The Fatal Flaws of Faith and Belief
Michael Horn
www.theyfly.com
All
religions rest on the patently illogical, un-provable premise that “what this
book says
is
true because the book says it’s true”. That, unfortunately, is the best that
religion has,
and
ever can offer, as a way of proving it’s God/divine authorship premise, an
embarrassingly
paltry, painfully childish claim that would be laughed out of any court, as
well
as any credible institution of higher learning.
It
consequently requires the continuous application of “faith” and “belief” to
sustain the
promised
but perpetually delayed realization, fulfillment and substantiation of its
premise
and
truthfulness. Nonetheless, and incomprehensibly, adherents find something pious
and
noble
about suspending their rational, logical reasoning faculties in favor of
clearly
unfounded
hope and wishful thinking. Some extend this into the realm of the hopelessly
delusional
by claiming to have a “personal relationship” with a man who, if he ever did
indeed
live, has been dead for over 2,000 years. Normally, this is known as either
lying,
hallucinating,
schizophrenia, etc. but recently has become an accepted (and admired)
expression
of a genuine “religious experience”, so distorted have people’s rational
thinking
become. We even have a president who proudly proclaims this imaginary
relationship
and his accompanying belief that God wanted him to wage war on our
“enemies”.
Such willingness to commit irresponsible, unjustified aggression and
mayhem,
while frequently attributed to divine inspiration by the most degenerate of
power-crazed
humans, should (lacking the same kind of self-responsibility the delusion
demonstrates)
more likely be attributed to an equally mythical figure, as in “the Devil
made
me do it.”
Think
of what man has discovered, learned, invented, etc. in the past 3,500 years and
compare
humanity’s growth and accomplishments in understanding life and its mysteries
with
the stagnant, insufficient, self-contradictory mythologies of Biblical lore and
a clear
thinking
person has to wonder just how and why people have perpetuated these religions
and
their beliefs for so long. Certainly, the presumed God (or Gods) of the major religions
has/have had sufficient time to realize that the original (and contradictory) messages
delivered to humanity via primitive, wandering, warlike nomads and desert dwellers
could stand just a wee bit of clarification during these communication rich times,
unless God is a vindictive sadist content to have people fighting and killing
each other in His name, as the events of the past three and one-half millennia
seem to indicate.
One
only has to read the first several books of the Old Testament (OT) to realize
that the
God
of that book, the “loving and merciful” presumed author of “Thou shalt not
murder”
(kill
innocents) was the same fellow who specifically commanded the slaughter,
infanticide
and genocide of well over 10,000,000 people, mostly innocent
noncombatants,
women,
children and infants while emphasizing that it was to be done “without mercy”.
He
also advocated the stealing and/or burning of the lands and property, the rape
and/or prostitution of surviving women, etc. also in contradiction of His
specific commandments, i.e. orders as opposed to mere suggestions or recommendations,
let alone ordinary good morality. Well, if the presumed Creator of logic itself
demonstrates an illogical inconsistency (and certifiable sadism) how is one supposed
to deal with that? Remember also that the people of those times, while more
than willing to carry out the sadistic, abominable slaughters, were devoid of
weapons of mass destruction so that they had to hack up all the people - all
the women, children and infants - one at a time with swords, knives and spears,
making today’s Islamic radical butchers seem like inept, small time jokers in
comparison.
And,
when apologists for this brutal abomination try to say that the people that the
Israelites
mercilessly slew were killed because they were living terrible, sinful lives
one
is
reminded of the technique of pacification used during the Viet Nam war where
villages
full
of people were destroyed in order to “save” them. (Ah, salvation! Please, save
me
from
all of the saviors!) On top of that, when religious, self-proclaimed paragons
of
morality
and virtue answer the question regarding the killing of innocents, as national
talk
radio
host (and expert on the OT) Dennis Prager actually did with, “Well, if God says
it’s
good
then it’s good”, then clearly the inmates are running the asylum.
All
of this, all of this, is justified because God said to do it and God is substantiated
as
being
the Creator because the book that says so, says so? An old book says so, so
that
should
be good enough, right? Great. Here we have 3,500 year-old rewritten, edited,
redacted
writings, myths, legends, filled with incomprehensible, meaningless rituals and
superstitions
and equally antique minds remaining calcified in the murky, long distorted
and
misunderstood misperceptions of ages past perpetuating the bloodletting and
barbarism
without anyone daring to question the insanity of the matter.
Let’s
also reflect on the passage in the Old Testament where God is said to have
“hardened
the hearts” of the enemies of the Israelites so as to facilitate their
slaughter.
Gosh,
how come this “loving and merciful God” didn’t think of “softening” their
hearts
instead
and thereby give humanity a respite from the bloodletting He so seemed to
enjoy,
(and
at the same time use the opportunity to actually teach something about reason,
peace,
justice, mercy, compassion, etc.)?
When
confronted by the glaring inconsistencies and fantasies inherent in the
Bible(s),
true
believers hesitate not at all to selectively attribute metaphoric and
allegorical
meaning
to the “word of God” despite the glaring inconsistency in so doing, i.e. where
the
Bible makes illogical and or irrational statements and presents them as truth,
true
believers
actually contradict the Bible and say that it doesn’t mean what God is said to
have
said! It “means something else” (even though the Bible, the word of God, doesn’t
say
it means something else), and true believers are not short on filling in the
illogical
blanks
with their own rationalizations and interpretations in order to bail out of the
obvious
abyss, one that simple, clear thinking would suffice to provide the necessary
buoyancy
to traverse to safer, more reasonable shores.
Another
screaming example of the suspension of logic, common sense and obvious
morality
is to be found in the oft referred to story of Abraham and Isaac. We are told
that
this
was a “test” of Abraham by God, the actual end of human sacrifice, etc. In
reality,
it’s
the clear description of divine child abuse; it seems that no one ever mentions
exactly
what
trauma Isaac must have experienced during this quaint little test, one that the
Creator
of all that exists certainly wouldn’t need to administer…for any reason. Of
course,
this is the same Creator who has countless recipes for paying homage to him
through
animal sacrifice and the smearing of blood and entrails all over the place,
pretty
lofty
stuff for the very Creator of light, atoms, stars, etc. Oh, of course, I
forgot, the
primitive
people of the time needed to go through all this butchery to show their devotion
to
God and life itself, right.
As
alluded to before, religious faith absolutely requires that we unquestioningly
accept
that
the presumed very Creator of logic itself, as well as the laws of cause and
effect, both
of
which are absolutely foundational to the operation of the entire universe and everything
in it, capriciously violated (and commanded violation of) all of these and
other
laws,
commandments and crucial moral and ethical standards and behaviors with no
rational
explanation.
Should
we even raise the point that the known universe alone contains trillions of galaxies
containing uncountable numbers of stars and planets with life-sustaining conditions,
that the very notion that we are so important, that any group on this planet is
so important that a “chosen people” must have eternal rights to a specific,
forlorn chunk of desert in order to fulfill some whim of the Creator is
anything short of megalomaniacal delusion? Do we want to actually think about
the premise that people are “born in original sin” and require a man to be
mercilessly tortured and then nailed up on a cross to “redeem” them so that
they can “enter the kingdom of heaven” and play their harps for eternity? Is
there something just a little bit odd about people willing to kill innocents in
the name of a “solitary prophet” because some self-appointed “leaders” among
them have invented a twisted promise of a truckload of virgins waiting in their
version of “heaven” for doing so?
People
often come to religions for two primary reasons, i.e. the desire to know, do
and be
good
and/or out of fear, fear of life, fear of uncertainty of their place in the
cosmos, fear
of a
whole host of things. And there has never been a shortage of those who are more
than
willing to manipulate the malleable masses and help relieve them of any self-responsibility,
logic, discernment, etc. so that they can control and exploit them through
religion.
And
is somebody here worried about extraterrestrials threatening mankind? What,
don’t
we
have abundant proof that we’re fully willing and capable on our own of
destroying
every
last living thing on the planet and reason itself? As for a God protecting
humanity
against
evil extraterrestrials, that certainly perpetuates the patently, observably
illogical
premise
that we are indeed some kind of extremely special species, dwelling as we are
on
this
tiny speck of cosmic lint, floating somewhere out at the end of a spiral arm of
but one
of
countless trillions of galaxies. A little too self-important, wouldn’t you say?
Is
it not clear that all of the God-related premises, theories, etc., all of
them, rely
solely
on
belief, not real evidence, not reason, not logic, not true morality, not any
rational thing
at
all – solely on belief and it’s senseless sibling, faith (as well as a good
dose of fear)?
And
while seeking to explain that the magnificence of life and existence itself
obviously
begs
the existence of God, meaning the one referred to originally in the OT,
religiously
oriented
folks seem oblivious to the existence of the Sumerians, who preceded the
Israelites/Hebrews
by a very significant length of time, and who not only had the Genesis
story
but also the story of Noah and a number of other stories/myths thought to
originate
with
the OT and its God.
Further,
the Sumerians were far more evolved than the later Israelites, and infinitely
more knowledgeable in various sciences, agriculture, etc., etc. They knew of,
and illustrated, the known solar system, including Uranus and Neptune, etc.
They did something else the Israelites didn’t do, they left illustrations, statuary,
etc., which clearly showed ET craft, space suits, their “Gods”, genetic
experimentation, etc. plus provided information on all of this that has been
deciphered/translated. Of course, anyone reading Ezekiel can discern that there
is an object being described here that is quite consistent with the common
description of UFOs throughout history (and art history, see: http://www.ufoartwork.com/).
Where
is the acknowledgement and recognition of this mild interruption to Biblical
accuracy
and supremacy on the part of the true believers? Locked away in either
ignorance
of its existence or denial, as most of reality regarding these profound
questions
is.
And safely in its place, on public display like a replica lest the true object
be stolen, is
belief
and faith in transparent fantasy, fraud and disinformation.
So,
is this also an indictment of “Judeo-Christian values”? Well, that depends on
what
one
perceives them to be. While they may have been altered to reflect authorship
by, and
give
reverence to, the God of the OT the (original) Ten Commandments (or perhaps
Twelve)
are certainly universally worthy teachings and guidelines. Such concepts as “Do
unto
others…”, “As you sow, so shall you reap”, etc. likewise reflect truth and
wisdom,
reflecting
as they also do the eternal laws of cause and effect, as well as a universal
morality
that’s not the exclusive province or property of the Judeo-Christian religions.
It’s
obvious to anyone who has even a nodding acquaintance with other philosophies,
religions,
sources and cultures (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism come to mind) that
Judeo-Christian
values, the true and sensible ones, are neither unique to, nor originating
solely
from, these religions.
And
lost to many is the obvious reality that it is the individual who validates and
authorizes
“truth”, not God. All one has to do to understand this is to acknowledge that
there
is more than one religion, one possible belief system, and to notice that
people
choose
(or default) to one or another of these, thereby effectively saying, “this is the true
religion”.
Please realize that all of these different people, with all of their different
individual,
as well as group, understandings of their beliefs, in countless sects and
cults,
believe
(and, therefore, claim) that theirs is, of course, the one true religion and
one true
God.
By definition and logic they can’t all be right (and all must be wrong). As a
matter
of
fact, many of them believe each other to be wrong, as the historical religious
wars and
contemporary
conflicts clearly illustrate. So where is the real “one true God” who could
straighten
all this out in a nanosecond? Don’t hold your breath for a personal appearance
or a
logical answer.
Is
it any wonder, in light of humanity’s collective religious and secular
delusions,
fantasies
and genocidal mania, that an intelligent extraterrestrial human species, with an
actual
functioning morality based in eternally valid, consistent and immutable
universal
laws,
and derived through knowledge, wisdom and spiritual understanding, might face
quite
a challenge in attempting to extend to this confused species a helping hand so
that
we
might avoid our own self-destruction? Is it possible that such an
extraterrestrial
species
may recognize its own place in Creation, is aware of its own limitations and
the
dangers
of, once again (even unintentionally), being mistaken for the “Creator” or the
Creation
itself, and still wants to find a way to help us to help ourselves without
violating
our
free will?
Just
how would a race of people who know, not believe but know, that life, survival and
evolution
rest on self-responsibility and true spirituality, not on turning our
individual
and
collective power over to imaginary gods, religious intermediaries, politicians,
false
“leaders”,
etc. approach a world like ours where just such abdication of
self-responsibility
is
at the core of most of the world’s belief systems, and to which most of its
population
adheres
in one form or another?
In
the Meier case, we have been given an astonishing (and unparalleled) nearly
50-year
record
of impeccably accurate information covering an extremely wide range of
subjects,
all
far beyond the scope of knowledge of Meier himself, and published by him well
in
advance
of the “official” discovery or occurrence of the events foretold. If this is
true,
and
you can begin to verify it for yourself (www.theyfly.com), it certainly
warrants
careful
examination of the information provided to us regarding our near, probable but
still
changeable future. (Note that I suggest careful examination, not belief.)
In
other words, unlike the vague, mostly symbolic, metaphoric messages of Biblical
and
other
prophetic sources, the Plejaren have provided enormously specific, detailed
information
that leaves no doubt as to what it refers to. In a world where the best of our
leaders
can barely speak truthfully for 50-seconds, it seems the Plejaren have done an
impressive,
and painstakingly patient, job of establishing a foundation of credibility for
the
sake of trying to sufficiently lubricate our cultic, contaminated minds that we
may
recognize
the dark hole into which we have propelled ourselves, apparently unknowingly, and
begin to extricate ourselves…through our own hard efforts. And they seem to have
done this in as oblique, yet effective, a manner as they could so as to not
encourage or perpetuate the “savior” myth; they offer no gods, angels, saints, ascended
masters, “space brothers” initiated planetary lift-off or any form of
“rapture”, just an opportunity to avoid a worldwide rupture, if we’ll take it,
which means taking full
and
complete responsibility for our thoughts, feelings, actions and lives
individually and
collectively.
That
also means finally outgrowing the infantile, and deadly, acceptance and
dependence
on the “what this book says is true because the book says it’s true” premise.
Is
it too much to hope for that we can leave the age of delusional, murderous
religions,
unfounded
faith and beliefs for the age of knowledge and truth in time to avert the worst
of
what may that otherwise may be coming our way? Can we loosen our own grip on
the
sword
of fear and greed that humanity has wielded against itself for thousands of
years
and
transform it into one that we can use instead to cut through the bonds of past
illusions
and
limitations, to gain true freedom and real peace and then have it be an
implement to
guard
what will have been so long sought after and fought for?
Michael
Horn is the Authorized American Media Representative for the Billy Meier
Contacts.
He can be reached through www.theyfly.com.