Yet most American Christians and Jews lie about
Iraq, Islam, and themselves
by John
Kaminski skylax@comcast.net
5-30-4
The
Tibetan Book of the Dead (Evans-Wentz version) is one of my
favorite books. It describes how after death our souls pass
through a place called the bardo, and after reviewing every
event that has happened in our lives through conversations and
confrontations with apparitions called the Peaceful and
Wrathful Deities, we either evolve into pure light or choose
the time and place of our next reappearance on this physical
plane.
I am
not a believer in reincarnation. So it took me awhile to
realize that this ancient ritual prescription is more about
life than it is about death. We carry the memories of every
bad thing we've ever done in this life with us, and when we
die, these thoughtless transgressions are going to come back
to bother us. Which makes it a lot better to confront those
episodes long before we breathe our last. You know, beat the
rush! Make those last moments more comfortable, because when
you think about it, we really live our lives in order to have
our deaths be the best, most enlightening experience of our
lives. I mean, nobody has an utterly clean slate after very
many years of life, but having confronted one's own faults
prior to the moment of big sleep will at least make that last
closing of the eyes a lot more peaceful.
It was
in this vein I was chatting with a friend the other day about
the sundry forms of religion in the world, many of which seem
hateful skeletons of what a fully functional, compassionate
and healthful human being should be.
Of
course it was the vengeful, superficial brand of religion
espoused by the current U.S. president that set our tongues to
wagging. George W. Bush is fond of saying how he talks to God
every day, and God tells him which country to invade, which
innocent people to slaughter from the air with his high-tech
weaponry, and presumably, which multinational corporations
upon whom to bestow his ill-gotten gains.
Bush's
brand of religion is endorsed by a larger audience of American
evangelical Bible-thumpers, many of whom advocate the death
penalty for such human subgroups as homosexuals, peaceniks and
all those who don't accept the fire-and-brimstone version of
their Christian holy book.
In our
conversation, my friend, shaking her head at all these
punitive pronouncements so popular among those who seek to get
everyone else to believe the way they do, brought up Catholic
confession, and noted that at least Catholics are made to
verbally confess their sins on a regular basis to help keep
them living honest lives.
But as
far as the bizarre belief that some people, including
Catholics and George W. Bush (among millions of others), have
special insight as to what "God" really said, nothing these
days tops for sheer sickness the relationship between the Jews
of Israel and the evangelical Christians of the United States,
all of whom are collectively known as Zionists.
This
special relationship, which is behind what is perhaps the most
heartless and destructive political philosophy of all time
(the policy of pre-emptive war), links Jews and Christians in
a downright pathological bond in which the two pretend to be
philosophical allies while underneath the surface each is
working and praying for the utter destruction of the other
group.
The
Christian evangelicals support Israel because it fits their
fixated belief that their messiah will only return if Israel
is controlled by the Jews. However, when their messiah
returns, they believe he will destroy the entire Jewish
population, or at least those who don't instantly accept
Christ as their savior. The cynical Jews, on the other hand,
don't really care what the Zionist Christians think, because
they don't believe in Christ at all and are merely contented
by the political and financial support brought to them by a
group they consider subhuman, but politically important. This
is truly a match made in hell, the forging of a powerful
coalition of lunatics who together aim to turn the world into
a smoldering cinder merely to fulfill their own mutually
exclusive and insane desires.
So,
getting back to the conversation with my friend, she insisted
that some people, when push comes to shove, actually try to
lie to God, because their egos are so big, and their religion
is merely something they use a badge of social status and
acceptance. These people, she insisted, merely use the concept
of God for their own psychological aggrandizement, and because
they are willing to lie to God, they certainly are willing to
lie to their families, friends and everybody to achieve their
own selfish objectives.
I let
this percolate around in my mind for awhile, and then
vehemently (or as strenuously as you can be when you love
someone and disagree with them) objected to her
characterization that people, in their last moments of life,
would actually try to lie to God.
Maybe
it's because I've led a somewhat sheltered life. For instance,
I've never, like so many Iraqi and Palestinian families, had a
loved one shot to death by a soulless enemy right in front my
eyes. Or like a Hutu or a Tutsi, I've never seen one of my
children hacked to death by someone who can't explain why he's
doing what he's doing. Or, like an Afghani or a Serb, I've
never seen one of my children born with grotesque external
tumors on his face because someone had bombed my neighborhood
with poisonous radioactive ammunition. I've led a sheltered,
coddled, relatively affluent American life, for which I
constantly give thanks to God and many others for my good
luck.
But the
idea that, at the final moment of death, someone would
actually lie to God as they enter the infinite realm of dark
shadows is just beyond my comprehension. How could anyone,
faced with the freighted moment of their final departure from
this life, tell a lie to an all-encompassing being who knows
the truth about everything? What kind of delusional
indoctrination could make somebody attempt something so
ludicrously impossible?
Then I
began to re-examine all these hateful things that so-called
religious people are constantly saying. I have long held the
belief that the people you can trust least are religious
people, because they use their divine excuses to refute reason
in any and all situations. The current U.S. demolition of Iraq
provides a clear example. We are going to bomb these innocent
people into submission so they can have freedom. What is wrong
with this picture?
It is
high time for people of good conscience to ignore the dictates
of their so-called spiritual leaders and abandon their
churches, if they continue to preach divine retribution for
what is clearly a case of robbery and mass murder cloaked in
noble rhetoric.
And it
is time for all Americans to turn on their murderous
government and support freedom for the Iraqi people against
the shocking sexual perversions of the U.S. government. That’s
right — only perverts and moral criminals support what the
U.S. is doing in Iraq.
What is
right is right, and the U.S. attack on Iraq is clearly wrong —
immoral, inhumane, ignorant and against every single word a
truly just God would ever utter through those who pretend to
be his bewitched human interpreters.
The
same goes for Christian and Jewish pronouncements against
Islam. Muhammad wrote that worshippers of other religions
should be protected against discrimination, and their shrines
protected. That makes Islam morally superior to both
Christianity and Judaism, whose commonly held holy books (i.e,
the Old Testament) endlessly preach destruction, murder, and
robbery against all those who won’t accept their evil version
of ancient events.
To all
Christians, I say: how can you accept as your messiah a
cynical, figmented construct not verifiable in history who was
invented by a Jewish rabbi who changed his name from Saul to
Paul?
And to
all Jews I say: your God is Moloch, who values money and power
over compassion and respect. Anyone who thinks their subgroup
is supernaturally superior to all others is bound to be
destroyed by the resentful retribution of the masses. It’s
only a matter of time.
In this
respect, both Christians and Jews worship an evil God. All of
you will suffer eternal torment when you die for failure to
use both your brain and your heart to a minimal extent. If you
believe God put us here, it had to be for us to use our brains
and our hearts to protect and nurture this wonderful garden he
gave us to thrive in.
Getting
back to the subject of lying to God, I switch now to another
Book of the Dead, the Egyptian one, the actual title of which
is “The Book of Going Forth by Day,” for a much more
intelligent and functional description of what happens to you
when you die, and how you should really live your life (if you
need to be religious at all, and sooner or later, most of us
do).
When
you die, you go before the Goddess Ma’at and your soul is put
on a scale and weighed against the Feather of Truth. If your
unforgiven sins reveal that your soul is no heavier that that
single feather, then your soul is allowed to travel blissfully
through the Field of Reeds and across the River of Truth to
the Island of the Just, where it will repose in peace
forever.
But if
it is found to be heavier than the Feather of Truth, your soul
is fed to Thoth’s dog! (Think very big teeth.)
I’m
sure you will agree with me that in this sad day and age of
war and lies that the gurgling hordes of human souls on this
planet — those who believe you can lie to God by using the
hateful phrases of warped preachers who are far more
interested in property than propriety — are just so much
dogfood.
John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy
Report," a collection of his Internet essays published on
hundreds of websites around the world. In addition, he has
more recently written "The Day America Died: Why You Shouldn't
Believe the Official Story of What Happened on September 11,
2001," a 48-booklet written for those who still believe the
government's version of that say day. A second collection of
his essays, titled "The Perfect Enemy," will be published
later this summer. For more information, or to make a
contribution to his work, please visit http://www.johnkaminski.com
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