Issue date: 14 Feb. 2018 Rev. 25 Jun. 2018
Let us ask of ourselves:
What is the Big Elephant in the room of which we dare not speak unless we are in our own social grouping? “Religion!”
Why is this so? Yet it should not be like this if we are to strive to attain “The Absolute Truth” in whatever subject! If we were atheists, then we would not want to waste our time on speaking about such nonsense! If we are religious, then we are too scared to broach the subject to any person outside our ‘group think’ because so little tangible knowledge prevails – except disjointed concepts/myths that would only lead to unresolved controversy.
That is the problem with “Religion”, it is only “two dimensional”, that has no supportive depth into the third dimension, and it is something based upon uncorroborated hearsay, of a mythology invented by someone long ago. I state “hearsay” because nothing can be substantiated by question and answer, as would be required in a Court of Law,
and thus the content must be dismissed as “unproven” and most likely to be irrational or false! Because as we know only too well, there is so little “Absolute Truth” in The World regarding things “untestable”, but a mass of misinformation and lies, given in the attempt to “Control People” to do one’s bidding with minimal external effort!
Interestingly, leaders of “Religion” are too afraid to be comprehensibly questioned in depth about their (blind) faith, through many layers of “Why”, for fear their ‘faith’ should be exposed as “shallow” and thus “fraudulent”!
From today, I would like to throw down the gauntlet of a public challenge by “Strength of Argument” against The World’s most acclaimed and eminent scholars and theologians of all The Major Religions of The World in a similar ‘spirit’ as did Elijah to the prophets of Baal as recorded at 1Kings.18v16-40.
We must realise these religious leaders are intelligent people and thus cannot intrinsically believe what they state, but operate in a state of hypocrisy by using their education as a convenient rouse to gain a fleshly living by twisting the mind of deceived devotees to pay for “worldly services rendered”. This is repeated generation after generation.
I intend to show by “Strength of Argument” ‘once and for all time’ the separation between “Religion” and “The Word of God” (as contained in The Bible) that is regrettably never taught by leaders of Christendom.