At some point, humanity has to stop looking to the past to direct the future. At some point, humanity will have to accept that the only one to blame, or to hail up, is ourselves. Not to say each other, but each one look inside him/her self for both guidance and judgment. Even the Bible says that God made Man in a Divine image, and in doing so choose to respect Man as a sovereign Being. Man is the only naked being, no fur, no armour or scales, just soft flesh and patches of hair over the most delicate parts. Furthermore, when Man decided to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, great God did not undo Man, God gave Man free will. The ability to choose to govern him/her self or to allow God to stear his/her "ship". God sent Man into the wilderness to scratch out a life for him/her self and gave Man the abitlity to reproduce on his/her own accord. But while doing so told Man that life outside of Paradise was a hard thing, child bearing was a painful thing and that what is born must also die.
Man came to realize that he/she could seperate him/her self from God and in this way explore infinate possibilities. But eventually came to miss God's guidance, reasurace and love. So Man began to reach out to Almighty God through religion and the like, began to compose songs and prayers, dances and ceremonies in an effort to reconnect with Paradise. They sought out the rightious, those who choose to let God lead them. These people were called gods/goddesses, priests/priestesses, prophets, healers, Magi, magicians, witches/warlocks, and eventually chieftains, kings, queens, pharos, emperors/empresses, czars, prime ministers, presidents and the like. And the most "holy" were called angels and saints.
People began to follow and worship these deities, sometimes even forsaking the one true God. They likened these people to animals, elements, plants and ideas. But the masses never found great and almighty God.
Then came along a man called Jesus. He lived and died, and in many ways failed. Why did he fail, you may wonder? He failed because a group of wealthy and powerful men used his sacrifice to control the less fortunate, the downtrodded, the ignorant and the poor. They created a religion based (loosely) on his life that promised salvation to anyone who had faith in the fable, but they only allowed those who had been indoctrinated to read and interperate the story. This helped to keep the general population illiterate and docile. It caused them to believe that their savior wanted them to be sheep, to be good slaves, to be led to the slaughter with the promise of a blessed afterlife.
Then one day a man named King James decided that it was time to let the people read the word for themselves because the Church had far too much power and it was causing him to have less than he wanted. So he had the Bible dumbed down and edited for content. He made sure that any refrences to the power of femininity were removed, and he either watered down or removed completly any refrences to the Spirit within and the equality amongst humanity. Then he had the translation encoded so that even if you spoke the language you would need a higher level of education to interpret anything but the most basic concepts. In this way he increased his own power amongst the people and diminished that of the Church by giving the general population the ability to read the Holy Book for themselves, without actually granting them the power to decipher the message of Christ.
This "King James Version" quickly became the standard, it was used to enslave peoples all around the world, from Africa to South America, from Ireland to Australia. Wherever indigenous people praised a "pagan" God and lived on land rich in natural resources, Europe sent missionaries. Once these missionaries had established themselves, clothed the naked and feed the hungry, Europe sent in bounty hunters, vigilanties, thugs and militia to destroy sacred sites and family values. They kidnapped or killed the men, raped and beat the women and killed or "adopted" the children. All the while leaving missionaries to establish refugee camps and sancuaries inside schools and churches.
They spread their message of a vengful, jealous God who must be worshiped and appeased forsaking all others. They spread fear and guilt throughout the "uncivilized" world. They told horror stories of fire and brimstone that would burn sinner's flesh for eternity. While erradicating the respect and reverance for nature present in every single indigenous culture everywhere around the globe. This dual brain washing allowed these power hungry Europeans to steal land and resources from their rightful occupiers with little to no opposition, they dug holes in the earth and stole her riches. They polluted the waters and the skies. They burned or cut down her trees and bushes so that they could build their dwelings outside of any kind of natural order. They even domesticated certain animals so that they could enslave and slaughter them at will. They created energy sources to extend the daylight hours, travel great distances in a fraction of the time it took to walk or ride a camel or horse, they created heat when it was too cold and cool air where it was too hot. They disrespected every single law of nature in the name of technology, civilization and most of all progress.
Many other peoples, fearing a complete takeover, hurried to catch up to these Europeans, without any knowledge of the true consequences. They believed the worst consequence was the loss of tradition, they had little to no idea of the effects that polution would have on the environment or on people themselves. They did, however, realize that a great wealth could be made by selling their natural resources to Europeans, who (by the way) would steal whatever would not be sold (at a fraction of it's worth) or wage war on any persons who refused "civilization".
And so here and now, we are discovering the truth. The KJV Bible is propaganda, the Bible itself is copied from all the other holy texts of the anchient world. Science is beginning to find God, through DNA and quantum mechanics. And the Earth is alive and does not tolerate disrespect of nature.
Once humanity discovers that there is no seperation between God and Man, then (and only then) we can evolve into our true potential. Give love and you will recieve love in return. Judge only yourself. Power is an illusion, it is only a substitute for energy. Energy is everywhere, in every thing and everybody, you cannot create it or destroy it, you cannot explain it or control it but if you abide by it rules and regulations you can use it, collect/gather it, harness it and with focus, dedication and respect you can eventually become it. This is enlightenment. This is ascention. This is the path to becoming the Christ, rather than following in the shadow of Christ's great light.
What you do to the Earth, you do to yourself. When you upset the delicate balance of nature you lower you own chances of survival. You ARE nature, you are not a seperate being who lives amongst nature, you are a part of nature. You are made up of the same elements, you have the same heart beat/rhythm, and you were created by the same God, there is no difference between you and the ocean or the sun or a bird or a butterfly. If you look at Earth from the Moon you don't see nature and humans, you see one planet, just as when you see the Moon from Earth.
It is not some choice that you get to make as a superior being who can decide the fate of the world, it is a choice that must be made if one wishes to not go extinct. It doesn't matter who Jesus was/is, who Haile Selassie I is/was or for that matter when/if Jesus will come again, it only matters what you do every moment of every day. In the end the only thing that will ever matter is if you can forgive yourself for the life you lead/lived, and if you can live with your own actions. Eternity is a long time to be alone if you don't like yourself, and nothing is worse that having nothing but your own thoughts to comfort you in the naked abyss. I don't care what you choose to believe, nobody can save you if you won't save yourself.
"I turned myself into myself and was Jesus..."
Nikki Giovanni (from "Ego Tripping")
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