Welcome to our article,
May God help me write the right things.
Dear readers, I believe that we have always believed in God, because Man needs God. and religions, it is an inborn need within us, we believe that it has been like this since the beginning of the world. If you read history books or old classic books, they will show you that mankind has believed in many gods and religions, therefore, religions need to continue. But today the atheists and the terrorists make it hard for us to believe in God. Now, to overcome these negative things about religions, we believe that religions need to fall in line with the modern times, even if one day religions need to be modified, but that is in the future.
Anyhow, let us take a break from these future religious
talks, to see what is happening around the world today. Because it is nearly
Christmas time, so, everybody and everything seems to remind us of the coming Christmas
festivities and the season greetings that we usually send. Therefore, I want to
wish our readers a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Now that I have said my season greeting, I can tell
you what’s on my mind and then go back to talk about religions, since these
Christmas feasts seem to be religious, even if at their beginning, they were
not religious, but they were there to give joy to the people involved.
Today, as we know, Christmas is a religious
happening and a religious feast, so, one could ask, how would people react if
there were no more Christmas? So, Christmas needs to continue.
This is also one of the reasons why religions need
to continue as they are, you see people like feasts, they like to belong in
something that binds them together, it has been so since the beginning of
recorded times, therefore, there are times when it does not matter whether the
feast is religious or otherwise.
I am saying this because, today religious orders are
under threat, from atheists, and from the extremist groups who pretend to do
God’s will, when they do harm to their fellow man. The atheists want religious
people to prove the existence of God, when God and the spiritual forces are in
another dimension, now since science cannot see or prove the existence of
another dimension as being spiritual forces, they assume that God may not
exist. They do not see that we need God to exist, and God, is the life-force that makes life possible on
earth.
Having said that, now let us see, what the people
would do if there was no more Christmas; do you think that Christmas will disappear,
and nobody will care about it? Or do you think that Christmas will be missed by
the people? So, let us see what the origin of this present feast of Christmas was,
before it became a modern religious feast that we celebrate these days.
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What is the origin of Christmas?
Today Christmas
means different things to different people, in the western world we have Santa that gives presents to children, and many other things, anyhow, every one of us as their
own ways to demonstrate our feelings for Christmas, sometimes even with a song
of our own on YouTube; The Christmas Song (Jayesslee cover)
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Anyhow, today when
we talk about Christmas, we wonder, what are the origin of our present
Christmas feast, most of us want to believe that Christmas is the birthday of
our lord Jesus Christ, but when we work it out from the scriptures it is not
right. Some people say that Jesus Christ birthday is in October and they might
be right, but in this case it does not matter when it is really, because it has
been changed to coincide with another ancient feast, therefore, the origin of
our Christmas feast was not the birthday of our lord, because it was once an
old Roman feast called Saturnalia. This feast name came from the god Saturn who
was once the ruler of all gods and everything on earth and ruled during the
Golden Age.
Saturn was the son
of another two gods, his father was called Heaven and his mother was called
earth, well not exactly like that but that is the equivalent in English. I
could say a lot more about god and goddesses, but here we are talking about the
origin of Christmas. Anyhow, as we have said, Saturn ruled during the Golden
Age, when there was abundance of food and everything else for the human race;
therefore, this was the reasons why the Romans had Saturnalia, which was a
feast of plenty and everything else like a carnival. In the Roman tradition,
the feast of Saturnalia was held during the winter solstice.
The Saturnalia
feast has another meaning,, because the winter solstice is when the days in the
Northern Hemisphere are very short, so, the ancient people thought that their
sun god was abandoning them, so, they had to do something to get their sun god
back; therefore, the winter solstice feast is also the feast of the rebirth of
the sun, which many ancient religions used to start a new sun year going. Here
we are afraid to say that there were religions that used human sacrifices, so
that their sun god would continue to shine for them.
People then were ignorant, and even in the Bible these sacrifices are mentioned, but God Yahweh knew
that human sacrifice must not to happen, so, he ordered animal sacrifice when
the Jews had a religious service. Anyhow, religions do strange things, but we
believe that religions need to continue, because people like to believe.
Anyhow, let us
discuss briefly the human or animal sacrifice of the old religions, and try to
see the signs that they have left even today. We know that old religions
believed that the gods needed a sacrifice every now and then, in those times
the sun was thought to be also a god that gave life to every living thing, so,
they sacrificed to the sun and other gods as well, in order to keep those gods
happy and favorable for the rest of the community, of course, to do that they
had worked out a great ceremony where all their people took part.
Today this
outrageous practice to keep the gods happy is not used anymore, but even today
if people observe closely this is being perpetuated in our religious services,
but it is only in words and in our spiritual beliefs and no real sacrifice
takes place. These human sacrifices were changed from Yahweh God of the
Israelite, who replaced the human sacrifice with the animal sacrifice, and
later this was changed again, if you have attended any Christian religious
service, especially the Roman Catholic Church, at the most important part of
the mass the priest says, This is the lamb of God that takes away the sins of
the world; this means that Our Lord Jesus Christ has made the last sacrifice
for everybody and no other sacrifice is required, because he took away all the
sins of the world. This changing of religious things means that religions can
be changed and in the future religions will change even if it takes a long time to do
so.
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What could be changed?
As we have said
above, the feast of Christmas has been changed three times already; these
changes were brought about from other changes, since these changes happen from
time to time. Today we can see other changes happening; so, what we can do to
make it happen the best way we can. We believe that we need to keep religions
and religious feast as they are today, so that people can continue to enjoy
what they know. We need only to look at Christmas to see that it took a long
time for the change to take place from Saturnalia to Christmas, and it happened
because people like festivities and get together, when they are fun like the
Saturnalia. You see, people don’t accept changes easily and if any changes are
going to be achieved it must be done gradually and in such a way that would
accommodate everybody.
Now, let us go back
to the beginning of this article, where we state that religions need to
continue, therefore the atheists, the scientists and the extremist groups need
to rethink their strategies. Because the only way that religion can change, is
that we can modify religions slowly; so, this is what we have in mind to
suggest, we would like to suggest a way of how we can get everybody willing to
embrace a super God and religion, that can connect all existing religions
together, this is a theory about a super religion that will set every existing
religion one step lower than the new super God and religion; and thus it can
link all religion together.
This religious
theory that we are talking about is one of the several theories that can help
achieve religious reconciliation; so, we have called it Reconciliation of the
Universe, it may not achieve universal reconciliation, but it aims to achieve those
reconciliation required, for the benefit of mankind. Now that we have said it,
we need to continue to work on it, so that we can connect everything that needs
to be connected, in order to work the best way, it can work.
Dear readers, we
hope you will follow our religious writings of Reconciliation of the Universe,
which is part three of all our religious writings. You see, what we have
written in part one and part two, is to explain the reasons why we need to come
up with this new religious theory. Therefore, in part three, we will write how
this theory works, under a Super-God that represents life, because religions
need to continue.
Anyhow, we will
write more articles, before we start part three, Reconciliation of the
universe, starting with,
To see more click on this link, Religions need to continue.
May God bless us
all.
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