Seek the Truth

Submitted by Another Man (United States), May 30, 2007 at 01:39

With all due respect for all religion I must say that after living over 50 years on this planet I have realized that teaching youth things which I know not to be true places one in a life of forever justification of the act. I believe most of us were born into religion and never really believed the nice stories to incourage us to be good as the stories did not ring true. They were full of holes and as I grew older and wiser they became an insult to my own intellegence. For whole nations to base their decisions on religious pretense is an insane act in the 21st century. We know too much about life the "quantum theory" and our individual sence of justice and morality to believe any power is more divine then ourselves. We all have the capability to love and exchange fairly and each as an individual could do our Manly duties, take care of our wife and raise our family without engaging in the conflicts and power struggles of bullies and their cowards who follow in fear. Everything good on this planet has been exploited by those with their devine messages from their "gods" and have gathered the weak minded into groups and promised protection from made up evils to fight for a cause and promised futures of life in delusions of grandure in heavens so reduciluously strewn with plasures and fantisies that only a fool would follow.

Mohammad was no exception, and his holy wars and promises are no different than the Christians heaven and hell. I have not seen any of these heavens, hells, or rivers of honey and milk and would not follow any leader who is not present to account for his statements and promises. The jihad and crusades are not based on any truth I have seen but are mearly an excuse to leave the duties and responsibilities of a Man and a Woman to create a future for their family and run off and shuck their true responsibilities.

A real Man walks his own path and is not led into promise lands by carrots before his nose. Make your own way and walk your own road to truth that you really know and do not suck yourself into blind faith of greedy leaders, polititions and slave masters. Love is about giving not taking and greed. A real Man understands this and does not need a "god" to prop him up. All of the wars and power struggles are fought by bullies and cowards who cannot stand alone as real Men but need to suck power off of a group. My comment on jihad and crusades is "grow up" and take care of your immediate family and quit running off in search of prostitutes and heavens. You may even find your real self respect as a Man or Woman instead of looking for a pat on the back from "Lord God and company".

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