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LONG, by the seat of my pants, stream of consciousness rambling.... on this topic of religions and the utter ignorance as wells as the evil perpetrated against different humans groups... in the name of religions and their gods...
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People who need the various religions (Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and ALL the THOUSANDS of other beliefs in the past, that have been forgotten and all the ones to CROP UP in the distant future, if humans go on existing for many more thousands, to tens of thousands, of years)... are those who refuse to grow up, who refuse to stop sucking their thumbs, stop sucking on PACIFIERS... they are people who, educated or not, need to carry around their little TODDLER "blankie" for "comforting purposes."
The "argument" (indeed, the PICTURE... you have take a step back & visualize this picture in your head)... that since the "Big Bang" 13.8 or so BILLIONS years ago.... the visible parts of the Cosmos alone, has grown into a place so vast, it has around 400 BILLION GALAXIES, the size of our Milky Way Galaxies (with BILLIONS more of the tiny ones), and each of these 400B of Milky Way size galaxies has from around 100 to 400 BILLION STARS, like our sun (some a bit bigger, some a bit small)....
.... that many GENERATIONS of mighty stars have formed, lived out their fast, big, and extremely "hot" life-spans, EXPLODED and, with hot enough temperatures, SEEDED our region of the Milky Way Galaxies with the HEAVY ATOMS (elements: Lithium, Oxygen, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Nitrogen, Fluorine, Sodium, Calcium, Potassium, Uranium, etc.)... so that LIFE on earth could have ARISEN, slowly, through EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES, with 99% or so of ALL CREATURES ever having existed HAVING ALREADY DIED OUT... of the last 4.5 or so BILLION YEARS...
... to allow small mammals to rise up, after the demise of the great dinosaurs, around 65M years ago, due to A GIANT rock from space.... to EVOLVE into a creature that would SPLIT into the various current monkeys and apes (WE ARE APES, but less hairy than our hairier ones, like the Orangs, Chimps, Bonobos, and Gorillas)...
.... so that early HOMO SAPIENS could evolve further, to give rise to MODERN HUMANS who, then, started migrating out of Africa, between 50-70,000 years ago, to populate different parts of this world.... each group, each tribe, TRYING to understand its environment, in CRUDE WAYS... using the VERY LIMITED knowledge they had, of their world, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO... when NO ONE knew what caused earth quakes or volcano activities, why there's solar or lunar eclipses, why germs, bacteria, and viruses kill or not kill their hosts, and which viruses and bacteria are deadliest to humans... why or how major rains or floods came about....
And ALL those early tribes and ancestors of ours could do were to PRAY to "the spirits" and "gods" and "creators who created everything in the world"... and to MAKE SACRIFICES, of beautiful, young virgins and other animals.... the bigger and harder to come by, the MORE those early tribes said/believed THE GODS or GREAT SPIRITS of the sky or ANCESTORS coveted the most....
And ALL these have been happening.... since MODERN humans left Africa 50-70,000 years ago.... ENDLESS TRIBES, with endlessly different and SIMILAR beliefs about such powerful spirits and creators and gods, etc.....
..... and to *think* ALL OF THEM were WRONG....
.... and the only REAL BELIEF, the only real religion, the real "holy knowledge" of the universe... must wait, ACCORDING TO CRAZY CHSITIANS, until the ROMANS reached their height, a time they conquered and ruled from England to minor Asia.... so those Romans could KILLED GOD --- who made himself into an EASILY KILLED person, MAGICALLY INSERTED HIMSELF into a VIRGIN Jewish-Palestinian girl, 12-14, never having intercourse --- so God/Jesus would die, "to rise from the grave and lift straight back to heaven"... so God/Jesus could CLEANSE homo sapiens ORIGINAL SIN, which was caused in the Garden of Eve, when the TALKING SNAKE and other FAIRY TALE EVIL DOERS corrupted Adam and Eve, into eating "the fruit of knowledge, or sin, of sorrow...." so they could be BANNISED by God from that Garden....
.... and, later, so God wave his magic wand and FLOODED the earth, DROWNING Adam and Eve's many other even more evil offspring... but with CONTINGENCY PLANS.....via NOAH and Noahs sons... who gathered pairs of all organisms and creatures on earth, from viruses, crickets, fish, worms... to T-REX and BILLIONS of others creatures.... onto their NOAH'S ARK boat....
... so Moses and Abraham, from GOD's "favorite people, the Jews" could spread their FAIRY TALES... so Christianity in the 2nd AD, during ROME's height, and Islam, in the 7th century.... could spread GOD grand plan for humanity... and all other THOUSANDS of earlier religions, by the Mayans, Aztecs, Classical Greeks, Romans, Carthaginians, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Persians, Chinese, Hindus, Buddhists, Janes........
.... all of them were fake & wrong beliefs... only what Christians from the 2nd AD on and Muslims from the 7th AD on... BOTH superstitions based on old Moses-ABRAHAMIC fairy tales, from illiterate goat herding tribes in the Mid East....
...... And every virtual particles, atoms, organisms... the whole of the Cosmos... for, again, 13.8 or so BILLION years.... all's just to prepare for Christians and Muslims to preach THE CREATOR'S PLANS, since the 2nd and 7th centuries, respectively............................
You have got to be VERY STUPID, or crazy, or NOT CARING AT ALL ABOUT SERIOUS thoughts of any kind .... in ORDER for you to believe in such a 3-year-old My-Mommy-Said-Santa-Claus-delivered-my-presents-around-December 25-through-the chimney-because-I-am-such-a-good-kid kind of childish nonsense...
EACH religion, of course, makes different AND similar claims, each saying IT and ITS FOLLOWERS are the ONLY REAL ones... THE ONES WHO know the Creator of the Universe...
But of late, if you also notice, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and other religious "authorities" also come together, to recite their RESPECTIVE gibberish nonsense, make grand and strange gestures and wear funny clothes and hats... individual and collectively, invoking the same and different creator of the universe.... to help "make humans good; to stop crimes and evils..."
Do Christians and Muslims know, OR DO THEY WANT TO KNOW, how they conquered the world over, since the 2nd and 7th centuries?
It's not by running CHARITIES and other needy centers, like we see today...
From the 2nd century and, especially since the late 300AD, once the first Roman emperor, CONSTANTINE, converted to Christianity... from time on... until the 1800s, yes, the 1800s, Christianity and Christians waged ENDLESS wars, killed endless GROUPS of small people and tribes around the world, the Native Americans and Australian Aborigines experiences with European Christians BEING THE BEST and MOST HEINOUS examples of how Christianity conquered the Americas, from North to South America... and how Christians and Christianity pretty much annihilated the Australian Aborigines, our humanity's FIRST and MOST daring and accomplished oldest tribes... who first ventured out of Africa, some 20-30,000 years BEFORE others (who'd give birth to modern Asians and European) did...
Initially, few hundred Spaniards, with the BIBLE, SWORDS, horses, and guns and a bit later, a few thousands more from Spain.... wiped out pretty much of South American Natives civilizations and all the tribes who resisted... whole villages, towns, cultures PUT TO THE TORCH... burnt and legally punish by torture and death, if the Natives were to try to resurrect or practice their own beliefs and cultures again.... this from 1492 until the 1800s...
And the Australian Aborigine's experience was much more recently, from 1700s to the early 1900s... starting with a few thousand hard core CRIMINALS from England, in the 1700s... they wiped out about 4/5 of the Australian Aborigines, took over the whole continent, within 3-5 generations...
Christians LIKE to ONLY preach peachy pink CHERRY PICKED fairy tales; they don't like to deal with EITHER the real HISTORY of the COSMOS or their own little twisted, murderous and heinous story since the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, the CHURCH, took over from the collapsed secular ROMAN EMPIRE, starting again around the latter part of the 300ADs...
Now, on ISLAM..............
There is ABSOLUTELY NO "glorious Islamic civilization" of any kind, since the 7the century, in the Mid East... a few gifted mathematicians and architects born after the 7th century, born into Islam-CONVERTED families... in the Mid East, didnt' make it a "glorious Islamic civilization."
The REAL CIVILZATIONS and PEOPLE, of the Mid East, that truly INVENTED reading, writing, and mathematics... Mid East people and civilizations who domesticated 4/5 all of the major grain crops and domesticated 8/10 of all the large animals humanity has used ever since.... they were the NON-ISLAMIC Middle Eastern people like the MESOPOTAMIANS, BABYLONIANS, CARTHIGANIANS, PHOENICIANS, EGYPTIANS, HITTITES, ASSYRIANS, et al. and they did ALL THAT thousands of years BEORE Islam's invention in the 7th century...
And that's not personal assertions; that's REAL and ELEMENTARY history.
But if you talk to modern day, semi-literate Muslims, who do little more than read, memorize, AND REGURGITATE the Quran.... they say THE WHOLE WORLD and CIVILIZATION of worth mentioning only started around the 7th century, from Mohammed's little goat herding tribes, in backwater Saudi Arabia, IGNORING all the real history of accomplishment, of truly GREAT CIVILIZATYIONS, of the other people in the Middle East...
Remember, both Islam and Christians are offspring of Judaism, based on Moses and ABRAHAMIC creationist fairy tales...
Christians, again, have the SAME childish picture of cherry-picked FAIRY TALE history of their own creation, ignoring REAL HISTORY of people, of the world, and of the cosmos... Christians and Christianity, remember, go by the BIBLICAL CREATION STORY about God waving his magic wand and "the world coming into being" 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, LITERALLY.
Don't believe clever theologians and other semi-educated Christians, today, when they say, "Oh, those stories in the Bible... it's mostly METAPHORES..."
Remember, from 400AD until the end of the 1600s, as people like Kepler, Brahe, Copernicus, Bruno, and Galileo found out, if ANY ONE under Christiandom said the Sun was the center of the world and the EARTH merely revolved around it...or that there were many other planets and suns in the "heaven" --- he or she was tortured and/or PUT TO DEATH with no problem.
So, the "gentle," "nurturing" and "civilized" CHRISTIANITY --- and Christians --- we see and "know" today.... are only a TINY part of the ICEBERG of a horrendously, heinous BELIEF system and a people that persecuted and tortured and BURNT countless people, in the name of Jesus and his Dad, himself, over the last 2,000 years....
What the ROMANS did to this rebellious guy named Jesus, around 100 AD, was NOTHING, as far as torture and crimes go, when compared to what Christians and Christianity HAVE DONE to MILLIONS of non-Christians, from the late 1400s until the EARLY PART OF the 1900s!
Religious people, in general, don't believe in REAL HISTORY.
They prefer their childish rosy-pink Santa Claus-like fairy tales of CHERRY PICKED, make-believe records & make-belief-history written WITHIN their own religious institutions... of how they civilized and saved the world, their imaginary world...
They NEVER focus on how they tortured and killed across cultures, tribes, and the world.
Ditto for Islam and Muslims.
These people TELL YOU you are not nice, not polite, or you are evil, you are telling lies.... IF YOU REMIND THEM OF elementary history of the world, OR JUST THE REAL WORLD with its many majesties and horrific events and processes..... of the various groups and their competition and struggle, and who did what to whom, etc.
But if you tell their FAIRY TALES of how Jesus waved his hand and HUNDREDS of dried fish popped out of thin air, so hundreds of hungry Mid East goat and camel herding people could eat a meal together... man, they jump and dance with joy, hug you long and proud!
It's the disposition of LITTLE CHILDREN, these religious people...