What mortal man has the right, the authority to threaten another mortal person man (short for human) with a man-made hell or to guarantee heaven? When men make up imaginary destinations for when life on Earth is over, they screw up mortal minds and even make them want to sacrifice themselves in futile religious wars.
Mythology is fanciful and wonderful to behold, but when mortals use archaic stories to control others these devices turn into iron chained links.
Dear Ones,
We all have our own beliefs because we're all born with a spark of the divine–stardust. But somewhere along the way some people make up stories to make them feel superior. When this happens the masters of chicanery become programmed as robots as well as the people they manipulate.
This is what occurred in America the beautiful. Sordid minds even in churches forced plantation slaves to sit separately away from the others in the balcony and hear men claim, "Slaves must obey their masters because God says so." They also forced baptism on them in the same way–on the decks of slave ships, as they poured buckets of sea water over them.
By the way there is a famous church in Savannah, GA with one of these balconies. And on the ends of the pews are still seen pictures that people in bondage made. Obviously some of them had more creative things to do–other than concentrate on having Anglo minds attempting to program them to clay through their molds of control. And under the central aisle is a secret room to hide run away slaves. Some members of the establishment were abolitionists.
Again, what comes to my own way of thinking, if man would just remember one universal thing that Buddha, Confucius, Jesus of Nazareth and Muhammad taught–"Don't do anything that you don't want done to you." Some prophets even say, "Don't make war unless you are first attacked."
Religion and racism must never be foist on others.
"Persecution is always the strongly marked featue of all law religions or religions established by law."
–Thomas Paine
Mame,
author of Set Free! helenesmith1.blogspot.com
