Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The beautiful ugly beast

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The beautiful ugly beast we call sex
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THE BEAUTIFUL UGLY BEAST WE CALL SEX
I know that you feel disgusted to read about sexual things in a religious post, but I think that it is very important to talk about it. So, please forgive me if I am upsetting your religious side in any ways while I say what I have to say.
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What drives the whole world of living creatures is sex, because without sex most life would be extinct, so we have to be very careful when we talk about sexual activities; in fact I believe that people avoid talking about sex, because it is very hard to talk about it without being driven to extremities. You see sex is an ugly beast and there are times when it will not stand to reason.
Looking at what I personally know, mankind has lots of problems to solve about their own sexual activities; it has been like this since the beginning of the world and today we are no closer solving it, so, what can we do? Mother Nature has given us this continuous sex drive, which does not let go all our life long, this may seem an exaggeration to some of you but it is so.
You see in the animal kingdom, some animals have got their yearly cycle, which helps them reproduce at the best time of the year, when their off springs have a better chance to survive, during the rest of the year their sexual activities seem dormant, so they go on as if sex does not exist. There are some species that have shorter cycle than that and also others that switch on and off; but for mankind the sex drive is never ending, and this may be true even when an individual is impotent, because he may still feel the desire to have sex. Therefore, sex may be said to be a beautiful ugly beast, because sex promises an individual sweet things, but then it never leaves that person alone, and this sex drive becomes sometimes a torment, which is not easy to control. Now that I have said something in general about sex, let me talk about pedophilia in religions, just because these writings are about religion.
As I have said above sex is beautiful but it also can be a torment to some of us; for this reason our forbears have formed their own ways to deal with it, like giving every man his own wife, so that their sex drive would be used according to Mother Nature, and at the same time would help them to control their sexual needs. I am saying sexual needs because sex cannot be avoided, it is like you have to eat drink and go to the toilet to empty your bowel, I know it may sound crazy to say that but it is so; you may argue that it is not life threatening as eating, drinking etc, but it is because if a man does not discharge his seamen regularly he runs the risk of going crazy, because his hormone will become too high in his body that it will malfunction soon or later, therefore sexual activities is a must to most people and cannot be avoided. Of course what I have said can be applied mostly to normal men, and I haven’t got a clue how women feel and react to sexual needs, therefore I leave this to the experts.
In the man sexual world I could go on telling you what I have seen during my life, but in this case I have to avoid it since we are talking about religious discussions here, so I better leave this argument to be written somewhere else in a place that is more suitable.
Now let me go back and talk about pedophilia in religion. As I have said above, I see sexual activities as needs that cannot be avoided. Now if I am right about this and here I am not swearing that I am right, as I would like to see what the sexual experts have to say, but let us assume that I am 9 out of 10 times right, if it is so, then religious people have made a mistake that needs to be fixed.
To my knowledge the biggest problem with pedophilia in religions is in the Roman Catholic Church, because they have this celibacy clergy and priests cannot get married. They may have their own reasons why priests should not get married, but this violates Mother Nature laws of survival of the species. In my personal understanding God and Mother Nature might be one and the same think, if that turn out to be so then they have made another grave mistake.
We have stated that man needs to have his normal sexual activities and that in the Roman Catholic Church priests cannot get married, what we do not know is the reason why they cannot get married, so let us try to understand their situation here, and let us see if there is anything in the Bible that suggests clergy celibacy. To my knowledge in the Old Testament the priests got married, in fact priesthood was passed from fathers’ to sons. In the Bible, Exodus 29- 4 ‘You are to bring Aaron and his sons to the Tent of Meeting and they are to be bathed’ this is how the priesthood in the Bible starts, so at that stage there was no celibacy in priesthood. When and how celibacy in priesthood started is hard to tell, I can only imagine that it slowly took place during the Middle Age, in order to solve some of the clergy greedy problems in religion, as someone has pointed out to me that priests used their positions to enrich their own family. One needs to remember that at some stage they were selling an indulgence, which is to say that if you pay me I will absolve you. What a great distortion of truth they used then, just because they were greedy about earthly things, they were selling heavenly things which were supposed to be free to anybody that would come forward to ask for it in God’s name.
Of course there are other issues, like if you have no one to worry about, then you would be able to serve the people better, since anybody in the congregation maybe said to be one of your sons or daughters. However this does not take into account that a normal man has his normal sexual needs to attend to in one way or another. We know that a man who is not a slave to the sexual stimulus can serve God better, because he is not thinking about sexual earthly things, therefore he can concentrate on the heavenly things and be a better priest and serve God better, but this does not solve his physical sexual needs, which very likely will make him sway away from his beliefs soon or later. Therefore, it is my view that if priest can get married they have a better chance to become good priests.
There are many other ways to look at this sexual religious problem, but I think that I have say enough to make myself clear about my own beliefs and what may need to be done, so I may as well stop talking about this pedophilia problem in priesthood until something else comes out.
What to do next one may ask? Well, looking at the ways religion is nowadays one has to wonder whether religious leaders know what they are doing nowadays: They seem to live in the past and want to continue to live in the past; they do not want to change anything for fear of getting it wrong; they want you to believe in God’s creation the way it is written in the Bible, even when there is evidence that it may well be different; they do not realize that in the world there are great changes specially in the way of communication and therefore knowledge and all this changes are going to bring about more changes even to religions, it is inevitable.
Religious leaders fail to look at all existing religions and old religions together; history tells us that people believed in many other sorts of religions in the past, these religions do not exist nowadays anymore, because they would seem archaic to the public, so they are extinct.
Let us just assume that there is a God and God somehow communicate through some people in making them believe what God wants us to believe. Now let us assume that I am one of these people and I know God is there and he wants me to write something, which would explain God’s existence to the world. How do I go about it? I am sure that I would ask myself what I can write. You see God is not dictating me what to write, God only makes me feel within my soul that I have to write something about his existence; now, I would be able to write only what I know at the highest level of my know how. This reasoning shows us that it is possible for a writer to write only those things that are known to him; also the writer has got to take into account how other people would be able to understand his writing and write everything according to these two reasons.
Therefore, whatever has been written before has been written according to what the writer knew, at the level of practical knowledge of those days. Now because these days we have advanced a lot since the last great updating of religions, it is time to modify religions and make them according to our times, I believe that there is a time for everything; so, this is what I am going to write next.

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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Religious discussions and atheism

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Religious discussions and atheism
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Sorry I thought that I had said most things about the existence of God in my last post, but I have realized now that I have not, because today I found an article in the news that I have not written about, so let me post an extra post about the question about the existence of God, which deals with a new non religious trend, I am going to call this post, Religious discussions and atheism.
Therefore, my dear readers, once again I am going to go out of my way, because I feel the need to say something about what I have found in the news, so, instead of writing another post from our religious writing, I am going to comment what I found in the news.
You See, it has come again to my attention that there are a lot of learned people that would do anything to prove the non existence of God. But try as they may they do not convince me that there is no God, in fact I am convinced that there is a god-life-force in the universe that behaves perhaps the way these scientists describe their laws of physics.
In this post, Religious discussions and atheism, I will try to state my own religious views, while we are looking at, what are they talking about?

IN THE NEWS TODAY, September 2010
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Stephen Hawking, physicist argues in a new book;
God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts Thursday.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.
"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
Hawking, 68, who won global recognition with his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time," an account of the origins of the universe, is renowned for his work on black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity.
Since 1974, the scientist has worked on marrying the two cornerstones of modern physics -- Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concerns gravity and large-scale phenomena, and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.
His latest comments suggest he has broken away from previous views he has expressed on religion. Previously, he wrote that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang.
He wrote in A Brief History ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."
In his latest book, he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God.
"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.
Hawking, who is only able to speak through a computer-generated voice synthesizer, has a neuro muscular dystrophy that has progressed over the years and left him almost completely paralyzed.
He began suffering the disease in his early 20s but went on to establish himself as one of the world's leading scientific authorities, and has also made guest appearances in "Star Trek" and the cartoons "Futurama" and "The Simpsons."
Last year he announced he was stepping down as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Newton and one he had held since 1979.
"The Grand Design" is due to go on sale next week.
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My personal point of view in this post, Religious discussions and atheism is that, whenever and whatever this book is going to tell us, I feel that it is not going to make any difference to my religious beliefs. Therefore, what does this new book prove to me about the existence of God?
I suppose nothing at all, because my views are that God can co-exist within this Stephen Hawking physicist theory, if his theory can be proven to be right.
Now that I have said this, I will return back to post our usual posts next time. I know that even now I can think about many more articles that need to be discussed about beliefs and non beliefs, so, we will have to go back again and again to discuss them, when the need arises.
I believe that now I need to go back and talk about sex and pedophilia in religions and in everyday life. So next article will be about; the beautiful, sweet, treacherous and ugly beast we call sex.
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

The questions about God?

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FIRST OF ALL, THE QUESTION ABOUT GOD
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Since we are talking about religions, these questions arise;
Is there a god?
Or; is there no God?
How do we decide what is the best way to go about this dilemma?
Since the beginning of recorded time mankind seems to believe in the existence of supernatural beings, it seems to be natural for mankind to believe in God or gods.
As we all know, the question about the existence of God has always been asked for thousands of years, so, I do not think that any of us will be able to prove God’s existence beyond any doubts.
Now because this belief has been used for ages up to the present generation, I suppose that it would be easier to assume that God really exists, even if one day in the distant future God may turn out to be very different from the way we believe God is at this present time, only time will tell.
As I said God may well be different from God in the Bible, in fact I think it is different; but to prove how different is God and who and what is God is near impossible, in fact it is easier to prove that God does not exist, because one does not have to prove anything at all, just you have to state the non existence of God and that is all you have to say.
But then we might create a bigger problem here, because if man invented God, then it follows that man needs God, even if God does not exist as the Bible describes him/it, this is the question about God that everybody would like to know.
My views about this religious subject is that mankind needs to modify the existing religions, in such a way that all existing religions link together, it is necessary to do this since the existing religions seem to fail, they seem to me that they have passed their pick of usefulness; therefore, it would be better if there is a way about how to improve them, so that it would be harder for them to fight each other, and therefore, extremist groups will not be able to use religions as an excuse for fighting.
I have to admit that the first thing that really started me to think about this theory of modifying religious beliefs was the 9-11 disaster, when I learned that those responsible were religious fanatics; Up to that point I could not see that some religions would condone such violence against humanity, not only condone violence but indeed teach their follower to use violence in the name of God.
Now the first question that comes to any reasonable person is this: How could God that is the father of all humanity let this happen in his name?
The answer to this is: No way, God does not approve of this violence at all. It is the people that find a way how to make it look like as if God approves. To do that they dig out old scriptures of some old events and apply those events to nowadays events, what’s wrong with them? Can’t they see what they are doing? Whatever example they dig out from old scriptures, they should understand that those examples could only apply to those times and those circumstances.
Therefore, if there is a way that makes these people and their leaders understand that they are wrong, perhaps these violent acts may be eliminated.
This is the first and perhaps the most important reason why something needs to be done.
Another reason is that of the behaviour of the Roman Catholic priests about paedophilia in their ranks, this could be partly eliminated if priests would be allowed to get married.
Then there are also the atheists who having seen all these negative happenings in religions, put their case forward and say that the world would be better off without religions. They believe that God does not exist, just because God cannot be seen and cannot be proven that it exists. I would say to them that one day they might be proven wrong, as it seems to me that there is a better chance that God exists, perhaps different to the way described in the Bible, so it would be wiser for them to wait and see.
The atheists accuses religions of failing their role and that they do more harm than good, so if religions are not there it would be better.
Well I am sure that they have some evidence to say this, because in the past religions have made so many mistakes and even nowadays religions still are failing to fulfil their role properly.
Now, because atheists are non believers they see only where religions fail, so, they do not see any benefit that religions contribute, because they do not want to see it.
But, I believe that they are doing more harm than good themselves in believing whatever they believe, I hope that they understand that man needs God, because it is easier for them to believe in something that could or would help them with their problems, even if it is only in their imagination.

So, I would like to tell an imaginary story to the atheists to show the atheists what I mean.
Let me give you an example why man needs God, even if it might be only a wish that God exists and could help.

So let just pretend:
You are out in the middle of nowhere, say with a couple of friends; You don’t know and very few people know that a long time ago there were mines there; those mines have been closed and covered up, so nobody knows where they are know.
Suddenly the ground gives way under your feet and two of you fall down the mine shaft, the third guy tries to help you, but the ground gives way again and he end up in the mine shaft as well. Now the three of you are all down in the mine shaft with no way out.
You were lucky you are not badly hurt; but also unlucky, because you do not have a mobile to call for help, so, you may have to wait a very long time to be rescued, because nobody knows where you are.
As time goes by and nobody comes; would you not wish that there was a way of communication with the rest of the world? Do you think that you would be thinking God does not exist so he cannot help us?
Very likely you would wish that God existed and could help you, because, God and religion is there for those who need hope most. So, you would wish that God would send somebody there, so that he could send for help soon rather than later.
Do you see what I mean? Of course there are many other things which make people hope that there is a god that could help them. You see, this sort of hope cannot be replaced, as there is nothing else to replace it with; therefore God and religion cannot be completely replaced. Of course you are going to say that this is only my opinion and I can be wrong? OK. I can give you that; but what do you have to replace it with?

My personal views about religions are that mankind needs to modify existing religions, they should be modified in such a way that it would be hard for people to cause harm by using religion, this needs to be done because religions have not been planned in a way that they cannot be used to cause harm, in fact they seem to be planned only to get everybody of a community together, so that they would be able to defeat those that would oppose their own group.
Now, if religion could be improved in such a way that would be harder for any religious member to use religion to cause harm to others, then there is still a role for religion.
If this fails, then we may have to assume that there is no God or religion and we have to take this other task on ourselves, about how to find a way to control ourselves without religions, and how to fill the void that religions have left.
Therefore, I believe that it is worth to try and see how it goes; if by suggesting some religious changes to existing religions they would become better and therefore be able to survive, not exactly as they are now but very close to it.
The importance of modifying religions nowadays is becoming necessary, so that religions may guide humanity until the time that humanity fully understands whether there is a god or not; if they find that there is no God and then they can prove it; then humanity has got to learn how to live without God.

How can we achieve that one may ask?
To modify religions is not a simple task, it could not and would not be achieved in one single step, because the only possible way that I can see, it that we need to unite all existing religions together during this process, so it is better if this process is done step by step.
First one needs to link existing religions in such a way that they are willing somehow be friendly to you and also with each other; and at the same time make them understand that there is no room for extremists.
Condoning vile acts against humanity just because the culprit is a religious person is insane.
To teach that one can kill in the name of God is even worse. Those extremists that want to kill better find another way to condone their violent acts.
To condone violence and to condone pedophilia are the lowest acts of religions, those leaders that are in a position of command, should really do something about it, what are they waiting for?
I think I have already said a few things about condoning violence in religion; but perhaps not enough about pedophilia in religions, so I am going to write another article to deal with sex and pedophilia, as soon as I complete this article.
I have started to write this article asking if God exists or does not exist, at this point of time I have not been able to answer this question properly; but I tell you what I and my friends will be doing, we are going to write about the existence of God, since we are firm believers that God exists; but now, let me first talk about sex and pedophilia in religions and in everyday life. So next article will be about; the beautiful, sweet, treacherous and ugly beast we call sex.

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Friday, July 9, 2010

What is the duty of every man?

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This is Manfraco Laws continuing this blog-post that Frank@yahoo started with; Why Religious Reconciliation is being written; my post is going to be called, What is the duty of every man? And it comes from our writings in common, which we intend to publish in this blog to start with, then it will also be published in other sites.
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What is the duty of every man?
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THIS COULD OR WOULD BE THE LIFE DUTY OF ANY MAN.
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When a man (or woman) is born receives this gift of life from God in conjunction with Mother Nature, all this is achieved through and from his/her parents as we all know, since this is the only natural way for life to continue indefinitely. This gift of life that this man has received from God, (Mother-Nature etc.) he should Endeavour to guard dearly during his own life with all his inner will and his physical strength, as life is a very precious gift that he has received, especially in god’s eyes since God is the life giver of all existing life.
Therefore, a man must try to live his own life well, or at least as good as his parents have done before him, and if he can he must try to improve the standard of life that he has received, these improvements that he may have made should be passed on to his children, so that the next generation that comes through him and from him will have a better standard of life than he has had during his own life.
Having described above what the life duty of any man would be, and believing every word that I have said above, there is no way that I can avoid to do my duty for the improvement of future generations, if I want to feel that my life has been worthwhile living; otherwise I will feel that life has passed me by and I have not done anything important, or contributed anything at all for the improvement of future generations.
Therefore now, I have to start thinking what I could and should do to achieve my goal, in order to do my duty and try to improve what I have received from life and what I have learned from life, so that I may have a record of it, and then see which way it can be used for the benefit of mankind. I believe that the best way to do this is to start writing down most of my own life observations including my religious beliefs, since we are going to talk here about religions and religious beliefs; I have to write my religious beliefs in such a way that they could be understood and would make sense to whosoever might read them. I know that my own life experiences and my life observations of religious beliefs that I am going to write here might seem a bit strange to some reader; but what can I do if life sometimes is a bit strange? I can do nothing about it, except to tell you the way it is, and the way that I see it. So, if I have to do my duty in order to improve what I have received from life, I am going to tell you my own life experiences to start with, even if my life experience is going to be boring and might seem strange at times, as I am sure that my life experiences are going to seem strange to you sometime, so much so that one would think that they may be like a metamorphose. But, because a man has got to do what a man has got to do I am going to do it anyhow; so may God help me/us!
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