By Mark Aurelius
Three momentous words: cataclysm, catastrophe and apocalypse all in one title? How to deflate all this hyperbole (if it can be done)?
Well, at least this is not blatant statement about a nuclear war? Although there could be that as well buried within explosive realities.
Throughout recorded time, as we know, or so presume to know it, there has usually been a few minds throwing cynically-cold water on various ballyhooed or celebrated ideas of grandiosity throughout history (including those of a religious faith nature).
And especially thanks to history’s technologies of writing, recording, preserving (library collections), organizing (indexing), and making written records available to the public (via taxation and schools), people living today can reexamine some of histories past skeptics who have showered sobering sentiments into the indoctrinated fashions of their days.
This is especially true nowadays with more doors open more than ever with the Internet—even against an onslaught of censorship. So previously ostracized, censored or ignored voices can be re-examined.
One such historical figure, a man named Baruch Spinoza, who is now considered at least in our day, an intellectual giant. His ‘apostasy’ was monumental, and now thanks to more renewed interest in his wayward studies, at least by way of the Internet, many assumptions people still make about the meanings and histories of Judeo-Christianity can be re-examined and explained, sometimes with exceptional competence and clarity.
Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines apostasy: “an act of refusing to continue to follow, obey, or recognize a religious faith, 2 abandonment of a previous loyalty: defection” with this meaning equally reinforced by its etymological origin: “from Greek apostasia, “to defect,” literally “to stand off,” from apo “off, away from” + stanai “to set, place.” Or simply to stand against.
Additionally, but not surprisingly, we note there is all manner of “political apostasy” taking place these days against the U.S. Government on a number of issues, especially the backed genocide being carried out by Israel, as a morally nefarious plot against the indigenous Palestinians of the Levant (which does not mean enough apostasy has yet been manifested to higher catastrophic levels—but the momentum is in this direction).
Catastrophe is a word that traces “back 500 years to the1530s, “a reversal of what is expected” (especially a fatal turning point in a drama, the winding up of the plot), from Latin catastropha, from Greek katastrophē “an overturning; a sudden end,” from katastrephein “to overturn, turn down, trample on; to come to an end,” from kata “down + strephein “turn”.”
Etymonline.com (word origins)
Many around the world have been watching this genocide going on for two years, and it still continues, but now more parties are calling it out for what it obviously is, and rebelling. Such are these times of our history.
Is the West Turning Against Israel?
Via ForeignPolicy.Com (FP’s Ravi Agrawal spoke with Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF0ns0rjrqc
Twenty-Four US-Allied Nations Urge Israel To Lift All Restrictions on Aid Entering Gaza
“The humanitarian suffering in Gaza has reached unimaginable levels. Famine is unfolding before our eyes. Urgent action is needed now to halt and reverse starvation. Humanitarian space must be protected, and aid should never be politicized,” the statement reads.”
“ … US and Israeli officials have been denying that Israel is responsible for the starvation in Gaza, but a report published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Tuesday detailed how Israeli restrictions are responsible for the famine.”
Within previous essays of this series of articles entitled: Our World’s Cataclysmic Reality of an End Times Wrapped With-in Biblical Mythology (see listing at the end of this essay) we have reviewed what can rightly be called insane levels of “end times prophesies,” which not only allows Zionist Christians and Zionists alike to tolerate this deliberately engineered and ongoing genocide, but plenty such brainwashed persons are cheering it on (and/ or justifying it).
If you google “end times prophesies” you will find a plethora of paranoia-inducing videos, as anticipated hyper-fear-based punishment and tribulation scenarios which millions and millions of what are, on average, normal-intelligence peoples (who nevertheless have come to believe these Biblically prophesized futurist outcomes to be real).
There are entire genres of books, articles, sermons, videos, seminars, etc. on this apocalypse subject (and frankly some of its creators have made millions of dollars on this reality of biblical terrorism, including sleazy and corrupt preachers).
But of course, end-times religious paranoia is not restricted to our own days—it has been somewhat prevalent throughout the millennia, including and especially before the Age of the Enlightenment.
“The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was a European intellectual and philosophical movement that flourished primarily in the 18th century. Characterized by an emphasis on reason, empirical evidence, and scientific method, the Enlightenment promoted ideals of individual liberty, religious tolerance, progress, and natural rights. Its thinkers advocated for constitutional government, the separation of church and state, and the application of rational principles to social and political reform …”
Wikipedia
Whereas:
“Baruch (de) Spinoza (born 1632 – 21 died 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, who was born in the Dutch Republic. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture, establishing himself as one of the most important and radical philosophers of the early modern period …”
Wikipedia
To get an idea of how radical he was seen in his day, and how original he still becomes known in our own day, listen to this important video of recent vintage (and note that he, by himself, was a major enlightenment—but was treated like darkness and dirt):
SPINOZA DISCOVERED JESUS NEVER SPOKE OF A HEAVEN AFTER DEATH — AND WHAT HE REALLY PROMISED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRRNlrzNIM0
Imagine the implications of that title. After all the witch trials and various religious wars between one religious sect against another, and the corruption of some priests, bishops and the Vatican, such as the selling of indulgences were solidly outcomes of masses of people afraid of dying and going to either purgatory or hell (id. est., believing in an afterlife).
Surely anyone could make such a claim but when you learn how he studied various languages in order to study the earliest texts, plus his rigorous methodologies you can understand what a threat he was in his day—and of course equally today.
To claim Jesus did not preach an afterlife is equivalent to equating him into any number of spiritual but mortal gurus such as Siddhartha Gautama (most commonly referred to as the Buddha lit. ’the awakened one’) several centuries before his purported time. But then the entire life of Jesus Christ is controversial for many reasons including whether he actually lived at all.
But notice how very much Spinoza was formally and completely rejected both by his Jewish ancestry in the Netherlands and equally the Christian peoples of Europe during the 17ᵗʰ century! Social ostracism definitely took its toll—latitudes in diverse thinking were limited.
He was the very essence of our metaphor of a dragon breathing fire (truth) against a massive sea of religious delusions (introduced in the previous essay). Hence, he was treated as if he were evil (as he certainly was an intellectual threat).
Note: To those who question our metaphysical depiction of a dragon breathing fire to symbolize a physical flame burning lies, often excoriating against entire forests of elaborated lies (consider how dragons are depicted as evil in Western Christianized civilizations. Christian nations equate evil with snakes and reptilian creatures.
This is from the psychology of propaganda which is aware of the reality that primates, in general, are fearful of snakes.
*Google AI presents to this search: “Christianity depiction of dragons:
“Symbolism: In Christian art and literature, dragons are frequently used to represent sin, temptation, and the spiritual darkness that humanity must overcome. The slaying of a dragon by a saint, such as St. George, is a powerful symbol of faith and courage in the face of adversity.”
Mentioned in a previous essay is the argument that nowhere in the Bible is there any mention to a Bill of Rights for souls supposedly judged by God—no right to a fair trial, to cross examine witnesses, to habeas corpus, etc. It is simply assumed an all-powerful figure will be fair; but as we can learn about the real nature of the biblical God, we have every right to live with doubt.
The Bible is a top-down authoritarian document.
So, the message herein these series of essays is that it is necessary for a judging audience to get the other side of the story—and not to assume every form of religious doctrine or propaganda is automatically true, because as you can discover there is a good deal of distortion to be found even within religious literature—be it hyped as Gospel (God’s spell) or not.
Spinoza directly challenged religious dogma and was summarily smeared, rejected and considered evil—irrespective of any defense he could have mustered.
This is why cynics, doubters, and intellectuals of wayward bent deserve a fairer hearing in our own days—be it apostasy against church or state (including governments who think and act as if they are God).
As mentioned, Spinoza studied several languages: Latin, Greek and Aramaic to get to the core originally meanings of the Aramaic writings of the early New Testament (to compare and contrast translations) in order to study Jesus ‘purported’ statements in his original language (at least as claimed on paper). How many of his detractors cared about his scholarship or dedication to veracity?
He was desecrated, excoriated, and thrown dead to the dogs, metaphorically, as society en large, condemned his scholarship and equally his personhood. C’est la vie. This is how truth-tellers are too often treated!
Do you remember what happened to Representative James Traficant when he claimed Congress was subservient to Jewish power?
James Traficant Predicts Your Future
https://odysee.com/@RBD3:d/James-Traficant-Predicts-Your-Future:1
Since when has the Jewish dominated Western media ever given a critic of Israel a fair hearing? It does not happen.
He was dealt with accordingly—that is to say—underhandedly, with bogus charges brought against him to spend time in prison and later found mysteriously dead under a tractor.
Look at the bogus or highly exaggerated charges being brought up against International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan:
Former ICC judges criticize handling of sexual misconduct investigation into chief prosecutor
“According to reports, the timing of sexual misconduct allegations against Khan raised concerns over attempts to undermine the ICC’s work. Particularly, the report claims that, as Khan prepared arrest warrants for Israeli officials, sexual harassment complaints against him surfaced and later became public.”
The same kind of smear tactics are equally being used against truth breathers like Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, by both the U.S. Government as well as the Israeli Government.
Remember the word spirit comes to us from Latin spiritus meaning to breathe. To breathe the truth in a world saturated by lies or myths is to be attacked by those trying to preserve the status quo of deceit. Such forms of spirituality are not wanted—and the last thing you will witness is a fair trial!
Now in our modern age of “apocalyptic Christianity,” that is the insanity levels of the millions and millions of Bible thumpers egging on what may very well turn into another World War in the Middle East, and equally “Manchurian candidates” now residing in high political places, like U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, many more vintage videos are coming out to challenge thousands of years of religious dogma and fear-mongering (including the fear-based forms of religious terrorism).
*Google AI Overview:
“Apocalyptic Christianity refers to a branch of Christian thought and practice that emphasizes the belief in an imminent and dramatic end of the world, often associated with the return of Christ and a final judgment. It’s characterized by a focus on apocalyptic themes, such as the symbolism of the Book of Revelation, and the belief that God will intervene in history to establish his kingdom and end evil.” [More specifics can be found at Google AI’s breakdown.]
Whereas:
*Google AI Overview:
“political definition manchurian candidate:
“In a political context, the term “Manchurian Candidate” refers to a person, especially a political figure, who is acting as a puppet or controlled agent, often unknowingly, by an enemy power or hostile entity. The term suggests disloyalty or corruption, regardless of whether the individual is intentionally or unintentionally serving the interests of the controlling entity.
Several of Donald Trump’s supposed selections to fill his cabinet are essentially operating as Manchurian candidates—only rather than taking direction strictly from a foreign nation, they are more of less doing so because of their minds are under the control of religious assumptions and beliefs—Mike Huckabee and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are veritable examples (as there are several more).]
Palestinian Pastor: Huckabee Shows the Danger of Mixing Theology and Politics | Opinion
“Over the years, Mr. Huckabee has denied the existence of the Palestinian people, calling them “a political tool to try and force land away from Israel.” He has rejected the concepts of occupation and settlements, dismissed the legitimacy of Palestinian statehood and once declared, “There’s really no such thing as a Palestinian.” In another instance, he said, “There is no such thing as a West Bank—it’s Judea and Samaria,” a reference to the Biblical names favored by the Israeli Right.”
“These are not the words of a diplomat. They reflect a disregard for international law and global consensus—including UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 2334, which affirm the inadmissibility of territorial acquisition by war and declare Israeli settlements a flagrant violation of international law.”
“What undergirds Mr. Huckabee’s statements is a strain of Christian Zionism rooted in a 19ᵗʰ-century end-times framework known as dispensationalism—a belief system that interprets modern events in Israel as signs of the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies.”
How could such an appointment to such an important political position be viewed with anything but suspicion that the American White House is not compromised?
Meanwhile, ironically, we find:
Mike Huckabee Calls Ocasio-Cortez ‘Manchurian Candidate’ Communist Recruit on ‘Fox & Friends’
How molten hot does the pot have to be before it calls the kettle black? Going back to the *Google AI definition we covered above we also note:
“ … Over time, “Manchurian Candidate” evolved beyond the specific context of brainwashing and communism to broadly describe any figure perceived to be under the undue influence of an opposing power or ideology, undermining their country or party’s interests. The term is typically used in political discourse and carries a strong negative connotation, implying treason or corruption.
Guaranteed, religions can, and do, brainwash people, especially when they manipulate fear, and once naïve victims are brain-washed they may be vulnerable to act against their own or others’ best interests (which is what is happening gob-smacked, hands down and hog-tied).
Note: In no way is this essay, or series of essays, meant to insinuate, or flatly declare, that religions or spirituality, per se, are invariably evil or not important to mankind. Practically all societies have had some notion of religious systems of belief throughout history. Stephen Asma wrote a book called Why We Need Religion as have others. However, what this treatise equally claims, and vociferously declares, is that all people, that is all souls, have a right and a duty to judge religious messaging, on the individual basis within their own sense of conscientiousness, and equally to decide, as humans that we are, if certain religious messages attributed to supreme beings may seem to be, or seem not to be sacred—regardless to whether they are so claimed to be by voices or authority. And moreover, despite the fact that Abrahamic religions currently dominate this world, at least by population over the last millennia, this does not mean they are beyond being questioned.]
Why We Need Religion
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Need-Religion-Stephen-Asma/dp/0190469676
“No theorist of religion has failed to notice the importance of emotions in spiritual and ritual life, but truly systematic research has only recently delivered concrete data on the neurology, psychology, and anthropology of the emotional systems. This very recent “affective turn” has begun to map out a powerful territory of embodied cognition.”
Amazon.com part of book description.
Consider, now for a moment, how much literature has evolved on religion over the last three or four thousand years of history. There are likely millions of books on various subjects of religion—touching on almost every conceivable aspect—which is not to argue some of the saner or trust-worthy schools of thought have won out.
So of course, this would also include books that argue only fools think a life of pure atheism is ideal. In this modern age there are many voices disparaging religion, in general, on many fronts—presuming rational people prefer atheism to any form of faith (which actually seems somewhat naïve).
But what is clear is that atheists can lead a moral life, and in some cases even a life more moral than many who claim to believe in any one of various sects of religious doctrine which claim religious morality.
Yet it is equally true in this modern age, statistically, that people who tend to be more atheist tend not to continue to procreate as much as more traditionally religious peoples do. This is understandable since they have no blind faith in supernatural forces solving many of humankind’s numerous dilemmas and catastrophic threats.
Regardless, religions will likely continue to exist for a very long time, which does not mean they cannot be challenged or allowed to evolve to change. Rather it seems imperative they do—given many of today’s more rational analysis on what the Abrahamic religions portent.
It is clearly essential that a healthy society allows for a great deal of research and variation of opinion on such important topics as religion and faith (no matter how controversial and heretical).
And frankly heresy has too always been part of the mankind’s history of religion.
For example, there could be, arguably, a God that no mortal could even begin to understand (or claim to take notes from messenger angels). Maybe all the voices who have claimed to speak for God or claimed to talk with God directly are essentially frauds? This still does not mean there is no noun or verb someone could designate as a supreme God.
Such a realization at least has some humility.
Such a sentiment can be found in the esoteric writing of monk Thomas Merton, in his book New Seeds of Contemplation who equally wrote in ways that had some adroit methodology in meditating on God, along with paradoxes of taking much of the dogma of Catholicism for granted.
Surely a higher power who cannot be understood is distant from the human and mortal mind, still such a reality is still possible—without all the baggage of doctrine and dogma (especially without the oppressively totalitarian kind of Judeo-Christianity).
Still some people argue, moreover, it is only a matter of time when humans who claim to be atheist will then think and act as if they alone are the highest thing we humans will ever know to gods, and therefore, the fear, ‘some’ will proceed to do all manner of immoral acts with expectations of impunity (like Mafioso’s and various criminal cartels). But of course, this has always been part of human history for thousands of years.
One can only guess as to how many Catholic Popes and Bishops were in fact atheists in their core. And frankly why did not Niccole Machiavelli not do more analysis on religious politics—especially given he was Italian of Roman Catholicism?
Thomas Hobbes had more to say on this subject but we should not lose sight of the reality that religion is ultimately its own form of politics and psychology with many overlaps of analogy to politics (as discussed in these essays). And moreover, this form of politics, dressed up as religion absolutism, can be the equivalent of “absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Whereas, the real history of Communism is one such imminent example of some atheists engaging in mass murder as immoral brutality. Wikipedia even has an entry entitled:
Mass killings under communist regimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes
Note as well, some people who claim to believe in a particular religion or ethnicity do so primarily as becoming a beneficiary to more easily leading a life of unethical activity and exploitation. Immorality hides with all manner of disguises.
Any claims of religious doctrine should be scrutinized for what seems to reflect real ethical sensibilities.
For example, one really does not need to believe in, say, various texts or schools of Judaism, or even a sense of the supernatural, but being a member of some sects or circles, irrespective of personal beliefs, potentially allows that individual to gain access to more ‘worldly’ power, as to circulate in circles of community that protect their collective well-being and interests.
As stated in the previous essay, Judaism is actually heavily focused on provided for the material well-being of Jewish peoples, going so far as to supposedly ‘guarantee’ a promised land for eternity. Morality is a distant priority in the Pentateuch—which is why some people are in fact “anti-Torah-ist because it claims their God espouses genocide of the other Canaanite peoples.”
Further, it very much seems the current out-crying of disparaging of Zionism versus traditional Judaism is hardly the black and white categorization, morally, some want to presume. The god(s) of the Old Testament have wicked decrees regardless as to whether they are camped into the labels Zionism or Torahism.
And we well know there are a lot of Jews who are technically atheist and yet still espouse Zionist goals—even the more repressive and racist.
Nevertheless, how much easily might it be to get access to connected friends, wealthy sponsors, and financial loans on low credit, or access to business partners if one happens to claim a Jewish identity (irrespective if based on religious belief or ethnicity)?
Religions can be a cover for a host of worldly realities—just as can all manner of secret societies like the free masons, or those who supposedly dabble in the so-called Kabbalah arts and other over-rated Magi-magics or sleights-of-hand symbols, numerologies and assortment of secret handshakes, etc., mostly meant to confuse and confound.
Don’t misunderstand: secret societies do in fact exist and act as powerful agents of action. You have secret societies that act as cabals of criminality, secret intelligence agencies, and various other corporate behemoths of secret enterprise. It is just that some of the elaborate rituals, learning of esoteric texts and doctrines of secret could be mostly composed of horse-drit (as far as meaning and efficacy goes).
Whereas, checkout “The Mega Group” (where you do not need to have any special knowledge save your willingness to put Zionist goals as a priority.
https://littlesis.org/oligrapher/7921-the-mega-group
Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad: The Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal
https://mintpressnews.cn/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/
“While Part I and Part II of this series, “The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,” have focused on the widespread nature of sexual blackmail operations in recent American history and their ties to the heights of American political power and the U.S. intelligence community, one key aspect of Epstein’s own sex-trafficking and blackmail operation that warrants examination is Epstein’s ties to Israeli intelligence and his ties to the “informal” pro-Israel philanthropist faction known as “the Mega Group.”
It is only when Western societies are capable of cynically and skeptically analyzing the false and the fake within religious traditions will they be able to choose for themselves what will be guides for their moral compasses.
Do not be afraid to intellectually and skeptically analyze religious claims no matter how old historically, or how touted and vaunted they seem, or how entrenched they have been in any given society or the world at large.
Today it seems paramount to the survival of human life to incorporate far more scrutiny on religious influence than ever before, as the stakes of religious politics overwhelms the planet.
The world needs free thinkers more than ever (and they are showing up with real worldly analysis) but not so much from traditional colleges of theology, politics, psychology, etc., or not so much from professions and non-profit organizations like the many dedicated to secular humanism but rather from solo intellectuals and amateurs who are self-taught but highly insightful.
Stoicism philosophy puts emphasis on individuality and independence—not following the herd. You do not be afraid to think and feel independently. You have a right and a duty to come to your own conclusions on all important matters.
Why Isolation Is Power: The Stoic Perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW1TiUlTjVk
The following video has a rather blatant title that seems more propagandistic than balanced, but actually it is a well-argued, well-articulated, well-thought out video. This is a perfect example of how religious superstition is being competently, morally, and eloquently challenged—and therefore real seekers of truth should not fear it or shun it because it judges some ‘purported’ messages of God as evil (id. est., fear is heavily used in Judeo-Christianity as a manipulative tool and it is time people realize it—especially fools like Mike Huckabee):
Why the God of the Bible is Evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z3kC_V2PNU
Today, even coming into fruition in just the last weeks and months, there are many such videos challenging past historical religious beliefs (many worthy and interesting).
We actually live in a ‘renaissance’ of new ideas, and equally older ideas are being dusted off, like those of Baruch Spinoza, fermenting and challenging the past religious status quo, just as he attempted in his past time.
Therefore, to refute the legitimacy of Judaism or Christianity is not the same as refuting religion and the supernatural in general—no matter how many hundreds of millions of people believe that only the God of the Bible is a legitimate form of religious and belief and worship (besides there are so many contradictions within various sects of Christianity and Judaism).
[Note: few comments and criticisms are made here regarding Islam because this author is not acquainted with that religion.]
Many videos can be found on Spinoza alone on the Internet—worthy of real insight into how we could be thinking about religion today as plenty of questions are eternal. For example, many more Rabbis too could have been more scholarly open to his influence over the decades.
Especially today it is important people, with all the Zionist dogma dominating the politics of the Middle East, and ongoing wars, and rumors of wars, peoples world-wide are thinking about religion, hopefully in broad and new ways—if not outright revolutionary ways!
Lots of alternative analyses come to some pretty sound conclusions that can be found of the Internet such as at Youtube.com. Our world needs more people to explore these alternative insights.
And granted, some of their short titles introducing such podcasts are rather blatant and seemingly insulting, yet when you listen to plenty of them, they are based on sound logic, high levels of articulated analysis and persuasive commentary. Here is two videos:
How Religion is Destroying our Civilization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYlZMSwyz2M
The Brainwashing Tactics Used by All Religions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVa–SKhJ2s
Frankly these intelligent analyses the world could have widely known for centuries already.
Rather religions have been a protected from scrutiny for much of the world’s population—not getting the kind of rational, serious, no-holds-barred analysis they actually deserve. Has not the world had enough religious wars?
Today, given how much modern politics is directly affected by religious dogma there is no other option but for courageous peoples to take on these mystical ‘spells’ that have such power in keeping people from understanding truths that need awakening.
If it has not been mentioned in earlier essays, it is essential to re-iterate the real meaning of what it means by a person being ‘possessed,’ such as commonly referred to in the Western world and being “demonically possessed.” And you do not need to be some trained exorcist to comprehend this—because it is simple.
To be possessed simply means to believe in ideas that you have been fed that are not true. But because you think they are true you act under their spell (if you will). And, moreover, such consequences could have bad outcomes (similar to the idea of people operating as Manchurian candidates).
That explanation is pretty simple. And frankly it is true—regardless as to whether you believe in supernatural entities or not. And it is hardly just about religious belief.
For example, many on the left still believe that the 2020 election was ‘not’ stolen from Trump (but it was regardless of whether you like the guy), as they equally believe the Russian government had significant influence in the 2016 election (they did not—Hilary Clinton could not even fill a high-school basketball court with fans whereas Trump had huge packed stadiums everywhere).
Just because Donald Trump and Republicans are capable of deceit and cheating does not mean every accusation against him or them is true. So frankly it is truly astonishing how brainwashed and naïve are many on the left to not understand how truly corrupt is the Democratic Party (and has been for a long time). And yes, the Republican Party is too corrupt which is why Americans need to abandon both parties.
We digress. But it needed to be stated. It is nauseating listening to corrupt democrats lecturing corrupt republicans.
Not all religion needs to be shunned because some of it seems to be corrupted. But surely you too have met people who simply seem hate any idea of God or religion and will not give religion credit for anything positive. They will not listen to any arguments on the subject. They are closed minded and frankly, it seems, naïve.
One problem why this is, is that to them, Judeo-Christianity represents the end-all-and-be-all meanings of religion and the supernatural, and frankly it left a bad taste in their mouths. So now they don’t want to consider any other notions of spiritual growth or exotic notions of what cannot be proven in the here and now. Yet often these people do not come across as especially happy or content. Rather they are sour and closed-minded. C’est la vie (such is life).
One problem why this is, is that to them, Judeo-Christianity represents the end-all-and-be-all meanings of religion and the supernatural, and frankly it left a bad taste in their mouths. So now they don’t want to consider any other notions of spiritual growth or exotic notions of what cannot be proven in the here and now. Yet often these people do not come across as especially happy or content. Rather they are sour and closed-minded. C’est la vie (such is life).
There are new possibilities for humanity to discover and new religious sensibilities and values (or to re-examine old ideas with fresh eyes).
It is foolish to think ancient history and ancient societies will continue to be the best sources of inspiration for spiritual growth and value systems. No one, no part of the world, and no age has a monopoly on religious faith and the Supernatural.
Any frankly no part of the planet is any less holy than the land of Levant. It is all, arguably, God’s kingdom.
Meanwhile, common people of the world need to continue to confront powerful institutions and professions of this planet, and ask why they are tolerating all the wars, killing and a genocide in broad daylight, based primarily on questionable and frankly shady religious belief systems. The idea that Caucasian Ashkenazi Jews have some “divine right” to any plot of land anywhere on the planet is ludicrous.
Despite the Trump administration’s goals, people who work as mental health professional do not need to focus on the mental health of school age children or the homeless (although having so many kicked out of intuitions in the 1970s was not so wise) nearly as much as they need to focus on the brainwashed zealots who work for the American government and are driving apocalyptic delusions.
Why do we have so many religiously crazy zealots and corrupt individuals running the American government and working in Donald Trump’s White House? Some of these people need to be impeached because they are not altogether sane or trustworthy.
Can we hear an Amen?
Amen.
The End.
P.S. Israel, you are coming down your mountain, you and your Yahweh. Amen.
This essay above will also be Part XI of:
Our World’s Cataclysmic Reality of an End Times Wrapped With-in Biblical Mythology:
By a Mortal Man
Part I
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=233424
Part II
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=233965
Part 3
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=235928
Part IV
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=240794
Part V
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=244700
Part VI
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=246993
Part VII:
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=257749
Part VIII:
https://stateofthenation.info/?p=5034
Part IX:
https://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2025/07/10/2025-n-the-reclamation-of#more60159
Part X
https://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2025/07/30/one-more-critical-essay-on-1#more60267
People who want to know what is ‘really’ going on, with some important commentary they need to plug into people or websites like:
JudgeNap.Com (interviews with honest very competent experts—opposite of Trump’s advisors: Colonial Douglas McGregor, Lawrence Wilkerson, John Mearsheimer, Scott Ritter, Alastair Crooke, Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern, Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal, Jeffery Sachs, Phil Giraldi, Charles Freeman, Karen Kwiatkowski, Tony Shafer, Matt Hoh, etc., all important voices★)
TheYoungTurks.Com
www.youtube.com/@OwenJonesTalks
TheLastAmericanVagabond.Com
The Unz Review at www.Unz.com
www.youtube.com/user/GlennGreenwald
TheIntercept.com
https://www.dropsitenews.com/
ThePeoplesVoice.Org
Double Down News (YouTube)
www.youtube.com/@KimIversenAntiWar.Com
Caitlin Johnstone
George Galloway
Mondoweiss.net
Candace Owens
ElectronicIntifada.net
StateoftheNation.info
MiddleEastEye.Com
Zachery Foster Palestine Nexus
DemocracyNow.Org
Chris Hedges
Norman Finkelstein
Whitney Webb
Paul Craig Roberts
John Whitehead at Rutherford Institute
The Jimmy Dore Show
CJ Werleman at youtube
KernoDamo
youtube.com/SabbySabs
Marianne Williamson
blackstoneintel@substack.com
simplicius76.substack.com
Sorry I’m missing some. There are, of course, more out there!
No “aggregator websites” are mentioned above because they tend to list a mishmash of sources, some great and some suspicious, but overall still worth checking out with some wariness. Although a lot of important stories hard to find elsewhere they also list some pseudo-truth links, you know the divide and conquer party politics, or red herring sideliners, or click bait, but along with plenty of real and important news.
Try Jim Fetzer at RepublicanBroadcastingNetwork.com, Rense.com, StateoftheNation.Info and WhatReallyHappened.Com (currently they do not much list my work but you can find ‘some’ really important and worthy sources there as well.)
If you tap into several of the above sources you will most likely get far more accurate information and discussion about true news than many other sources out there (especially the mainstream media too many still trust).
Added important links:
Owen Jones accuses Western governments and media of masking complicity with “hand-wringing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXK52eGyGGM
Katie Halper HUMILIATES Marco Rubio Over Wounded Child Visa Ban | Useful Idiots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2dTvtnQCv0
Jeffrey Sachs BREAKS DOWN Trump Zelensky ‘PEACE’ Summit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0IgICec6RE
‘This Isn’t a Presidency, It’s a One-Man Circus’: Sachs Tears Into Trump’s Trade War