A MESSAGE TO THE POLITICAL DEMAGOGUES. . .OF EVERY STRIPE

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree 

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY 

A MESSAGE TO POLITICAL DEMAGOGUES. . .  

OF EVERY STRIPE 

 

PLEASE SPARE US YOUR 

CLICKBAIT BULLSHIT! 

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The Donald Trump era was like binging on poorly made rotgut. It's left America with a splitting headache and no desire to ever indulge again. That's bad news for the political class, because Trump has used up whatever leeway for missteps you might have enjoyed in the past. So this is a message for all politicians of every stripe. Consider yourselves on notice. It's time to start changing your ways, because having to deal with the idiocy of Donald Trump's self-serving incompetence has left a bad taste in America's mouth regarding all manner of political chicanery.

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The time has past for trying to use deception, political maneuvering, and transparent clickbait schemes to try to gain political advantage. You’re no longer fooling anybody. Regardless of whatever kind of machinations you try to contrive, we've been there, done that. So you have two options, you can either carry out your responsibilities in a responsible and forthright manner, or you can get the hell out of office and find yourself a real job. 
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It is now clear to us that you don't give a damn about the nation's welfare. We now know it was all about you, and a game you were playing to keep yourselves comfortably employed. If that weren't the case, you would never have tolerated Donald Trump for a minute. We also know your so-called clickbait “surveys" and other deceptions are all designed to get our attention so you can beg for money - again, just to keep yourself comfortably ensconced in office. So it's all been a farce, and all about you, not the people, or the country.
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I have yet to fill-out one political survey from any politician that didn’t have a pitch for money at the end. The entire point of your so-call surveys are to incite emotion to make it easier for you to beg. If you were half as creative in legislating as you are at begging, America really would be a shining city on a hill. But instead, due to the political ineptness in Washington for the past four years, America has become the laughingstock of the entire world. Just think about that - in a mere four years America has gone from the most admired nation in the world, to a laughingstock. It took a very special kind of self-service and incompetence to accomplishment that feat.

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So in the past four years the American people have been baptized by fire. We've obtained a PhD in political chicanery, and we've become much smarter than the people holding office. We've had an objective and bird's-eye view of a national disaster in the making. We now understand that just because you were elected to office doesn't make you intellectual giants. We've been awakened to that reality in no uncertain terms. After all, we've just experienced a man who was elected President of the United States who was a world-class idiot, so we're suffering under no illusions regarding the limitations of those in the political class . We now know without a doubt that the title doesn't make the man, or woman. The man or woman makes the title.
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So, we don't appreciate your assuming we’re so stupid that your political Ponzi schemes are gonna cause us to fall all over ourselves to dance to your music - of course, there are some lingering Trump supporters who might, but they're idiots. After all, they are Trump supporters. But for most of us, you're not only insulting our intelligence, but your behavior is a clear indication that you're all cut from the same clothe. All of you seem to be insincere and less than dedicated egomaniacs. You didn't run for office to serve the people, you ran for office to get on television. 
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So the voters now understand with a brand new clarity that this is not a game. We understand that you were voted into office to REPRESENT us, not to get into office and assume you’re above us, and it's time that you begin to recognize that fact. If you don't, you're going to find yourselves out on your asses.
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In the yellow donation box above, the Trump campaign threatened to "tell Trump that you're a DEFECTOR" if the voter didn't check the box agreeing to give a monthly donation. That clearly shows that their understanding of how the system is supposed to work was turned completely on its head. So it's no wonder that Donald Trump is on his way to the ash heap of history - and probably, by way of the penitentiary. Who gives a damn what they tell Trump? The voter is not beholding to Donald Trump. Trump was SUPPOSED to be beholding to the voter, and that's a big part of the Republican problem. 
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The Republican congress routinely vote down legislation that's supported by the vast majority of the American people, and after the last election, Trump ignited an insurrection in attempt to throw out the votes of millions of Americans who voted against him. So Republican politicians have clearly demonstrated that they have absolutely no respect for the will of the people. A democracy can't function under those conditions. It's un-American on its face, so it's incumbent upon us to weed these authoritarian-prone conservative Republicans out of our government.
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Republican politicians tend to have delusions of grandeur. Donald Trump thought that he could demand that the Presidency be given to him whether he won the election or not; Mitch McConnell thinks he has the exclusive right to control who goes on the Supreme Court and what legislation should become law of the land; Republican legislatures in 47 states have proposed 361 laws to suppress the people's right to vote, and Mo Brooks thought he had the right to disrupt our democracy by telling an angry mob to go to the Capitol and "kick ass, and take names". So it's past time to bring you people down a peg or two and make it clear who's running this country. 

 

You politicians are neither our leaders, nor are you our intellectual superiors; you're our EMPLOYEES, and if you don't understand that fact you need to be working in a carwash. The voters didn’t vote you into office to try to trick us into sending you money to secure your employment; you were voted into office to see to it that the will of the people was given priority over money and influence. That's the way a democracy is suppose work, and if you’re too dimwitted to understand that, you have no business holding public office. So instead of looking down your nose at us and trying to conjure up underhanded ways of getting us to make donations to your campaigns, try doing your job for a change, and focus on finding ways to promote the will of the people.  

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I seriously doubt that you're going to do that, however - in fact, at this point, I seriously doubt you even know how. So I've got a plan. Until you people manage to open your eyes and truly serve the public, the American people should start primarying every incumbent running for re-election, every election. We need to continue to turn you out of office every election until we find people who knows what it means to serve the people. I know, that sounds outrageous, right? But who knows, the idea just might catch on.

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SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL'S STATE

We’re tired of seeing politicians strut around trying to be bigshots while the people suffer. So it's time for all Americans, regardless of their political persuasion, to come together and take our country back. We've got to get rid of you self-serving turkeys, because you're only interest in feathering your own nests.
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A democracy can't function while infested with self-serving turncoats, and that's exactly what we have. Our system is overflowing with people who grin in our face before the election, and then start stabbing us in our backs as soon as the vote is counted. So you deadbeats need to start thinking about modifying the way you approach your job - or we're gonna throw you out on your asses, just like we did Trump.

 

IT’S TIME FOR THE PEOPLE TO TAKE OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM BACK FROM THE ARROGANCE OF PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS. 

Eric L. Wattree 

Eric L. Wattree 
Http://wattree.blogspot.com 

Ewattree@Gmail.com 
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA) 
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.  

 

 

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Religious Hatred and Bigotry: Would A Loving God Do This To Us?

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

Religious Hatred and Bigotry: Would A Loving God Do This To Us?

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In God We Trust.  REALLY!!!?

Many people who profess to be “of faith” are involved in religion for the wrong reasons. They're not about love; they're about hating everybody who don't think exactly like they do. They use religion to justify their bigotry, as a "God-approved" reason to hate everybody who's not on "their team," or who is different from themselves.
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In fact, religion FUELS every other form of bigotry there is. If you look at ANY form of bigotry, you’ll find religion at its root. As we saw in Paris, France, ORGANIZED religion is the most prolific instigator of hatred in the world. Just think about the irony of a military Chaplain - “Dear Lord, please help us to kill more of them than they do of us. Amen.”
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Would God bestow such a malevolent force of hatred upon man.  I don't think so. When God created human beings, we weren't created to require either a "User's Guide," soothsayers, or other "anointed" men to tell us how to conduct our lives. We were given individual intellect and a conscience to help us navigate our way through life.  As I've pointed out many times before, when my neighbor is at work and his beautiful young wife comes out in the yard and flashes her beautiful smile in my direction, I don't need a book or a preacher to tell me what's appropriate conduct and what's not. The minute my mind goes astray I can hear God's voice - "Now, Eric, you know what you're thinking is not right, so just wave, go in the house, and take a cold shower." And in response, I do just that - problem solved.
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And if you look at nature, even a dog will look over his shoulder before he steals a chicken wing off a table. So even he has a sense of right and wrong. In addition, Whales and other aquatic animals have an innate sense of when to migrate to other waters and where to go to spawn. And migratory birds don't need a calendar and compass to know when to fly South, and in which direction it lies. It was built into their DNA. The same is true of man.

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Man was created with an innate sense of spirituality, and a knowledge of how he should live his life. The problem is, man is in transition. We were created to grow into much more enlightened beings, but at this point in our development the animalistic emotions triggered by our still very active brain stem are in direct conflict with our higher cognitive sense of self and the world around us. As a result, instead of using our growing cognition to seek enlightenment, many of us direct our intellectual energy toward satisfying our more basic, and animalistic needs, or the seven deadly sins - Wrath, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, and Gluttony.
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That's where organized religion comes in. It reflects man's attempt to control the minds of other men in order to more efficiently pursue his baser needs. They promote wrath among their fellow men through the use of creed in order to promote their greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. And while I don't intend to become blatantly political here, I'd be remiss by not pointing out that every one of those "deadly sins" are uniquely characterized by the Religious Right and the GOP - especially wrath, greed, and gluttony.
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But of course, not all people of faith are bad. I know wonderful people of many faiths, but they're generally the ones who are more spiritual than dogmatic. But many of these Bible-thumpin’, Amen-Corner kind of people better HOPE that Hell’s a myth, however, because if it’s real, God’s going to be dumpin’ them in there by the church-loads.
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If God intended to hand down religion to guide us, wouldn't he have sense enough to just create ONE religion so his word would be clear and we wouldn't have anything to fight over? Religious organizations were organized by man for the expressed purpose of saying, "We’re Godly, and we’re God’s chosen people. Everyone who's different from us and who don’t adhere to our creed are heathens. They're not of God. They're evil, so we have God's permission to destroy them." It's that attitude that is the source of the world’s hatred and animosity.
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A loving God wouldn't put anything that caused that kind of hatred and division on Earth. It would contradict his purpose, and God's not stupid. He'd know that creating more than one religion would be in direct opposition to the Biblical prescription to "Love thy neighbor." Just imagine what the world would be like if there was no such thing as Christians, Muslims, or Jews, and if all the people of faith in the world were simply spiritual and embraced the wonder of creation. The world would be a much better place, because it would simply be broken down into good people as oppose to bad people, and there would be no creeds for the demagogues to use to divide us. Now, THAT, would be the work of God.   
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So if Americans truly believed in the Bible, they would demonstrate that fact by reading and adhering to ALL of the Bible, and not just those parts that they find convenient. But it's clear that just about every church in America has missed the part below. If they followed the scripture below, there'd be no screaming and begging preachers, and there'd be no Bible-thumping  hypocrites - in fact, there wouldn't be a such thing as ORGANIZED religion, because everybody would simply be spiritual. But don't take my word for it. After all, as many preachers would no doubt say, I could be "working for the Devil."  But here's what the Bible says, in clear, and unequivocal prose:

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“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. When you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward . . ."
Matthew 6:1-34
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Is that clear enough?  So who are you going to believe, your silver-tongued, big car driving pastor, or the Bible?
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God, Creation, And Man

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So does God even exist? Yes, and I can prove it. God is whatever force is responsible for what we define as reality. So if reality exists, God must exists. That definition changes the discussion of whether or not God exists, to one of defining the nature of his existence (I'm simply using "his" as a convenient chauvinistic pronoun to avoid having to struggle with the question of whether God is a male, female, or simply an it). But I don’t believe that God is directly interacting with man, or anything else in the universe that he created. For me, God, Nature, and the Universe are one and the same, so everything in the universe, including man, is a part of God, and we can only know his will by his nature, and what he has done.
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What Does This Have To Do With God?

Thus, what "people of faith" call "faith," is not a faith in God at all, it's a faith in what another man has TOLD them about God, so it's actually a faith in man. What most people have "faith" in is merely a parochial accident of birth. The very same person who has "faith" in Christianity in Georgia, would have "faith" in Islam if he'd been born in Iran, or "faith" in Judaism if he'd been born in Israel. In short, we have "faith" in what we were taught, not God.  God is simply what we use to JUSTIFY our "faith."
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God made birds to fly, fish to swim, and man to THINK, not to have "faith" in the contrived delusions of other self-serving and/or superstitious men. Every other species on Earth has sense enough to adhere to their nature but man, and if you'll notice, man is also one of the few species who can't live in harmony within his environment. In fact, our idiocy threatens to destroy ALL life on this planet.
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Man is on a huge ego trip. There are over 200 billion stars in just this speck of a galaxy, and even though it is a speck in terms of the universe, you'd have to travel 186,000 miles every second for four and a half YEARS just to get to the next closest star in our galaxy - and again, there are over 200 billion of them, and there are hundreds of billions of other galaxies just like ours in the universe. So believe me - God is not as fixated on man as man would like to believe. In cosmic terms of significance, man is not even one thousandth as significant as one grain of sand on all of the beaches on Earth and beneath the sea.
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Thus, it is only man’s arrogance and tremendous ego that makes him think that God is more concerned about him than he is anything else he created in the universe? Consider this - did he send his "Only begotten flea" to save all the fleas in the world? If not, why not? What makes man think he’s more important than anything else that God created?
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Another thing that betrays man's gross arrogance is our belief that we’re so important that God is going to jump through hoops to gain our favor. God’s not stupid. He's no more going to do magic tricks and jump through hoops to get man to worship him than any man would tap dance and do headstands to get the germs under his toilet seat to worship him. Yet, countless men, women, and children are dying every year in the ridiculous conviction by many that they’re acting on God’s behalf.
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When I was a young kid, I would be walking into trees because I had my eyes closed praying that God wouldn't condemn me to Hell for the common sense - that he gave me - that kept popping up in my head. As much as I wanted to be "a child of God," I just couldn't get myself to believe in talkin' snakes - and I wasn't a big enough hypocrite to try to lie to him about it. So I had a problem. My religious training had me CONVINCED that I was doomed to go to Hell because I couldn't bring myself to believe in that nonsense. But at about the age of ten I said a simple prayer that freed me of that burden: "Lord, Please give me the wisdom to know the truth, and give me the strength and determination to carry it through."  It was a childish prayer, and not very eloquent, but it did the trick. That was one prayer that God definitely answered, because when I opened my eyes, I was free of preachers. It freed me to think for myself, and while you'll never see me in church, I still say that prayer every night . . . if I haven't drank too much gin.  So yeah, I'm flawed, but I'm sure God knows my heart is in the right place, and that's what counts. 
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And finally, before you write me off as an agent of the Devil, you should ask yourself the following - when was the last time that Satan sent a message to mankind to stop killing each other?  And if God indeed "works in mysterious ways," how do you know it wasn't God's will for you to read this message?  And the basic message is short and sweet - we need to wake up, rein in our egos, and come to terms with our gross stupidity regarding God.

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Know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
John 8:32
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Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

THE BLIND FAITH OF ORGANIZED RELIGION IS A SLAP IN THE FACE OF GOD

If God knows all, and he knows a billion years before Billy is born that Billy is going to end up in Hell, is there anything Billy can do in life to make God wrong?

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The above question is designed to point out two things - first, it points out that much of the religious doctrine that we’ve been taught is a myth that can’t stand up to logical examination. Secondly, I intend to argue that we can only know God’s will by what God has done - and what he has clearly done, was made birds to fly, fish to swim, and man to think, not to rely on a "user's guide" to inform our lives.

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Irrefutable evidence of that is the fact that when God placed man on Earth, he placed us here as necked apes. We weren’t as strong as the elephant, as ferocious as the lion, nor could we fly above danger like the eagle. So the cards were stacked against our ultimate survival - except for one thing. God provided man with a unique tool for survival - the human mind.
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Now, as a direct result of the effective use of that resource, we have built machines that can crush any elephant, slaughter the most ferocious lion, and fly far beyond the domain of the most dedicated eagle - in fact, we’ve now soared beyond the clouds, and on to explore other worlds.
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That's a powerful indicator of God’s will. It clearly demonstrates that God intended man to be a logical, thinking, being. On the other hand, God has done absolutely nothing to suggest that he intended to relegate mankind to being ignorant and superstitious victims, cowering in fear of the unknown, and obliged to be reliant upon "faith" in the words of "anointed" others to guide our existence. That’s not God’s will; that's man’s will. So the fact is, having more "faith" in what man tells us about God than we have in what God has actually done, is a slap in the face of God himself. Because the bottom line is, that's not faith in God; that's faith in man.
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THE INQUISITION WHEEL

That explains why we're living in a constant state of anger, hatred, and turmoil. We’re living against God’s will. Our attempt to survive on faith rather than the logic and intellect that is our God-given nature is as contrary to the natural scheme of things as a bird who refuses to fly, or a fish who refuses to swim - and the chances of our ultimate survival under the current circumstances are just as slim.
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So while I don't have a problem with the church, per se, I do have a severe problem with blind faith. Therefore, I asked the above question regarding Billy’s ultimate fate in order to demonstrate that, for the most part, religion is not only based on superstition rather than the sound logic and common sense upon which God blessed mankind, but it’s own dogma is self-contradictory. It is also my intent to argue that the only reason that many of us believe what we believe is because we choose to believe it, regardless to whether it makes sense or not - and since what we choose to believe is both toxic and intrinsically hostile to harmonious existence, it has led to man's plague of seemingly intractable problems.
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The primary problem is, instead of adhering to our nature - to be logical and independent thinkers - we insist on worshiping totem poles. And instead of being practical in addressing the issues that plague mankind, we remain fixated on meaningless dogma, superficialities, and rituals. In short, we’re being stupid, and stupidity has nothing to do with God. Our gross stupidity only serves to promote one purpose - the needs of greedy, evil, and power-hungry men.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do, but that doesn’t mean that I believe in Voodoo, talking snakes, and walking dead men. For me, God is whatever force that is responsible for the existence of the universe - or to be more precise, existence itself. So I can see my God, since, from my point of view, God, Nature, and the Universe are synonymous.
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Thus, God is not a speculative concept for me. If "I think, therefore, I am;" I am, therefore, God is. For there cannot be creation without a creative force, and whatever that force is, as far as I'm concerned, it constitutes God. Thus, the question is not whether or not God exists, but rather, what is the nature of God's existence?
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So by giving my own God-given ability to think priority over faith, with respect to my personal beliefs, that frees me from having to be reliant upon the words, and fees, of so-called "anointed" men. It also gives me a leg up on atheists, because while atheists take the position that those of us who believe in God have no evidence to show that God exists, my position is, the existence of the universe gives me concrete evidence of God's existence, while they're left with mere opinion, and even that - the proposition that something came from nothing - strains conventional logic.
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The biggest problem that I have with organized religion, however, has nothing to do with the existence of God. My problem with religion begins and ends with the blatant manipulation of mankind in the name of God. The greed, self-service, and shameless hypocrisy of man have turned what should be a spiritual experience into something that’s ugly, divisive, and malevolent - and all of that starts with the concept of blind "faith."
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Man has a vested interest in controlling other men, so he uses the concept of faith to coerce the masses into accepting man himself as the spokesman for God. He does that by laying out written tablets, then convincing the masses that these tablets represent the "word of God." He then goes on to convince them that God has appointed him to ensure that "God’s word" is followed to the letter, and any deviation from the word of God, or even a second’s doubt that the book - in this case, the Bible - indeed, represents the word of God, is an act heresy, which will result in the most hideous punishment known to man - and, it will endure throughout eternity. Once demagogues got the masses to accept that, they literally took control of your minds. So for all intent and purpose, they became your God.
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It is precisely because of this ploy that we often hear people using the Bible as a metaphor for God. They don’t ask, "Do you believe in God?" They ask, "Do you believe in the Bible?" Their question implies that it goes without saying that the Bible is the word of God. That’s what allows the social manipulators to come in with the Bible under their arm and set themselves up as the spokesmen for God. That’s also why so many preachers are driving around in big cars - because the people think that by making the preacher rich, they’re gaining favor with the Supreme Being. It’s the biggest scam on the face of the Earth.
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What a great racket, this organized religion game - and the people never stop to think for a minute that the "faith" that they embrace so intently, is not a faith in God at all. Their putting their faith in man, and what corrupt men are telling them about God. And since the people have been taught, literally from birth, that questioning what they’re being told by these "God-anointed" men is an assault on God himself, these charlatans, and their scam, are completely insulated from the ravages of a sudden plague of common sense.
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So, carefully consider the question that I posed above, for it pits the common sense that God gave us against the contrived nonsense that man would have us believe. It both, points out a major flaw in the dogma that’s being forced down the people’s throats, and it clearly demonstrates that many of us can no more substantiate the validity of what we choose to believe than a child can substantiate the existence of Santa Claus.
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Our belief system has absolutely nothing to do with either morality, or, our love of God. We believe what we believe for one of two reasons - since organized religion never fails to support the status quo, if you’re a part of the ruling class, it rigs the system in your behalf, and if you’re of the subordinate class, you’re afraid not to believe it, so it doesn’t matter whether it’s factually valid or not.
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In addition, one of the first things we learn as we’re being indoctrinated as children is how to avoid the reality of common sense. In order to insulate religion from our common sense seeping through to suggest that snakes can’t talk, and that dead men don’t just get up and walk away, we’ve been taught that any flash of insight isn’t common sense at all. It's evil. It’s actually the Bogeyman whispering in our ear, trying to steal us away from God. Thus, we've literally been threatened not to acknowledge the common sense that God bestowed upon us.
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So instead of giving truth priority over ideology, we learn early in life to distort truth in order to make it conform to what we want to believe. That, in turn, is what makes it much easier to indulge in hatred, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and endless wars. Thus, instead of being a part of the solution, organized religion is invariably one of man's biggest problems.
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It’s no accident that the Klan originated in the Bible Belt and the most religious parts of the world are also the most brutally intolerant. Religion is THE most morally efficient form of segregation. It allows one to validate one's self as part of a special order of human being - or, one of  God's "chosen people" - while invalidating others as flawed. Thus, every since it's inception, religion has served as a God-approved justification for hating our fellow man - or at the very least, looking down upon them. It allows us to say, "it’s not that I hate everyone who doesn’t look, think, and act like me - it’s just that God does." 

The Conversion
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"Come here nigga and let me teach yo crazy, animal ass about the Lord. The first thing you got to learn is to Love thy Neighbor . . . especially me."
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"Yes sir, Massa. Why would anybody not love you, Sir? You so good to me, Massa. Anybody don't love you needs to have dey ass beat real good, Massa."
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"Shut up, nigga. I'm talkin'."
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"Listen, you been blessed already, and you don't even know the Lord. The Lord made it where you don't have to worry 'bout a thing. I feed you, I put clothes on yo nasty ass, and I give you a shed to sleep in, and all you have to do is whatever the hell I tell you to. Do you know how blessed you are?"
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"Oh, indeed I do, Massa. You take good care of me. I's so happy."
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"Now, listen real good 'cause dis impotant. God said, thou shalt not steal from me, thou shalt not kill (unless I tell you to), thou shalt not stick another coon's wife (unless we tryin' to make some mo niggas), and nigga, whatever you do, thou shalt not even look like you want to stick a white woman, or we gon lynch yo black ass. You here me, nigga?"
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"Oh yes, Massa. We know dat! But Massa, I thought you said thou shalt not kill?"
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"Dat means people, fool - real people! Dat don't go for niggas. God wants us to keep you in yo place.".
"Dat's right, Massa. We sho gotta keep niggas in dey place. No tellin' what a happen if we let dese niggas git loose. God so smart."
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"I said shut up, nigga, and listen to the word."
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"The next thing you got to learn is, whatever happens on this plantation is God's will bein' done. And if you listen to me, you'll get to live like I do when you die and go to Heaven."
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"Live like you, massa? A nigga ain't got no business livin' dat good. What a Po nigga like me gon do with all this? You know I ain't got sense enough to run nothin' like this."
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"Just shut up, nigga!" When you dead you gon get some sense - the lord gon give it to you. The Lord can do anything, even give sense to a nigga. And he gon give you all the other niggas you gon need to help you in the fields, too."
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"Massa, you so good to me! Thank you for tellin' me all dis. I'm gon be a good nigga - the best nigga you ever seened. Look, I'm gon pray for you right now, and thank the Lord for givin' me so good a massa."
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"Shut up and get up off your knees, ya dumb nigga! The fields need tendin'! You pray to the Lord on your own time. God don't won't you talkin' to him when you s'pose to be workin'."
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"A couse, Massa. What I been thinkin'? I's so dumb. I don't know why you put up with me, Sir."
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"How many times I got to tell you to shut the hell up, nigga?"
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"Yes Sir, I's a shuttin', Massa. I's a shuttin', right now."
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"Now get yo ass out there in that field and let's get some work done around here . . . Oh, and Toby, have yo woman meet me in the barn. I need to tell her 'bout the Lord too."
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"Yes sir, Massa."
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"And another thing, Toby, if my momma come a lookin', tell her I'm playin' in my tree house."
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"Why you gon go fibbin' to yo momma, Mr. Tommy? She knows you like to sit wit Lou Ann."
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"Just shut up, nigga, and do what I said! And tell Lou Ann to wear that pretty dress I like, cause we gon be talkin' 'bout the Lord, so it's gon be like chuch."
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"Yes Sir, Mr. Tommy." . . . "Whaaaaaaat a friend we have in Jeeeeesus . . ."
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Thus, many of man’s most severe problems will continue to be intractable until we learn to use our intellect - that quality that makes us most human - instead of caving in to our emotions - which coincide with our most primordial and animalistic nature. Unfortunately, too few of us are prepared to recognize that fact. Instead, we insist on whining about how poor we are, even as we continue to buy preachers big cars and lavish homes.
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Well, here’s a message from God (common sense) to the Black community, and America as a whole - You will never be free, as long as you continue to allow your minds to be enslaved.
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Amen.

Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com

Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.

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