Kingdom Come

• Refuse subservience to a higher power / god as practiced by faith systems as well as social taboos and  expectations that would hamper one from achieving his or her selfish desires.
• Reject belief in an afterlife or day of judgment of the soul, making the most of what is here and now especially indulging in the pleasures of the flesh while you have flesh.
• Believe in being a member of a small elite group of superhuman / gods who have mastery of the planet, indulging oneself with the majority of the resources, heartless to the suffering and death this exploitation causes other living beings and the ecosystem.
• Celebrate secret knowledge as the key to enlightenment, which is kept secret from others by being fluid and subject to revision and change at your whim [AKA “gaslighting”].

The Humanist Movement came into being to provide an alternative to traditional religions, and its main task is to address the major factors which have given traditional religions such a grip on their adherents.  Of these, the two most powerful factors are:  1) belief in a personal God; and 2) life after death.

According to Humanism -“Belief in a future life was not based on evidence.  It was an expression of faith arising out of a certain mental background.  The important thing is to outgrow that mental outlook…A single proposition – you will not die  –  once believed, determines a response to life that would be otherwise unthinkable. We must affirm that there is no scientific evidence for personal survival after death…my conscious existence ceases with death…This thought gives one responsibility and hope, and a sense of worth.”

Say what?!

The evidence for both a Supreme God and a multitude of lesser gods has massive amounts of incontrovertible documented evidence collected over thousands of years in multiple domains admissible in a court of law for a conviction or acquittal. Anti-spiritual Humanism, which only came into existence a hundred years ago, is nothing more than unsubstantiated ideas.

Likewise there is a growing body of evidence for the personal soul’s survival after death, see relevant posts for details.

As for the claim that the thought existence ceases with death gives one responsibility?? This absolute ignores what we know about human nature. “Eat, drink and be merry” is a much-used English idiom, popular particularly among young people that comes from the Bible. “If the dead are not raised, [then] Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” (I Corinthians 15:32) encouraging utter irresponsibility. 

• Paul is explicitly comparing paganism’s teaching that everlasting life is the sole purview of the gods.
  • to YHVH’s promise to “give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely” (Revelation 21:6)
  • and followers of YHVH’s “right to the tree of life…which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” (Revelation 22:14, 2),
  • and YHVH’s heavenly “city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.” (Revelation 21:23)

From the Science Council: “Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence…all scientists are united by their relentless curiosity and systematic approach to assuaging it.”

That sounds great, but is that an honest statement of all scientific investigation? As detailed in previous posts, a great deal of what is presented by some scientists is simply an Oppositional-Defiant Disorder response to the alternative explanation of a super-human High God authority.

“He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth…profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:” (I Timothy 6)

Not only is the Singularity the only infinite source of life – c2 -, but the Creator’s laws are natural laws: “A phenomenon of nature that has been proven to invariably occur whenever certain conditions exist or are met.” We understand this process in the material world physics that we can observe.

The essential problem with transgressing God’s laws is that these are not, as some people claim, legal restrictions or arbitrary rules established by certain cultures which change over timeas circumstances change. 

Can we not extrapolate that there are natural laws within social and spiritual domains that also cannot be broken without causing chaos and inevitable destruction?

“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (Matthew 7:9-10)

It’s easy to hate and destroy.  It takes real power to love and create new life. It’s easy to isolate from people and exploit them as subjects. It takes real power to engage in relationship and to transform fearful oppressed peoples into free and successful men and women through role modeling forgiveness, kindness, and support of their personal growth and development.

We can never achieve this level of social commitment in our own power.

L. Ron Hubbard, a science-fiction author, founded the Church of Scientology in 1954 with his textbook Dianetics.Claiming to offer a precise path leading to a complete and certain understanding of one’s true spiritual nature and one’s relationship to self, family, groups, Mankind, all life forms, the material universe, the spiritual universe and the Supreme Being”.

First claiming that its tenets are rooted in “all great religions” the church then contradicts itself by denying the value in those religions or the need for a Supreme Being by reassuring its followers that they are basically good, and “spiritual salvation depends upon himself freeing himself – through the aegis of the church – from crippling self-doubt. Based 100% on what a science-fiction author dreamed up, this religion is on the face of it, as well as by many insider accounts, a corrupt business benefitting from its non-profit religious status and run on a system of lies, threats, and punishment.

Regardless of the current pope’s popularity and announced good intentions, we can’t ignore the corruption within the Vatican throughout its history which has never been purged from its leadership, nor the essential sin nature in every human being.

Martin Luther is revered for setting the Protestant Reformation in motion. He also set a death sentence against any sect who broke away from his totalitarian leadership, and when the Jews refused to convert en masse to his religion, he became so violently opposed to Judaism that the Nazis quoted him to justify their actions.

The most egregious Humanism in religious is found in current American evangelical conservative Christians, who form the bedrock of President Trump’s Republican supporters who have been among his most high-profile surrogates and appointees.

The Trump administration has green-lit political endorsements from the pulpit and encouraged religion in the federal workplace. Trump has established faith-focused entities with numerous influential Christian appointees. He’s energized supporters with assaults on cultural and academic targets long seen as liberal bastions. His administration and his Supreme Court appointees have expanded areas for religious exemptions and expression in the public square.

“We’re bringing back religion in our country,” Trump contended at a Rose Garden event on the National Day of Prayer in May.

His faith adviser, pastor Paula White-Cain, proclaimed that in his administration, faith “has been brought back to where it always belongs, and that is center.” Details on this contemporary Jezebel in the relevant post.

Whichever flavor you choose, human-led Christianity is tainted.

And the Bible called it. Revelation chapters 2-3 documents the corruption that was already pronounced by 100 AD.

• thou hast left thy first love….But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
  •  “means “Victor of People”, a compound of νίκη nikē ‘victory’ and λαός laos ‘people’. The connotation is “people’s champion” or “conqueror of people”.” This can be understood as the rise of a dominating clergy over the laity, the opposite of Nico-demos, or “A victor among the people“, as in a demo-cracy.
• thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who [in pursuit of wealth] taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
• So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes [repeats repudiation of domination by leadership], which thing I hate.
• thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
• I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest [connected to the source of life], and art dead [disconnected from God].
• I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Regardless of our religious indoctrination, surely we can all agree that power corrupts. And as the multitude of competing denominations and spin-offs proves, the Bible can’t be equated with any one religious system.

There is only one primary document that has never been proven wrong, and has hundreds of prophecies over thousands of years that have been proven accurate, most of all, in the claim of, and pathway to, resurrection from mortality to eternal life.

So can we all drop the baggage of the Christianity we’ve come to know and despise for its hypocrisy and self-serving evil, and just focus on what the primary documents teach?

“But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord YHVH’s Chosen Savior / Yeshua Messiah / Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.” (I Corinthians 8:6)