RELIGIOUS SELFISHNESS AND DELUSION

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY

RELIGIOUS SELFISHNESS AND DELUSION

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White Evangelicals are using a fraudulent morality to justify their evil bigotry, hatred, and gross immorality.

Christians live in a delusion. There are innocent children dying of starvation all over the world this very second, yet, many Christians are on their knees begging God to help them pay for their Range Rovers. That’s flat-out selfishness. What makes them think they're so special? Think about that. They’re just being told they’re special in order to keep the money rollin’ in every Sunday morning, and God is sitting there watching them make lying, self-serving fools of themselves. Because God knows the truth - he knows that if they actually loved him over themselves they’d simply live a Godly life instead of always running around flappin’ their lips about it to anybody who's crazy enough to listen. Who are they trying to convince?

Your Bible says the following:

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.”- MATTHEW 6

I was raised a Christian and baptized by Black conservative evangelist, Rev. E.V, Hill, Sr. But I left the church after becoming so fed-up with listening to all the lying hypocrites that I had to either get out of there or throw up all over the pulpit. I had to make a decision, to either accept man’s lunacy about walking dead men and talking snakes, or to follow the common sense that God gave me. Well, I chose God, and then I walked out of that church never to returned.

I wanted to believe that nonsense, because everyone I loved believed it, but I just couldn’t - God had blessed me with far too much common sense. So again, as I said – I had a choice of rather to have "faith" in the lying word of man, and live my life trying to tell God a lie he hadn't already heard to try to get myself into Heaven, or listen to the mind bestowed upon me by God himself. So I chose God over man, and I walked out of the church a free man. I no longer had to pretend to believe in Voodooistic nonsense. The truth had set me free.

Since that time, I've done a lot of thinking about religion, and I've come to the conclusion that the world would be a lot better off if everybody would just live their beliefs and mind their own business. There are over 4200 different religions on Earth. So who's to say which one is right? I say none of them are. People simply believe what they were raised to believe, and then they spend their entire lives trying to shove their beliefs down everybody else's throat. That's why there is so much hatred in the world. Religion is the source of 99% of all the murder, hatred, and mayhem in the world today. Look at what's going on in the Middle East.

Life could really be simple. If you love God, just keep your mouth shut and live like it. I don't see what's so hard about that. I don't want nobody teaching my kids what to think about God while they’re at school, for example. When I was coming up, the very people who were running around talking about "Praise the Lord" were the exact same people who were lynching Black people - and the so-called "good Christians" weren't saying a word. And they’re doing the exact same thing today, letting people starve to death on the street, and putting children in cages, while they're buying preachers big houses and expensive cars in order to try to bribe their way into Heaven. I have no time for that nonsense. Such people are living in a delusion, and using the name of God to justify their selfishness. It’s a disgusting thing to watch.

The primary reason that so many so-called Christians can tolerate Trump’s many flaws is because they’re not really Christians at all. Yes, they're religious, but they worship selfishness and greed, not God. They merely use religion as an insurance policy. These people are afraid of death, so they try to hire God as a bodyguard. Thereafter, they try to bribe him into giving them a long and happy life by buying their preacher a big house and a new Cadillac, and in return they try to use God as an entity they can beg to provide for their needs, and who they can pray to for forgiveness of their many sins. That allows them to commit as many atrocities as they like and then simply ask for forgiveness thereafter – what great deal!

So their so-called “religion” has nothing to do with either morals, benevolence, or Christ. Jesus is just mentioned in passing in an attempt to keep deluding themselves into believing they have a so-called deal with God. But their true religion is based on selfishness, greed, and fear, and it’s actually a deal with the Devil.

That explains how Christians found a way to overlook slavery, managed the wholesale slaughter of ten generations of Native Americans, and found a way to justify the commission of any and all forms of evil that happened to be convenient to provide for their comfort. They’ve currently deemed it acceptable to demonstrate in the street to defend their right to be armed to the teeth with some of the most deadly weapons on Earth, and overrun state houses demanding the right to pass on a deadly disease to their neighbors, for example. Yet when a lying and self-serving demagogue takes children away from their parents and lock them in cages, all we hear from these precious children of God are crickets.

There’s a simple reason why these so-called “God-fearing children of God” can justify all of these ungodly acts - because their religious beliefs are based on pure bullshit, and if they’re right about the hereafter, they’re in for a huge surprise. It’s no accident that that Evangelical Christians are some of Donald Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters – because they’re among the most Godless people in America, and in the end they’re gonna be slammed into Hell so hard they’re gonna be bouncing off the walls.

I’ve always understood that fact. When I was raising my kids I had to tell my extended family not to bring that nonsense into our presence, because I didn't want them polluting the minds of my children with that Voodoo-inspired ignorance. As a result, I now have a daughter, a son, and 5 grandchildren who are ethical, and completely efficient and logical thinkers. Their lives are completely free of all manner of demons, goblins and "evil spirits". They see evil for what it is - ignorance. If you go up to any one of my kids or grandchildren talking about talking snakes and walking dead men, they'd look at you like you’re wearing a Voodoo doll around your neck, and I’m more proud of that than I am anything else I’ve accomplished in my life.

They were raised to believe that you do what's right because it's right to do what's right, not to try to get into Heaven or be rewarded in some kind of way. Living to try to "go to Heaven" doesn't make you a good person, it makes them selfish person; and that’s not loving God, that’s trying to get something for yourself. That’s what makes these people so easy to spot - they’re always either begging God to do something for them, or bragging about what he's already done for them as a reward for being so wonderful, as they applaud Trump for putting more children in cages. I mean, what people are  these who can’t see evil staring them in the face? Do they really think God is going to bless their hypocrisy!!!?  Oh, yes! These people are deluded.

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Eric L. Wattree

Http://wattree.blogspot.com

Ewattree@Gmail.com
BLACK WRITERS, INTELLECTUALS, AND INDEPENDENT THINKERS
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Religion: 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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COMMON SENSE IS GOD WHISPERING IN YOUR EAR

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

Contrary to popular belief, Black people don't have a moral obligation to be stupid.
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COMMON SENSE IS GOD WHISPERING IN YOUR EAR 
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I'm an independent thinker and far from a religious fanatic, but logic causes me to lean toward believing in a supreme force. I say, "Force" instead of "Being" because one of our biggest problems while trying to conceive of God is that we're so arrogant that we assume God has to have the same characteristics as we do. So, for me, God is simply whatever force is responsible for existence and the creation of the universe.
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Something had to cause the universe to come into existence, and whatever that something was, I call it God. Thus, God is whatever force, entity, or process that’s responsible for what we refer to as existence, regardless of whether God is a he, she, it, or the universe itself. That’s all we know, and all we need to know - and any preacher who claims to know anything beyond that is lying.
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But that said, I don't believe for a minute that God sits around watching everything we do to try to decide whether to punish or reward us. That's nonsense. The consequences of our behavior is what rewards or punishes us - if you do something stupid, like jump off a roof, you get a bad result, like a broken leg. So the mere thought that God is so preoccupied with man that he's fixated on whether we believe in him or not is simply a reflection of man's arrogance and exaggerated sense of self-importance. Why would God sit around throughout eternity jumping through hoops and doing magic tricks to try to get man to worship him? That's ridiculous. We're just not that important.  It would be the equivalent of our spending all of our time tap dancing in front of the toilet trying to earn the honor and respect of the germs under our toilet seat. Wouldn't that be stupid? Of course it would, and I doubt very seriously that the creator of the universe is stupid. Being stupid is man’s job, and we're not even that stupid.
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So let's take a moment and look at what man actually represents in terms of the universe in order to can get a little perspective. Our galaxy has over 200 billion stars, and the Sun is

only one of them. It takes the Sun, along with Earth and it’s other 8 hitchhikers, traveling at 828,000 mph 230 million years to orbit around our galaxy just one time.  Yet, our solar system, with its 9 planets, is only a microscopic dust particle in our galaxy, and our galaxy itself, in terms of the universe, is nothing more than a microscopic dust particle in space.
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To make sense of the distances we’re talking about here, on January 19, 2006 we launched the space probe, New Horizon, for the planet Pluto in our own solar system. It was the Fastest man-made object ever launched from Earth.  It sped through space at 36,400 mph. That’s 24 times faster than an AK 47 military rifle bullet. Yet it took New Horizon until July 14, 2015 (9 years, 6 months) to reach Pluto – and again, that’s just in our own solar system.
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Thus, if Earth was your house in Los Angeles, Pluto would be a flea in San Diego, and Alpha Centauri, the closest neighboring star to the Sun, would be an elephant in China - and that's just within our galaxy. There are over 200 billion stars, equally as far away from one another, in just our galaxy alone, and there are more galaxies in the universe than there are grains of sand on every beach, every desert, and every ocean floor on the planet Earth – and that’s just in the observable universe that's still expanding in every direction at the speed of light. But even with the enormity of that, our entire universe could be merely a speck of dust under the toenail of some gigantic being. Yet, man thinks he can tell other men what's on God's mind!!!? That's utterly ridiculous.
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If you’re a Christian, do you believe that God sent Jesus to all the hundreds of trillions of worlds in the universe? Or maybe you believe that we're so special that we're the only speck of dust in the universe with life on it?  It might seem that way, but the only reason that we don’t see other beings is because even if they lived right next door to us (which they do), even traveling at the speed of light, it would take them 137 thousand years to get here, because the next closest star to the Sun, Alpha Centauri, is over 24 trillion miles away.  So, think about that – in order to just drop in for a cup of coffee they would have had to leave home 135 thousand years before Jesus was born, and they won't get here for another 133 thousand years - and again, that’s just our closest neighbor!  
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So, man is way too full of himself. God must be falling out laughing at our arrogance (if he even remembers who we are), because man is clearly on the mother of all ego trips. Whenever I'm unfortunate enough to even be in earshot of a preacher I have to laugh, because I view what most people call a sermon as a comedy routine. And I always ask myself, "Will you listen to this fool! I wonder does he actually believe this nonsense himself!!?" Even though many of his "flock" think God is fixated on us and worried about whether we believe in him or not, in terms of the universe, man is trillions of times less significant than a germ under a toilet seat in Uzbekistan - and the other side of  the religious coin is just as ridiculous. Anyone who claims that the universe just sprung up out of nowhere and says, "Prove that God exists" is just looking for an argument. So, the appropriate response to such people is quite simple. You simply say, "Look around you, fool!", and then walk away.

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The so-called realms of Heaven and Hell are also right out of Mother Goose. Both are simply concepts created by man to control other men, to get them to dig deeper into their pockets when they pass the collection plate. The entire concept just reeks of man’s tendency to threaten and/or bribe other men into subservience. In fact, the only reason we have religion at all is to justify our cruelty towards other men. Whenever we want to kill other men, we first seek approval from God through religion. In fact, I remember how the idea of a military chaplain struck me as strange when I was in the Marine Corps. Think about it - "Dear Lord, please help us to kill more of them than they do of us." What!!!?  So, if God was indeed watching man and evaluating our worthiness, he would have hit the delete button long ago.
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And finally, let's take a look at what we refer to as “The Holy Bible”. That book is

nothing more than a collection of the superstitious rantings of 3000-year-old dead men. They didn’t know any more about God than we do today. They were the Pat Robertsons of their time – and just as clueless. Just because a man was born 2000 years before you doesn't mean he was either smarter than you, or knew any more about God (Common Sense 101). The fact is, in most cases he was dumber than you. 

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If a man passed out in the town square 2000 years ago, and then Jesus sprinkled water in his face and brought him around, many of the people back then would have thought that Jesus brought him back from the dead.  Or if Jesus was walking along the beach with the setting Sun reflecting on the wet sand, it would have looked to many like he was walking on water, and they would have wrote about it in what was to become "The Holy Bible" - and those are the kind of things many of you are getting all dressed up  every Sunday morning and paying a preacher to keep telling you about in his spoken-word concert. As hard as times are, you're paying a man a tenth of your earnings to regale you with tales of pure ignorance. 

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Because the fact is, no book written by man can tell you anything about God, because

no man has ever met God. We can only know God’s will by what he has done, and as I’m very fond of telling anyone who will listen, God made birds to fly, fish to swim, and man to think, not to believe in talkin’ snakes.  God anticipated our needs when he created us, and he gave us the intellect to answer our own prayers and to live the kind of life that would create Heaven right here on Earth if used properly. But if used improperly, we can also create our own Hell, which we seem to be doing as we speak.
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So, God doesn’t require a Pat Robertson or T.D. Jakes to speak for him, nor do we need the Bible as a user’s guide to dictate how we should live our lives. Do fish need a swimming coach, or do birds need a compass and calendar to know when to fly South? No they don't. They’re born with that knowledge, just as we were born with the common sense to survive in our environment. We just need to follow that common sense and stop paying preachers to tell us what God's wants. Man is the only animal on Earth that fails to do so. God demonstrated his will when he gave each of us our very own brain, so we should use it. If you'd just listen to your common sense, God would tell you in no uncertain terms that snakes don't talk, and no matter how much you pay a preacher, he will not be able to stop you from dying, or get you into Heaven once you do.
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That brings us to the concept of good and evil. It’s a very simple concept - good is 

THIS IS A HAPPY MAN

BECAUSE HE LIVES BY COMMON SENSE

having the intelligence to follow your common sense, and evil is failing to utilize that intelligence - or to be too ignorant to realize that if you shoot and kill somebody’s father or son, chances are, they’re gonna come back and kill you. It’s as simple as that. Thus, the key to living a good and happy life is to become an efficient and independent thinker with the intelligence to follow your common sense. 
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So, this entire article can be boiled down to one sentence - "Never give the Bible, preachers, potentates, or anyone else's ability to think priority over your own, because common sense is God whispering in your ear."

THIS IS A MISERABLE MAN

BECAUSE HE LACKS COMMON SENSE

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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