It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates."

~  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Is a religious nation deadlier than one that isn't. That is one question that is hard to answer. I truly believe that we have never seen a country that did not have the basis of religion backing its problems and solutions. I do agree that a religious nation is one of the most poisoned and corrupted nations there could be.

As we have seen from the past, nations that did as the church commanded killed millions of people for witchcraft. Not just women, but men as well. It was also for political and financial gain. When someone was accused and killed because of witchcraft, the victims family had to pay for everything, the inquisitor, the executioner, the priest....it goes on. Hitler is another good example. His nation was to be free of Jewish people no matter if it was their belief or their grandparents.....Holocaust. Iran you can suck it, it happened.

I guess it would be unfair to leave the multiple deity religions out. But most of the wars Before Common Era were done to gain land and wealth, not totally because of religion. Not saying that was every conquest. Hence why the Norse and Ancient Celtic traditions are similar. But the religions and traditions still survived. As we have seen with the Romans, conquests for land and wealth could be just and deadly. For the countries they took they made slaves out of them.

I must agree with Dan Brown in the Da Vinci Code "as long as there has been one god, there has been killings in his name."

The biggest misconception is that the United States was founded on christianity. I am sorry but religious freedom was. Its in the constitution. It says "We the People", not we the butt kissers of christ. The Pilgrims did not want to be persecuted for their beliefs. This brings me to another question. Why is there such a stink about the different christan religions?! By the Goddess.....

Africa, there is another country who hunts witches when they are unable to determine what caused someones death, bad crops, or a sickly child. 100% of the time the person is really not a witch. A few years back, in England, a child, a little girl was killed by her aunt because they suspected her of witchcraft. They were from Africa. Something had gone wrong in the household and there was an escape goat.

I am so off subject, or am I? The church has touched the far corners of the globe and has created such strife that more and more people are going back to the ancient religions, atheist, or now the growing popular Islamic.

I guess what brings me to all this is the next election. Its coming soon and I fear that no matter who is chosen we are going to see a fall. The damage is already done and there is no going back. I am not afraid of the individuals just the effects of their actions.

"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that's what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than trying to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family." - Mike Huckabee, January 14, 2008
Thanks for info - http://www.wildhunt.org/blog.html

This concerns anyone who does not have the same religion as this man. Will he be elected, probably not. But I know he is not the only person to have this idea. Someone who tells us how to live and how to raise our families.

Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to this problem or question.

No matter what, power makes man deadly. Greed makes man dangerous. Ignorance makes man dangerous & deadly. With the combination of them religion or not anyone who stands against a man with the most "toys" or money finds himself hunted.

This is only my point of view. I would enjoy hearing what everyone has to say.

Well, in the past couple of weeks I have indulged my guilty pleasure of ebay. Kills me every time I go there.

I have gotten 3 new books. 2 from ebay and 1 through amazon.

On ebay I got The Fairy-Faith In Celtic Countries by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz. A palm reading book from 1890. I haven't received it yet.

On amazon I got the Encyclopedia of Elements 20,000 Dreams. Very popular right now at work.

The Fairy-Faith book so far has been pretty informative and history book like. I do like some of the points that he makes.

Its impossible to describe the invisible world to someone who has not experienced it. 2 men traveling in different countries can come together and talk about their travels because they have both traveled. Even though their destinations have been different they have traveling in common. But if you try and describe Fairies, magick, energies to someone who does not believe or has never been there, there is no language for it. You cannot describe a feeling if the other person has never felt it.

Of course this makes so much sense but I never thought of it that way.

I will write more as I learn :)

I guess my work is were I find my biggest challenges with religious questions/situations.

V and I were talking about religion again. She may defend me but she is also challenges me too.We were talking about how do Pagans know about their religious pasts. The Christians have the bible that tells them how, when, where and, why. "What do you all have?"

I know I posted a long time ago- "And thou who thinkest to seek for Me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou knowest the Mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee. For behold, I have been with thee from the beginning; and I am That which is attained at the end of Desire."

Basically, do not seek what you cannot find within. The Goddess is within just look within and you will find your answers.Ladies and Gentleman......Deer in the headlight look. LOL

I was not surprised to get a deer in the headlight look, I know better then to try and explain that. Christians are not use to speaking with their god as we can speak with the Goddess.

Then I explained that the Gods have been on stone walls, tablets, and ancient scrolls longer then the bible has been around. V still has a hard time seeing where I am coming from. I think she tries but it just confuses her. Or in her own little way she tries to convert me, but that will never happen.

Then I tried to get her to see that King James corrupted the bible when he had his priest retranslate it. That the bible was written by man, and that I doubt god came down and started typewriting out stories for man. Man had different motives when writing the bible.

Then she said "What about the flood?" "V there is scientific evidence that the flood did not happen all over the world! People were alive during that time and there is record of it."Which she so nicely stated "I don't believe in what those scientists say" http://www.epicidiot.com/evo_cre/noahs_flood.htm#global_or_local
I will let you all be the judge on that one.
Here is another one of my favorites http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

I guess this will be another ongoing post to the blog as well. This one I know will never end. LOL

Anyone have any extra devil horns? I would like to ware them to work one day ;)

This is for anyone who is interested.  

BB

Titania

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