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Feb. 6th, 2009
A thought just occurred to me
Feb. 6th, 2009 12:51 pmA thought just occurred to me, and I hope this startles you as much as it startled me because... well, I hate to admit it, but George W. Bush was actually *right* about something for once. He was correct when he said the extremist Muslims like bin Laden "hate our freedoms." What he failed to mention, however, is that as a Dominionist Christian, he too hates our freedoms. If he didn't, then why did he and his cronies work so hard to subvert them?
Why's this? Because any religion that seeks to be the only religion for all the people it can reach, all Dominionist/Fundamentalist/Extremist religions fear the freedom of choice, because they know they'll end up on the losing side of such a choice. After all, what sane human being would choose fear, self-loathing, and cowering in slavish obedience to a wrathful and slave-driving God who looks upon him as little better than cattle? None. And so the priests and rabbis and pastors and imams of dominionist religions use cultish tactics to keep their flock in fear and cowering to them in obedience, cowering to them because they supposedly speak for their god(s). Them, and only them. They make sure to pound that into your brain, alright: "you are slaves and God is the master." But what is really being taught is "you are the slaves, we are the masters."
All Dominionist versions of a religion are cult versions of that religion. The only differences among Dominionist Christianity, Dominionist Islam, Dominionist Judaism, cults, and any other Dominionist religion are superficial at best. The core philosophies - "you are a bad person but can be saved by your god(s) if you repent and offer yourself up as a slave to your god(s)" - are always the same. This becomes rather obvious when satired in shows like Stargate: SG1 where a multitude of various "gods" all tell their followers the same thing: "I am your God, you are my slave; I shall show you no mercy if you serve another."
Something that far too many people, even a lot of those who think they have freed themselvelves from the hold a dominionist religion have on them (such as atheists), fail to realize is that it is not God or the gods who are evil, slave-driving dominionists; it is the priests, the rabbis, the imams, the pastors of dominionist versions of religions that are the slave-driving, dominionist, wrathful masters. Dominionist religions are NOT about god or the gods, except where those are useful tools to get the masses to bend to their will.
"Controlling, manipulative, caring only for their own desires and pretending to be good; putting forth a good face while they secretly engage in evil and immoral practices; willing to sacrifice the lives of human beings to their evil Lord." This, and other things, are said of Satanists by the Dominionists. But just as humans have tended (and some still do) to project their own evils onto wolves, so the Dominionists project their own evils onto Satanists, or witches, or atheists, or heretics. It's a way of distracting attention from their own evils, and in a slave society it works perfectly. But society the world over is leaning more and more towards freedom, and in a free society such tactics are limited in their usefulness; eventually the truth comes out. They try to distract us with threats from God and scapegoating Satanists, witches, darwinists, scientists, homosexuals, and anyone else they can but themselves. It's all Wizard of Oz crap: "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" Because when we pull back that curtain, what we see is the disgusting truth. Child-molesting priests being protected by the church being the most extreme example. Why, recently Pope Nazinger even pardoned and re-communicated a fellow bishop or somesuch who had been ex-communicated by Pope John Paul what's-his-number for claiming that the holocaust never happened. Which, in my mind, proves the whole Ratzinger/Nazi connection.
If Satan is the Opponent, as his name means in Hebrew, then Satanists are opponents to the status quo. And a long-standing status quo has been that Dominionists rule religions. I think it wise to remember that it is not religion or spirituality that are the enemy, but the cultishness of the Dominionist influences. It is not Christianity that is the enemy, or Islam, or Judaism, it is the dominionist influences within those and other religions. It is not the Right Hand Path that is the enemy, it is the evil that hides amongst the RHP, it is the dominionists. Religion and spirituality, when used wisely and correctly, are good things. It's the dominionists who ruin it for everyone.
Why's this? Because any religion that seeks to be the only religion for all the people it can reach, all Dominionist/Fundamentalist/Extremist religions fear the freedom of choice, because they know they'll end up on the losing side of such a choice. After all, what sane human being would choose fear, self-loathing, and cowering in slavish obedience to a wrathful and slave-driving God who looks upon him as little better than cattle? None. And so the priests and rabbis and pastors and imams of dominionist religions use cultish tactics to keep their flock in fear and cowering to them in obedience, cowering to them because they supposedly speak for their god(s). Them, and only them. They make sure to pound that into your brain, alright: "you are slaves and God is the master." But what is really being taught is "you are the slaves, we are the masters."
All Dominionist versions of a religion are cult versions of that religion. The only differences among Dominionist Christianity, Dominionist Islam, Dominionist Judaism, cults, and any other Dominionist religion are superficial at best. The core philosophies - "you are a bad person but can be saved by your god(s) if you repent and offer yourself up as a slave to your god(s)" - are always the same. This becomes rather obvious when satired in shows like Stargate: SG1 where a multitude of various "gods" all tell their followers the same thing: "I am your God, you are my slave; I shall show you no mercy if you serve another."
Something that far too many people, even a lot of those who think they have freed themselvelves from the hold a dominionist religion have on them (such as atheists), fail to realize is that it is not God or the gods who are evil, slave-driving dominionists; it is the priests, the rabbis, the imams, the pastors of dominionist versions of religions that are the slave-driving, dominionist, wrathful masters. Dominionist religions are NOT about god or the gods, except where those are useful tools to get the masses to bend to their will.
"Controlling, manipulative, caring only for their own desires and pretending to be good; putting forth a good face while they secretly engage in evil and immoral practices; willing to sacrifice the lives of human beings to their evil Lord." This, and other things, are said of Satanists by the Dominionists. But just as humans have tended (and some still do) to project their own evils onto wolves, so the Dominionists project their own evils onto Satanists, or witches, or atheists, or heretics. It's a way of distracting attention from their own evils, and in a slave society it works perfectly. But society the world over is leaning more and more towards freedom, and in a free society such tactics are limited in their usefulness; eventually the truth comes out. They try to distract us with threats from God and scapegoating Satanists, witches, darwinists, scientists, homosexuals, and anyone else they can but themselves. It's all Wizard of Oz crap: "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" Because when we pull back that curtain, what we see is the disgusting truth. Child-molesting priests being protected by the church being the most extreme example. Why, recently Pope Nazinger even pardoned and re-communicated a fellow bishop or somesuch who had been ex-communicated by Pope John Paul what's-his-number for claiming that the holocaust never happened. Which, in my mind, proves the whole Ratzinger/Nazi connection.
If Satan is the Opponent, as his name means in Hebrew, then Satanists are opponents to the status quo. And a long-standing status quo has been that Dominionists rule religions. I think it wise to remember that it is not religion or spirituality that are the enemy, but the cultishness of the Dominionist influences. It is not Christianity that is the enemy, or Islam, or Judaism, it is the dominionist influences within those and other religions. It is not the Right Hand Path that is the enemy, it is the evil that hides amongst the RHP, it is the dominionists. Religion and spirituality, when used wisely and correctly, are good things. It's the dominionists who ruin it for everyone.
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Feb. 6th, 2009 02:27 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]Ph'nglui mglw'nafh C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!