THE HYPOCRISY of CHRISTIAN LOVE
Any true Christian knows love is the greatest commandment. Just as any good Muslim knows decapitating someone is reprehensible. To not know this would make you dysfunctional to your faith and a hypocrite.
The christian's bible tells them;
...you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these.
Leviticus 19:18 tells them
You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.
Now to hear those god fearing Christians screaming, hateful things, about same sex marriage and transsexualism. How can this be christian? I heard a woman protesting in a store, having sex neutral bathrooms, that transgender woman are an abomination. This is showing love for your neighbor? All this rhetoric from a gluttonous woman with 12 children out of wedlock, from different fathers, holding a bible professing her damnation for transgender people. The fact that people like her vote, is not the scary thing, but the fact that she is instilling her prejudice in to her children that is frightening.
The problem lies in the fact that Islam and Christianity only pose as religions. Their agenda is world domination under their dogmatic law. Make no mistake, if you are not willing they can become quite violent. The Christian crusades and early missionaries used violence for conversion, Islamic terrorist of today. This has nothing to do with a god. Like a cult their followers are duped, by the use of the word faith, to follow blindly. Followers do the bidding for their masters, under the name of the faith for a god invented by their leaders.
A true religion does not seek converts, people are drawn to it spiritually. Others may simply be born into it, but free to leave. Judaism, Paganism, Pantheism these religions do not seek to convert you to their spirituality. They do not push their beliefs on you, or try to base civil law on them.
It is important to remember that the three main monotheistic religions came for the same area in the Near East area. Christianity was born out of Judaism, because of difference in religious dogma, politics. The Formation of Islam begins with the setting, with the Near East and pre-Islamic Arabia, and with Judaism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Paganism. Whatever the precise contours of the relationship between Judaism and emergent Islam, it is certain that the new faith can only be understood against the background of Jewish messianism and, more broadly, of the religious turmoil which characterized the Near East at the end of late antiquity. So, to a non-religious person, Christianity and Judaism are closely related, but at war, and Islam came along later and hates them both. Can you believe they are still fighting this same war, which began roughly around 700 CE. Islam seems to be winning in the middle east and Christianity is getting a foothold in the US by infiltration the government. Islam is also sneaking in too, you are seeing more and more Muslims being elected to office as the population changes.
We do not need to ban religion. However, just like gun laws need to be revised. So does the test to qualify as a religion. Currently, According to US v. Ballard, the test of whether or not a set of beliefs is worthy of protection under the 1st Amendment is the of their belief. So, if you sincerely believe (and can somehow prove the sincerity of that belief), nearly anything you can come up with might be sufficient to meet this test.
This is all well and fine. However, once your religious organization start campaigning to change basic civil and human rights and laws, and influence decision makers to promote their dogma. It is time to reclassify them from a religion, to a lobbyist organization or political group. THEN! If we are stupid enough to elect them into power we get what we deserve. The Religious Freedom Referendum Act, is giving religion power of government. Government: same sex now legal. Christian Business: your law do not apply to me, because my god supersedes your law.
As pantheist minister, I feel that Islam and Christianity are a danger to humanity and freethinkers. By seeking converts they are nothing more than a cult. Most of Islamic and Christian rituals are centered around pagan feast. So during this turbulent political time. Be diligent when voting. Does the candidate have strong ties to religious groups? Do they have strong religious convictions? These will influence their decision when voting on laws, be sure they influence yours when you vote. We need to vote for the person that will protect us from religious dogma becoming the law of the land.