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The tooth fairy is good business, Santa Claus much better because it sets people into a buying frenzy, but religion is the best business in the world. It promises eternal life after you die. It collects a 10% tithe (tax on stupidity), plus the offerings (tip for the brainwashers), and it pays no taxes. Good luck trying to get a refund.
Religion is much better than politics at starting and maintaining wars because you don’t have to prove results. If it goes well, it’s because god has answered the prayers of the winners. The losers will always blame the devil or blame themselves for god not supporting them. Religion is also perfect nonsense for feeble, immature minds because it provides answers for every thing. Who created trees? God (there goes all a religious mind needs to know about botany. Who created the Universe? God (there goes all you need to know about astronomy). It’s perfect!
Religion like all good businesses has created a need, but unlike other businesses, it has created an insatiable need. Therefore, the customers are mostly forever. Religion picked an inexorable necessity and turned it into a punishment to be feared. Death is an inexorable necessity of life. Religion convinced people that death was a horrible thing from which people needed protection. Religion made sure that people had every reason to fear death by killing people in horrible ways. The inquisition killed all those that opposed Christianity by burning them alive, drowning them, stretching them on the “rack”, etc. Judaism and Islam stoned people to death while buried up to their necks.
People were forced to obey, not believe. Part of that obedience was to bring their children to the religious leaders for brainwashing services. Once the children were brainwashed, the chain was easy to continue. The first followers were forced to follow by threat and intimidation, not reason and logic. In democratic countries, religions mask the beliefs with pretend logic to maintain the followers who they currently have. The religious rhetoric is directed to believers because no atheist would ever become a believer. Religions try hard to maintain their followers and to steal believers from other religions.
The best way to stop believing is to learn every word of the Bible. It has so many contradictions and inconsistencies that studying it well would be enough to convince any rational mind that the Bible is a nonsensical book. If that is not enough, study how Jerome developed the first Bible called Vulgata (Vulgate in English). You’ll be convinced by then, but if fear stops you from believing, or you are extremely stubborn, look for historical support for any of the Biblical assertions and stories. If you are not cured by then, you certainly deserve to be a believer!
The tooth fairy is good business, Santa Claus much better because it sets people into a buying frenzy, but religion is the best business in the world. It promises eternal life after you die. It collects a 10% tithe (tax on stupidity), plus the offerings (tip for the brainwashers), and it pays no taxes. Good luck trying to get a refund.
Religion is much better than politics at starting and maintaining wars because you don’t have to prove results. If it goes well, it’s because god has answered the prayers of the winners. The losers will always blame the devil or blame themselves for god not supporting them. Religion is also perfect nonsense for feeble, immature minds because it provides answers for every thing. Who created trees? God (there goes all a religious mind needs to know about botany. Who created the Universe? God (there goes all you need to know about astronomy). It’s perfect!
Religion like all good businesses has created a need, but unlike other businesses, it has created an insatiable need. Therefore, the customers are mostly forever. Religion picked an inexorable necessity and turned it into a punishment to be feared. Death is an inexorable necessity of life. Religion convinced people that death was a horrible thing from which people needed protection. Religion made sure that people had every reason to fear death by killing people in horrible ways. The inquisition killed all those that opposed Christianity by burning them alive, drowning them, stretching them on the “rack”, etc. Judaism and Islam stoned people to death while buried up to their necks.
People were forced to obey, not believe. Part of that obedience was to bring their children to the religious leaders for brainwashing services. Once the children were brainwashed, the chain was easy to continue. The first followers were forced to follow by threat and intimidation, not reason and logic. In democratic countries, religions mask the beliefs with pretend logic to maintain the followers who they currently have. The religious rhetoric is directed to believers because no atheist would ever become a believer. Religions try hard to maintain their followers and to steal believers from other religions.
The best way to stop believing is to learn every word of the Bible. It has so many contradictions and inconsistencies that studying it well would be enough to convince any rational mind that the Bible is a nonsensical book. If that is not enough, study how Jerome developed the first Bible called Vulgata (Vulgate in English). You’ll be convinced by then, but if fear stops you from believing, or you are extremely stubborn, look for historical support for any of the Biblical assertions and stories. If you are not cured by then, you certainly deserve to be a believer!
