| When someone sees a rainbow, do they say, "I am | | | | Religion is ignorance. It makes spirits to explain |
| seeing a physical reaction, that can be produced in | | | | phenomenon and then burns those who disagree |
| laboratories with the right conditions," or do they say, | | | | with the spirits -- the ghosts, the magic, the |
| "I am seeing the omen from god, that the world will | | | | supernatural, the gods, the daemons, the sucubi, the |
| not be flooded."? When someone sees fire, do they | | | | incubi, the serpents, the devils. Men of science will not |
| say, "I am seeing the gift of Prometheus," or do | | | | have this crutch of superstition and dogma. If you |
| they say, "I am seeing the vibration of atoms."? The | | | | believe that the rainbow is a physical reaction that |
| question here is: is this person irreligious or religious, | | | | can be produced in a laboratory, then you have |
| scientific or un-scientific? | | | | come one step ahead of your ancestors. If you |
| Thousands of years ago, our ancestors could not | | | | believe that the rainbow is an actual, living sign of |
| explain these things. What is fire? What is the sky? | | | | god, then you are looking to the past, of the times |
| How did we get here? They became ignorant in their | | | | when men were barbarians and uncivilized in every |
| claims and created gods and spirits to answer their | | | | respect. |
| questions. "How did we get here? God made humans | | | | I understand that I am placing this message on a |
| from the dust." -- "Where does lightning come from? | | | | Bulletin Board that is largely Christian. In the same |
| Lightning is Allah trying to strike and kill people." -- | | | | way that Galileo asked of the Inquisition, I only ask |
| "Where does wind come from? The god Purusa blew | | | | that everyone keep an open mind. Magellan proved |
| the wind out of his mouth." -- "Why does the Sun go | | | | that the Bible and that Christianity were both fallible. |
| across the sky? The god Apollo pulls it across on his | | | | (Isaiah 40:22 clearly calls the world a circle; a circle is |
| chariot." | | | | flat -- a sphere is round.) By what construct were |
| So, you see, man formed his ignorance and conjured | | | | men and women asked to believe in these dogmas? |
| ghosts to his aid. Tyranny and vice would reign over | | | | What linked believer to belief of religion? The answer |
| the numerous theocracies that developed over the | | | | is faith. By faith people believed the world was flat, |
| globe. Galileo would question what the religious men | | | | that the rainbow was a sign of god, that fire was |
| claimed; as would Giordano Bruno who gave his life | | | | brought to us by the god Prometheus! |
| for his beliefs, burned at the stake for questioning | | | | But religion provides no real answers. It will excuse |
| authority. Magellan's voyage would make it all the | | | | the existence of the Universe with "God made it, |
| way around the world. These men proved incalculable | | | | because everything must be made." If this is true, |
| times that the church, the Bible, and religion is indeed | | | | then who made god? It would be much simpler to |
| fallible! Lightning is not the work of Allah -- it is the | | | | say that no god made us, than to postulate that one |
| work of positive and negative electrons. There are | | | | god made the Universe, and then one god made him, |
| occurences in this Universe and they are natural and | | | | and then a god to him, assigning an infinite number of |
| explainable. | | | | gods, all creating each other. |