What do we need religions for?

To legalize killing? The annunakian religions, which all arose in the Near East, are religions of war and murder. The self-proclaimed “Lord” requires from us to kill on his order and in his name. Who does not obey, is punished even in horrible ways. Who, however, unconditionally and unscrupulously obeys, is rewarded for such slavish obedience (but harvests a corresponding karma!). We should not think ourselves, but follow the dictates of his Churches and corresponding institutions of power and believe them without objection.

It was not much different in many of the earlier religions: the Romans, in part the Greek, the Germanic people and the Vikings, the Aztecs and others. But there were also at least comparatively peaceful religions: the Celts, (at least the later) Incas, the original Mayas (before they were conquered by the Aztecs), and still to day the mainly quite peaceful Hindus.

Jesus taught us love and peace – and was killed for it. The Gnostic original Christians then carried his teachings on, until they were exterminated. Then the religions of murder again took full power over us, with fanaticism having the character of an epidemic popular psychosis.

How long shall we participate in this? When will we finally listen to our heart rather than to the preachers, who in own interest of power repeat old stories and even fairy tales that they want to impose on us? When will we finally make ourselves free from such dominating tutelage, emancipate ourselves and grow up morally? Even if it might cost our life, because who participates in evil only to save his own skin has miscalculated himself and carries a heavy karma to the future.

The Gnostic Christians did that and were eradicated. Their texts were destroyed, but it will have been a plan of the Highest One (who is far above the above-mentioned “Lord”) that they were secretly preserved, until they were found in 1945 in Nag Hammadi. Is the time now come to find back to a true Christianity?

Even though the Gnosticism arouse out of Jesus’ teachings in the inner circle it is rather a spiritual science than a religion. Is it that not what we need? A true spiritual science, a spiritual cosmology, a philosophy and the freedom to think for ourselves? In spite of all resistance to it…

Rather a philosophy than a religion is also what we have in the original Buddhism (the modified Tibetan Buddhism is, however, rather a Religion that venerates various divinities).

We already have such things in the world to day in concepts like esoterics and “New Age”, regrettably quite fragmented and partly turned into business. The ever-yesterday’s fundamentalists regard this as the work of the devil, and there are therein quite some things that are dark and misleading – but not all of it. It is here necessary to separate the chaff from the wheat.

We may be experiencing the beginning of the birth of a new humanity that one regrettably tries to prevent by all means – violence, war, suppression. Until this new humanity finally arises on the rubble of the collapsed old, like a phoenix out of its ashes. Most of us will be there when it happens, but the majority in a new body – because there is no death. The soul is immortal. But not all of us, since some inveterate ones will probably incarnate elsewhere in cosmos, so that they can there live out their war mania and ideology of violence, until they also understand.

But it seems that the actual ideology of war and violence at the end will have to become its own judge in a kind of suicide attack on humanity…

What is then a real religion?

There will be three starting points:

1. The “big bang” – the to me hard to believe hypothesis of the materialistic official science that at a point “zero” a probably inconceivably compressed unconscious original piece of matter exploded, so that out of that everything in the universe came to be by itself. The critical but unanswerable questions are then: What exploded? What was before that? Did someone make it happen? (The red-shift in the universe can also be explained differently.)

2. An inconceivable original creator in the shape of a conscious primordial energy let this all come out of himself. Here the questions would be: From where did he come? Was there something before him?

3. A very new hypothesis of our time: the universe is a sort of holographic matrix, like a kind of computer simulation. Questions: What “computer”? Who is playing the game? Who has “programmed” it, and for what?

The most probable hypothesis is for me the second one, since it fits to most creation doctrines of various religions (even though they may be given by – various – extraterrestrials), and it makes most sense for me.

How can we find an answer?

The sad thing is that we never will! All we can do is to make our mind listen to our heart (rather than the preachers). The mind will never make it without the intuition and emotional response of the heart.

The other way it goes astray.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince, Chapter XXI.

This will mean that there is no ‒ and cannot be any ‒ universal religion!

Religion will, therefore, always be an individual and a personal matter. The etymology of the word is probably that it is derived from a prefixed Latin re-ligare, i.e. re (again) + ligare (bind, connect) or “to reconnect.” Reconnect ‒ with what? With our origin! Or origins? Generally assumed to be our original creator(s), or the original creator of it all, the universe. There will be as many ways to that as there are “ways to Rome”... What is valid for one person may not be the same as what is valid for another. There will always be valid differences. But not very big ones. The BIG ones are the more doubtful, the bigger they are. To find our proper personal religion, we have to listen to our heart and not to the preachers, who preach in there own interests of power and profit...

This also means that we have to respect the religions of the others. There will, however, be only one common denominator: love and harmony, to never harm others. No violence, no brutal conflicts, no killing, no wars ‒ peaceful acceptance of each other’s peaceful views.

And one more thing: a “god” that requires war, killing, revenge and bloodshed can never be a true God!!! But only some kind of a demon that in its own selfish interest wants to lead us astray, and who drops us when he doesn’t need us anymore.

 

The Church is alienated from Jesus

This is obvious from its actions that are contrary to what Jesus taught us, such as peace, and love even for those who consider themselves to be our enemies. Hard abominable facts need not be repeatedly described, but merely mentioned: antichristian acts like inquisition, burning of “witches” and “heretics”, the genocide of the Cathars, instigation and support of wars, and so on and on. But also hindering and condemning movements that are truly Christian in the very sense that Jesus taught, such as: liberation theology and the highly social and humanitarian Jesuit Missions in Paraguay in the 17th and 18th centuries, see also here. To mention but a few examples...