jewish political leaders again resorted to a fable, similar to: god-Yahweh creating the world. Their new fables recompensive gesture told of Jesus Immaculate Conception by a propitious Yahweh with a betrothed Jewish virgin in order to sire a sane sensible benevolent Jewish messiah. The fable adopted a sixth century BCE Persian legend (500 years before Jesus) describing a god, born of a virgin, at the winters solstice, who is put to death, and ascends into heaven at the vernal equinox. Biographical legends of several gods including Buddha, Krishna, Adonis and Jesus, closely follow the old legends pattern; it is assumed: each biography was created in compliance with Persias ancient legend. Our ancient fable of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, was adapted from a black mother and child deity of Egyptian mythology. The Jesus fable was fabricated in the 2nd half of the 1st century. Numerous Jews embraced the fables altruistic messiah, but the majority did not. 22. Christianity is based on the Jesus fables, but Christians blamed the Jews for killing Jesus, vilifying all Hebrew. Christians persecuted and killed Jews unmercifully because of Christian hate. See CHRISTIANITY; the next chapter: relates the destiny of the Jesus fables.
Quotes & information were gleaned from: The Bible Unearthed, by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. Quote in paragraph 1 is from Wikipedia. Quotations in paragraphs 8; 9; 10 are from Zondervans KJV bible, and Paragraph 11 is from Martin Goodmans: Rome and Jerusalem. The Persian legend and Egyptian mythology are from Eliza Burt Gambles: Gods of the Ancients.

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CHRISTIANITY Ponder JUDAISMS paragraphs 21&22 plus the legends. The first Gospel was the Jews Jesus fable; the others were careless copies. Bart D. Ehrmans Lost Christianities, says during the 2nd & 3rd centuries CE a hodge-podge of books were written about the gospels and that many copies of the gospels were hand-lettered; that each was subject to errors, omissions and changes to comply with the scribes views; that no originals exist; the earliest copies extant are from the Middle Ages, 476-1450, but no two are identical. Dr. Ehrman says many ancient books are extant; some about the lives of Mary and Jesus are considered forgeries; that all books were either anonymous, pseudonymous, or forgeries, as none were written by apostles, including the 27 proposed by Bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius (296?-373 CE), for Christianitys New Testament, in 367 CE. Dr. Ehrman says at the beginning of the Common Era, virtually everyone was pagan; that ancient religions emphasized cultic acts, i.e., sacrifices and prayers, rather than beliefs; and were almost entirely polytheistic; the only exception being monotheistic Jews, who stood out. Ehrman says ancient religions had no beliefs to confirm, theologies to embrace, or creeds to recite. There was no such thing as heresy in ancient religions. There were no ethics; ethics was a matter for philosophy, not religion. Dr. Ehrman says Jewish Eboinites may have been the earliest Christians, who believed Jesus was the Jewish messiah, appointed by the Jewish God as the Jewish savior for the Jewish people in fulfillment of the Jewish law, and that anyone wanting to be right with God had to become Jewish; consequentially, converting other Jews to their faith in Jesus. If Gentiles converted, they had to convert to Judaism also. Jesus disappointed Jews idea of a messiah, they expected the messiah to be great and powerful, but Eboinites thought Jesus was the perfect sacrifice for all sins, no more sacrifices were needed. In the ancient world, most people ate meat only after it had been sacrificed in a religious ceremony; for this reason, the Eboinites became vegetarian. Ehrman says Eboinites insisted on remaining Jewish and did not believe in Jesus virgin birth or his divinity, but was fully human, born of the sexual union of Joseph and Mary, and adopted to be Gods son at baptismthat the Eboinites understanding of Jesus was probably correct. By the second century, most Christian converts were former pagans who converted to believe in one God after worshipping many gods, but who were not interested in becoming Jews. Starting with Apostle Paul, Christianity began appealing to Gentiles 23

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by urging that they did not have to become Jews [be circumcised] in order to accept the salvation brought by the Jewish God. Paul himself went further: A person is made right with God completely by faith in Christs death and resurrection alone, not by doing the works prescribed by the Jewish law. Ehrman says that Gentiles who wanted to be right with God and followed the law had fallen from grace; that after Jesus death, Eboinites claimed to follow Jesus brother, James, the head of Jerusalems church, who had their own sacred writings; supposedly derived from Jesus disciples. Dr. Ehrman says that Jesus was a Jewish rabbi who accepted the authority of the Hebrew bibles Pentateuch. But the Marcionites insisted that Jewish law had no relation to Jesus or his God; that Jesus was not actually born into this world or part of it. He was not a flesh and blood human but a phantasm. Professor Ehrman says that two to three hundred years after Jesus time; diverse groups still disagreed about his views. Ebionites used the Gospel of Mathew. Those who separated the Jesus from the Christ used the Gospel of Mark. Marcionites used the Gospel of Luke. Followers of Valentinus used the Gospel of John. Ehrman says Eusebiuss 4th centurys Ecclesiastical History, figured prominently in theological disputes of his day, and is one of antiquitys most important writings. Rather than being the original view always shared by the majority of Christians, what later came to be known as orthodoxy was just one of the numerous forms of Christianity in the early centuries, the one that ended up acquiring the majority of converts over time, then rewrote the history of the conflict to make it appear that this view had always been systematically eliminated from the historical record. A foot note:
Saint Jerome was Eusebius son.

The apostles convened the first Church council, the Council of Jerusalem, around the year 50, which affirmed that Gentiles could become Christians without adopting all of the Mosaic Law. Growing tensions soon led to a starker separation that was virtually complete by the time Christians refused to join the Bar Khokba revolt of 132. (From Wikipedia) The only thing about Jesus and Christianitys history that bible scholars agree on is the crucifixion and that Christianity has always been divided; that in the 2nd and 3rd centuries there were many Christian cults with varying views of Jesus. Dr. Ehrman says significantly the dominant view was found to be held by a group located in the capital of the Roman Empire, which was able to use its vast resources and administrative skill to exert influence on churches in surrounding areas and, then throughout the world. 24

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Thus by the beginning of the fourth century, it was the Roman form of Christianity that was dominant, with the Roman Catholic Church, that determined the course of future Christianity. In 63 BCE the provinces of Palestine became subject to Rome. There is no public record of Jesus and inexplicably he left no writings for his followers. Authors, who have analyzed the bible, claim that historians active during Jesuss alleged lifetime did not mention Jesus in their prolific writings, e.g., the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher of Alexandria, Philo (Judaeus), (20 BCE-50 CE), and other contemporaneous historians didnt know about Jesus or his momentous miracles. Josephus (37-95? CE), Jewish historian, born after the purported crucifixion, was Jerusalems propagandist, and double-agent with Romes legions, but his writings are considered untrustworthy. So why were the Gospels composed? The Jews resented the political problems their god Yahwehs exclusiveness had brought upon them, (See JUDAISMs last paragraph. The bible says Jesus was a Jewish god, but there is no Earthly evidence of Jesus, however Jews adopted the mythology noted above, using Yahweh to sanctify their tale, but sagacious discerning Jews denied the gospels. There are no confirmable facts about Jesus or Yahweh, whose conceptualizations were imaginary and conspiratorial. Egypt helped develop the Christian faith. Rome annexed Egypt in 30 BCE. Destruction of Jerusalems Temple in 70 CE, started Jewish migration to Egypt and the failure of the Jewish state in 135 CE increased it, especially to Alexandria, the center of commerce between Europe, Asia, India and beyond. In the syncretization of Alexandras various cults, Christianity was supreme. The Jewish fantasy of a messiah, Jesus was pervasive in Egypts religious environment when Rome gave Christians its seal of approval. Athanasius, an Egyptian, served as bishop of Alexandra for 45 years. He was exiled five times by four Roman emperors, spending 17 of the 45 years in exile. In the end his theological enemies were exiled from the churchs teaching, and it is Athanasiuss writings that shaped the churchs future. Before Constantines conversion, Rome had persecuted early Christians, but the fact that Christianity sanctified the murder of all infidels simplified and abetted Constantines establishing and managing Constantinoples Eastern Roman Empire and its Eastern Christian Church. David P. Goldman, in his book: How Civilizations Die says:--between the conversion of Constantine in 325 CE and the crowning of Charlemagne as Ho25
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ly Roman Emperor in 800 CE, the population of Europe fell by half or more; the great engineering, manufacturing, and trading network of Rome disappeared; cities were abandoned; and the great culture of the classical world was for the most part lost.----The bonds of blood and tradition that gave cohesion to the peoples of the ancient world disintegrated. The Christian messagethat every individual must undergo a second birth, to replace his sinful Gentile nature with a rebirth into a new people (the tribe of Christians and the race of those who honor God in the words of Eusebius)resonated through the rubble of ancient paganism. Obstacles to evangelization had been torn down by circumstance. The conversion of the ancient world did not proceed mostly by baptizing individuals ready to abandon their pagan roots, however. Christianity became a state religion by imperial edict, and the peoples of the Greek and Latin worlds accepted the new cult in more or less the same way that they had accepted other cults before it. (My emphasis) After the fall of Rome, the Church stood as the only cohesive entity between the Atlantic Ocean and the Black Seaeven if it held on in just a few remote islands of faith and learning in a sea of anarchy. The Church did not have the means to evangelize individual souls. Instead it recruited kings, who could make their peoples Christian. And it enlisted these kings to conquer their neighbors who might resist. From the Gothic invasion of Italy in 401 CE to the defeat of the Magyars at Lech in 955 and the conversion of St. Vladimir in 1015, the barbarians entered Christian life not as individuals adopted into the new People of God, but as tribes incorporated into Christendom through conquest or alliance. Charlemagne earned his title Holy Roman Emperorby conquering the pagan Saxons. Six thousand pagan nobles who refused the cross were slaughtered on a single day in 782. The Europe that emerged from the alliance of throne and altar was a different entity, settled by different people, from the Rome whose authority and symbols it continued to invoke. Christianity created Europe. the Church taught illiterate tribal chieftains to read and made them kings of nations under the unifying sign of the cross. The nations took letters, culture, statecraft, and authority from the Church, but they joined Christendom with their traditions, customs, and superstitions intact. Ancient dynasties derived authority from the sovereignty of specious gods, whose prestigious professional proponents enforced surveillance, torture 26

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and censorship. The original Inquisition was initiated in the 13th century by the Church to deal with heretics and other undesirables, and continued off and on for 600 years, but its a mistake to think of the Inquisition as just a metaphor, or as relegated to the past. For one thing, within the Church, it has never quite ended; the office charged today with safeguarding doctrine and meting out discipline occupies the Inquisitions old palazzo at the Vatican. More to the point, the Inquisition had all the hallmarks of a modern institution; with a bureaucracy, a memory, a procedure, a set of tools, a staff of technocrats, and an all-encompassing ideology that brooked no dissent. It was not a relic but a harbinger. You can see this in the work of someone like Bernard Guia historical figure. He was a Dominican priest, and in 1307 he was indeed made an inquisitor by Pope Clement V, with responsibility for a broad swath of southern France. Guis most productive day was April 5, 1310, when he condemned 17 people to death. Over a period of 15 years, Gui pronounced some 633 men and women guilty of heresy. We know of the disposition of these cases because Gui wrote everything downthe record survives in his Liber sententisrum, his Book of Sentences.He was methodical, learned, clever, patient, and relentlessall of this can be inferred from the paper trail. Gui was a prodigious writer. Among other things, he compiled a lengthy manual for inquisitors called Practica officii inquisitionis heretice pravitatis, or Conduct of the Inquisition into Heretical Depravity. The manual covers the nature and types of heresy an inquisitor might encounter and also provides advice on everything from conducting an interrogation to pronouncing a death sentence. Inquisition records can be highly detailed and shockingly mundane. An itemized accounting of expenses for the burning of four heretics in 1323 survives from Carcassonne; its suffice to say: the large wood, the vine branches, the straw the four stakes, the ropes and the executioners fee totaled 8 livres, 14. And then there is the matter of torture. Pope Innocent IV authorized its use by the Inquisition in 1252 in the papal bull Ad extirpanda. Few words summon the Dark Ages as quickly as torture, but the uncomfortable reality is that the emergence of torture as an instrument of justice marks the advent of a modern way of thinking; the truth can be ascertained without Gods help; thus the [Churches] reliance, not on judges or juries, but on iudicium Deithe judgment of an all knowing Godto determine guilt or innocence. This often took the form of trial by ordeal. The accused would be submerged in water, or made to walk on red-hot coals, or forced to plunge an arm into boiling water. If he or she suffered no harm, or if the wounds healed sufficiently within a certain period of time, then it was the judgment of God that the accused was innocent. This regime was common in 27

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Europe for many centuries. Quoted from Cullen Murphys article in The Atlantic;
Feb.1, 2012.

During Middle Ages, (476-1450), period of medieval serfdom, governing authorities and land holding aristocracies found Christianity an essential political force. Blind-faith was mandatory, especially serf tenant farmers who served land owners as knights, i.e., men-of-war-on-work horses, but Martin Luthers Protestant Reformation movement in the 1500s, when King Henry 8th broke with Rome, stimulated competition as rival Catholic and Protestant nations competed to replace the Jews as Gods chosen. Each, through deceitful intrigue, tried to destroy its competition; finally igniting the Thirty Years War in 1618, which began with German Catholics killing each other, but then French Cardinal Richelieus collusive support for the Protestant Reformations movement against West Central Europes Holy Roman Empire, spread the devastation and extended the fighting for years to enhance Frances position in the race to be Gods chosen people. David P. Goldman says: Two rival versions of Christianity fought to the death in the Thirty Years war: the Catholic concept of universal empire, and the obsession of the French that they, among all the nations of Christendom, were chosen by God as his proxy on earth. Both of these were religious passions, and thus the Thirty Years War was a religious war. But it was not the CatholicProtestant war.It was a war between Christianity and neo-pagan national idolatry, and Christianity lost.in place of universal empire, the Treaty of Westphalia that ended the war established nation-states, and the Catholic Church delegated its authority to Europes Catholic dynasties, which spread and enforced Christianity at the point of a sword. Strobe Talbott, in his book: The Great Experiment says: The Peace of Westphalia1648established a pattern that would continue for the next three hundred years: increasingly destructive wars led to increasingly ambitious treatiesthe peacemakers resolved that the religion of each state would be determined by its king or princeCatholic, Lutheran, or Calvinist; if a ruler changed his religion, he would forfeit his lands. The Catholic proponents of this feature of the treaty intended it to discourage rulers from converting to Protestantism and accelerating the spread of the Reformation. They hoped in that fashion to preserve the European status quo and the Holy Roman Empire as its bulwark. The effect was the opposite. Westphalia enhanced the power of political leaders within their own domains and thereby further weakened the empire by creating a mlange of about three hundred largely autonomous politieslooking back on Westphalia and seeking to explain its result, 28

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nineteenth-century scholars came up with the term nation-state. The hyphen meant that nationality and statehood were closely aligned. It was a designation for a supposedly new non-ecumenical political constructsthe cobbling together of nation and state into a single term lent credence to national as the basis of statehood. Goldman says we should be surprised by European Christianitys tenacity. For centuries Christianity was burned, tortured, and starved out of the European peoples. And Talbott says By the end of the Thirty Years War, combat, along with disease, famine, and migration caused by marauding armies and the resulting devastation of economies, had reduced the population of central Europe by about a third. I must add that in order to survive, the starving people resorted to cannibalizing the most recently killed. The two wonderful books quoted above, emphasize and reiterate my point: vanity and righteous self-satisfaction assures virile ignorant male believers they are religiously following the path of their vain, jealous, vengeful, virile male God. Leaders are reduced to stupid bloodthirsty despots when their misperceived godly powers replace a states sovereignty. Male followers are the same ilk and ken; proud to die, killing nonbelievers. In 1933, Eugenio Pacelli, Vaticans Assistant Secretary of State, negotiated an agreement between Adolph Hitler and Pope Pius XI allowing the Vatican to select Germanys bishops, clergy, teachers, etc. with Germany paying the bill. Hitler acquiesced only after the pope conceded that Hitler should have complete political control. Pacelli persuaded Germanys Bishops to disband Catholics powerful Center Political Party, assuring Nazisms successful rise to power unopposed by Catholicism. The agreement created an area of trust that was particularly significant in the developing struggle against international Jewry. Eugenio Pacelli was elected Pope Pius XII in 1939 on the eve of the Second World War. Gleaned from John Cromwells book, Hitlers Pope. My Redwine ancestors departed the principality of Prussia in1709, when Queen Ann financed the immigration of European Protestants in order to marginalize Englands Catholicism. In 1750 they followed clergyman John Wesley, and popularized Methodism in colonial America. Ideas of liberty and freedom from religious tyranny were minimal in medieval Europe, however Europes eighteenth century period of Enlightenment gradually relaxed and then relieved serfdoms despotic, religiously mandated slavery. British subjects in colonial America soon declared their independence and both they and Frances citizens fought revolutions freeing themselves from 29

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mandated church-state subjugation. My greatest fear is Christianitys hopes to again collude with governmentthis time our own. Comprehension of the horrific crimes against humanity, caused by mans stupid emulation of God, should have sensitized Christian hierarchy, eons ago, but primitive prestigious professional proponents of mystical gods perpetuation of King Josiahs tribal propaganda as sacred doctrine, demonstrates religions true purpose. Its duplicitous delusions stem from the complicity of divinations illusionists. We love magic, but, like Islamists, we are fools as Christianitys first millennium slaughtered discerning astute nonbelieving thinkers. THINK ABOUT IT. What is your thoughtful explanation? Christianitys fervor produced the European Dark Ages, (476-1000), responsible for wide spread ignorance, pervasive poverty and cultural decline during a period of intellectual stagnation brought about when Christian regimes closed libraries, banned books, scientific inquiry, etc., impoverishing all human progress. The world failed to regain the knowledge until many centuries afterward.
The following quotations are from Thomas Paines 18th century book: The Age of Reason. We know from history, that one of the principal leaders of this church,

Athanasius, lived at the time the New Testament was formed; (he died in 373 CE.); and we know also, from the absurd jargon he has left us under the name of a creed, the character of the men who formed the New Testament; and we know also from the same history that the authenticity of the books of which it is composed was denied at the time. It was upon the vote of such as Athanasius that the Testament was decreed to be the word of God; and nothing can present to us a more strange idea than that of decreeing the word of God by vote. Those who rest their faith upon such authority put man in the place of God, and have no true foundation for future happiness. Credulity, however, is not a crime, but it becomes criminal by resisting conviction. It is strangling in the womb of the conscience the efforts it makes to ascertain truth. We should never force belief upon ourselves in anything. Christianity grounds itself originally upon the Bible, and the Bible was established altogether by the sword and that in the worst use of itnot to terrify, but to extirpate. The Jews made no converts: they butchered all. The Bible is the sire of the [New] Testament, and both are called the word of God. The Christians read both books; the ministers preach from both books; and this thing called Christianity is made up of both. It is then false to say that Christianity was not established by the sword.It has been by wandering from the immutable laws of science, and the light of reason, and setting up an invented thing called re30

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vealed religion, that so many wild and blasphemous conceits have been formed of the Almighty. The Jews have made him the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The Christians have made him the murderer of himself and the founder of a new religionThe philosopher knows that the laws of the Creator have never changed, with respect either to the principles of science, or the properties of matter. Why then is it to be supposed they have changed with respect to man? Paine was an American
patriot; a dedicated deist, he believed in the existence of a God on purely rational grounds without reliance on revelation or authority; especially the 17th & 18th century doctrine that God created the world and its natural laws, but takes no further part in its functioning. The Age of Reason, sold eight editions the first year.

To recap: it appears obvious that a confluence of the points listed in the first paragraph, indicate a pathway to convert Jews to a more benevolent, saner Jewish god or messiah, than their problematic Yahweh, but the ruse failed. The sagacious Jewish majority didnt accept the Jesus-idea, even though they had proffered innumerable possibilities in their hodge-podge of books, which left the door open to Jerusalems Roman subjugators, who welcomed the idea of exchanging Jupitor for a Jewish god; using Jewish law to sanctify killing apostates, blasphemers, nonbelievers, the proponents of other gods plus non-allegiants, while exploiting pagan Europes foibles, and thereby replace the Jews as Yahwehs chosen people. They succeeded in a big way, with the Vatican becoming the nerve center of all Christendom. I hold no brief for Christianity; Apostle Paul decreed: that to be saved one must believe Jesus died to atone for mans sins; an impossible proposition. Historically, ignorant Christians killed more innocent people than ignorant Jews and ignorant Muslims combined.(See CHRISTIAN ANTI-JUDAISM). My main interest is thwarting a Christian controlled government in our U.S.A. Majorities of our electorate are born-again Christians whose religiosity, supported by talk radios millions of followers, can rescind our Bill of Rights. Today, many white Christians appear resentful of our presidents blackness; they have formed a pseudo tea party in opposition. Can anyone explain why conservative voters have more faith in the unknown than natures immutable forces and scientific principles, including evolution? Check out my next chapter: Islamic regimes are more religious and more violent than other societies on our planet; contending that their terrorism is sanctified by Allah, and that King Josiahs aggressive fundamentalism will overcome Judaisms and Christianitys vacuous Religious-Lites.

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ISLAMISM John L. Espositos lectures on Islam say that tribal and family honor were central virtues in pre-Islamic Arabian polytheistic religions; that Islam has more than a billion followers in 56 countries, and its geographic, cultural, and religious diversity reflects its status as an Abrahamic faith, with global presence and impact, but that threats of political Islams fundamentalism challenge the world. He says that for many Muslims, religion and society, faith and power, are closely intertwinedthat religious doctrines, laws, and practices result from sacred texts and from fallible interpreters, whose conclusions reflect their intelligence, political and social contexts, customs, power & privilege; and that male interpreters, live in patriarchal societies, which affects their development of Islamic law, especially on women and family; that the five pillars of Islam; all refer to religion, except the third, which requires an annual contribution of 2.5 percent of an individuals wealth and assets including annual income. Esposito says: in 610, Muhammad received a call to prophet-hood with his first revelation; the message of Islam was revealed during and responded to a time of great socioeconomic transition in Arabia. Mecca was emerging as a major mercantile center at the heart of a new political, social, and economic order. New wealth and the rise of a new commercial class led to the greater division between social classes and a growing disparity between rich and poor. Mohammad received revelations for 22 years, until his death in 632 CE. They were collected later and compiled into the quran. Dr. Esposito says Muhammads reformist message posed an unwelcome challenge to the religious and political establishment, the priests, tribal leaders, and business men of the community. The new religious message that Muhammad preacheddenounced the status quo and called for social justice for the poor and the most vulnerable in society: women, children, and orphans. The qurans message is essentially the same as the Hebrew bible and Old Testament, but Islam is both a faith and a political order; it split into a Sunni majority and Shii minority over issues of leadership. These differing religious and political views led to different interpretations of history. Sunnis claim a Golden Age when they were a great world power and civilization, which they believe is evidence of Gods favor upon them and a historic validation of Muslim beliefs. Shii, as an oppressed and disinherited minority see in these same developments the illegitimate usurpation of power by Sunni rulers at the expense of a just society. Muhammad consolidated Muslim authority over Arabia by force and diplomacy; a century after his death, his rule extended 32

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from North Africa to South Asia, an empire greater than Romes. Islam was to be a community of believerswho lived according to Islamic law adopting and adapting existing political institutions and sciences motivated by religious fervor and economic rewards. The inhabitants of newly conquered areas were given three options: (1) convert to Islam, (2) accept protected status and pay a poll tax, or (3) face battle or the sword, if they rejected the first two options. The period of Muhammad (632-66) serves as the idealized past to which Muslims look for inspiration and guidance. From 8th-12th centuries, Islam and Muslim political power expanded exponentially; that from750-1258 Islamic regimes became an empire of wealth, political power, and cultural accomplishments. : Enormous wealth enabled the Abbasid caliphs to become great patrons of art and culture resulting in the florescence of Islamic civilizationEuropeans, emerging from the Dark Ages, turned to Muslim centers of learning to regain their lost heritage and to learn from Muslin advances. The Crusades (1095-1453) established a paradigm of confrontation between Islam and Christianity and Islam and the West, the legacy of which continues to affect Muslim-Christian relations and relations between the Muslim world and the West. The Christian West experienced the spread of Islam as both a religious and political threat. Europe engageda struggle to reconquer territories in Spain, Italy and Sicily, and the Crusades, a holy war. The Crusades ended in 1453 when Constantinople, the Byzantine capital, fell to the Turks and was renamed Istanbul; the seat of the Ottoman Empire. The Abbasid caliphate was replaced by a variety and series of sultanates. They extended from Africa to Southeast Asia. Three imperial sultanates emerged: the Turkish Ottoman Empire (1281-1924), the Persian Safavid Empire (1501-1722), and the Indian Mughal Empire (1520-1857), all of which experienced political power and cultural florescence. By the turn of the 18th century, the power and prosperity of the sultanates was in serious decline. This decline coincided with the Industrial Revolution and modernization in the West, leading to clashes in the era of European colonialism. The dynamic expansion of imperial Islam gave way to political disintegration and social and moral decline, from the 17th to the 20th centuries, followed by European colonialism throughout much of the Muslim world. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Arabia, Africa, and India experienced a revival of Islams politicized religion. A series of revivalist movements led to the establishment of several Islamic states: the Wahhabi in Arabia and Africa, the Fulani in Nigeria, the Sanusi in Libya, and the Mahdi in the Sudan. In the last decades of 33

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the 20th century, the Muslim world experienced the impact of another revival or resurgence of Islam in personal and in public life. On the personal level, many Muslims have become more religiously observant. In the public sphere, new Islamic governments or republics have been established in Iran, Sudan, and Afghanistan. At the same time, radical Islamic organizations have engaged in violence and terrorism to topple governments. During the 20th century, Islamic empires and sultanates were obliterated and replaced by modern nation-states. Many countries in the Middle-East were quite literally newly created, mapped out by European colonial powers (Britain and France) after World War 1. The West expected these modern nation-states to generally follow a Western secular path of development, but the majority, such as Egypt, Syria, Iran, Malaysia, and Indonesia, whose populations were mostly Muslim, created Muslim states, whose progress and prosperity depended on the degree they conformed to Western secular values. Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, and Iran were seen as the more advanced and secular. Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf states, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan were regarded as more traditional, religious and backward. The Arab-Israeli war and a series of wars and riots, during the 1960s and 1970s revealed the weaknesses of many states. The 1978-1979 Iranian Revolution alerted the West to Islams profound change. Illiteracy, poverty, failed economies, high unemployment, and malapportionment of wealth, caused Muslims to question national identity, political legitimacy and the meaning of their religious faith. Their dissatisfaction with modernity was marked by their quest for selfidentity and greater authenticity, as many reaffirmed the importance of Islam in their daily lives. Islamic ideology, and politics reemerged as a major force that both Muslim and Western governments had to accommodate. Muslims are experiencing an identity crisis precipitated by a sense of utter impotence and loss of self-esteem; a disillusionment with Wests models of development, and as an ally. Islamic movements and organizations sprang up across the Muslim world. The Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, the militants who seized the Grand Mosque in 1979, the religious extremists who assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981, and the Afghan freedom fighters in the late 1970s and early 1980s; made it clear by the late 1980s-early 1990s that the Islamists had moved into mainstream politics and society. Other extremists were convicted in America and Europe for terrorist acts, such as the bombing of New Yorks World Trade Center in 1993, of the American barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1995, and of American embassies in Africa in 1998, 34

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leading some governments & analysts to identify: Islamic fundamentalism as a major threat to global stability. [Terrorists, in the name of Islam destroyed the World Trade Centers two towers in in New York, killing more than 3000 innocent people, and attacked the Pentagon in Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001], leading President G.W. Bush to invade Iran and Afghanistan in 2003. (See MIDDLE EAST FIASCO). At the heart of this struggle for the soul of Islam between conservatives and reformers, mainstream Muslims and extremists is the question of who should interpret Islam and how reform should be achieved. Its major issues include the relationship of religion to state and society, the role of Islamic law, the status of women and non-Muslims, the compatibility of Islam and democracy, and relations with the West. Muslims were brought to America as slaves before the 19th century; presently some 6 million Muslims reside and work in secular America. Significant numbers of immigrants from Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan settled in the Midwest and Canada as blue-collar workers and assimilated into American society. Some 15 million Muslim immigrants reside and work in secular Europe, but are not assimilated. Since September 11, 2001, the processes of adaptation and change have become more difficult as Muslims face those who charge that Islam is incompatible with or a threat to Western societies. This is compounded by legislation and policies that threaten the civil liberties of Muslims. The agenda facing Islam in the 21st century is daunting. Unlike Judaism and Christianity, which had decades, indeed centuries to undergo their own processes of modern reform, Muslim societies have a far more telescoped time frame. They do so in response not only to the realities in their societies and communities, but also to a Western-dominated world and era of globalization. Islam today is at a crossroads. Mainstream Muslims from conservative and traditional to fundamentalists or extremists often engage in a holy war that pits Muslim against Muslim, as well as Muslim against non-Muslim.
All of the above information was gleaned from John L. Espositos lectures on ISLAM.

David P. Goldman, in his book: How Civilizations Die says: between the conversion of Constantine in 325 CE and the crowning of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor in 800 CE, the population of Europe fell by half or more; the great engineering, manufacturing, and trading network of Rome disappeared; cities were abandoned; and the great culture of the classical world was for the most part lost. During this wretched period when Rome was forcing Christianity onto European pagans at the point of a sword; 35

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Mohammed (570?-632 CE), realized that suppressing knowledge and killing nonbelievers, would work for Muslims just like it was doing for Judaism and Christianity. He claimed the Hebrew archangel Gabriel provided his korans precepts. An adherent of Islam, Muslimisms an Abrahamic faith, subscribing to King Josiahs dogma; which can be embraced, but apostates are killed; identical to the Old Testament. Their goal: convert or destroy the world; as the Christians did during their first millennium. Islam is a perfect example of how religions govern nations. The crux of Abrahamic faiths is male superiority; during our evolutionary existence man instigated many perturbing decisions; the least exemplary was his niggardly, vainglorious domination of woman. The Middle East shows what subjugating women do to a society. Muslims male dominated culture is an extreme example of mens attitude toward women; repressing them. Poorly educated, and their virginity considered sacred, they experience a brutal surgical removal of the clitoris to circumvent pleasurable coition. Her husband is selected by her parents and premarital sexual experience or adultery is punished by beheading in the public square, or by her family as honor killing. Incited by Allahs prestigious professional proponents; ignorant males, filled with sexually deprived religious fervor, sacrifice themselves by killing infidels to assure their anticipated lascivious eternal-life. Ponder Islams aggressive vengeful male dominated culture; furthering ignorance by withholding knowledge and killing their more erudite discerning complaining citizens. Is this the goal of Americas Religious Right Coalition? Islamic Muslims, engrossed in memorizing the Koran, murdering infidels, etc. are incapable of thinking, inventing or developing science. They did not participate in the industrial revolution and their fundamentalist concept of Abrahamic faiths are a perfect example of religion in action, which we should avoid, but 86% of our nations semi-civilized society admits to being guided by an Abrahamic faith. Possibly our faithful would prefer to have a typical ecclesiastical dictator such as Irans, etc. In Islams drive to rid the world of non-Muslims it is often reported that the last sound victims hear from suicide bombers or executioners, are the shouts of Allahu Akhbar or God is great, but Judaism and Christianity each spent a thousand years adhering to Yahwehs spurious demands that blasphemers, apostates, nonbelievers, proponents of other gods, etc. must be killed by believers even when members of ones family; not an excuse for Islam whose claims of godliness are as false as those of the Jews and Christians. 36

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Allahs prestigious professional proponents govern and see opportunities to be humankinds only religion and thereby rule a worldwide despotic theocracy. Demographics favor them, as their womens birthrate averages three times that of U.S. womens and five times that of European, Russian and Chinese womens. European nations increasing Muslim migrants have not assimilated. In a few generations Western Europe will assimilate them by embracing Islams religious totalitarianism, as Muslims follow Yahwehs commands to rid the world of infidels, which excludes only Muslims true believers. Similar to Judaism and Christianity, Islam adopted King Josiahs tribal propaganda. We understand ancient ignorance and should understand Religion-Lites vacuousness. Also, please understand: the Islamic regimes will-to-succeed, which has sucked us dry of will, blood and treasure fighting on their turf, want us to continue fighting, but not resort to a scorched-earth-revenge in order to prevent their further pursuit of nuclear weapons. Muslims missed the civilizing influence of Europes 18th century period of Enlightenment and can avoid additional self-destruction by denying King Josiahs vengeful dogma. Ignorance cant expand civilizations; and blind faith in a god is inversely proportional to ones worldly knowledge. Allahs specious sovereignty is Islams license for religious tyranny without any accountability. Allah is one of the aliases of the Jews God-character, Yahweh, which was King Josiahs occult superego; onto which he projected his vilest intentions to punish his tribes non-allegiant troublemakers with death. I have noted: subsequent political leaders employed similar deceptive ploys to confound and manipulate their subjugated; always with the complicity of religions prestigious professional proponents; which Islam continues. The Religious Right wants to use the dominionist movement as their means to dominate life in the born again U.S.A. Ive explained the fallacies in all Abrahamic faiths and have recommended a better way, but unless the international community reaches a communal agreement about how to resolve global warmings problems and Islams religious terrorism, which the Pentateuch advocates. Fallacious beliefs will convince Allahs prestigious professional proponents to nuclearly obliterate the worlds infidels, which, by the way, include Muslim females and everyone except Islamic male true believers; assuring a revered position is reserved in heaven for them and that sharia law governs all of Earth.

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SYNOPSIS 1. It is Time to review what we have determined: (a): We know: prestigious professional proponents of mystical gods first conned us in primitive jungles with polytheisms gods; then enforced the commands of dynastic monarchs specious gods, with torture and death. (b): We know: the bible is NOT the word of God as the bibles books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy were fabricated by King Josiahs team of scholars as tribal propaganda, to motivate, invigorate, inspire, and intimidate his subjects. There is no evidence for a God. (c): We know the biblical Judaic God is fraudulent, because it is the evil Yahweh, the fictional god in King Josiahs tribal propaganda. (d): We know the fraudulent Hebrew bible inspired the so-called holy books of Christianity and Muslimism. (e): We know the Gospels are fables, because the fraudulent Judaic God allegedly sired Jesus, destroying any possibility of divinity. Weve determined the truthful origins of the Abrahamic faiths; they are tragic atrocities; their fictitious gods were foisted upon humanity by two ancient Eastern cultures whose own multitudes suffered utmost. Now well examine the problems that have bedeviled most of humankind due to their blind-faith in the Abrahamic religions fraudulent gods. 2. Our imagination produced all gods. Our ignorance deluded us into the self-inflicted impulse to be dominated by King Josiahs, monotheistic god; and feel compelled to worship his perverse dogma. Our problems began when we condescended to worship the god we had created, complicating our lives by disagreeing and fighting over the god; dividing into multiple sects, attempting to settle unanswerable questions. I argue: all gods are mythical; we created and manipulated them as per our aspirations. Wishful fantasies and ritualistic groveling cannot make them more than cerebral aberrations. Without evidence of gods its absurd for believers to kill others because of a fanatical adherence to a particular version of a mystical god; an irrational situation thats incomprehensible to logical thought. 3. Religion, contemplated with an inquisitive mind, reveals dissension and confusion about the unknown, which is promulgated with foolhardy certainty that is incomprehensible. Answers to queries based on conjecture are not valid and is the crux of skepticism; weve divided into gullible and skeptics; such as agnostics, deists, free-thinkers, nonbelievers, infidels, secularists, and atheists; each doubting group claims an intrinsic definition.

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This thing we call religion has been a horrific nightmare. Our problems began when prestigious primitive professional proponents of mystical gods enhanced their careers with divination; promising salvation, urging suckers to get right with god. Abrahamic faiths perpetuated the myths, but without an iota of evidence it is daunting. Credulity is not a crime, but because of slight differences in religious beliefs, Christians slaughtered each other; proving we are easily brain-washed, and that blind-faith clouds our mind and warps our thinking. For 300 plus years, Rome worshipped their state-god, Jupitor, but during Emperor Constantines reign, (306-337) they exchanged gods, and Rome killed Europes pagan kings who refused the cross and at swords point appointed Christian kings; forcing Europe to convert to Christianity; imposing the Vatican over all Christendom. Martin Luthers Reformation movement in the 1500s, ignited Europes smoldering conflagration of despotic Christian regimes; culminating in the 30 year war. 5. Beginning of the seventeenth century, absolute monarchy triumphed over the ruins of European Middle Ages oligarchical and feudal liberties. And the rights of man were completely confounded in the midst of Europes splendor and its literature. Ideas concerning liberty, political activity and freedom of religion were minimal. At that time in America, independence from England plus freedom from church-state tyranny were uppermost in the minds of all citizens. Humble communities put the boldest theories of human reason into practice. 6. The bibles miracles have been discredited by the scholars, epigraphists and archaeologists who sought proof of its credibility. Their two hundred year search of the biblical region included excavations and carbon-dating of each level of destruction, at each of the ancient ruins of destroyed centers of habitation, and all histories including those carved in stone, in the lands between the Nile River and the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, which has been amalgamated and conclusions published, authored by bible scholars and archaeologists. 7. Ive explored mans god-ideas and hasten to add: early Homo sapiens, i.e., modern man, ventured away from the equatorial jungles, followed the receding ice sheets and occupied the more temperate regions of the world. Evolution improved the adventurous challengers brains and dexterity. The positive pole enticed the erudite, sagacious and discerning who perceived of mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, etc.; they furthered knowledge, developed science beneficial for all humankind, e.g. plans, tools 39

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and machinery to cope with the prodigious problems in the agricultural, bronze, iron, industrial, electronics and space ages. Ten thousand years ago we became agriculturists; and our adventurous progress continues. Mans ingenuity is undeniable his ability to think, to invent and resolve realistic conundrums, provided us a more fruitful life, but his infamous calumnious efforts to exploit supernatural god-ideas, i.e., the development of his Judaic god proved unsuccessful as his ego and ignorance deluded him into killing nonbelievers. Comparing historys thinkers, who chose the positive pole, with those who chose the negative poles God, reveals religions irrational beliefs, which further ignorance and lack of initiative. 8. As I age, past experiences leads my mind to contemplate political and religious conundrums, e.g., humanitys obeisance to King Josiahs vengeful God, which for 2600 years, prompted us to pusillanimously wallow in the self-deprecating, idea that humans and other species were deposited on Earth, in full bloom, by a superhuman god, for a special purpose, which subjugates each of us forever. Tortuous ratiocinations justifying Josiahs tribal propaganda as divine revelation are not warranted. Abrahamic faiths success spread spurious beliefs worldwide. Religions incongruity, combined with our imagination, ignorance and fear was unfathomable; we instinctively conceded to a gods political promoters and saved our lives by acquiescing to specious beliefs, but blind-faith has been our Nemesis, i.e., The goddess of retributive justice; anyone or anything by which one must inevitably be defeated or frustrated. 9. The god-idea is as old as our primitive cognition; based on fears and imagination, it explained and confirmed our relationship to all we failed to comprehend. Taught to children, it increased believers at the exponential rate of population multiplicity. Humanitys history of despoliation, torture and malicious, killing in the name of their god, all of which todays ignorant believers are unaware, belies reasons for berating us nonbelievers who are more sagacious, discerning and erudite about God than our protagonists, the misinformed proponents of Creationism and Intelligent Design. 10. Abrahamic faiths succeeded because their gods commanded that nonbelievers, apostates and blasphemers must die. Believers are unaware that Abrahamic faiths were extrapolated from King Josiahs tribal propaganda. For 2000 years Judaism and Christianity were monarchal theocracies; like the Islamic regimes. Religions essence is male superiority; responsible for contentious global divisions, but worlds diplomatic, perspicacious women 40

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will resolve religious and racial distinctions. In addition to generating new lives, womens sensibilities and capabilities equal those of men, except for brute strength and male sperm. Free man of obligations, provide adequate sex and a little sustenance and, like stallions, he can be domesticated. Males were intrigued with matriarchal life and miraculous god-ideas. When King Josiah required a monotheistic god to manage his restive subjects, it had to be like man; therefore Gods vanity, jealousy and vindictive prejudices; creating a partnership; an unfortunate oversight; women werent included. The bibles gods inconsideration of women was concocted by males. Mens blind faith in a vengeful, egomaniacal, tyrannical tho mythical male god, rather than our intelligent, empathetic, sensuously beautiful, real women, is inexplicably perverse and stupid. 11. The Abrahamic faiths history of inquisitions, persecutions, stonings, burnings, beheadings and religious wars, all in the name of their god, belies their claims of godliness. They worship King Josiahs despicable god; we cant blame religions militancy on a fictional god character; the problems are mens imaginations, testosterone and conspiratorial minds. Religions perceived militancy is that of man; his indifference to its past persecutions, degradation and killing only adds to the confusion, amid questions about religions purpose. They, hypocritically, avoid references to their less than sacred past and present gods as holy; supported by billions who inherited misguided beliefs without investigating the god vs. secularism situation. If there is a god and a heaven, its reasonable to assume we would be allowed a more sensible arrangement, as theories, concepts, etc. which cant be substantiated, are invalid, even though they may have been conjured by the ancients. Illusion and faith arent sensible substitutions for sound science, which only accepts the provable; advancing knowledge, but the Abrahamic religions are obstructive, stagnant, backward, waste- lands of hypocrisy; unable, for 2600 years, to add to world knowledge. Islamic fundamentalism remains in the 7th century when Mohammad claimed Hebrew archangel; Gabriel revealed korans precepts. The region had once been a knowledgeable progressive civilization, but regimes today are despotic theocracies; exporting sacred terrorism and enforcing sharai law. After its numerous historic religious wars, Western Europe forewent the Abrahamic religions illogical divisiveness and formed the European Union. 12. We are a plague that has infested the Earths skin, an infestation of organisms consuming our host while we contemplate global agreements on ways to avoid self-destruction before our host collapses. Alternatively, we 41

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may be a malignancy, developing at the exponential rate of population multiplicity. When our host becomes uninhabitable, we will need to move onto another host and begin a new infestation. Globally, we havent considered mutually agreeable plans to further enhance our tolerance of each others ethnic peculiarities. Earth accepted the single cell microorganisms of life and nourished them for billions of years while they developed into our numerous species of animal life; microscopic viries and bacteria, plus the aquatic, the avian, and mammals including us. All life depends upon global willingness to agree to stabilize and reverse our thoughtless destruction of the Earths natural benevolence. Weve adapted and thrived beyond expectations and our infestation is beyond humane control. Weve polluted two of lifes necessities, air and water, and must convince global nations to take emergency measures that require compliant agreements to eliminate all elements contributing to global divisiveness or else humankind must contemplate our gradual irreversible extermination. 13. People believe because they dont know any better. Our lexicon is rife with words meaning unreal or unknown, which may be used to describe a pseudo universe devoid of human knowledge, where organized religions alliance has staked its unholy claim and touts its worthless stock to gullible congregations. Religions allusion to supernaturalisms gods, ghosts, etc. is unfamiliar territory and opens unlimited fields of thought just as extensive and complex as we will allow our imagination to develop. Its a fertile field on which to grow fairytales, visions, claims of gods, etc. For instance: if you compose a fable of your grandparents adventures with a miracle working god and your ignorant friends believe it and teach their children, and they, teach it to their children ad finitum, believers will about double each generation. A millennium later, innumerable ones will support your fable as factual. If believers have been killing nonbelievers, a majority will have developed a blind-faith and believe your fable is true; that God exists because multitudes, regularly, grovel on their knees, worshipping it. 14. The Abrahamic faiths credit humanitys beneficence to God, but in reading the bible there is no benevolent god; the Pentateuch portrays the god as a mad monstrous killer, but Religion-Lites prestigious professional proponents credit a god with our moral code. I disagree; the professionals began as jungle scam artists and for millennia aided despotic monarchs and aristocracy by sanctifying their murders of apostates, blasphemers, nonbelievers, proponents of other gods, etc.; all in an attempt to coerce people into ignorant submission. Our concern should be for each other 42

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from whom all goodness flows. Our primitive evolutionary experiences developed conviviality and consideration for our fellow humans along with our Moral Code and Golden Rule; primitive guides to morality, kindness, empathy and maternal love which evolved millennia before King Josiahs god- Yahweh produced its Ten Commandments in Exodus 20: 2-17; eleven verses, (2-12), pertain to the gods egomania, leaving only five verses for killing, adultery, stealing, lying and coveting thy neighbors possessions. 15. Among our human masses, ignorance, misinformation and religions flourish; they worship supernatural gods, known only via conjecture, ruse, subterfuge, and lies. Their blind faith in the illogical reveals mortal fears of exclusion by Father, Son or Holy Ghost; similar to Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, Hindus supreme trinity. Brahma created the universe, Vishnu is Preserver and Siva is god of destruction and reproduction. Holy Ghost is undefined. Realistically, the unholy trinity I have gleaned from my 94 years and the Abrahamic religions despicable history is: ignorance, dogma & despotism. 16. Abrahamic faiths have no knowledgeable facts; their biblical fables reveal how King Josiah misled our ancestors into believing their salvation required them to torture and murder all those unwilling to obey Josiahs monotheistic god. Religions responsibility for the millions slaughtered by our ancestors, in Gods name, is an irreconcilable stain on our collective conscience. I have learned how god-ideas became imbedded in primitive minds amid vast ignorance, and developed religions malevolent history. Our delusions, concerning humankinds purpose, began in primitive times when non-comprehension was explained by the occult powers of mythical gods; theres no evidence supporting simple-minded solutions devised by primitive imaginations. As I became more familiar with bibles tyrannical gods methods for dealing with nonbelievers, critics, etc., curiosity led me to search for why the god was portrayed as vain, vile, vicious, and vengeful and why was man so enthralled with the idea of an immoral violent god? I found that man had created all gods, and was especially enamored with the bibles god because man had created that particular god in his own exalted, self-image, the perfect male, mean spirited, ready to destroy all who failed to worship the gods egomania; I learned of the bibles contrived godliness; its mythology, false prophesies and inherent fallacies. The only goodness in our semi-civilized world comes from fellow humans; we must be tolerant and respectful of each other. Confucius said: We are all the same except for our experiences. But Abrahamic faiths intolerant divisive Gods are incompatible with our desire to become undiscriminating and 43

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inclusive. Gods are presented by their prestigious professional proponents as mans ideal of holy behavior, but the bibles Pentateuch does not support them. There is no God, heaven, etc. Religions gift to man is hell on Earth with its deceptive professional proponents. It is wrong to believe threats of hell and promises of eternal life prevent our becoming uncivilized and backward, because the Islamic regimes are the most uncivilized, violent, backward and most religious societies on Earth. 17. Our only exposure to supernaturalism is the Holy Books and other fairytales. Supernaturalism is religions subterfuge; so why do we worship supernatural gods and why are civilized societies guided by King Josiahs vengeful dogma? The bibles God is portrayed as a perfidious tyrant; but believers attribute all goodness to the spurious evil aberration. 18. My reasoning is derived from the diametrically opposed positions of King Josiah of Judah, and Charles Robert Darwin, the nineteenth century English author of, On the Origin of Species and of, The Descent of Man. My remarks are unambiguous; uncomplicated by Deuteronomistic Historys convoluted meaninglessness and its consequential theological dogma. As blind-faith reveals more trust in our ignorance than our intellect, Ill explain how religions irrationality came from mans conspiratorial ruminations, wishful thinking and persistent search for propositions to exploit his fellow man. So when our political leaders promised us suckers eternal life; we didnt challenge it. Since superstitions ruled the land; we have deceived our stupid selves about the god problem. Our imagination led us to follow leaders espousing a close personal relationship to a fearsome tho specious god. King Josiahs unabashed desire to unify, inspire and motivate his war weary subjects, led him to deceive them with an epical fable about the personal relationship of their miracle working tribal god, with their mythological ancestors very ingeniously portrayed as Josiahs political and religious scholars retrospectively imagined it all should have been. 19. Abrahamic faiths promulgate faith in King Josiahs mystical god that commands death for infidels; an immoral unlawful act, but congregations worship the unholy violent phantasm. There is not a remote connection to an ever-present, all-knowing, all-powerful superhuman God. Promoting unknowns under the guise of personal salvation convinces humankind they must submit their will to a gods prestigious professional proponents and refuse information thatd set them aright. 44

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20. Religions unsubstantiated dogma is insidious hearsay. Suffering is not virtuous; and each child born is not burdened with original sin. It is masochistic to confess and plead mercy from the sinful spurious Judaic gods prestigious professional proponents, or worship a figurative savior to access heaven or avoid hells fires; a self-serving empty callous threat by clergy, who are unaware that God, Jesus, Heaven and Hell are legendry. It is vital for us to treat the worlds people as we wish to be treated. 21. Ignorance embraced Abrahamic religions fallacies. Our brains and computers, both require rational, factual input in order to develop rational factual solutions, but Abrahamic religions lack thereof forced it to rely upon conjecture, blind faith, and murdering millions of nonbelievers, to obtain its illogical imposition upon the worlds trustful societies. 22. Archaeologists & epigraphists have found history simpler than King Josiahs biblical fable about the Patriarchs, the ancient Israelites, etc.; a good reason to reject the holy books prophesies and miracles; which are the sole source of Abrahamic faiths relevant knowledge; Disclosure, leaves large segments of our worlds population suffering from delusive blind faith in stultifying beliefs that encourage religious terrorism, but inhibits proposals for global programs to reduce world apprehensions. 23. Ralph Waldo Emerson warned us not to follow the crowd; but to think and reason independently. I argue for a world managed by its perspicacious peace-loving women; dedicated to ethnological sameness, undiscriminating inclusiveness and global harmony. The idea of world-government was promoted by eleven U.S. presidents from Franklin Roosevelt through Bill Clinton. The possibility of a peaceful healthy world for humanity to enjoy should encourage the worlds astute and discerning to temper their contentious attitudes about ethnological disparities, and diplomatically and reasonably organize, socially, politically, religiously and otherwise to promote and work toward a more peaceful ecumenical world. 24. Dear reader, to understand the magnificent release I experience by sensing freedom from gods, and other mythical delusions see Ingersolls Vow in FINAL NOTES. Also recognize the historical clues of the Abrahamic religions deceptive fearsome illusions which misled our ignorant ancient ancestors, and provided religions bloody success. Everyone wants to live forever, but from the seventh century BCE, until the sixteenth century CE, nonbelievers were killed by either Jews or Christians. Religion subjugated the faithful, which makes me question why todays believers dont know 45

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about the bibles egomaniacal pathological killer, God; as they inherited an instinctive fear of the specious gods wrath. Please be aware of what is expected if Christianity ever gains its anticipated opportunity to govern us, because Christian ideology embraces the Old Testaments fundamentalism; relegating our secular democracy to another Islamic tyrannical theocracy; constraining governments flexibility and stemming its ability to expand and improve beyond the limited capabilities of the prestigious professional proponents of the governments god, who since mans earliest cognitive experiences have convinced him to believe in their gods; its a competitive business. None claim gods exist, as there has never been tangible evidence for it, in spite of the Jesus fables. Creeds say I believe, but billions fought and died defending a particular religions stupid beliefs. 25. Like historys innumerable individuals; curious enough to leisurely devote time exploring religions devious quandary; Im satisfied biblical faith is erroneous. I presume believers are not curious and regret their disinterest. There is something mentally devastating in believing we are subjugated to unconfirmed spiritual powers; although evidence is plentiful that all gods were created and promoted by men to gain political control over men. Our Founding Fathers warned us to remain alert to religions deathly threats and its devious ruses directed toward ecclesiastical control of our nations governing apparatus. 26. Non-thinking men depended upon gods, thus it remains, but now we consider ourselves informed and understand how our ancestors faults were due to their lack of knowledge, which encouraged the worship of false gods. But how do we explain to progeny why we inexplicably grovel before mythologys misbegotten gods? 27. Our Electorates enthusiasm for specious Jesus is our Nemesis, which will probably destroy us. Whatever evil deeds ancient clergy decreed, modern clergys misperception of their holy powers will tempt them to replicate. I reject religions spurious salvation; my main interest is saving our country from deceptive divinity and religious tyranny. Our America was organized as a secular democracy; the first 10, plus the 14th amendments to our constitution, guarantees us freedom from religion and a separation of Church & State, plus freedoms of speech, press, etc. Each of us is sovereign and has natural rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 29. Having read this far, you surely realize that the bibles Pentateuchs stupid god character was teaching the Jews revengeful hatred toward all 46

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foreigners, and not to marry them, but It was written specifically to serve as King Josiahs enforcer. Such a menacing intimidating god, threatening death for every infraction and eliciting revenge and death for foreigners is frighteningly unsuitable to influence a peace seeking world, but the Jews and Christians followed their bibles teachings, and killed their apostates, blasphemers, nonbelievers, proponents of other gods, and in the 30 year war, Christians slaughtered Christians. Believing in false gods drove man to commit inconceivable brutal bloody crimes as per todays religious Islamic regimes. The deaths, despoliation and ignorance caused by those particular religious ideas are regretted. Realistically, our worlds salvation depends upon global agreements to stop global-warming; and that depends upon a respectful cooperation of global humanity. Jewish exclusiveness resulted in resentment and their ignominious existence. The racial purity of nationstates is inimical to world peace and consanguinity accentuates debilities. Charles Darwins research accentuated the inherent advantages in crossbreeding plants. I have observed superb individuals whose parents were racially diverse, and havent heard anyone complain. Like plants, humans are improved by cross-breeding; we must conclude that NATURES grand plan for us includes the eventual interbreeding of all races; so why not now? I oppose Yahwehs stupid racial purity and advocate undistinguishing inclusiveness and unfettered knowledge as our path to world peace. 30. Prestigious professional proponents of mystical gods are bogymen, who, like Santa Clause promise us joy if were good and disappointment if were bad. It is analogous to a childhood scare; older boys explained that I would live forever if I scratched my name on a magnolias blossom; I did it and was then told to keep it safe from harm forever or else I would die. I panicked, because the blossoms are so fragile and I so young. Religion is grownup make-believe; big-brother to scare the hell out of us; its been somewhat successful, but historys many prestigious primitive professional proponents of mystical gods competed too viciously; bringing hell upon the Earth. It is apparent to discerning individuals that respectful undiscriminating inclusiveness must replace religions unfounded beliefs. Male superiority demeaned females brainy influence. It also created our 2nd oldest profession; pimping for mystical gods; finding its niche, supporting despotic monarchs and creating three superficial faiths. I seek truth in all things; including mans fascination with mystical deities; his disdain for intellectualism, his overt militancy, his neglect of planet Earth, and global 47

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divisiveness. I believe our worlds contentious societies could be enriched when and if all humankind has the same color skin and speak the same language. You say that is too idealistic? But an omniscient omnipotent omnipresent benevolent sensible God would have created the ideal in the beginning instead of natures thoughtless happenstantial erratic system that creates and sustains life evolutionarily. My premise: gods have not materialized, but slaughtering our discerning sagacious nonbelievers for 2000 years has limited philosophers, thinkers and scientists who have revealed that life began about 3.5 billion years ago when Earths chemicals evolutionarily mutated into single-cell organisms that multiplied by dividing; occasionally mutating; eventually evolving into all forms of life. Mans primitive experiences and experiments evolved his undeveloped intellect into more astute Homo sapiens; groping for answers; mystified by small seeds that produced huge trees; unaware atmospheric pressure gradients developed natures terrifying storms, which led to our 2nd profession, the prestigious primitive proponents of mystical gods who devised divinations simple solutions for unfathomable conundrums. Gods were pawns serving scheming scammers and dynastic monarchs priests who meted out justice, upheld order, and sanctified the riddance of their more discerning, erudite, non-allegiant dissidents. King Josiahs fathers assassination was due to polytheisms divisive gods; and Israelites had only folktales for history, Josiahs scholars fabricated an inspirational motivating epical tribal legend that subjugated them. It was tribal propaganda; its evil quixotic character, Yahweh, coerced them away from polytheisms gods by demanding death for apostates, etc. Yahweh named Josiah his ideal king and limited all worship to Jerusalems Temple. Egypt killed Josiah, and Babylon burned Jerusalem, but scholars revised the tribal legend while in Babylonian exile; adding Joshua, judges, 1&2 Samuel and 1&2 Kings. Persias King Cyrus seized Babylon and Ezra and Nehemiah returned Jews to Jerusalem, rebuilt its wall, and proclaimed Josiahs tribal legend Holy Scripture; culminating in Jerusalems newly established Jewish community founding its new sect of monotheistic Judaism. Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity; and established Constantinoples Eastern Christian Church. He then killed Europes pagan kings who refused the cross; appointing Christian kings; forcing them to convert pagan Europe to Christianity, which thrived with surveillance, censorship, torture and killing infidels, heretics, etc. for 1000 years, 48

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but a 30 year religious war, pitted Christians against Christians, reducing Europes population by a third; starving Christians into eating their most recently killed fellow-Christians. (See CHRISTIANITY) Americans declared independence from Englands Church-State dynasty; proclaiming: freedom of/from religion, but multitudes continue groveling and worshipping Abrahamic religions perfidious inscrutable gods, which have caused more persecutions, premeditated malicious murder and debilitating contentious wars, than all of our other idiotic idiosyncrasies, but now Christianity is pursuing our nations management, where a gods spurious sovereignty rescinds our constitution and nulifies laws; leaving us citizens impotent; subject to the gods prestigious professional proponents. My conclusion: non-thinkers have always acceded to pleas of a mystical gods prestigious professional proponents to get right with God, and the assurance of infinite life after death; all in exchange for a meager donation. These clever enterprising individuals are loosely confederated world-wide; thriving by convincing nonbelievers they can live forever by believing the particular religions creed, being baptized and therewith born again. It is difficult to believe these prestigious professional proponents of mystical gods do not realize they are promulgating unsubstantiated beliefs; which I think is dishonest. Believing intangible ideas is injudicious; misleading and consequentially it warps ones cognitive processes. My goal: is to expose Abrahamic religions deplorable perfidious history and introduce reason, honesty and truth to believers, or else multitudes of our born again Christian electorate will rescind our secular democracy, and retroact Christianitys ancient surveillance, censorship, inquisitions, tortuous persecutions and its tyrannical death-dealing totalitarianism; exterminating apostates, blasphemers, infidels, etc. If this appears extreme; remember: ancient clergy misrepresented their misperceived powers and colluded with politicians. Laws must govern; not the intimidating threats of self-righteous prestigious professional proponents imaginary gods. I argue that we cannot achieve nirvana by killing all who disagree with our particular brand of absolutism; that we must forego biblical exclusivity by promoting our secular nations undiscriminating inclusiveness, and try to prepare our world for a renewed more peaceful and fruitful life. Any goodness we receive is bestowed upon us by our fellow human beings, which obligates all of us to follow the golden rule.

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EDUCATION 1. Elementary and secondary schools, in the U.S., are managed like home-grown enterprises. Poorly educated citizens usually beget and rear poorly educated children. If we could interrupt that paradigm, and initiate a new pattern, we might educate an entire generation and get ahead of our populations climbing curve. Indolence is insupportable. To divert children from worse pursuits, each should become interested in investigating something that has attracted their attention. Its important for them to explore new sources of information, where theyll discover developments theyll enjoy learning more about; curiosity expands with new knowledge. Children cant start too early and the pursuit will fill their lives with exuberant pleasure; exercising their developing brain; it is the secret of successful lives supplanting their need to be constantly entertained. A preschoolers curiosity embraces natural phenomena, which can lead them to science, and research in the physical sciences. Middle school and high school youth have with too many distractions, and an average drop-out rate of 22.5%. Without the benefits of parental restrictions, this age is not wise enough to make meaningful decisions about their future. History and current news extoll activities of 15-24 year old male cohorts, whose inexperience, lack of responsibility and natural virility have set them up to risk their life for a few worthy causes and many unworthy ones, and they are apt to ignore educations obstacle course. It is essential for children to develop a VOCABULARY; it makes reading comprehensive and enjoyable. Ignorance is endemically debilitating for all those with an inadequate education, and incapable of self-education. Improving vocabularies is our first step toward reducing our nations ignorance. 2. Our method of funding elementary and secondary education with local real estate taxes is archaic and inadequate. Children, a treasure and our nations future are everyones responsibility; we should be taxed by the state or nationally to provide professional classroom teachers, and management, with commensurate compensation. 3. Magazine polls emphasize the deficiency of our secondary schools; how only 77.5% of students graduate, while other nations produce collegeentry students superior to ours; arousing consternation as to why this is true and why we cannot improve. Surveys show a number of fine high schools in the U.S.A. graduate exceptional students. However many schools 50

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are evidently mediocre and some dysfunctional. Polls also show 84-86% of our population admits to a blind-faith in unproven suppositions; and only 15 % will accept the proposition that we humans developed over millions of years, which suggests a relationship between our inadequate, locally guided, schools and a population with more faith in ancient ignorance than in proven scientific evidence. Religiously motivated managers, principals and teachers are contributing their ignorance to our schools, degrading the learning experience. Its essential that our young be scientifically motivated in high school and that colleges explore and explain the natural forces of the universe plus our planets physical laws, scientific principles, etc. Anything less allows ignorance to expand exponentially; further inhibiting our nations future capabilities, i.e., less able to solve global warmings forthcoming conundrums, stupid god-problems, etc. 4. The U.S., occasionally experiences influxes of illegal workers, seeking employment, but much of our manufacturing and assembly work is outsourced to less costly locations, (See U.S. ECONOMY). Poorly educated and discouraged male youth is one source of our less than erudite electorate; they consider intellectualism effeminate, unmanly, and drop out of school with meager educations and low-skill opportunities. Solution: stabilize and invigorate middle and secondary schools with male professionals who must certify their qualifications and be licensed to practice, e.g., architects, nurses, etc.; they will challenge our growing numbers of uninspired and discouraged young males who are taxing our schools, courts and prisons. 5. Our goal: provide all students equal opportunities to reach their level of incompetence, and are unable to learn more. A successfully completed high-school education, either academic or vocational, should be required nationally; military style if necessary; with college available to all qualified graduates. Each is to be engaged in work within their level of competence. 6. I emphasize how divisive religion has always been. Our discriminating faiths destroyed each other and millions of innocent people in attempts to replace the Jews as the chosen subjects of a spurious God. Our wickedest enemies could never have caused us that much harm. If we ignore world thinkers, IGNORANCE will imprison us in religions coveted xenophobia, so please understand: global warming is destroying our atmosphere. Think about Islams violent despotic regimes, which are replicating the first 2000 years of Judaism and Christianity; they are brain-washed with King Josiahs specious dogma and have bloody hands. EDUCATION is Abrahamic faiths 51

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Nemesis, but narrow minded IGNORANCE is humanitys Nemesis, which must be overcome, as it is propelling us toward imminent extermination. RELIGIONS myths are, inadvertently, instilled into our publicly supported EDUCATIONAL system. 7. Gods prestigious professional proponents are theologians who do not question, but zealously study and promulgate religious doctrines and matters of divinity. Bible scholars critically study the bible, seeking more knowledge about its history, its incongruity, duplicity, who wrote each book, etc. Professor Bart D. Ehrman is an authority on early Christianity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Ehrman confesses to having no faith. This is not unusual as most lose their faith because of their biblical knowledge. They are erudite; cognizant of the bibles inscrutability. I appeal to our nations people: please THINK, and get beyond our ignorant ancestors primitive professional proponents of mystical gods; who were scamming semi-developed intellects. EDUCATION is our salvation; not the condescending specious beliefs; defying EVOLUTIONS scientifically proven natural progression. Abrahamic religions denigrate science and knowledge. IGNORANCE demeans our democratic government and public-education system simply because born again voters predominate. 8. EDUCATION is more important to our nations welfare than religion, which emphasizes the absurd idea of eternal salvation, and deemphasizes knowledge. Education, i.e., knowledge, builds confidence and character, but religion only builds false hopes, while failing to add to our trove of worldly knowledge. Middle and High school males are vulnerable to their virility. It sways male brains for most of life, but is particularly deleterious in youth where the biggest dumbest boys become bullies. Middle and high school is no match for testosterones influence, but slower boys must be educated. Military type high-schools are not ideal, as they emphasize military action, which we wish to deemphasize, however, male high schools, academic and vocational, with male faculties were successful in many cities last century. 9. There is a great deal more that should be said about education and best ways to transfer knowledge, for instance; if one wishes to excel; to be better than the crowd; even the best schools cant do that. The secret: it takes more than perfect homework. Beginning in the early grades one must exceed what state tests require; otherwise you only know what other top students know, which means one must be open-minded and inquisitive to enjoy learning. It is perverse to fear nerd-hood. Exceptualism is the name 52

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of lifes game and a fertile curiosity makes learning entertaining. So get off your bottom, put the remote-control and telephone aside and give yourself time to think. Can you think of anything you dont already know? Do you have questions; your school work; your future goals; your personal relationships; trouble at work? Television and the internet are great sources of information, but you need something that you can refer to at your pleasure; like a book, maybe from the library, on the subject of your interest. Think about it, broaden your scope; develop the habit of searching for answers; use the dictionary for words you dont know. Learn something new every day; it will keep your mind occupied and thoughts evermore positive. In composing this treatise, my problem was that I knew a words definition, but didnt know the word. Curiosity implies an eagerness to learn things; a desire to be informed. Inquisitiveness implies a habitual tendency to be curious. Together they are the wellspring of knowledge. A curious inquisitive mind is open to new information; and if facts change, it is eager to embrace them. Some minds are satisfied with what they know, and not open to conflicting information, which contributes to undeveloped intellects and dull personalities, e.g., non-curious self-righteous blind-faith believers dare not read this treatise iconoclastic information concerning Abrahamic faiths, but agnostics and atheists have open minds; curious, and eager to examine any tangible evidence that becomes available, but I doubt there is a school-board in our nation that would hire an atheist teacher. 10. Historically, Abrahamic faiths; Judaism, Christianity and Islamism strangled new knowledge in the womb of its inventor; quelling all dissent for 2600 years; failing to add to our worlds trove of knowledge. Their schools and colleges, endowed after the Enlightenment, disseminated a particular sects theological doctrines; not to expand knowledge or enable society to see beyond their faiths constricted views of scientific progress. Americas founding fathers had experienced religions tyranny in Europe; migrating to the American colonies to avoid the hell of Abrahamic religions limited freedom and unlimited regressive demands. Our problem is: how to deal with our electorates enthusiasm for God as our nations sovereign under the aegis of its prestigious professional proponents; ostensibly to negate our nations legislators responsibilities to reduce our national debt by taxing the wealthiest contributors to their political campaigns. 11. To gain a fair idea of what a lack of unfounded beliefs can accomplish: search for Wikipedias List of Atheists in Science and Technology. 53

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MATTER VS SPIRIT 1. Matter is whatever occupies space and is perceptible to the senses in some way. Spirit is the thinking, motivating, feeling part of man, often as distinguished from the body. Spiritual is supernatural or imaginary and is all thats opposed to matter. 2. Primitive humanity feared attacks from both animals and humans; somewhere in our early development we found reasons to believe that the nonphysical was part of our physical world, and vice versa. Our fear of the paranormal developed sensitivities to the presence of animate beings, and our imaginations presumed the possibility of earthly gods. At some point in our primitive or ancient times, we realized: the deities we had identified as being most important, were all perceptible matter; things we could see, feel, or hear. We imagined that gods had imperceptible powers over us which we call fanciful, imaginary or spiritual forces. 3. This is my view of the unresolved question of matter vs. spirit: our brain, the center of our nervous system is of matter; it receives sensory impulses from our senses and transmits motor impulses to our muscles. What we speak of as our mind, is actually a division of our brain which handles our memory, recollection, our intellect and intelligence; what we think, what we feel, will, etc., the seat of our conscious and unconscious. 4. Religion is an abstraction, dealing with our condescension, to obey and worship an abstruse mystical deity; something we allow our minds to do, but our brains remind us that the concept is unfathomable; that we are misleading our brains logic. Our mind accepts religions irrational concepts by giving our imagination the benefit of doubt while ignoring our brains logical interference. 5. I believe that our mind is free of our brains logic and free to wander, to wonder, to imagine, to suppose, to wish-for, to consider possibilities, and to either accept or reject them; our will is free and often not encumbered by our brain, a convenience for wishful thinking; our brains logic cannot consider details of the non-existent and our mind is unconcerned about the impossible or non-existent. We willingly accept conjecture or the spurious or prejudice, etc. without evidence for our brain to contemplate its probability. Im aware: religions regard the mind as the Soul, an entity which is the immortal or spiritual part of a person and having no physical or material reality is credited with the functions of thinking and willing 54

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hence determining behavior; BS! My argument: religions forceful influence in our world is misdirected, that the idea of life after death, is impossible, that our mind (or soul) is not separate from our body, and is not spiritual, but is a part of our brain and is of matter. When our brain dies, our mind also dies and our essence is no more. Religions fatuous promises clouds reasoning and people accept unintelligent definitions without question. 6. Neuroscientists assure us: our minds do not exist independent of our body, but are mental; which is not possible after the brain is denied oxygen and dies. Our brain can mislead us; brain imaging shows that regions which become active when we only imagine we see or hear something are identical to those that become active when we actually do see or hear something. I think of the mind as integral to the brain but acts independently. If our mind doesnt avail itself of our brains logic, its free to believe anything, even when no favorable evidence exists. Our minds freewill permits us to ignore the brains assistance in correcting fanciful unrealistic thoughts with more reasonable possibilities. So Ill repeat the following: Ignorance and wishful thinking embraced religions fallacies. Our brains and computers, both require rational, factual input to develop rational factual solutions, but Abrahamic religions lack thereof forced it to rely upon conjecture, blind faith, and killing millions of nonbelievers, to obtain its illogical imposition upon the worlds ignorant gullible trustful societies. 7. Ive experienced religion; contemplated its biblical messages; pro & con, for most of my 94 years, and found them woefully wanting of reason, truth and common sense. This treatise succinctly explains my successful search for a truthful reason for the bibles irrational incoherence; where King Josiahs god-fearing tribal propaganda is used for the bibles early books; the Pentateuch. My choice for learning about the machinations of todays religions is the American Fascist: The Christian War on America; by Chris Hedges, a worthy author who tells it like it is. Please read it. You will then, better understand the politically conservative Religious Right Coalitions artful schemes to amend our U.S. Constitution from a freedom loving democracy into a tyrannically controlled, book-burning autocracy without the benefit of our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and rights. German philosopher Kant, (1724-1804), said we individuals are sovereign; a rational concept replacing the sovereignty of politicians god, which has always been a license for religious tyranny without accountability.

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MY FAITH & FINAL NOTES Greetings, dear reader, Im so very proud of you because you have an open mind, are curious and eager to learn; otherwise you would not be reading this. Your comprehension of my exploration of the origins of the Judaic god and holy books proves you are now better informed about this matter than some eighty percent of our worlds people; congratulations! I have no faith in the three Abrahamic religions spawned by King Josiah. Judaism, Christianity and Muslimism, combined, exterminated millions of apostates, blasphemers, unbelievers, proposers of other gods or for some other insidious reason; adopting their vengeful dogma of intolerant hatred and fought innumerable religious wars, including Islamic regimes present sectarian terrorism. Today a minority of worlds people dismisses gods; the majority needs more knowledge of philosophy, science, and their religions history. Will the Religious Right Coalitions stupidity, e.g., its Mideast wars, financial meltdown, etc. be our future? Or will people awake and see that Abrahamic faiths denigrate knowledge by accentuating the supernatural. Knowledge will expose religions vulnerable underbelly. Is this why we are unable to enact proper regulations for elementary and secondary schools to better educate our children? My faith is in REALITY, i.e., NATURES immutable forces and scientific principles, including evolutions erratic progression. World scientists revealed the immutable forces controlling the motions of the planets, and all life, enabling astronomers, mathematicians and scientists to develop productive concepts; beginning with the lever and the wheel; also steam engines, electricity, trains, automobiles, airplanes, computers, space flight and wireless transmissions radios, televisions, ubiquitous telephones and other electronic devices. Man didnt create forces, he discovered them. A superhuman power center does not control the forces. They dont demean or promise redemption or threaten damnation; so natures ramifications created me. I dont worship nature; I respect and appreciate its bountiful sustenance, wondrous beauty, and abhor its despoliation. Confucius said we are all the same except for our experiences. I believe Abrahamic faiths exclusive divisiveness intimidated and murdered our ancestors, and still encourages the world to perpetuate it, but undiscriminating inclusiveness can lead to international agreements to rectify the situation. International societies must see that their fictitious gods xenophobic intolerance is our problem; that we must strive toward undiscriminating inclusiveness, and 56

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develop mutually beneficial ways to compromise. It has taken us since the Ice Age to improve this much, so lets begin now to encourage our reservoir of perspicacious women to collectively demand a voice in all international policy making decisions because men have failed us. In an attempt to explain the universe; primitive professional proponents of mystical gods rationalized; a superhuman created their incomprehensible world along with all life. It is analogous to the word processer Im using; unable to comprehend its miraculousnessthere must be a god inside the electronic device reading as I work; thoughtfully coaching my grammar, spelling, etc. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, is Arthur C. Clarkes third law in his book; Profiles of the Future. Despite Abrahamic religions perfidious unforgivable history, I wish to thank Religion-Lites for the extensive efforts they have made to provide schools and help for needy members plus hospitals for communal use, but I extend them no credit for their extensive, self-promotional proselyting missionary work. All gods are speculative, but possibly science will discover some semblance of a universal power-center, or worlds scientific community develop a more detailed analysis of the big bang theory; at that time, the open minds of discerning individuals will reconsider all tangible evidence. Advanced age has made me cognizant of a few important things I hadnt thought about; especially how much more tolerant and understanding we men become after our testis havent functioned for decades, and our libido is an ancient memory; our brain is devoid of extracurricular thoughts and surprises us with its great interest in lifes mysteries. It is then we finally realize how sagacious, discerning and astute women really are, and how stupid we men have been, thinking womens brains were marginalized by the bibles god. We erred; females intellect is intact, but male intelligence is attenuated by testosterones insidious stimulus. We ignored womens intellect; accentuating their sexuality; conforming to evolutions natural system, we compliantly found a mate and reproduced. Although I have no consideration for conventional mans imaginary gods, I am highly concerned for the multitudes of my fellow human beings; from whom all goodness flows. They appear secure in religious ignorance, but that doesnt rob them of good intentions; it simply divides them into many kinds of intolerant bigots who insist upon different methods of worship. 57

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Conventional males, even after marriage, prefer male companionship. They dont love men, but seek their approval; evincing mans innate instinct to lead fellowmen. Unconventional men are thinkers; uninterested in leading, who only tolerate other males, but excel as attentive loving husbands and able fathers. I suspect approximately 80% of humans are non-thinking believers and that only about 20% are nonbelieving thinkers. I began writing this treatise with a ball point pen in September, 2008, a month after my 91st birthday. Sometime later my grandson, Bradley Hess provided this word-processer and guided me. I will be 95 in August. I live alone in Plano, Texas, a part of greater-Dallas. Officially, I am in hospice with visiting nurses, etc. The first year after my wife, Marie expired was devoted to producing my 36,000 word Recollections & Reminiscence. I dont have a television or radio, but I have a Kindle, and order magazines, books, etc. from Amazon; adjusting font size to resolve major vision impairment. Today is February 8, 2012, and Im to get an internet connection. As a free-thinking nonagenarian secularist living alone in H. L. Menckens bible belt, I know its unwise to expound upon my neighbors foibles, but such is life; many are convinced we nonbelievers are the devils workers; unreliable and should go to Hell----immediately!----Maybe a religious idiot will ring my doorbell and announce: God sent me! And kill me, but my doctors and caregivers are all considerate kind generous individuals who I respect, cherish and will always remember, including my dear chaplain. Free at last; ROBERT G. INGERSOLLS VOW personifies my own reaction: When I became convinced that the Universe is naturalthat all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light, and all the bolts and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide worldnot even in infinite space. I was freefree to think, to express my thoughtsfree to live to my own idealfree for myself and those I lovedfree to use all my faculties, all my sensesfree to spread imaginations wingsfree to investigate, to guess and dream and hopefree to judge and determine for myselffree to reject all ignorant and cruel creeds, all the inspired books that savages have produced, and all the barbarous legends of the pastfree from popes and priestsfree from all the called and set apartfree from the fear of eternal painfree from the winged monsters of the nightfree from devils, 58

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ghosts and gods. For the first time I was free. There were no prohibited places in all the realms of thoughtno air or space where fancy could not spread its painted wingsno chains for my limbsno lashes for my backno fires for my fleshno masters frown or threatno following anothers stepsno need to bow, cringe, or crawl, or utter lying words. I was free. I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously, faced all worlds. And then my heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heros, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brainfor the freedom of labor and thoughtto those who died in dungeons bound with chainsto those who proudly mounted scaffolds stairsto those whose bones were crushed, whose flesh was scarred and tornto those by fire consumedto all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of man. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still. Robert Green Ingersoll, (1833-99), was an
American lawyer and lecturer on agnosticism.

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DRINK MY WINE SEEK TRUTH IN ALL THINGS QUESTION EVERYTHING BEGRUDGE NO ONE CHECK ALL FACTS AVOID TRIVIA ACCEPT LIFE BE DISCREET DO NO HARM BE DIPLOMATIC AVOID THE UNREAL REMAIN BONA FIDE KEEP AN OPEN MIND LOVE REASONABLENESS OBSERVE THE GOLDEN RULE FORM INDEPENDENT OPINIONS DONT BLINDLY FOLLOW OTHERS BE HELPFUL; AVOID CONTRARINESS LIVE WITH SENSE OF JOYOUS WONDER RESPECT OTHERS; DO NOT CENSOR THEM ALLOW INNATE REASON TO BE YOUR GUIDE IGNORE THE INCONSIDERATION OF OTHERS POLITENESS IS LIFES ESSENTIAL LUBRICANT ALWAYS STRIVE TO LEARN SOMETHING NEW CULTURAL HARMONY ASSURES WORLD PEACE RELAXATION CONCEIVES POSITIVE THOUGHTS BE SKEPTICAL OF IDEAS LACKING TANGIBILITY TREAT ALL LIFE WITH RESPECT AND HONESTY. THE LITTLE SPERM THAT WAS YOU SURVIVED. VALUE THE FUTURE ON A TIMESCALE LONGER THAN YOUR OWN, AS LIFES AN ADVENTURE, STRESSING PERSEVERANCE, TENACITY, RESILIENCY AND ENDURANCE, WITH AN OPEN INQUIRING MIND SEEKING, KNOWLEDGE & LIBERTY; FREE OF RELIGIONS BIGOTRY. TO LOVE AND BE LOVED, WITH LITTLE CHILDREN, ARE WONDEROUS GIFTS. I WISH YOU LONG LIVES, WONDROUS LOVE, MUCH HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT WITH INTERESTING, CREATIVE, UNRESTRICTED PROFESSIONAL CAREERS AND SUSTAINED ILLIMITABLE PROSPERITY. Samuel Terrill Redwine Sr. 60

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SECTION TWO OUR CONSTERNATIONS 1. There is a high probability that religious idiots will obtain nuclear weapons. To better our odds of survival, we must expound, to the world, the profound benefits of a secularist government free from politicizedreligious tyranny. Ancient tyrannical monarchs proclaimed fearsome gods, and religious leaders manipulated mutinous multitudes; killing apostates, blasphemers, nonbelievers and proponents of other gods; forcing beliefs. The brain-washings left indelible aberrant mental impressions, which often bring believers to their knees, worshipping; begging the forbearance of a vain wrathful god. Europes history is full of despotic Christian politics, (see CHRISTIANITY), and politicized religion tyrannizes Islamic regimes, but Americas Christian hierarchy presumes born-again voters will trade their freedoms and rights in our secularist democracy for absolutism, as televangelists and talk-radio will excitedly explain how God overrules all contentious unholy views of Americas innumerable liberty lovers. Ancient professional proponents of mythical gods developed their misperceived godly powers by accommodating their ancient despotic political powers. 2. Our world is burdened with god problems, Islams religious terrorism, a shortage of potable and agricultural water, plus global-warming and pathogens that spread internationally. Our national challenges: excessive public and private debt, bankruptcies, mortgage foreclosures; decreasing savings, an inflationary monetary system, failing infrastructure, imploding schools, overflowing prisons, increasing unemployment, dependence on imported oil, population sprawl, and reduced prestige.

3. Weve made great progress in agriculture, industrialization, medical research, science, communication, global trade, and travel, but face major problems, e.g., proliferation of nuclear weapons & fissionable materials, which demand international surveillance. Global warming and divisiveness are other major problems. We finally realized: we effect global warming, and are considering ways to attenuate its rapid progression, by reducing the use of fuels which emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. 4. The main causes of global divisiveness are religion, nationalism, race and language, which preclude inclusiveness, cultural harmony, and world peace. I pondered the problem of global divisiveness to no avail, but after 61

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President George W. Bush resorted to divination and said a higher-power had approved his plan to invade and renovate the Middle East, I followed his example; the method used by primitive professional proponents of mystical gods, for eons to consult the occult, but unlike the president, Im aware: divination is a ruse, meant to fool us into believing a god can add credence. It depended upon public rituals, ceremonial cant and dances, it limited responsibility, preserved prestigious positions and at critical times a priests divination often decided a monarchs life vs. death propositions. Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Grecians and Romans had coteries of gods, and Israelites were polytheists before King Josiahs tribal propaganda, introduced illusions of a monotheistic god. 5. Religions lack of information is tantamount to ignorance; thus, ignorance is responsible for our blind faith in mind warping ancient sorcery, confusing us with vacuous conjecture and mendacious spiritualism. Ignorance of our origin conjured fears and ignited our imaginations, producing conjectures and gods for all occasions. Ancient kings specious gods demanded death for unfaithful non-allegiant subjects, which forced people to endow the gods with irrational non-compromising powers. 6. Since men first presumed their guise of self-righteous godliness, they have dreamed of eternal life and without evidence, believe they are above our planets natural laws and that an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent mystical god will redeem their sins and save their souls, in spite of their disrespect for Earths myriad forms of life. We are inconsiderate, and insist upon religious and ethnological competitive distinctions, but female sensibilities will outwit our simple minded conspiratorial schemes. Males guile disseminated religions B.S., developed large organizations and built grand buildings, but under-estimated two of our essential challenges; advancing knowledge and living together peacefully. 7. Intellectualisms doctrine: knowledge comes from reason, without aid from the senses. Our electorate insists that candidates for public office certify their anti-intellectualism plus a strong belief in biblical miracles; preferring candidates like themselves. I prefer candidates like me, free of religious constraints; without a need for miracles. Thomas Jefferson, our third president, opined: our democracys success depends upon an informed electorate. Our communication system is impressive; we are allowed the freedom of non-seditious speech, which invites a plethora of political and religious spin, which keeps our pot of ethnological distinctions boiling. Our 62

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government leaders have been slow to see the benefits of togetherness for anything other than war; and religions leaders continue to prove they are part of the problem, without a clue how to be more tolerant and inclusive. 8. We males, presume ourselves god-like, requiring adoration worship, obedience, etc. Although God assigned the management of women to us, they are no longer considered chattel, and civilized men no longer use force with women, so we must realize that women are the superior gender; their brains are not addled by a testis and men should value and emulate their sensibilities. I argue for females freedom from subservience and advocate their promotion to prominent leadership positions. Their extraordinary sensibilities are conducive to congeniality, inclusiveness, purposefulness, etc. Womens new role is a necessary emergency solution to help resolve our male worlds contentiously divisive political and religious problems. 9. Most people in Iceland, Denmark & Sweden believe in evolution. In all European countries, including Greece, believers exceeds those of the U.S., where a Gallup poll in 2008 found only 15% agreed with the proposition that humans developed over millions of years. This exposes our nations ignorance; (Turkey has 25% believers, 25% not sure and 50% deny it) but most of our population believe King Josiahs biblical fable, and feel compelled to follow the majoritys acceptance of religions irrational absurdity rather than scientific evolution and Secularisms intelligent doctrine of reason and truth. 10. Religions challenge is reconciling twenty six hundred years of false information with more reasonable goals, e.g., convincing believers that Earths life forms are worthy of survival. Religions will continue exploiting our fears with the bibles and korans vengeful messages. The holy books precepts were adopted from King Josiahs tribal propaganda, where the god was portrayed as a vengeful killer for the exclusive benefit of Josiahs people, to resolve problems inherent within his kingdom, and are not related to our present situation. Can we ever relieve religions self-incriminating stupor, which grips blind-faith believers? Religions denigration of knowledge is challenging our nation. (See EDUCATION) 11. The Abrahamic religions gods are frauds. Considering the revengeful history of Judaism, Christianity and Muslimism, my arguments are justified; but problems will be difficult to reconcile and repercussions momentous, depending upon the lust of our prestigious professional proponents of Gods for a naysayers blood; or hate-crimes by unhinged believers. 63

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The truth, offers humankind an opportunity to be free of religions deceptive message. In any case, we must forego the Judaic Gods intolerant xenophobia, and enhance the development of mutual global opportunities. Global-warming threatens our world. Religious-Right Coalitions conservative legislators stymy any reduction in the amount of carbon our nation releases into the atmosphere; playing chicken; competing with other developed countries; endangering life. 12. Christianitys obdurate intrusion in our governing bodies bodes ill; Islams Arabic Spring, i.e., young Muslims denouncing and eliminating their despotic leaders bodes chaos which will get worse unless our worlds prestigious professional proponents, of mystical gods, propitiously redeem ancient professional colleagues who killed millions; forcing their faiths on discerning nonbelievers; and find honest realistic goals for their innocent gullible congregations. Spurious gods might command believers to hallow the exuberant rejuvenation of our Earth. Think about it: These three great religious organizations have benefitted by developing world-wide support by hallowing the idea of supernaturalism; think what they could do with an honest idea that would help us survive the asphyxiating effects of globalwarming. I challenge them to see the light of reason; to encourage scientific inquiry; to acknowledge evolution, and to further worldly learning, instead of stifling it. From our beginning until today, belief in supernatural gods has done far more harm than good. Islam controls Americas destiny and Christianitys American prestigious professional proponents are poised; to join Islamic Muslims prestigious professional proponents enforcement of the Pentateuchs fundamentalist precepts by killing all infidels, heretics etc., much like ancient Christians European Dark Ages, (476-1000), responsible for wide spread ignorance, pervasive poverty and cultural decline during a period of intellectual stagnation brought about when Christian regimes closed libraries, banned books, scientific inquiry, etc., impoverishing all human progress. The world failed to regain the knowledge until many centuries afterward.

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OUR SAVIORS 1. The worlds women are our potential saviors. My imaginary female god is compassionately reasonable; her undiscriminating inclusiveness sensitivity to nuance and comprehension of humans are vital to resolving global divisiveness. She is adamant regarding the attitudes of disparate ethnicities toward other races, religions and languages; advising us to stop emphasizing distinctions and accentuate similarities; that our divisiveness will take generations to resolve; that a tolerant respect for others is essential for success. She says we must integrate the races with miscegenation; and cohabit until all childrens skin is the same color. She says we must develop a common language; warning that systems of education, healthcare, pollution control, agriculture, and food distribution are needed and that violence is insane; that her proposal can be accomplished without violence, and that undiscriminating inclusiveness will dissolve ethnocentric divisions. Uniqueness is cherished, and many fear losing their ethnicity. Socrates (470?-399 BCE) claimed to be a citizen of the world; was judged treasonous and banished because he refuted the Grecian states gods. Our divisiveness discourages world citizenship and world peace. Male leaders of nations and religions will resist changes that might dilute their personal prestige and power, but Earth can provide us ideal lives if we limit indulgence and do not squander resources; nature will restore the forests, endangered species, sources of water, etc., but cant support us if we kill all living things which displease us. Deforestation is frightening, as forests absorb excess carbon dioxide, and produce the oxygen, essential for survival of most all of Earthly life. 2. Our Worlds women are capable of organizing, designing and controlling an initiative to bring us together to reduce intolerance and save Earth. They are natural diplomats; essential for international compromise, and I encourage them to see the advantages in undiscriminating inclusiveness; and to initiate a global campaign to accomplish the endeavor. Its our only way to avoid our extermination as a critically endangered species. Males kept women at bay, and made tragic, godly, blunders by themselves, but today, we urgently need global women to ignore male egos, and to assume responsibility for global tranquility and decide our worlds big decisions. 3. Womens innate sensibilities are essential capabilities required by a global team to design and develop the proposed program. We seek a world free of xenophobia, where children have adequate food, housing, healthcare, education, same color skin, and speak a common language, with a 65

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representative authority that encourages xenophilic self-confidence and provides equal opportunities to attain an optimum level of competence. 4. If Josiahs scholars had been female; God would be female and world history would be less brutal, sexual repression unknown and matriarchy would enhance authority, but women werent well represented in Josiahs tribal propaganda, and televangelists hot-lines to God imply the attitude prevails. Men rival god while women, the source of mens relaxation, keep a restful home, bearing and nurturing the next generation into adulthood. Women are our opportunity, to pacify a contemptuous world. Men disdain intellectualism and resent competent individuals, but women admire scholarship and exceed men matriculating in college. Female sensibilities are essential for leadership positions. They will be superior national and international leaders. A woman will be a more discerning Pope and a much more appropriate, more reliable God figure. Although women are not considered believers, their influence has been more helpful than a virile immoral god, who exploited mans insecurities, but a nanny to guide him would have been more appropriate, as he and his egomaniacal male god, have cluttered history with blood stained debris. 5. Im not arguing for world acceptance of matriarchy, but advocate an unencumbered change in attitude that will bring global women out of the utility closet; into the forefront of leadership positions around the globe. Mens insistence on leading was an experiment in wasted money and lives, which leaves us where we began: fighting over religions vagaries, male vanity and national prestige. Women appreciate men for their cleverness and its largesse; women add tranquil togetherness to our existence; they have always supported mens efforts to change world policies, even when we employed a god-sanctioned dividing, conquering, destroying, etc. My hope: men will support womens efforts without proffering unsolicited interference as they spend a few hundred years untangling our worlds man-tied knots. Womens sensibilities provide attributes required by all demanding professions. Questions arise concerning a proper division of labor. During their first 40 years, women will bear and nurture our next generation; its maturity may determine mothers professional pursuit. Womens ability to compromise is essential to success; they ameliorate situations; their equiponderance intelligence and comprehension match or exceed those of men and its done gracefully. I advocate for womens global leadership as our national and international decision makers, which will moderate world anguish. Men are exemplary adventurers, but are usually 66

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engrossed in tactical schemes of attack, rather than the strategy necessary to avoid wars. Weve devoted time, money, and lives to improve world congeniality, but havent considered miscegenation to attain ethnological integration, freedom from religion and peaceful coexistence. Miscegenation should not be considered compulsory; young people need opportunities to study and work together; intimacy will solve our problem, and in time, we will produce a conglomerate strain. 7. The bibles god is portrayed as a vengeful divider, not a unifier. But to save humankind from destruction, the persuasive powers of Churches are essential. Weve a desperate need to restore Earth and our atmosphere to more pristine conditions. The improbability of solving global-warmings problems and problematic water problems; depends upon major world governments willingness to cooperate. If they dont agree before life on Earth becomes unbearable or religious idiots nuclearly achieve End Times; what are primitive mans stupid scheming ideas about imaginary superhuman gods really worth? 8. Religions have progressed unevenly along diverging paths, devoid of ideas to improve cultural harmony. It isnt too late; everything is possible. People have many talents; some have a talent for creating extraordinary things from ordinary stuff and extraordinary conditions from simple situations. The Abrahamic faiths conjured their gods and belief systems from a young kings deceptive tribal propaganda and deceived most of us with a vision postulating the spurious gods propensity for killing nonbelievers. 9. Josiahs biblical fable, the Pentateuch, was specifically composed for use as tribal propaganda proclaiming his own tribal god, which in turn commanded death for apostates, etc. It terminated polytheism and decreed Josiah an ideal king, etc. thus we have determined that the essence of the Abrahamic religions is deception. This provides hierarchy an opportunity to pursue their deception further by implying that God wont return until our Earth is presentably sustainable and that recent revelations command the faithful to lead everyone in rehabilitating Earth, in preparation for the gods anxiously anticipated return; Cultural Harmony is also a realistic goal for God to pursue; it provides religion an honest purpose that humankind understands. When no longer burdened with supernaturalisms quandary, religion can contribute to our natural worlds knowledge by promoting world peace. Realistically, this has greater potential for peoples worldly progress than faith in the bibles incomprehensible egomaniacal killer of 67

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foreign women, children and innumerable other innocent people. Tragic assumptions were made in the jungle by Abrahamic faiths professional predecessors who traded security in a promised hereafter for treasure-inhand. The scamming entrepreneurial enterprises evolved into monarchs tyrannical religions, (See CHRISTIANITY); their goals remain the same i.e. scamming salvation except that Religion-Lites Judaism and Christianity no longer kill apostates, nonbelievers, etc. 10. Everyone should be excited with the idea of hybridizing the human race; since our beginning, the process has produced some very astute and beautiful people. DNA diversitys, biological & psychological advantages makes it the universal answer to racial prejudice and consanguinity. We need to reorganize our worldwide exchange programs for high school and college students; with an ever expanding participation of countries, it could grow into a universal educational system. Our global situation will benefit from improved interracial and interfaith relationships. 11. The 19th chapter of Exodus has God explaining to Moses, that, under the threat of death, neither the people nor the priests shall be allowed on Mount Sinai, or see god while Moses is receiving the Ten Commandments. Andy Rooney said: Those to whom His word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasnt anyone around when Mohammad got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Mary Baker Eddy had exclusive audiences with God. We must trust them as reporters----and you know reporters. Theyll do anything for a story. Abraham Lincoln said: You can fool all of the people, some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people, all of the time. Lord Acton said: All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. King Josiahs minions concocted a god with absolute power over Josiahs people. 12. As a child, mother warned: the boogey-man would get me; later I was consigned to hell. I will not go to hell; I will return to oblivion, from whence I came prior to conception in a passionate act of conjugal pleasure. Biblical mythologys imaginary gods have undue influence over the lives of millions of people; a mental aberration, accepted as normal by the mental health profession. The subterfuge of religions effusive inerrancy convinces the superstitious they must follow the crowd to the promised hereafter; thus, religion feeds and thrives on our fears. We seek a queue to join or a crowd to follow. Im thankful for our skeptics. Skepticism is rational; Judge Learned Hand often said that he would like to see some particular 68

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words by Oliver Cromwell placed over portals of every church, courthouse and at every cross-road in our nation, which were: I beseech ye, in the bowels of Christ, think ye may be mistaken. Judge Hand thought that if we are to be saved, it must be through skepticism. 13. As a youth, I believed, but questioned the unreasonableness of my belief. Religions illogical believers both fear and revere the bibles vengeful obnoxious gods recrimination; which served King Josiahs and religions purpose; by instilling mortal fears that torment people into believing the unknowns of supernaturalism. Since the end of our matriarchal period when man became god, he has considered himself godly and the promise of eternal life assured his immortality. Man accepts his self-assigned, exalted position with equanimity, assured he is above all other Earthly life-forms including that of women. An obvious question: why do women worship Abrahamic faiths mystical gods, despite the gods biblical disregard for the female gender? The answer: men are natural promoters, that is, confidencemen, capable of selling snake oil, etcetera. Ever since primitive males proclaimed their superiority, females have been relegated to religions outer fringe; their knowledge of the bible limited to clergys sanctimonious sermons, but unfamiliar with the stories where god commands the Israeli army to destroy entire populations, including the innocent mothers and children, but to save the young female virgins for the soldiers. Apparently believers rationalize that Gods revengeful pathological killing and egomaniacal demeanor is fundamental to their faith; as the bible tells us: this murderous god sired and later killed his own son. 14. Biological and psychological gender distinctions can resolve global divisiveness. We men are greedier, more contentious, our ego and vanity are sacrosanct, and we compulsively dominate. Our predispositions might be needed to follow Gods precepts, i.e., to divide conquer and destroy all infidels. Womens sensibilities, predispositions, etc. are more suitable for our needs; they are ameliorable, empathetic, sharing, and equally staunch, loyal, and steadfast. Underestimated, they win graciously, even when their successes are credited to men. I argue in favor of the proposition: that after multimillennia of male domination and our world has reached the stage where we have a compelling urgency to develop communal solutions for global problems; that womens predispositions to detect common-ground and thereby resolve impending international agreements are essential.

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15. U.S. was founded as a Secularist, not a Christian nation. Many early American colonists came to this country to escape the rigid freedomlimiting religious dogmas of Christian Europe. Puritans brought a more strict dogma with them, which prompts Australians wry comments, that they were lucky to get the convicts. The early thinkers in the Colonies were deeply suspicious of organized religion. Thomas Paine (1737-1809), American Revolutionary patriot, published, The Age Of Reason, an attack on the bible and orthodox religious beliefs; eight editions sold out in the first year. Our astute founding fathers were determined that authoritarian religion wouldnt disrupt democracys principles. Most signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 were deists. Benjamin Franklin & Thomas Jefferson were outspoken atheists. John Adams, a Congregationalist, was opposed for our second president because voters thought: he favored a monarchal theocracy, much like Islams totalitarianism. 16. I respect Religion-Lite, the least disingenuous for a civilized society, but continuing growth and development of Islams religious extremists and Americas Protestant Fundamentalist movement will lead to upheaval as civilized societies will not abide compliance with Fundamentalism. 17. The worlds thinkers advanced a civilized philosophy and science in spite of religions appeal to a non-thinking majority. It is most evident in secular nations; free from religions interference, e.g., a believers insistence that a spurious god overrules all opposition. Theocratic regimes have burned books, suppressed scientific inquiry, freedom of speech and information. Believing in gods clouds the mind and deadens reasoning powers with unrealistic ideas, e.g., believing that Godly power exists, without the remotest evidence, indicates more faith in ones ignorance than their knowledge, i.e., what one does not know is more credible than what one does know. This explains believers righteous self-satisfaction and lack of curiosity to learn the historical facts about their omniscient fearsome, but imaginary god. Everyone should question their faiths past performance. 18. Dear reader, a small percentage of our world understands that beliefs in God are male concocted subterfuges, and that religions absurdities are humorous, deserving ridicule; with vast numbers meeting regularly, and exercising distinctive rituals of particular sects, hoping to influence specific deities; much like gathering around jungle fires in the night dancing and chanting; repeating the aberration ad finitum without meaningful results, but Secularisms reason and truth will sustain you. 70

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19. My reason for dwelling on religions confidence game is because the bibles God, along with the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel and 1&2 Kings were adopted from a tract of tribal propaganda, concocted by King Josiah of Judah about six centuries prior to the New Testaments Jesus. Both gods were fictional characters, especially contrived to deceptively subjugate unbelievers with original sin and mortal fear of the unknown, but with repentant groveling testimony to clergy, one is promised eternal life. A confidence game indeed, conning the unsuspecting who listen to clergys sermons, but their God is portrayed in their bible killing millions of people; genocide, infanticide; even gang-rape; all in an effort to promote his chosen people. It is fictional; compare it with the horrific brutal history of Jews at the hands of Christian believers, whose god, Jesus, was Jewish. Its all stupidly contradictory and unbelievable and it was all wrought by ignorant mens desire to manipulate their fellowmen. The bibles Pentateuch is King Josiahs tribal propaganda. I emphasize: we have no god; that all goodness comes from our fellow human beings, and I abhor Abrahamic religions insistence that unfounded beliefs (ignorance) supersedes knowledge; theyve found no wrong in their devilish history of killing millions, but continue to grovel and worship their culpable sanctimonious fallacious beliefs. 20. Women are more interested in having a real, free, peaceful, healthy, moral, progressive world for their familys welfare than in being on their knees groveling to denigrating supernatural nonsense. Organized religion keeps female leadership at bay, allowing few hierarchal opportunities. The fatuous promotion of eternal life is a nice fantasy, but it should not take precedence over rational ways to save Earths life forms. Male leadership in government and religion has been costly. The intrinsic qualities of women inspire congeniality and trust. We cant trust pious male clergy who preach King Josiahs tribal propaganda as inerrant certainty. Religions are belief systems based on god-ideas fabricated by man to achieve an advantage, but our intangible beliefs produced eons of mortal conflict. I want to expose the history of our three fallacious faiths, and thereby show what perpetuating primitive ignorance does to societies, as our beliefs are incompatible with undiscriminating inclusiveness. We are fortunate to have a worldwide team of ambitious, educated, perspicacious women while men are in their descendancy, and shouldnt procrastinate this rare opportunity to right an ancient wrong.

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RELIGIOUS TYRANNY 1. Todays conservative political movement began in 1980; resulting in legislation harmful to the middle class; ravaging trade unions, deregulating utilities and banks; plus reducing taxes on our wealthiest, who colluded in reducing interest rates to encourage consumerism, and out-sourcing our manufacturing economy, to reduce labors cost; (see U.S. ECONOMY). The Religious Rights Republican Party promoted our Middle East wars, which have cost us more than $1.5 trillion. We owe China $1.6 trillion, which they invested in U.S. treasury notes, rather than their people. Deregulations, etc. caused our banking systems recent melt-down and recession; prompting Federal Reserve to initiate quantitative easing, e.g., printing new money and buying locally owned government bonds; putting cash into consumers hands, increasing inflation. The U.S.A.s total debt is $14.3 trillion. 2. Religions thrive during our times of despair; people sense a need for inerrant certainty. It increases born-again voters and elects additional born-again officials like President George W. Bush. He favored low taxes for corporate wealth, , and low interest-rates for consumers, encouraging the gullible to build and buy. In 2008 tax-payers bailed out our collapsed banking system, but mortgages were foreclosed on thousands of home owners, increasing unemployment, prompting more despair and more born-again voters. This recessionary spiral, created by the Religious Rights conservative legislators, encourages religions hierarchy to call for a Christian-managed federal government. Their ignorance of God is exceeded by their ignorance of our worldly needs. A constitutional amendment could nullify our freedom-from-religion allowing religion to nullify contentious speech, press and assembly. All will be lost to religious tyranny. Deceptive attempts by monarchs professional proponents of gods to manipulate their subjugated followers created the bibles fictitious gods. Todays ruse is promoted by Christian hierarchys political leaders. I fear our electorate is initiating the end of its own Bill of Rights. History shows that believing God demands specific political action encourages unlimited Christian abuse and cruelty. Remember the persecutions and slaughtering during the Inquisitions, Crusades, the 30 year war, and recent Holocaust, of innocent men women and little children. (See CHRISTIAN ANTI-JUDAISM). 3. Historically, political tyranny was enforced by prestigious professional proponents of intimidating fearsome specious gods, portrayed as tyrants, e.g., King Josiahs propagandist, Yahweh, commanded death for everyone 72

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who failed to follow Josiahs commands; its precepts were adopted by the holy books. Im concerned for literalists or fundamentalist, who believe the bible is the word of God and death the correct punishment for breaking biblical commandments. Our worlds vast trove of knowledge cannot provide facts about our imaginary gods. Like other malevolent anecdotes, god ideas were eagerly promulgated, worldwide as creeds to manipulate ancient despotic monarchs ignorant gullible multitudes. 4. I dont contest facts; religion has no facts, only beliefs. I argue against our misguided electorates full-throated enthusiasm for adopting a mystical sovereign god to glorify government with creeds and defer all national and international questions to the gods professional proponents. Our Founding Fathers meant to prevent such a religious ruses unfortunate outcome for worlds first democracy dedicated to the proposition that all humankind are equal and that our democracy remain free of ecclesiastical influence. Their intentions are found in Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jays: The Federalist Papers; 85 articles, published; 1787-1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption. When and if a god is declared sovereign, America with all of its rights and freedoms loses its sovereignty and we will be a Christian theocracy, obligated to literally obey the bibles laws; much like the Middle East Islamic regimes. The Coalition also plans for a majority of non-thinkers in our electorate by proselytizing them as potential believers. Once believers submit their will to a god, they will learn how the gods professional proponents want them to vote; our televangelists will control government; not as a secular democracy, but an authoritarian theocracy. Historically, political leaders specious gods threats of death for apostates, nonbelievers, etc., implicated their subjects in occult mysticism to gain their submission. The god-idea was ingrained into our ancestors for twenty six hundred years; survivors, including little children, believed the Big Lie, and today it is very seldom questioned. 5. The conservative Religious Right Coalition awaits an opportunity to rescind our constitutions Separation of Church and States freedom from religion; then our nation will be their theocratic fiefdom; interpreting God literally; demanding that apostates, blasphemers, nonbelievers, etc., be put to death by believers. Much of our world is controlled by Islamic Muslimisms totalitarian regimes. Our founding fathers were determined to separate our ecclesiastical affairs from our governing apparatus.

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6. Believers, cognizant of Christianitys familiar fantasies, but unfamiliar with their faiths degenerative history, may be surprised to learn about the Religious Rights Evangelicals preparations to subvert our democracy by packing our government with officials favoring a theocratic nation, where their version of the Pentateuchs perfidious Judaic god will supplant our Supreme Court, and like the Islamic regimes, professional proponents of mystical gods will rule by disallowing other points of view. This will set the stage for Evangelicals, long awaited cataclysmic End Times with the Abrahamic faiths decimating each other, to determine which is eligible to welcome their gods descendancy from heaven as believers ascend into heaven and we nonbelievers experience our gory end. This is my allegorical parody of
humanitys regressive ignorance and allegiance to an imaginary god.

7. Supreme Courts selection of George W. Bush as our president in 2000 was inopportune. Reliance on faith instead of reason changed our nations course to an irrational one. Political and religious militancy brought the U.S. to our degraded position in the world. Kevin Phillips, book, American Theocracy, The Perils and Practice of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money, In The 21st Century, documents how the Religious Right Coalitions Republican Partys unfortunate assistance brought our country to its knees. President Bushs administration was an expensive disaster. 8. It is presumptuous to presume that todays Christian government would be less fundamentalist or totalitarian than primitive Judaisms were or the ancient Christian despots were or the tyrannical Islamic Muslims are today; all of which worship the Pentateuch, the original Holy Scriptures of the Hebrew bible, which was originally fabricated in 7th century BCE for tribal propaganda by King Josiah of Judah in order to maintain command over his Israelite tribe. Blind-belief in God led millions to kill nonbelievers. It is unintelligible that individuals, so divorced from reality that they need a mystical god to guide them, are considered qualified to hold a high public office. The bibles God, which was King Josiahs tribal god, is portrayed as a death-dealing egomaniac devoid of impartial goodness or love; except for the Jews, whose own innocent children their god failed to save from the holocausts gas chambers, furnaces, etc. See CHRISTIAN ANTI-JUDAISM for evidence of Vatican complicity. 9. Mythical gods should be of good character. Believing in the criminal behavior of King Josiahs tribal propagandas vile & vengeful Yahweh has proved detrimental to world peace. Josiahs god set bad examples for man. 74

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Males with their mighty male god challenge all who disagree. Women excel at peaceful leadership, with evolutionarily developed sensibilities that seek compromise. Men developed alertness for things lurking out there, and King Josiahs god commanded us to dominate the world. Men resist ideas of world-citizenship. Im not describing all men; fortunately, our world has produced innumerable exceptional male nonbelievers who developed our great fund of worldly knowledge. Being a male for 94 years provides a fair appraisal of our limitations. I understand our predicament. Virility is vital to our self-esteem; it influences thoughts, distorts equiponderance, disturbs contentious negotiations and amicable diplomacy. Men believe King Josiahs god provided women to service us, while we convert the world to the service of a spurious god. 10. Every word spoken or written, from the primitive jungles until today, promoting mystical gods as our savior has been deceitful. King Josiahs scholars conjured the tales about patriot Abraham, and the, creation. The question is; were they purposely deceptive, such as the Pentateuch, the gospels, and Mohammads revelations? 11. Before the eighteenth centurys Enlightenment and prior to Americas independence, and Religion-Lites, belief in a god had always been insisted upon by political leaders who killed apostates, blasphemers, nonbelievers and proponents of other gods. Gods were the hand-maidens or pawns that professional proponents of mystical gods psychologically used to enforce the evil commands of monarchal despots. 12. Dear reader, please dont fear; just because prestigious professional proponents of Abrahamic faiths mystical gods have been exposed as frauds doesnt change the facts of life; gods have always been phantasmal illusions. Maybe what I say will prevent religious idiots from following the holy books specious gods commands to destroy our freedom of thought and nonbelieving thinkers. Beware the sanctimonious when they make laws. Scratch a moralist, and you will find a hypocrite. Shakespeares: Measure for Measure.

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ETCETERA 1. We humans should not consider ourselves above and beyond Earths natural physical laws which control all living things. Information indicates we are part of an orderly system. Every part consists of matter; I have no concept of the unreal or spiritual, despite religions allusion to it. Weve not found anything considered supernatural. Evolution provides transparent answers about how life on Earth developed. We dont know why we are here; is the answer worth killing others over hypothetical questions? The more we learn, the more we want to know; just because I cant explain our unknowns, doesnt mean that it would be beyond my comprehension when and if, the information becomes available. Without answers to universal unknowns, we cant assume poetic license to publicly proclaim divine gods. Indeed the absence of verifiable information is not an excuse for inventing answers, which only confuse with misleading assumptions. Apprehension, ignorance and over-active imaginations brought about our undoing. World history reveals: civilizations faltered wherever religion became a zealous consideration. Many of us believe were on oblivions slippery slope and fear Religion-Lites inundation by Fundamentalism. 2. Israelis and Palestinians share racial characteristics and speak Semitic languages; both worship King Josiahs fictitious god, but their Abrahamic faiths are distinctive. Israelis worship Judaism, but Palestinians worship Muslimism. Both cultures originated in the Holy land and have much in common, but religion is perceived as an important distinction; the basis of rivalry and inability to live together peacefully. The American Colonies welcomed Jewish immigrants; but not the Puritans in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, where they burned Salems witches, and forbade infidels to own land. Jewish culture, in the United States is an intellectual stimulant but Christianity often exposes its ignorant simmering anti-Semitism. 3. Evolutions system of natural selection provides numerous benefits, but it also accentuates the imperviousness of deleterious bacteria and the submicroscopic viries. Medical research is too often stymied, by dogmatic ignorance. Scientific experimentation advances knowledge, but religious faiths denigrate scientific inquiry, preferring ignorance contemporaneous with the bible. Recent examples of religions ludicrousness are the Popes condemnation of Africas condom distribution to thwart further H.I.V., and President George W. Bushs refusal to allow further research on lines of particular stem-cells. 76

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4. Mark Twain, our nineteenth century satirist, said a lot about religion, but for obvious reasons none was published until after his death; its great material, read it, youll enjoy it. Like Mark Twain and many others who find mystical gods ridiculously unreasonable, I fear religious zealotry, such as Islams misperceived godly powers to kill the worlds infidels. 5. Religion is an imperative in many lives, and a complication for those burdened with feelings of inadequacy or guilt, to which they desperately cling with only blind faith and optimism. I am free from specious religions influence and regret that for masses of people, religion is tantamount to an infected feverish boil on their bottom that continuous to threaten hell-fire, but everyone remains reluctant to interfere or medicate for fear of another painfully destructive eruption. 6. The pert answer that: god works in mysterious ways, is unacceptably stupid. Many believers sense self-righteous satisfaction in promoting godideas which they consider too-good to ignore regardless of authenticity. This wouldnt be a problem if religion was not so divided and diverse; its lack of essential information creates uncertainties that disrupt its Systems and sectaries creating additional distinctive problematic, religious sects. 7. Author, Bernard Lewis, in his Crisis of Islam, mentions: in the Middle Eastern Arab world the idea of Equality is very basic in Islamic belief; all true believers are equal, although nonbelievers and women are excluded and are not equal. The political leaders are obsessed with a god-idea and kill all who disagree; their minds are closed; refusing opportunities to learn about the origin of the three Abrahamic faiths. However Kuwait, an Islamic country, permits women to vote and become members of Parliament. 8. Galileo was condemned for heresy by Inquisitions general tribunal, which was established in the 13th century for discovery and suppression of heresy and punishment of heretics. Copernicus developed the Copernican system, the basis of modern Astronomy. He theorized that planets in our solar system revolved around the sun and the turning of earth on its axis accounted for the rising and setting of the sun and stars. Galileos telescope demonstrated the truth of Copernicus theory; he spent seven years under house-arrest for questioning the Churchs position. When King Josiahs minions composed his ruse of royal propaganda little was known about our solar system. Aristotle (384-322 BCE), proclaimed Earth at the center of the universe, encircled by the moon, sun and stars. Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473-1543), found inconsistencies with that theory and placed the sun at 77

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the center. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), corrected Copernicuss famous but incorrectly formulated description of the solar system, and established the laws of planetary motion on which Isaac Newton (1642-1727), based his work. 9. Knowledge is power; religions wield prodigious powers supported by ignorance; they resist knowledge and tout fear, deceit and a specious concept, i.e., supernaturalism; under the guise of personal salvation. Our concurrence will degenerate our Democracy into a Tyrannical Theocracy. Our view of history will determine our destiny; primitive political leaders, ancient and medieval kings depended upon the idea of imaginary gods to manipulate and control their multitudes; the history of Western Europe is replete with Christian nations brought to ruin by their zealous insistence that citizens be converted or else classified heretics, subject to inquisitions, persecutions, and death. Central Europes Holy Roman Empire (800-1806) had organized the Teutonic Knights unsuccessful Crusade to retake the Holy Land. In 1618, militant Catholic principalities provoked 30 years of religious wars (1618-48) against both Catholics and Protestant sects, who also fought each other with unrivaled fury. (See CHRISTIANITY). 10. After two centuries of divisive Christian wars, Western Europeans tempered their religious fervor in favor of old fashioned secularism and reason, while the U.S.A. has become religiously contentious, narrower minded, less understanding and more divisive; suffering self-imposed disillusionment; many think we are the international leader; others, more knowledgeable of history, are aware of Christianitys militant influence on Europe. We are too religious. Skepticism and tolerance could help us a lot. The confluence of religion and nationalism; historically has produced only death-dealing incapacitating tyrannical theocracies as per King Josiah. 11. Our mid-nineteenth century Civil War, was a religious war; pulpits in both North and South justified it. Irelands Catholic terrorism of England and Serbias Christian terrorism of the Muslims were religious wars; plus, President G. W. Bushs Iraq-Afghanistan wars concern religion. When the Abrahamic religions are not partaking in wars, they accommodate them. Islamic religious extremists succeeded in destroying New York Citys World Trade Center towers and goaded the U.S. into unwinnable wars within their hot-bed of radicalism where their announced goal is ridding the world of infidels, but they are fighting for worldwide Islamic sharai law.

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12. Presently, the Religious Right Coalition controls many electorate plus political leaders who supported Pres. Bushs Middle East misadventure and promote Israels effort to rid the Holy Lands of Palestinians in preparation for Evangelicals End Times. Mr. Phillips book, documents Christianitys political influence in the implosion of: the Roman Empirelate 15th to 17th century; Spanish centered Hapsburg Empire16th to 18th century; the Netherlands or Dutch Empire17th to 18th century; Great Britains British Empire18th to 20th century, and says that Each of these countries, in its day, was the leading world economic power and principal naval or military power and each believed in their own exceptionalism, a wellspring of encouragement and reassurance for early and middle generations but a source of strategic blindness during the last years of illusion. 14. Our nation is relegated to a less than exalted position in world affairs. We are pondering ways to make our world undiscriminating and inclusive; the love and trust-thy-neighbor, philosophy propounded by Christianity, but when considered seriously religions irrationality defies common sense; its absurdity and diversity prevents it being the intended fantasy. Several Christian Protestant sects in the U.S. are becoming more intense, fervid, feverish, charismatic, exclusive and intolerant; waiting expectantly for Armageddon. They wont be disappointed; nations and empires have been destroyed before when the people depended upon a political leaders spurious god to save them from righteous self-destruction. 15. Historically, our world has settled religious differences with mortal conflict, but our only opportunity to save our planet and us, is global compromise and understanding. Men are contentious; women have proven themselves the saner. Maybe, civilized human beings can agree that mans god-ideas have been devastating deceitful ruses and be rid of them. The bibles god is portrayed as a divisive pathological killer, unfit to guide a peace loving people. Reason & Truth are basic to any belief. The worlds God delusions require reconsideration. Religion is especially liable to reflect the vagaries and weaknesses of human nature; and, as the forms and habits of thought connected with worship take a firmer hold on the mental constitution than do those belonging to any other department of human experience, religious conceptions should be subjected to frequent and careful examination in order to perceive the extent to which we are holding on to ideas which are unsuited to existing conditions. In an age when every branch of inquiry is being subjected to reasonable criticism, it would seem that the origin and growth of religion should be 79

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investigated from beneath the surface, and that all facts bearing upon it should be brought forward as a contribution to our fund of general information; quoted from: God-Idea of the Ancients, by Liza Burt Gamble 16. Neither God nor Jesus criticized slavery or polygamy, which were common throughout much of history. Slavery was abolished in civilized countries in the nineteenth century. But polygamy, banned in many parts of the world, is practiced surreptitiously in the U.S. and Canada. Biblical treatment of women as chattel is why todays religious leaders do the same. Today civilized nations accept a womans vote, in an election or on a jury is equal to a mans vote. Enlightened societies no longer regard women as property. They were granted the vote as follows: New Zealand 1893; Australia 1902; Finland 1906; Norway 1913; U.S. 1920; Britain 1928; France 1945; Belgium 1946; Switzerland 1971; Kuwait: 2006. 17. Racial purity is a national identification for many nations; but the U.S. has thrived by accepting miscegenation. We are destined within the foreseeable future, via assimilation and intermarriage, to become a browner people, (See PARTY REVERSAL). Racial-centric nations, such as France and Japan overlook the obvious benefits of DNA diversity and are reluctant to assimilate foreigners. A peaceful world will benefit everyone; it depends upon our worlds willingness to forego ethnic uniqueness and encourage global harmony along with ethnological undiscriminating inclusiveness. I dont think governments should forbid the practice of religion as long as it forsakes hate, embraces tolerance, accepts new scientific knowledge, remains peaceful and does no harm. Karl Marx was correct: a large percentage of believers have a desperate need for an onerous opiate of self-righteous self-satisfaction. Our U.S. government is woefully inept to encourage the proliferation of religions with tax abatements because our Constitution guarantees us freedom from religion, as well as freedom of religion so why the free ride? We nonbelievers consider tax supported faith based services unconstitutional. 19. Uncritical acclaim of self-righteous religious leaders is oblique and disingenuous. We must assume they are familiar with the bibles incorrigible unforgiving god, which no one should emulate. Is it sheer ignorance or the evil intent of King Josiahs tribal propaganda that has propelled both political and religious leaders since the propagandas evil god was adopted as the Hebrew bibles god? Religions have been blind to their responsibility to help keep peace in our world; which, historically, has been torn asunder 80 18.

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by their militancy. They are also responsible for unsuspecting humanitys gullible attraction to their thoughtless, or possibly intentional, calumny. 20. Youve read my treatise and know our primitive fears, ignorance and longing for a better future, led us to believe our welfare depended upon imaginary gods. I have an imaginary female god and Ive described how Yahweh, God and Allah became gods in the minds of billions of misguided, trusting unthinking hopeful people. Gods have always been just ideas. At no time in recorded history have we been aware of the supernatural. We men concocted all gods and practiced divination which secured our path to leadership; the control and manipulation of tribes, tribal councils, political and social groups, thenceforth our nations, and the worlds empires. 21. One hundred and thirty seven years prior to Americas Independence an English clergyman in the American Colonies, John Harvard, endowed Harvard College, founded in 1639, as a religious school. Presently, there is not a department of religion at Harvard University. Religion is founded upon ancient sorcery; Just because billions of people have believed in God does not change the fact that prestigious professional proponents of Gods have no tangible evidence, but deceitfully promulgate beliefs in a specious god, leading large segments of our world to anticipate heaven with loved ones; and respond passionately to suggestions of its unavailability. False promises bring disappointments and more bloodshed. I regret there is not a heavenly existence, as per fantasies; my understanding is: that only our essence would be affected. Believers have been led to believe they and all of their ancestors will be in prime human form with their god for eternity. 22. Religions position is awkward & embarrassing, having spent twenty six hundred years promulgating unfounded doctrine; based upon young King Josiahs tribal propaganda. Groups or individuals that claim to speak for God are misinformed; not qualified to do so; the Judaic god was an evil character in Josiahs political tribal propaganda; information about God is in bibles Pentateuch; Josiahs propaganda. 23. Author, Strobe Talbott duly warns: In championing reason, science, and humanism against ignorance, dogma, and despotism, the great figures of the Enlightenment were waging, with their minds and their pens, what was often a losing battle against blunter instrumentsIn a world where disputes between individuals and states were so often resolved not by reason or merit or virtue but by force, the power of ideas alone did not stand much of a chance against the power of violence, which was due to 81

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forced religious beliefs and religious sects competiveness. Im undeterred. Ive shown religion began in the jungles with voodoo gods that the Judaic god was fabricated by King Josiah of Judah in the seventh century BCE; composed as tribal propaganda to confound and maneuver his subjects with sanctimonious tyranny. Deceitful believers desecrated humanity by slaughtering its nonbelievers; thereby developing a religion industry which promotes primitive promises of forgiveness of sins and salvation in heaven for the righteous and hell for the wicked. Twenty six hundred years of inquisitions, persecutions, despoliation and wars prove that the gods of the Abrahamic faiths Judaism, Christianity and Muslimism are, as King Josiahs scholars concocted; fictional dividers and ruthless killers. 24. The fraudulent backward Abrahamic religions found it necessary to slaughter millions of dissenters in order to force false beliefs onto innocent societies; recall Spains invasion and exploration of both North and South American continents; killing the natives and taking their land in the name of God; all because they believed mystical gods would salvage their souls. Religious beliefs are inconceivable; their historical death and devastation almost destroyed their world; all progress was accomplished by a few clear minded thinkers, who had to survive organized religions gauntlet of inquisitions, persecutions, banishment and death. Abrahamic religions hierarchies know that knowledge will expose them to shame, ridicule and failure. Its why they stymy inquiry. Why do todays hierarchies promulgate primitive and ancient fallacious dogma? Could it be because professional proponents of mystical gods have been prestigious positions since their jungle experiences, or is it their blind-faith in King Josiahs fabulous tribal propaganda? Think about it. Obviously additional knowledge could have saved us from false beliefs, and remains one of our obligations to improve public education.

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SECTION THREE RECAPITULATION 1. You say you love science-fictions unbelievable stories; like H.G. Wells Time Machine? Tell you what Im going to do; there is a story I want to tell about microscopic life beginning 2.4 billion years ago on an extraordinary planet where evolution naturally developed a new species, Homo sapiens, whose political and religious leaders, under the guise of alleviating peoples fears and restless anxieties, conjured imaginary gods, to better manipulate them, plus the gods provided simple solutions to fathomless conundrums. Innumerable future generations inherited and embellished the gods, whose specious threats and rewards gradually became essential to maintaining an obeisant tribal allegiance. Money influences power. Political and religious leaders found that god-ideas were career enhancing; profitably developing divination, with its professional shamans, medicine-men, priests, etc. who represented gods and collected portions of the sacrificed meat and grain. Ancient kings built religious alters throughout their kingdoms facilitating the slaughter of sacrificial livestock. This sordid practice continued until King Josiah of Judah proclaimed his monotheistic god and destroyed the pagan altars, limiting worship to Jerusalems Temple. He and subsequent tyrannical monarchs, killed non-allegiant nonbelievers, convincing their ignorant gullible believers and their progeny that they were subjugated, under threats of death, for non-obeisance, to an ever-present, all-knowing, all-powerful, egomaniacal superhuman god. Its not science-fiction, but a true, strange, tragic saga, about the perfidious fictional gods and Abrahamic religions that humankind embraced. Gods have always received tithes and gifts; there is a childhood story about a rabbi, catholic priest and protestant preacher discussing how they shared Sabbaths gifts with God, and the rabbi explains: I simply throw it all up into the air and let God decide. 2. Primitive man was ignorant of his planets natural laws and scientific principles. He imagined imperceptible powers manipulated and controlled his world. Without evidence humankinds imagination, ignorance, fear and underdeveloped intellects, devised devious schemes to use the occult for personal advantage, e.g., tribal leaders, priests, etc. leading to King Josiah of Judahs monotheistic god idea. Belief in a particularly vicious god instilled fear of vengeful retaliation into subjects; subjugating and organizing them, assuring their unquestioning allegiance. European history is replete with 83

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despotic church-state dynasties. Americas prescient founding fathers founded the first secular democracy with a Constitution and Bill of Rights. 3. I have explained how young King Josiahs tribal propagandas fictional tribal god character, Yahweh, decreed the killing of apostates, blasphemers, nonbelievers and proponents of other gods. The killing assured Josiahs successful reign. His propaganda was proclaimed Holy Scriptures of the Hebrew bible, which portrays the god as an egomaniacal pathological killer who destroyed nations, demanding death for millions including innocent women, children, even infanticide and gang-rapes, which assured Gods notoriety; all in order to benefit Josiah. A majority of our U.S. population believes in God; which I question. Why would anyone worship bibles genocidal, merciless god and believe we should emulate it? Why do adults worship what they are ignorant about? The bible confirmed my skepticism, improved my life immeasurably and made an atheist out of me. Knowledge is glorious, but ignorance robs one of self-worth, confidence, and initiative. Gods are helpless, hopeless, nonentities invented by man. Recall the Judaic gods fulltime neglect of its chosen people during their brutal history including the Holocaust? As for Jesus, Im not impressed by the conflicting gospels, which were composed more than a century after the purported miracles. Prolific writings by contemporaneous historians do not mention Jesus or his miracles. Jesus was just another fictional god; contrived by the Jews to support their original menacing Yahweh with a less virile, more empathetic benevolent son. The Jesus fables are as incredulous as those of King Josiah, but Jews denied the lurid tale of Yahweh killing his own son. 4. The world is divided between haves & have-nots, i.e., thinkers & nonthinkers, e.g., leaders & followers; about 80% are non-thinking followers. Dont be one of them. Religion connotes intolerance and if anyone suggests that God can help you, thank them and run; dont discuss impossibilities with organizations built upon subterfuge, bigotry and the extermination of dissenters. Converts are attracted by creating mortal fear of unknown gods. Abrahamic faiths are cults, awaiting prestigious professional proponents opportunity to govern us with fundamentalisms theocratic absolutism. I fear that U.S.s born again electorate will rescind our secular democracy and return to Christianitys former totalitarianism, forbidding freedom of information, speech, religion, etc. Islamic regimes are totalitarian, where true-believers are equal; women and unbelievers are not equal. Religions hierarchys politicians control U.S.s born again electorate, and postulate exchanging our secular democracys Bill of Rights for theocracys absolutism. 84

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Religion-lite is a decoy; attracting innocent ignorant prey into theological totalitarianisms maw, by using the very freedoms, they plan to destroy, e.g. religion, speech, press, etc. including their own voting rights. 5. Its disturbing to contemplate why much of todays society rejects our accumulation of evidence proving that all gods, including the Judaic God are mans creations, and that innumerable contradictions, misstatements, misrepresentations, and general incongruity, indicates the bibles lack of authenticity. Also my chapter; JUDAISM, reveals how the bibles early books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel and 1&2 Kings, were originally king Josiahs tribal propaganda. 6. How wonderful life could be if Muslimism would forgo its tyrannical killing, and if all religions would surrender thoughts of political dominion, and forgo preaching Pentateuchs incredulous precepts and vicious stories, where God calls for slaughtering all peoples, of several nations, including innocent mothers and children, but cautions the soldiers to save the young virgins for their pleasure. Why do clergy consider Gods crimes sacred? I understand its a farce; but clergy intentionally misleads congregations by deceptively presenting their spurious god as a benevolent do-gooder. 7. Religions history is replete with tyranny, persecutions, beheadings, burnings, wars, despoliation, desecration, and general mayhem. Serious consideration should be given to cleaning-up our religions ungodliness. Fallacious promises are like false advertising; if congregations werent so ignorant and gullible, it might be ok, but its unfair; like shooting fish in a barrel, because ignorance eagerly clamors for the opportunity to be fooled, and religions compete for opportunities to satisfy their egotistical desire to live forever. Although promulgating unfounded doctrine may be unworthy and vexing, religions, apparently reason that someone has to do it; that it shouldnt be neglected, because if congregations adequately tithe, sins are absolved forthwith, and requirement of righteous self-satisfaction either meets the approval of the memberships majority, or they are apt to scout for a new minister, or leave and organize a new church. Its a precarious business, void of scientific principles; dealing only with the supernatural. 8. Religion-Lite is mans inane, incomprehensible, competitive enterprise. It consists of numerous distinctive sects, each offering a pseudo insurance against risks of an imaginary hell plus forgiveness of sins and promise of eternal life in an imaginary heaven. It is supported by gifts, etc. Eligibility qualifications are defined by each sect. Fear of retaliation, by an imaginary 85

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god, brain-washes congregations into eager believers. However, Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Muslimism, hark back to the despotic reign of King Josiah, twenty six centuries ago, and cannot deny their documented compliance with their holy books commands to kill apostates, blasphemers, nonbelievers, proponents of other gods etc.; Millions subscribed to a monarchs specious god in order to save their lives, thereby agreeing to do the killing. From their infamous bloody background Religion-Lite presents a holier-than-thou face to the world, but they are neither holy nor a benign fantasia; Christian religion wields great power in our U.S. Congress and Senate. Most of our legislators endorse the bibles vengeful fictitious god, and patronize our born-again electorate; hoping to attain hierarchys stated goal of a Christian managed U.S.A., i.e., a totalitarian theocracy; where, like in ancient times, Christians will substitute a specious god for brains and supported by a born-again electorate, insist their prestigious professional propnnents overrule all contentious opposition. 9. Our worlds ethnic cultures are divided into two opposing groups. The larger, more populated, older group respects and values authority above all else. Their combined, church-state, governments assure authority and security, and along with the community and tribe, are more important than the individual. China, Japan, East Asian nations and the Middle East are among this despotic group of nations, known as the East. The smaller, less populated, younger group of ethnic cultures cherishes independence and liberty. Sovereign individuals elect governing authorities, and choose belief systems, not necessarily a religious ones; with freedoms of speech, assembly, the press, etc. West Europe and America are among this group, known as the West, but if Christianity governs all is lost. 10. All goodness comes from fellow human beings in spite of religions perfidious presumptions. I have explained that the Judaic God, Jesus and Allah are fraudulent, and the discerning astute thinkers were slaughtered because they refused to kill other nonbelievers. That is how it was: from King Josiahs contrivance of a monotheistic god until about 1450 CE when the Christians finally forbade it; but fanatical Muslims continue it, which corroborates my earlier statement, that the worlds Islamic regimes are the most backward, violent, and the most religious societies on Earth. 11. We must never forget that: throughout the ages, millions were killed and horrific crimes committed by monarchs, clergy and zealous believers in response to the commands of the bibles specious God. I 86

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presume that zealous religious government officials will replicate the evil deeds of ancient clergy, when and if a mythical god is our ultimate decision maker. Congregations profess blind faith in deceptive dogma rather than their intellect, because clergy do not reveal the truth about the specious Judaic Gods criminal behavior. 12. It is incumbent upon us nonbelievers, to be a little more considerate and polite than church attendees; or we will be considered devil-workers. We must prove to be high-principled, tolerant, unbigoted, exemplary seekers of the truth; searching for pertinent knowledge of religions perfidious history, and we must seek societys respect by establishing ourselves as considerate, helpful, congenial, convivial individuals, whose critical explorations into the history of the bibles Judaic god, challenge religions deceit with reason, truth and complete honesty. We have determined the truth; we have no Gods; bibles Pentateuch is fraudulent; and we believe civilized society can accept the truth without destroying the world; that blind-faith in the bibles unfounded rewards for the righteous, and punishments for the wicked are good adages, but empty promises. We must not gloat over our ability to recognize that Gods slaughter of innocent mothers, children and infants is, criminal; unworthy of our consideration. 13. I began this treatise with excerpts from Thomas Paines introduction to: The Age of Reason and now end it with excerpts from its final chapter. It is incumbent on every man who reverences the character of the Creator, and who wishes to lessen the catalogue of artificial miseries, and remove the cause that has sown persecutions thick among mankind, to expel all ideas of a revealed religion as a dangerous heresy, and an impious fraud. What is it that we have learned from this pretended thing called revealed religion? nothing that is useful to man and everything that is dishonorable to his Maker. What is it the Bible teaches us?repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the [New] Testament teaches us?to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.I here close the subject. I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I leave the evidence I have produced in proof of it to be refuted, if anyone can do it; and I leave the ideas that are suggested in the conclusion of the work to rest on the mind of the reader; certain as I am that when opinions are free, either in matters of government or religion, truth will finally and truthfully prevail. 87
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I, Sam Redwine; author of this iconoclastic harangue, fully agree with Thomas Paine. I dont expect refutation, because the bibles incongruity cannot be authenticated. I will not be surprised if some religious idiot stones me to death; however, I am confident of NATURE and REALITY. Man has experienced both since our beginning. Although they are sometimes undependable; we understand how to cope with their surprises, but have not agreed on how to survive our self-inflicted global warming. Abrahamic religions prestigious professional proponents of mystical gods convinced humankind to divide up and slaughter each other over diverse opinions of King Josiahs fabricated royal tract of tribal propaganda. I invite you to write a cogent explanation for the bibles incomprehensible Pentateuch; since Yahweh is portrayed as an egomaniacal killer of innocent foreigners. How is that supposed to help the world? Recall: subsequent ignominious Jewish history; their god did not help, simply because it was fictitious.

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OUR FUTURE 1. Our species future depends upon what thinkers understand were the reasons why history took its recorded course. My thoughts are less on our well documented ignoble past than on our future, I have no clues, but great interest. Who will we become; will evolution ever improve us physically or intellectually; will our scientists develop more beneficial knowledge for humanity, or will the worlds wisdom persuade us to peacefully nurture an international government; or will religious idiots obtain nuclear weapons, who imagine a God commands them to rid the world of thinkers, but if thinkers are killed, idiotic religious tyranny is waiting to rule the world. 2. Islamic regimes, the worlds fastest growing religion, control our destiny. When Iran attains nuclear bombs, Islam will control all nations reachable by their delivery system. Religious rivalry and propaganda about imminent Armageddon indicate an ominous prognosis for a semi-civilized world. Belief in God disrupted many formidable nations and I fear our electorates religiosity will rescind our Founding Fathers freedoms and replace them with Islams biblical tyranny. Religions future depends upon future humankinds ignorance and its fears of an erroneous biblical gods insinuated subjugation. The worlds discerning, thinkers, dismiss all religious beliefs; but our religious majoritys ignorance might destroy our worlds trove of knowledge. Where religions controlled government, they burned books, stifled scientific inquiry, and their critics, by denying them freedom of information, the press, etc., i.e., their own Bill of Rights. 3. David P. Goldman, in his informative book; How Civilizations Die says Islamic womens average birth rate has dropped precipitously, indicating theyve lost faith along with their dying civilization, and that Americas birth rate assures survival. However, we view religion quite differently. He values it, but I find its sanctimonious fallaciousness unfitting. Primitive professional proponents of mystical gods began deceit as scamming voodooists in the jungles and prospered as priests whose dogma enforced the tyranny of ancient monarchs and landed aristocracy. The 1700s American religious freedoms rid churches of the Pentateuchs evil death-dealing god, and developed the Religion-Lite industry, which evinces an ironic deceitful message; that religions perceived purpose is saving man from his innate calumny, which he initiated in the jungles. 4. Life taught me that a small percentage of men developed our worlds philosophical and scientific knowledge; always with the aid and support of 89

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women, and that the Judaic God persuaded most men that women were inferior beings, meant to be subjugated. History has proved that women, when confronted with daily lifes irrational problems are more flexible, wiser, and more rational than conventional men. 5. Mara Hvistendahls book: Unnatural Selections; Choosing Boys Over Girls, And The Consequences Of A World Full Of Men; exposes an invidious custom. Her world history of Gender Selection describes debacles created when excessive numbers of testosterone-laden young men are unable to find wives. Unbalanced genders led to serious crime wherever occurring in history, e.g. the settlement of our wild-west. The latest census of small children in our world alerts us to future problemswithin fifteen years, South Korea, China, India and Azerbaijan, collectively, will need 160 million additional young women, (equivalent to U.S. female population), in order to domesticate a like number of ambitious, vindictive, rapacious young males. The situation, at minimum, will exacerbate their customary trafficking in women and children. Men love the power of pre-eminence and dominion. They often abuse the confidence of others and sacrifice their scruples to personal advantage; Statistics indicate: U.S. mens probability for committing violent crimes is 4 times higher than womens; we men are 3 times more likely to commit robbery; 5 times more likely to commit aggravated assault; 8 times more likely to be arrested for murder, and 13 times more likely to be arrested for a sexual offense. Although little girls are lifes loveliest, most wonderful creations; true believers cannot right the rampant wrong of killing girl babies because the unforgivable custom is too much like the Judaic Gods common practice of infanticide and genocide, as related in the bible. Emulating God is our Nemesis. 6. Im not optimistic. Our nations government is the best money can buy. It is beholden to Finance, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Utilities and other major contributors to national political campaigns. Our nations legislative bodies are cooperative recipients of the conservative Religious Right Coalitions influence and largesse; they advocate for a born-again electorates disgraceful god. Income disparity is the result of conservative legislators effort to convert our nations economy into religiously controlled medieval serfdom; in order to better enrich campaigns contributors at the expense of our electorate. It is obvious that the Republican Partys obduracy campaign within our House and Senate results from the reversal of political platforms in the South in 1965 the religious segregationist voters, annoyed by the enactment of the Civil Rights Act, left the Democratic Party and took 90

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over Abraham Lincolns Republican Party. (See PARTY REVERSAL). 7. Conservative voters are depending upon God to pay our national debt. They voted for President Reagan who doubled our national debt, and for all subsequent conservative administrations which added to it. Liberal, President Clinton, balanced the budget during his two terms; but President G.W. Bush wasted it on a Middle East fiasco, and then lowered income taxes for the wealthiest campaign contributors. Born-again voters elected the presidential administrations that increased our nations debt. Presently, conservative legislators are blaming the debt on President Obama, who inherited it. They are trying to ruin our Black President without losing the Blacks vote. After the Civil War, southern segregationists settled the Midwest and the West; many voters are zealous segregationists, and I fear for the presidents life. Washingtons political stupidity emphasizes how blindfaith in ancient speculation often supersedes scientific evidence. Ive shown herein that there is no God. I have cursed God daily for 50 years without pejorative response; the misbegotten SOB did not help innocent Jewish children. Some religious idiot, reading this, can prove me wrong by killing me, demonstrating how Abrahamic religions successfully imposed their faiths on trusting societies for 2000 years by murdering nonbelievers, etc. Any fool idea will be successful if naysayers are killed. It explains why todays non-thinking believers fear erudite discerning naysayers. The volume of naysayer is increasing because religions hierarchy favors lowering taxes for the wealthiest contributors to legislators political campaigns; also for killing the Consumer Protection Act, which was to replace the much needed regulations for banks, credit cards, loan sharks, insurance companies, and monopolies which were removed by President Ronald Reagan. Capitalism must be regulated; otherwise it devastates consumers. Peaceful competition is capitalisms game and must be encouraged; free of price-fixing, but all monopolies such as utilities, should be permitted to earn only a reasonable profit for its stockholders, when establishing users rate fees. Otherwise free enterprise will create a market for the utilitys product; driving up consumers rates by buying large portions of the service and reselling it to the highest bidder ad finitum, which is how our electric utilities presently distribute their monopolys essential public service. Prior to Reagans stupidity the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed public utilities a profit of about 7%; consumers rates were adjusted regularly; securing the stockholders highly valued position. 91

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EPILOGUE 1. Although I am old and enjoy each day with therapeutic projects that keep my brain entertained, similar to this venture, I fear that our nation is mistaken in supporting the elderly to their bitter end, at the expense of care for expectant mothers, their babies, and children in general, who are being short-changed by a lack of funds; why else is our infant mortality rate so high and why are millions of children without health-insurance? 2. Ive experienced enough life to appraise it, and find old-age palatably uncomfortable and painless, worthy of its problems and expense, but must seriously consider what to do when I become bedbound; having avoided senility, to this point; nursing homes are unacceptable. Since euthanasia is not available, suicide is the sensible alternative. Our Social Security system in the U.S. is presently unsustainable because an increasing percentage of our population is eligible for benefits. Consensual euthanasia is a sensible alternative that would solve our dire situations involving only bedbound patients with dire maladies; including those who are very old, depressed, maybe feeling hopeless, but that doctors consider a survivable quality of life. Its devastating to be unable to care for oneself, and nursing homes are not for everyone, so I encourage euthanasia for the physical or emotional relief of the desperate or hurting. My body has been willed to a medical school for more than twenty years, but I fear premature institutionalization to rot in some nursing home while painfully waiting for bodily systems to shut down. I prefer to skip the preliminaries and go directly to college as a prize cadaver. Euthanasia avoids prolonged suffering, but is considered possible only in Oregon, although it would be welcome relief for many. The situation could develop into a memorial gathering with family, guests and patient, all in attendance, replacing the somber funeral as a memorial; the patient, if feasible, visits with guests and bids goodbye to everyone prior to an intravenous injected terminus. Everyone would know that the service is available for them when and if their medical situation ever qualifies. 3. The Perils of Aging: I dont recall ever dwelling much on the subject of old-age, until, in my mid-seventies a young physician prefaced his verbal instructions with, Due to your advanced age----I assumed myself elderly and thence have worn the mantle and born the stigma. Its not easy being old. While most individuals look forward to an enjoyable retirement, odds do not favor them. Poor health, fatigue and money problems, often reduce options, but Medicares support for the elderly is of immeasurable help. 92

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4. A doctor recently explained my problem; he said: the reason I am outliving my savings is that I have had too good of medical care. I graciously accept the benefits. However when we consider the increasing number of seriously debilitated older citizens with the decreasing birthrate of the worlds developed countries, the obvious disparity is apparent: too few young people who must support too many elders to their bitter end. 5. This treatise on mans contrived religions devastating influence on humankind is information for the consideration of my grandchildren and their descendants. I have often wished that my grandparents could have done something similar; how wonderful it would be to have a sense of their ideas and to know the truth about our situation, that: fortunately we are alone, free from the curse of an imaginary fearsome God; I rejoice! Active curiosities and open minds are cognizant they might be wrong. Closed minds will bring civilization to closure; and civilized segments of our worlds population must organize, in non-challenging, ways. We can preserve humanity and all beneficial species of plants, animals, etc., over time, naturally and simply, by promoting intermarriage of races and religious faiths, developing a common language, an unlimited student exchange and by recognizing that God was extrapolated from King Josiahs tribal propaganda. Just dont fight about it. 6. You had the foresight and fortitude to read my treatise; I thank you. If you consider me blasphemous, I wont agree ; religion is a man-made subterfuge and is not sacred, but was originally devised to exploit others in order to develop political support for leaders. My life approaches its end and many may see an error in my ways, but I accept that I am a part of Earths physical system and not outside its natural laws. 7. Our worlds only solution is to forego the bibles false beliefs. Humanity must organize a global effort to salvage our planet and in time restore all beneficial species including plants, animals and essential microorganisms which sustain us, or else our position on the endangered species list will ever become more critical. Internationally, everyone must work toward an eventual ideal for humankind, by attenuating our differences, recognizing our benefits and gradually eliminating our distinctions while increasing our similarities and eventually becoming the same race of Homo sapiens, speaking the same language, and truely become the same except for our experiences as Confucius propounded.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. THE AGE OF REASON/Thomas Paine; 1737-1809 2. ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES/Charles Robert Darwin; 1809-82 3. PROFILES OF THE FUTURE, an Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible /Arthur C. Clarke: Harper & Row; 1963 4. CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS and the Remaking of World Order/ Samuel P. Huntington: Simon & Schuster; 1996 5. HITLERS POPE/John Cromwell: Penguin Group; 1999 6. KING JOSIAH OF JUDAH, the Lost Messiah of Israel/Marvin A. Sweeny: Oxford University Press; 2001 7. THE BIBLE UNEARTHED/Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman: Free Press; 2001 8. LOST CHRISTIANITIES/Bart D. Ehrman: The teaching Company; 2002 9. ISLAM/John L. Esposito: The Teaching Company; 2003 10. THE CRISIS OF ISLAM, Holy War and Unholy Terror/Bernard Lewis: Modern Library; 2003 11. THE CAGED VIRGIN, an Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam/Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Free Press; 2004 12. AMERICAN FASCIST: The Christian War on America/Chris Hedges: Free Press; 2006 13. AMERICAN THEOCRACY, The Perils and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money/Kevin Phillips: Vikings Penguin Group; 2006 14. THE LOOMING TOWER/Lawrence Wright: Knoff; 2006 15. AMERICA ALONE, the End of the World as We Know It/Mark Steyn: Regnery Publishing; 2006 16. THE INFIDEL/Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Free Press; 2007 17. ROME AND JERUSALEM, The Clash of Ancient Civilizations/Martin Goodman: Alfred A. Knopf; 2007 18. THE GREAT EXPERIMENT, The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States and the Quest for a Global Nation/Strobe Talbott: Simon & Shuster; 2008 19. THE NEW ATHEISM/Victor J. Stenger: Prometheus Books; 2009 20. THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS/Louis Ginsberg and Henerietta Szold 21. GOD-IDEA OF THE ANCIENTS/Eliza Burt Gamble 22. THAT USED TO BE US; How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back/Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2011 23. BACK TO WORK, Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy/Bill Clinton: Alfred A. Knopf; 2011 24. HOW CIVILIZATIONS DIE, And Why Islam is Dying Too/David P. Goldman: Regnery Publishing; 2011

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HISTORICAL DATES
Stone Age: precedes the Bronze Age and constitutes the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods; the period in human culture when stone implements were used. 2. Agriculture: developed in Mesopotamia, in the Neolithic period about 8,000 BCE 3. Egyptian Dynasties: began 4500 BCE, during the Stone Age, and continued through the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. 4. Bronze Age: 3500-1000 BCE, a phase of human culture characterized by the introduction of bronze tools and weapons. 5. Babylonian Empire: in the Tigris and Euphrates River valleys; was famous for its wickedness and flourished from 2100-500 BCE 6. Biblical Period: about 2000 BCE-90 CE 7. Israelites: King Josiahs tribal propaganda put the Israelites in the Egyptian18th dynasty, about 1200 BCE, and King Solomons reign about 1000 BCE. The actual history of the Israelites is known to be much simpler than King Josiahs biblical fable. 8. Hebrew Writing: first dated between 1200-1100 BCE 9. Iron Age: 1000 BCE-100 CE 10. Ancient Greece: began 776 BCE, during the Iron Age. 11. Assyrian Empire: in the region of the upper Tigris River, extending from the head of the Persian Gulf to Egypt and Asia Minor and was at its height during 600s BCE. 12. King Josiah of Judah: authored a tract of political & religious tribal propaganda during his reign from 640-609 BCE, which was later adopted by Ezra & Nehemiah as Judaisms Holy Scriptures and adopted by St. Jerome as Christianitys first canon and its precepts were adopted by Mohammed for his koran. 13. Persian Empire: founded by Cyrus the Great in 500 BCE, the area is now known as Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan; conquered by Alexander the Great about 328 BCE 14. Roman Republic: began 509 BCE 15. Ezra and Nehemiah: in 444 BCE, adopted King Josiahs propaganda as Judaisms Holy Scriptures, which included Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel and 1&2Kings. 16. Roman Empire: established 27 BCE; in 395 CE divided into Eastern & Western Roman Empires 17. Jesus: purportedly born about 4-8 BCE and crucified about 29 CE 18. Old Testaments: completion by edict of the Rabbinical Council of Jamnia 90 CE 19. End of Jewish State: 135 CE 20. Christianity Established: about 367 CE 21. Dark Ages: 476-1000 CE; 500 years of European Christian fervor, intellectual stagnation, wide spread ignorance, poverty and cultural decline. 22. Middle Ages: the medieval period of European history, between ancient and modern times, 476 to 1450 CE 23. Renaissance: the great revival of art and literature: it began in Italy and spread gradually to other countries and marked the transition from medieval world to the modern, 1300s-1500s CE 24. Thirty Years War: a series of European wars (1618-48) on political and religious issues, fought originally between German Catholics and German Protestants, but later involving the Swedish, French and Spanish. 1.

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25. The Enlightenment: a 1700s European philosophical movement characterized by rationalism, an impetus toward learning, and a spirit of skepticism and empiricism in social and political thought. 26. Independence of American Colonies: 1776 27. United States: our nation is 236 years old, however it has been 10,000 years since humankind first developed agriculture; 6,500 years since the first Egyptian dynasty; 2,600 years since King Josiah of Judahs tribal propaganda; 2,454 years since Judaisms establishment; about 1,650 years since Christianity was established and 1,400 years since Mohammed claimed he received the Hebrew Angel Gabriels messages.

CHRISTIAN ANTI-JUDAISM Regions controlled by the papacy have persistently tyrannized the Jews. Pope Innocent III, in early thirteenth century demanded they mark themselves as Jews with a particular type of headgear and in the seventeenth century, Pope Paul IV insisted that Jews be ostracized in special ghettos and wear yellow identification badges. They had not been allowed to own land, hold public office or work at most forms of trade. Church law forbade Christians to loan money at interest; Jews became licensed money lenders with interest rates defined by the Vatican. During the European Middle Ages, (476 -1450), Jews were persecuted unmercifully; the problem originated with Christianitys accusation that Jews had killed Jesus. The Crusaders made it part of their mission to torment and kill Jews on their way to the Holy land. The papacys repression of Jews persisted into nineteenth century Rome and during Pope Leo XIIIs reign more extreme forms of anti-Judaism erupted among Vatican clerics who alleged Jewish perfidy, obstinacy, etc.; reinforcing the Catholic view, that the Jews were responsible for their own misfortunea view that was to encourage Catholic Church officials in the 1930s to look the other way as Nazi anti-Semitism raged in Germany, the most powerful Catholic community. In 1933, Eugenio Pacelli, Vaticans Assistant Secretary of State, negotiated an agreement between Adolph Hitler and Pope Pius XI allowing the Vatican to select Germanys bishops, clergy, teachers, etc. with Germany paying the bill. Hitler acquiesced only after the pope conceded that Hitler should have complete political control. Pacelli persuaded Germanys Bishops to disband Catholics powerful Center Political Party, assuring Nazisms successful rise to power unopposed by Catholicism. The agreement created an area of trust that was particularly significant in the developing struggle against international Jewry. Eugenio Pacelli was elected Pope Pius XII in 1939 on the 96

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eve of the Second World War. The above information and quotations were gleaned from John Cromwells book, Hitlers Pope. All Christians would benefit by reading Mr. Cromwells book. He says: I applied for access to crucial material in Rome, assuring those who had charge of the archives that I was on the side of my subject. By the middle of 1997, nearing the end of my research, I found myself in a state I can only describe as moral shock. The material I had gathered, taking the more extensive view of Pacellis life, amounted not to exoneration but to a wider indictment. Cromwells book relates the Vaticans version of future pope, Eugenio Pacellis constant involvement with Hitlers final resolution for Germanys Jewish population; the midtwentyth century Holocaust, where Christians were instrumental in killing six million innocent Jews, all due to envisioned ancient hatreds, fostered by a belief that Jews crucified Jesus. When these six million Jews are added to the innumerable nonbelievers persecuted and killed throughout Christianitys history, it refutes any claim they have to represent a sacred religion. Ignorance is inexcusable. Ill also call attention to the Vaticans midtwentyth century agreements with Italys Mussolini and Spains Franco; two other totalitarian dictators. Since the night of Broken Glass pogrom (Nov.9-10, 1938), the German government had sought to accelerate the pace of forced Jewish emigrationalso hoping to exploit the unwillingness of other nations to admit large numbers of Jewish refugees to justify the Nazi regimes anti-Jewish goals. On May 13, 1939, the German transatlantic liner, St. Louis, sailed from Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba with 937 refugees, most all were Jews fleeing from the Third Reich. In addition, two smaller ships, the French, Flandre, and the British, Orduna with a total of 176 Jewish refugees, sailed to Cuba in May 1939; neither was allowed to dock in Cuba. The Flandre returned to France. The Orduna proceeded to a series of Latin American ports; its 72 passengers finally disembarked in the U.S. controlled Canal Zone in Panama. The United States eventually admitted most of them. The majority of the (St. Louis) Jewish passengers had applied for U.S. visas, and had planned to stay in Cuba only until they could enter the United States.When the St Louis arrived in Havana harbor on May 27, the Cuban government admitted 28 passengers: 22 of them were Jewish and had valid U.S. visas; (of) the remaining six, four Spanish citizens and two Cuban nation97
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als had valid entry documents. One further passenger, after attempting to commit suicide, was evacuated to a hospital in Havana The remaining 908 passengers (one passenger had died of natural causes in route)---743 had been waiting to receive U.S. visas. The Cuban government refused to admit them or allow them to disembark from the ship. On June 2, the ship was ordered out of Cuban waters after the U.S.-based Jewish Joint Distribution Committee refused to post a $453,500 bond; sailing so close to Florida that they could see the lights of Miami, some passengers on the St Louis cabled President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking for refuge. Roosevelt never responded. A State Department telegram sent to a passenger stated that the passengers must await their turns on the waiting list and qualify for and obtain immigration visas before they may be admissible into the United States. In 1939, the annual combined German-Austrian immigration quota was 27,370 and was quickly filled. In fact, there was a waiting list of at least several years. Following the U.S. governments refusal to permit the passengers to disembark, the St. Louis sailed back to Europe on June 6, 1939. The passengers did not return to Germany. However, Jewish organizations, (particularly the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee), negotiated with four European governments to secure entry visas for the passengers: Great Britain took 288; the Netherlands admitted 181; Belgium took in 214 and 224 found at least temporary refuge in France. One of Great Britains passengers was killed during an air raid in 1940. Of the 620 passengers who returned to continent, 87 managed to emigrate before the German invasion of Western Europe in May 1940. (And) 532 were trapped when Germany conquered Western Europe. Just over half, 278, survived the Holocaust; 254 died: 84 who had been in Belgium; 84 who had found refuge in Holland, and 86 who had been admitted to France. Faiths divisiveness prevents undistinguishing inclusiveness.

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EVOLUTION Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old, but present day organisms indicate the presence of a common ancestor, from which all known species have diverged through the process of evolution. Life began along with oxygenic photosynthesis 3.5 billion years ago, which eventually led to the oxygenation of the atmosphere, beginning around 2.4 billion years ago. The earliest evidence of complex organisms dates from 1.8 billion years ago; their diversification accelerated when they started using oxygen in their metabolism. Later, around 1.7 billion years ago, multicellular organisms began to appear, with differentiated cells performing specialized functions. Evidence suggests that algal scum formed on the land as early as 1.2 billion years ago, and that the earliest land plants date to around 450 million years ago. Invertebrate animals appeared between 630-542 million years ago, while vertebrates originated about 525 million years ago, during the Cambrian explosion. In the middle to late Permian period, 299-251 million years ago, synapsids dominated other terrestrial animals The Permian-Triassic extinction event 251 million years ago almost wiped out all complex life. During the recovery from this catastrophe archosaurs became the most abundant land vertebrates, displacing threrapsids in the mid-Triassic. One anchosaur group, the dinosaurs, dominated the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The ancestors of mammals survived only as small insectivores. After the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event 65 million years ago killed off the non-avian dinosaurs, mammals increased rapidly in size and diversity. Such mass extinctions may have accelerated evolution by providing opportunities for new groups of organisms to diversify. Fossil evidence indicates that flowering plants appeared and rapidly diversified in the Early Cretaceous; 130-90 million years ago, probably helped by coevolution with pollinating insects. Flowering plants and marine phytoplankton are still the dominate producers of organic matter. Social insects appeared around the same time as flowering plants. Although they occupy only small parts of the insect family-tree, they now form over half the total mass of insects. Humans evolved from a linage of upright-walking apes whose earliest fossils date from over 6 million years ago. Although early members of this linage had chimpanzee-sized brains, there are signs of a steady increase in brain size after about 3 million years ago.
Also see Wikipedias Earliest History of Earth. The following is gleaned from Wikipedias Evolutionary History of Life.

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PARTY REVERSAL President Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, Proclaimed his Emancipation, of Black slaves in September 1863. President Lyndon B. Johnson convinced the U.S. Senate to approve the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and Voting Rights Act in 1965; his Democratic party abandoned him. The decision reversed our two major political partys positions. Segregationists were religious as God approves of slavery, and had resisted racial integration and fought this eventuality since the Civil War, having always voted the Democratic ticket. Abraham Lincolns Republican Party sponsored integration, and when Blacks became eligible to vote and hold public offices, segregationist changed political party affiliations from Democrat to Republican. It was not limited to the South; ever since the Civil War, segregationists had migrated into the Midwest and far west; their movement into the Republican Party sufficiently controls its platform. So the party that elected Abraham Lincoln and freed the slaves is now the Religious Rights Segregationist party which opposes integration. The Democratic Party, now rid of the segregationist who voted against the Civil Rights Act is now controlled by moderate former Republicans who voted for the Act, but now fight Republican segregationists who voted against the Act, who now blame their old Democratic Party for opposing the Act, although they actually approved the Act. The reversal of political platforms in addition to Religious Right Coalitions intrusion into politics during the past fifty years has seriously divided our electorate. Voting and legislating have deteriorated into confused contests controlled unilaterally; without bipartisanship, creating excruciating awkward political situations. Our nations constitution is worlds initial endeavor to meld religion with the ideas of independence, freedom and equality. Its success was not fully achieved until after our midnineteenth century Civil War and midtwentyth centurys Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. But it is beginning to unravel; Christian televangelists via their hot-line to God have convinced millions of ignorant misguided, segregationist viewers that Christian leadership is necessary in our state and our federal governments. The Religious Right Coalitions campaign of obduracy in our Congress and Senate, plus its use of religion to stir up discontent, in the multitudes, smells a lot like sedition.

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MIDDLE EAST FIASCO A news article many months ago explained: to that date, the total cost of the U.S. Afghanistan-Iraq invasion exceeded one trillion dollars, which is 1000 billion dollars and a billion is equal to the number of seconds of time in 31.668 years, so a trillion equals the number of seconds in 31,668 years, an unimaginable treasure which could have provided 10 million students with a college education at 100,000 dollars each. In addition to our wasted wealth, 4000+, young Americans were killed and 20,000+, permanently crippled. So far, thats what political and religious revenge has cost us. Had we not succumbed to the taunt of Islams extremists on 9/11 how costly might it have been? President George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq to bring order to the Middle East, with its oil and religious terrorism; its reminiscent of the failure of the 12th -13th centuries Crusades. Ours has been much more destructive and with a greater loss of lives, treasure, etc. Apparently we have a tiger by the tail and are afraid to turn it loose. Islamic radicals wanted this war and hope to continue it indefinitely. Their goal: worldwide sharai law, as they believe Allah requires the war to rid the world of infidels. Their game: bankrupt the secular nations with terrorism. Their method: goading secular nations into self-destruction by responding to their terrorism, which is proving successful and they are not apt to abandon the ploy. Our Presidents eagerness to respond to their 9/11 bait has brought the Islamic regimes desired results. In addition to our cost in lives and treasure for religious revenge, it has broken the back of our Armys ground forces, reduced any prestige we may have enjoyed in world affairs, stiffened the resolve of the terrorists and aggravated our god problem. Kevin Phillips, in his book, American Theocracy says: In the months after 9-11 Washington could have shaped a multilateral response able to maintain much of the goodwill volunteered to the United States in the wake of the shocking attacks, instead the administrations response was fundamentalist, unilateralist, and Manichean, trumpetingbriefly even termed a crusade pitting good against evil. The invasion and occupation of Iraq, another poorly planned agenda, provided an environment that enabled overseas terrorism and radicalism to renew itself around a more acceptable anti-American cause. If terrorism remains center stage in a Middle Eastern war of attrition, that battle could last long enoughflaring into guerrilla wars and even civil warsto wear the United States down militarily and economically. Osama bin Laden has hinted at exactly these hopes.

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UNITED STATES We are fortunate; our founding fathers, a prudent rational group of deists, free of religions irrationality, managed to reorganize Englands thirteen American Colonies into the independent United States of America, with a constitution dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, embracing the idea of an open society, welcoming immigrants of all races and religions while avoiding the tragic traps of a deadly state religion. Adventuresome ambitious people come to the United States; immigration has benefitted us immeasurably. Our universities attract foreign students who, in turn, provide the worlds scientists, educators, business people, etc. Too many of our males never finish high-school and many graduates are incapable of college work, adding to unemployment problems and filling prisons, encouraging us to welcome foreign students and intellectuals to become U.S. citizens. One fourth of National Academy of Sciences members are foreign born. Presently we are handicapped, due to our religious wars in Iraq and Afghanistan plus a religious,anti-intellectual electorate that is misinformed by conservative radio talk shows. James Madison, our fourth president, warned us, in the Federalist Papers, that religions control of government would destroy our democracy. In a recent issue of ATLANTIC, James Fallows observes: The United States has in the past decade committed $1 trillion to the cause of entirely remaking a society. We know that such an investment could happen herebut we also know that it wont. That is the American tragedy of the early 21st century: a vital and self-renewing culture that attracts the worlds talent and a governing system that increasingly looks like a joke. The most charitable statement of the problem is that the American government is a victim of its own success. It has survived in more or less recognizable form over more than two centurieslong enough to become mismatched to the real circumstances of the nation. Gradually but persistently, special interest groups nibble at our nations total wealth via tax breaks, special appropriations, etc. No single nibble is that dramatic or burdensome, but over time they threaten to convert any stable democracy into a big inefficient, favor ridden state. Our United States of America has a democratically elected, representative type of government with a constitution, a president and a bicameral legislature; Congressional membership is proportional to our population. Each state has 2 Senate votes. More than half of all Americans live in the 10 most populous stateswhich account for only 20 of the Senates 100 votes. Cali102

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fornia, our most populous state has 69 times as many people as Wyoming, our least populous; yet each has only 2 votes in the Senate. Since it takes 60 votes in the Senate to break a filibuster on controversial legislation, 41 votes is, in effect, a blocking minority. This denies the benefits of majority rule. Without a propensity for tolerating and managing differences, rival groups can easily reduce democracy to a ruthless struggle for power that ultimately wears down liberal institutions. U.S. ECONOMY
Adapted from Kevin Phillips American Theocracy: The Perils and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money In The 21st Century.

United States manufacturing economy created Americas middle class by employing some 17 million out of 68 million available workers. Since 1980 manufacturing has been out-sourced and our national leaders have kept interest rates low, encouraging us to borrow and spend. Consumerism and its complex of services; namely: Financial, Insurance and Real Estate, (known as FIRE) has displaced manufacturing as our major economy. Although the U.S. financial services economy provides a substantial income for the wealthiest segment of our society, in 2004 it only employed about 8 million out of the 131 million available workers. In 2000, the FIRE sector of our economy increased to 20% of gross domestic product, exceeding manufacturing. FIREs combined assets in 2004 were $45.3 trillion, their earnings were 44% of all U.S. profits and an American filed for bankruptcy every 15 seconds. By years end consumer debt represented 85.7% of GDP; overall, the U.S. economy added $2.7 trillion in debt. The above transformation is the result of thirty years of federal regulatory dismantling that unleashed credit vendors to take advantage of humanitys greed and gullibility. Consumer spending accounts for around 70% of our gross domestic product and borrowing to consume is at the heart of U.S. current account deterioration The top one percent of Americans in 2000 had as much disposable (after tax) income as the bottom 35 percent. Our unemployment rate is accelerating and our self-evident income disparity is another historically proven problem that presently threatens our middle class, in addition to the loss of manufacturing jobs. This will lead to some kind of rebellion by the growing numbers of young people entering the job market in addition to the long-time unemployed, of whom many are filing for bankruptcy but may also lose their heavily mortgaged homes. FIRE contributed $1.3 billion (1990-2000) to national elections: As debt 103

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became more important, lenders became more important, more powerful; and more influential over the policies chosen to regulate and control the financial services complex. It continues to feed on our downward spiral of religiosity and wars. From 1980 to 2005, while the our nations economy was undergoing financialization, Germany, Switzerland and Japan, each had stronger growth rates than the U.S., due to their ability to manufacture and export very high quality merchandise. European history is replete with self-sufficient nations whose leaders became ambitious; challenging other nations while accumulating debt; accentuating religiosity and ignoring an accelerating inability to design and manufacture products our world needs; investing in military adventurism instead of creating wealth. Our banking industry is a consequence of prosperitys new wealth which is created by agriculture, mining, manufacturing, etc. Banking cant create new wealth, but only profits from packaging, managing, trading and investing it. SCIENCE Knowledge is based upon innumerable experiments by world scientists. It has greatly benefitted humanity; the vitality of scientific knowledge to society and culture, plus its role in shaping who we are and who we will become is invaluable.. Scientific exploitation began in medieval England when followers of Sir Francis Bacon met to hear a lecture by Christopher Wren, a young astronomer,(1660); the inauspicious beginning, culminated in Britains Royal Society and Americas Academy of Sciences.

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