Don Bowman

In My Opinion…..

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As a friend said to me, “When I hear people go into this insipid pandering , who think they are garnering favor with God, all I can see in my mind is God up in heaven…His fingers plugging His ears and yelling…”will you please shut up!”. I quite agree.

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It is my considered opinion that religion, in all its various forms and practices, has been the greatest detriment to mankind. We hate, murder, target, marginalize, and otherwise destroy anyone who dares to believe anything other that what we profess to believe. Always cloaked in the words of some supposed “messiah”, some ethereal being tied to claimed divine lineage, we have shed rivers of blood and caused untold misery throughout history and the world.

Faith in God has nothing to do with religion. Faith and religion are two diametrically opposed lines of thinking and belief. God exists quite well on his own; constant, loving, forgiving. Religion on the other hand, relies on a false system of man made beliefs, opinions, biases and always contains claims about how God centered the faith of choice is. But religion, just as politics, must always provide you with an adversary who is claimed to want to kill you and harm you, so you must go harm and kill them first. Without this constantly changing enemy, your church would fall apart. That common enemy, (most often the “devil”,) is the reason for all your woes. It couldn’t possibly be that you just made a mistake, or things just didn’t happen the way you intended. No, it must be this evil entity is plotting against you. Or it is some other religious faction that represents some coming threat to you. The same is true in politics. You are being played.

Religion is of men: Faith is of God.

One of the most bizarre claims made by religions is the claim that the Holy Trinity is made up of the Father, the Son, and some ghost?? And if this is true…wouldn’t we all have a penis? This combination, if true, would have heralded the end of humanity. Two male figures and a ghost would not reproduce anything. Personally, I believe the Holy Trinity, should one actually exist, would more likely be comprised of The Father, The Mother and The Child. LIFE!! But that would mean actually acknowledging the female in the creation of humanity! But if we recognized that we would have to elevate women to their proper place in the scheme of things and that by necessity would end their being used as servants and second class beings. Oh! What would we men do?? If we can’t relegate women to a class underneath us, if we can’t bag them, beat them use and abuse them and then force them to wait on us and do our bidding…oh! The horror of that thought!! More