Atrocities of Atheism:Episode VI -- Return of the Believers (Conclusion)

To view the global atrocities of Atheistic Governments please read:
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode I -- The Atheist Menace .
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode II -- Attack of the Chinese .
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode III .
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode IV -- A New 'Killing-Field' .
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode V -- The Evil Empire Strikes Back .

Atheists in the United States of America and summary:
The global atrocities of Atheism is why the advance of Atheism in the United States, is so troublesome. I explain some of the advances Atheism has had in taking over our culture in my articles "Is Atheism Bad for America?" and "The Rise of the Godless Religion". Not to mention the alarming fact that Secular Humanists extemists (aligned with Atheists) turned the might of the US Military to massacre a small religious group in Waco. Even in the United States, Atheist allies have used the military to wipe out a religious group. Don't think it can't happen here. Do not let our great nation turn into a mass murdering Atheistic Nation (Communist Regime).

Why do I write this? Is it because I think all Atheists are violent and murderers? No, of course not. I know some very nice Atheists. Do I mention all this to say that Atheism should be banned? No, of course not. Everyone in the United States of America has a God given right to believe any religion, even the right to believe in the absence of God. If Atheists want to hold fast to their unreasonable faith that their is no God, despite others personal testimony and overwhelming Teleological evidence, then that is their right to hold those beliefs. But forcing atheistic beliefs on others, through government coercion (as is the history of Atheism, whenever it takes control of governments) is wrong.

I mention these historical events because of the irrational fear that is being generated by the left, the Secular Humanist extremists and Atheist extremists about our nation turning into a "dreaded" Theocracy. The fear, irrationality and illogical conclusions that are being devised by these extemists are silly, although the left wing allies in the mainstream media promote this fear mongering. If any logical person looks at the last century, they would see that it is not people of faith, voting democratically, that has proven to be the real threat to civilization. The most unfair, oppressive, and human-killing regime's have been when Atheists have taken over governments. The untrue propaganda today, perpetrated by the mainstream media, is that people of faith are to blame for mass amounts of people's lives being taken. This is not based on the facts or truth of the past century, where the least tolerant religion of Atheism, forced its beliefs on people of faith or simply slaughtered hundreds of millions of them.

I pray that Atheism does not take over the US, because they have brought much bloodshed and oppression to every nation it has become the prominent religion. I am happy that in our last Presidential Election the wise people of the Untied States of America voted our faith, our moral values and voted to protect our Freedom of Religion. Those who believe in God took back this nation, from those who were trying to remove Him. Thanks to all of you who voted with moral values as your conviction. God bless America!

Atrocities of Atheism: Episode V -- The Evil Empire Strikes Back

Introduced in Atrocities of Atheism: Episode I -- The Atheist Menace, I set forth the facts on how Atheism is the bloodiest religion in the world in the 20th Century. I did not go into detail of exact examples. That is why I will show some practicle examples of the horrors of militant Atheist governments. In this "Episode" we will look at how the Atheist Russian government viciously strikes down all religions besides Atheism.

Russian Atheist Government Atrocities:

"The Soviet Union was the first state to have as an ideological objective the elimination of religion. Toward that end, the Communist regime confiscated church property, ridiculed religion, harassed believers, and propagated atheism in the schools. ...The main target of the anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and 1930s was the Russian Orthodox Church, which had the largest number of faithful. Nearly all of its clergy, and many of its believers, were shot or sent to labor camps. Theological schools were closed, and church publications were prohibited. By 1939 only about 500 of over 50,000 churches remained open" (from Anti-Religious Campaigns). "For over 70 years the Communist Party attempted to eradicate Christianity from Russia. Brainwashing, propaganda, infiltration of the Church, imprisonment, torture, concentration camps and executions failed to destroy people's faith in God and hunger for the Bible. Yet Communism continued to export not only its ideology of Atheism, Materialism and Economic Determinism, but its violent revolutionary methods, and its hatred of God, the Bible and the Christian Church. In the 1980's, 224 million Christians lived under severe state persecution, with another 70 million 'Crypto-Christians', who secretly worshipped God in 'underground' churches" (from Communist Liberation: Myth & Reality). "Soviet Communism was committed by its fundamental principles to an aggressive and militant atheism. It could not rest satisfied merely with a neutral separation between Church and State, but sought by every means, direct and indirect, to overthrow all organized Church life and to eliminate all religious belief"(from The Assault Upon Heaven). "The totalitarian Communist State employed to the full all forms of anti-religious propaganda, while denying the Church any right of reply. There was, first of all, the atheist instruction that was given systematically in every school. Teachers received such injunctions as these: A Soviet teacher must be guided by the principle of the Party spirit of science; he is obliged not only to be an unbeliever himself, but also to be an active propagandist of godlessness among others, to be the bearer of the ideas of militant proletarian atheism. Skillfully and calmly, tactfully and persistently, the Soviet teacher must expose and overcome religious prejudices in the course of his activity in school and out of school, day in and day out"(from The Assault Upon Heaven). Thousands of Christians were slaughtered by the atheist regime and it decimated the Orthodox Christian community. An incomplete list of names of Bishops alone that were slaughtered are listed here (then click "proceed"). "'The more representatives from the reactionary clergy and the recalcitrant bourgeoisie we shoot,' Lenin wrote in March of 1922, 'the better it will be for us. We must teach these people a lesson as quickly as possible, so that the thought of protesting again doesn't occur to them for decades to come.' When Lenin and his progeny were unable to teach the clergy a lesson, they simply murdered them. In 1922 alone, more than 8,000 priests, monks, and nuns were executed in the Soviet Union. Nearly a decade after the Revolution, however, 20,000 churches and mosques were still in operation. By 1941, that number shrank to less than 1,000" (from Ideas Have Consequences... Like Murder, Tyranny, and Repression). Even as late as 1971, there are reports of the Communist oppression of Christianity. The Atheistic government has been reported engaging in sentencing Christians to mental hospitals to get rid of their "sickness" of having faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. "As the decades of Soviet rule passed, many Christians were sent to psychiatric hospitals because religion was categorized as mental illness". "'Special Psychiatric Hospitals' are known to exist in Kazan, Sychevka (Smolensk region), Leningrad, Cherniahovsk, Minsk, Dniepropetrovsk, Orel. It is very likely that they are also to be found in other regions. In many psychiatric hospitals special wards have been set aside for 'treatment' against dissidents of all complexions. The names of 60 victims of such 'treatment' have been published abroad. The Moscow Patriarchate, recognized by the atheistic government of the USSR, and kept under its control, maintains a stony silence".

The Russian Atheist Government ruthlessly removed Muslims from their homeland in inhumane conditions, killing hundreds of thousands. "Fearful of a pan-Islamic movement, the Soviet regime systematically suppressed Islam by force". "The Imperial Russian government was involved in all these mass expulsions. In the 20th century, the government of the Soviet Union perfected the crime of ethnic cleansing. During World War II, the Stalin regime used the resources of a highly organized state with a modern rail system to rapidly exile entire nations from their ancestral homelands. The Soviet government targeted the Muslim nationalities of the Caucasus and Crimea for deportation in their entirety. The Soviet political police, NKVD (Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairs) exiled the [Muslim] Karachays, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Crimean Tatars, and Meskhetian Turks to Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Siberia, and other remote areas of the USSR in 1943 and 1944. These brutal forced relocations to desolate areas with poor material conditions resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths" (from Deportation and Fate of Crimean Tatars). For the Muslim Crimean Tatars alone, this religious cleansing process killed almost a hundred thousand. "Called the 'Surgun' (mass deportation) by survivors, nearly half (46%) of of 180,000 persons deported to 'Special Settlement Camps' in Uzbekistan, Siberia, and the Urals perished." (from 60th Anniversary of the Deportation of Crimean Tatars).

The Russian Atheist Government not only targeted Muslims and Christians for destruction, but this atheist government then turned it's attention to target the Jews. "Attacks on Judaism were endemic throughout the Soviet period, and the organized practice of Judaism became almost impossible"(from Anti-Religious Campaigns). "Millions of people in the Soviet Union became un-persons during [Stalin's Atheist] quarter-century rule. While the Georgian-born Stalin didn't particularly favor one nationality over another during his reign of terror, he was a 'breaker of nations,' as in Robert Conquest's book title — and he had a particular hatred for Soviet Jews." (from How Stalin Murdered Jews).

To view the atrocities of other Atheistic Governments please read:
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode II -- Attack of the Chinese .
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode III .
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode IV -- A New 'Killing-Field'

And don't miss the exciting purposeful conclusion in:
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode VI -- Return of the Believers

Atrocities of Atheism:Episode IV -- A New 'Killing-Field'

Introduced in Atrocities of Atheism: Episode I -- The Atheist Menace, I set forth the facts on how Atheism is the bloodiest religion in the world in the 20th Century. I did not go into detail of exact examples. That is why I will show some practicle examples of the horrors of militant Atheist governments. In this "Episode" we will look at how Pol Pot's Atheist Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia slaughters wholesale believers of other religions. This was the bloodiest campaign against religion as a percentage of population ever... and it was committed by Atheist militants.

Pol Pot's Atheist Khmer Rouge Government Atrocities in Cambodia:

Khmer Rouge's under Pol Pot's reign began the Cambodian Atheist oppression. "[I]n Cambodia... 'as a percentage of a nation's total population, the worst genocide appears to be that in Cambodia, formerly Kampuchea. According to the Khmer Rouge foreign minister, more than one third of the eight million Khmer were killed between April 17, 1975 and January 1979. One third of the entire country was put to death under the rule of Pol Pot, the founder of the Communist Party of Kampuchea'". In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge (headed by Pol Pot) was an Atheist group that controlled the Government and performed acts of Genocide on it's non-Atheist population.

"Khmer Rouge immediately expelled the entire population of the capital city Phnom Pehn and began policies which resulted in the genocides of Cham Muslims"."[B]etween 400,000 and 500,000 Muslims perished during the Khmer Rouge period... In Oukoubah, Osman details 13 cases of torture, imprisonment and death".

"Cambodians perished under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime. The victims included 10,000 of Cambodia's 12,000 Christians who died in Pol Pot's 'Killing Fields' in the late 1970s".

"The Buddhist clergy (sangha) was decimated, including monks and nuns. Fewer than 5,000 of Cambodia's 65,000 monks survived the1970s. Most endured hard labor, starvation or torture. An estimated 25,000 monks were executed".

To view the atrocities of other Atheistic Governments please read:
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode II -- Attack of the Chinese
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode III
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode V -- The Evil Empire Strikes Back

And don't miss the exciting purposeful conclusion in:
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode VI -- Return of the Believers

Atrocities of Atheism: Episode II -- Attack of the Chinese

Introduced in Atrocities of Atheism: Episode I -- The Atheist Menace, I set forth the facts on how Atheism is the bloodiest religion in the world in the 20th Century. I did not go into detail of exact examples. That is why I will show some practicle examples of the horrors of militant Atheist governments. In this "Episode" we will look at how the Atheist Chinese government attacks all religions besides Atheism.

Chinese Atheist Government Atrocities:

Atheists of Communist China oppress the innocent East Turkestanese for their Muslim beliefs. A Japanese newspaper tells the tale of these oppressed Muslims: "Muslims are arrested on invalid grounds and sent off to labor camps, executed on groundless charges, and from time to time murdered en masse. They are not allowed to fast, and are prevented from receiving religious instruction. The method used to stop the Muslim population from growing is utterly inhuman: Women are forced to have abortions, and the children of those who have more than one child are taken away from them. ...The greatest assistance that can be given is to wage a struggle on the level of ideas to destroy the atheism that all that oppression stems from, and replace it with a just and proper morality. In that way, not just the Muslims of East Turkestan but all those who are wickedly killed all over the world, or are forced from their homelands just for saying, 'God is our Lord,' or can be helped" (from Chinese Torture in East Turkestan).

"Amalia Rubin from 'Students for a Free Tibet' revealed the atrocity the CCP laid on Tibetan people and Tibetan Buddhism. So far, one fifth of Tibet's population, 1.2 million Tibetans died under CCP's tyranny" (from ntdtv.com May 4th, 2005).

From 1959-66 the Atheistic government tightened it's strangle-hold over Tibetan Buddhism. "Monasteries were targeted as the backbone of Tibetan society. By 1966, before the Cultural Revolution began, 80% of central Tibet's 2,700 monasteries had been destroyed. Of 115,600 monks and nuns only 6,900 remained". "During the Cultural Revolution, all religious activity was banned; religious institutions were razed; texts and sacred objects destroyed; monks and nuns imprisoned and tortured; many were killed. By 1978, only eight monasteries were left standing, and 970 monks and nuns remained". The slaughter and persecution of these Tibetan Monks by the Atheistic government was horrific to take them from over 115 Thousand strong, down to less than one thousand.

Mao slaughtered Christians when he gained Atheistic control over China. This persecution of Christians in China continues today. Reporting from ntdtv.com May 4th, 2005 states: "Li narrated the stories of many Christian victims who were brutally persecuted by the CCP, as well as his own life experience in China's largest forced labor camp. ...[U]pon the call from God, he started to devote himself to collecting and publishing relevant documents pertaining to religious persecution of Christians in China, and founded the 'Investigative Organization of Religious Persecution in China'. Mr. Li published in New York and Europe six top-secret government documents, which revealed the systematic persecution of Christians by the Chinese government and a 'White Paper', compiled by him. His reports reveal that over 440 thousand Christians in China were sentenced to forced labor camp, and over ten thousand were persecuted to death". In 2002 the Atheist government reports on their Christian-related activities: "According to our investigation among House Church Christians, at this time there are 23,686 persons who have been arrested for religious activities, 4,014 persons sentenced to re-education, 129 persons killed, 208 persons handicapped, 997 persons placed under surveillance, 1,040 persons on the run, 20,000+ beaten, 10,000 fined (ranging from $.50 to $800,000)". "[P]rominent Beijing House church leader pastor Zhuohua Cai was tortured severely with electric cattle prods by his interrogators for his 'confessions' that he 'illegally managing a printing business and illegally profited 200,000RMB'.(US $25,000)".

China not only persecutes and murders official religions, but has waged war against religious movements or life philosophies, such as their inhumane treatment of members of Falun Gong. "Evidence has surfaced of over 100 torture methods being employed against Falun Gong practitioners in China's labour camps, detention centers, and mental hospitals. The goal is to eradicate Falun Gong, either by coercing its practitioners to renounce their belief, or by physically destroying them if they refuse. The tactics range from long-term sleep deprivation, being surrounded with loudspeakers demonizing their practice 24 hours a day, to being force-fed with human feces, or shocked and even raped with electric batons." There are many personal testamonies on Falun Gong websites. "I spoke the truth about Falun Gong, exercising my constitutional rights. I was unreasonably persecuted, and because of the severe abuse, I became disabled. I am condemning the Chinese government: they persecuted practitioners with savage mental and physical cruelty, and I am holding them responsible for the pain and suffering my family has had to endure because of the treatment I have received. I ask kind people around the world to join with me to help stop this persecution". "On October 21, 2000, Ms. Wang Lixuan and her eight-month-old son, Meng Hao, were arrested and detained at Tuanhe Labor Camp in Beijing, where they were tortured to death on November 7, 2000. When her family received the death notice and arrived in Beijing, they found the frozen corpses of Ms. Wang and her son. According to the coroner's examination, her neck and knucklebones were broken, her skull was sunken, and there was a needle stuck in her body".

To view the atrocities of other Atheistic Governments please read:

Atrocities of Atheism: Episode III
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode IV -- A New 'Killing-Field'
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode V -- The Evil Empire Strikes Back

And don't miss the exciting purposeful conclusion in:
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode VI -- Return of the Believers

Atrocities of Atheism: Episode I -- The Atheist Menace

Some blame Religion for many of the Wars in the world. Ironically, in the 20th Century, Atheism (self-proclaimed absence of Religion) has committed most of the slaughter of innocent peoples. It has killed more than any religion has in the last Century.

Atheism is one of the world's least tolerant religions. It sees any other religion as a threat and when it takes over the Government (Communism) it systematically eliminates all other religions. Karl Marx himself wrote in the Communist manifesto that "communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion", thereby forcing the religion of Atheism upon those under communist/Atheist oppression. It propagandizes the masses into a mind-numbed state to coerce them into total submission to their new human god-tyrant (dictator), who then lords over their souls. Those who do not bow to the new religion of Atheism (the Communist State is now your god) will face their wrath, as mentioned in the Communist manifesto: "The Communists... ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions". This is where the mass murder of Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Jews is perfectly legitimized by their State-is-god religion of Atheism. They are heartlessly slaughtered in the name of "progress". "The classic writings of the mature Marx -- the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital -- reveal that violence is a fundamental and necessary feature in his system". Apparently slaughtering Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Jews is "progress" in the eyes of Atheists who control Governments.

Atheistic Governments (Communism) have been responsible for up to 259 Million murders accros the globe, from 1900 to the year 1987 alone. Up to 126 Million of those innocent victims were at the hands of the Russian Atheistic Government. Second largest Militant Atheistic state is Communist China, murdering up to 114 Million people (most from multiple religions & religious movements). The Atheists of Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia (Pol Pot) all have murdered over 3 Million people each between 1900-1987. Atheistic Governments (Communism) have had the bloodiest government ideology responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths in the 20th Century. Atheistic Communism "was a nightmare which promised equality and justice, but which brought only bloodshed, death, torture and fear".

Zbigniew Brzezinski, however, author of "Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century", believes that only 175 Million people were killed by politically motivated carnage in the 20th Century. He has very conservative estimates. The distribution of deaths in Brzezinski's book is quite telling. In his list of Mass Deaths for the 20th Century, Atheistic Rule (Communism) beats out all military and all civilian deaths from all the wars in the past Century. Military War Deaths were listed at 33.5 Million worldwide, Civilian War casualties are listed at 54 Million worldwide compared to 60 Million deaths attributed solely to Communist/Atheist oppression (not including deaths of civilians or military personal during Communist/Atheist revolutions). According to him, 41%, almost half, of all the deaths in the 20th Century were committed by Atheist militant governments during peacetime, against their own people. The Historical evidence shows that Atheistic governments have been responsible for more deaths than organized religion in recent times.

"When searching for examples of state-sponsored barbarities, intellectuals are quick to point to the Spanish Inquisition or its Protestant imitation, the Witchhunt. How could anyone, modern academics wonder, persecute another for their beliefs? These same intellectuals, ironically, are often the very people who served as cheerleaders for political persecution and mass murder on a scale unmatched in human history. The Spanish Inquisition claimed slightly more than 2,000 lives during its 25-year apex between 1480 and 1505. One would be hard pressed to find any 25-day period in Russia under Stalin, China under Mao, or Cambodia under Pol Pot in which the killing was that slight. Yet it is a Torquemada or Salem that is equated with homicidal intolerance. The crimes of Communism are ignored. Being generous, one might suppose that intellectuals are simply blinded by the prejudices of our age and are unable to detach themselves and see the killing that has occurred right under their noses. A more cynical perspective might view their amnesia as a self-induced condition brought on as a method to absolve themselves of their own role in supporting murder... [A]cademics have been engaged in 'ideologically motivated self-deception' for more than 80 years, refusing to believe that their ideological cousins could be capable of such diabolical crimes." (from Ideas Have Consequences... Like Murder, Tyranny, and Repression). I will go into more detail of how the Atheistic ideology manifested in Communist governments has persecuted others with tenacity in the following posts:

Atrocities of Atheism: Episode II -- Attack of the Chinese .
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode III .
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode IV -- A New 'Killing-Field' .
Atrocities of Atheism: Episode V -- The Evil Empire Strikes Back .

And don't miss the exciting purposeful conclusion in:

Atrocities of Atheism: Episode VI -- Return of the Believers

World Religions' View of Taking Life

Killing is not a sin in every religion, unlike some think. There are conditions in which killing is either acceptable or preferred in every religion. That is one reason some fear religion.

Original Orthodox Judaism has many laws that demand Capital Punishment (killing). They are listed here: "murder (Numbers 35:16) and rape (Deuteronomy 22:25)... adultery (Leviticus 20:10), homosexual behavior (Leviticus 20:13), kidnapping (Exodus 21:16), loving anything more than God (Leviticus 20:2), occult practices (Exodus 22:18), pre-marital sex (Leviticus 21:9), not observing the Sabbath (Numbers 15:32-36), and striking or slandering a parent (Exodus 21:15, 17)".

Christianity abolished the Jewish requirements for the death penalty for adultery (abolished by Jesus in John 4:1-42 and John 8:1-11). Christianity did not require the death penalty for "the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual offenders, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers" in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. In fact, Jesus came to conquer death. But Christianity too does permit killing in some instances, which I discuss in my article "Why Would a Christian Ever Be Pro-War???". Just for the record, Christians condemn the Crusades and realize the wrong that they were. That is why there was a reconciliation walk for the wrongs against the Muslim people.

Speaking of Islam, the Qur'an instructs Muslims to kill here: "But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem" (At-Touba 9:5). Other places the Qur'an recommends killing is listed here: Al-Baqarah 2:191, An-Nissa 4:89, Al-Maidah 5:33, Al-Anfal 8:17, At-Touba 9:14 and Al-Ahzab 33:61. For a "religion of peace", there are numberable commands to kill non-Muslims. Many religions do not have this mandate in their sacred documents.

Hinduism applies circular logic to killing. When Arjuna asks Krishna how he can kill his cousins, uncles, brothers and friend's sons, Krishna says it is ok to slaughter them in the Bhagavad-Gita, because "You cannot kill them, because they are dead already; their own actions have doomed them. You cannot be responsible for their deaths, because each one is responsible for his own death". Hinduism implies here that the killing of Arjuna's family and friends is ok, because it is their karma to be slaughtered. Also in 2002, there was about one killing a month in human sacrifice to the Hindu goddess Kali.

Child sacrifice was common in Incan religion.

Also in the Zulu religion a woman in 2002 reported sacrificing her own child, for the Zulu gods to make her husband rich.

In Secular Humanism, baby sacrifice (abortion) is considered the religious "moral right of women", if the baby would be an inconvenience, an economic drain, unwanted for ANY reason and a potential burden upon the god of the State/society (and therefore economically advantageous to kill). "46 million women around the world have abortions each year." 46 Million mothers every year worldwide sacrifice their babies in accord with Secular Humanist dogma. "Of these women, 78% live in developing countries and 22% in developed countries". This totals, to some's estimates, up to a loss of 836 Million babies lives terminated from 1920-2000. That is a lot of dead babies for the Secular Humanist beliefs.

Atheism has been the bloodiest and most violent religion among adults of the 20th Century, but I'll discuss their atrocities in my next post...

Religion: Do We Need It?

Interested parties have inquired about my denominational leanings. For public interest, I'm a Born Again Christian who holds of a combination of Evangelical, Charismatic and Liturgical (Roman Catholic-like) views (I have been active member in each type of Church - and I am currently involved in a Bible believing Church). I guess mainstream American Christianity now is probably somewhere close to Evangelical Christianity and also has proponents of a Christian-moral-society. I believe I'm close enough to mainstream American Christianity to be able to speak for it. The Born Again Christians see Mainstream American Christianity filled with many non-believers. Some of the cultural-Christians think that Christianity is good and that it's the right way to do things (how can I argue with that?).

I have responded to people that have asked me if I was religious, "No. I'm not Religious. I'm Spiritual." I do however consider myself in the category of the "Religious Right". I do believe that the mainstream of American Christianity views itself as religious. I take my belief as not being "religious" mostly from lyrics of a Christian singer's song (Scott Wesley Brown). The song says "I'm not religious, I just love the Lord". I'm not religious in the sense that I am not "Baptist", I'm not "Roman Catholic", I'm not "Lutheran", I'm not "Presbyterian". A religion does not get me into heaven. Following a set of rules is not what saves me. Most religions are about following sets of rules.

What I follow is not a religion. I follow a man, who lived and walked the Earth 2000 years ago. I follow Jesus Christ. That makes me a Christian. The teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible are what I follow... not what some Church says (although I have a home Church that I attend regularly). I am a Christian because I took a look at my life and I realized that I've done things that are wrong (sin). I've done things that are hurtful to myself; I've done things that are hurtful to others; and I've done things that are hurtful to God (all of these three are sin). I've admitted that I AM a sinner.

I believe that Jesus Christ who was a man, but was also God (born of God through the virgin Mary), lived on this Earth. I believe that as a man Jesus (the son of God) did not sin. As a perfect sinless person Jesus was killed. Jesus did not resist being killed because he came to die for my sins. Jesus died for my mistakes.

I believe that we all don't deserve to go to heaven, because of the bad things that we have done. We can't do enough good deeds to get to heaven. There is no way I can work my own way into heaven. I know this because the Bible says "all our righteous acts are like filthy rags". Even our best efforts are filthy rags.

Instead of me spiritually dying for my mistakes for my sin... the perfect sinless Jesus Christ took my sin and died in my place. I believe Jesus went to Hell for my sins, in my place, and then Jesus conquered death and joined His Father in heaven, so that I may be free from the bondage and burden of my own sin and wrongs. This is how I can get access into heaven... not because of something I've done, but because Jesus did it for me. I just accept Jesus as my Lord (my leader) and my Savior (my forgiver) and I become a follower of Him.

This offer was not made exclusively for me but for all. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). It doesn't matter who you are... your race... your political ideology or even your sexual history (orientation). Jesus has offered his life for mine and for whosoever wants to accept Him as the Lord (leader) of their life.

Does that sound like something interesting to you?

Irrational Fear

You know, one concern that I hear about is that Christians want to force other people into being Christians. One very funny comedienne, Maria Bamford, said something similar to this about the Bush administration being re-elected "Well... at least I know what I'll be doing for the next four years... walking through the nuclear holocaust on my way to my new mandatory Bible Study". In the Secular Humanist Bastion of New York City there was a conference of CONCERN about what to DO about the Religious Right called "Examining the REAL Agenda of the Religious Far Right". It seems that the Secularist left is trying to infuse the public with fear by spinning silly and outlandish conspiracy theories about Christians forcing Theocracy on people. It seems the unsuspecting moderate secularists attending the conference are so unfamiliar with Christianity that they are buying the propaganda these Human Secularist extremists are selling them (literally, at $75-$85 a pop for the entire conference). The Roman Empire forced people into Christianity after they got tired of feeding us Christians to lions... and it actually didn't work out too well for us Christians (although, admittedly it was better than being fed to lions).

Forced Christianization of the Roman Empire did not produce great results. The result of this was actually quite destructive to Christianity. The result was syncretization. What is syncretization?

Syncretization of Christianity is when people use the forms and symbols of Christendom, but still practice their own religion under the guise of Christianity.

"In the first century after Christ, His devotees carried the gospel all over the known world. Christianity was embraced by millions. It conquered even the pagan Roman world. Rival religions paled before it. Pagan religions collapsed before it...

Unfortunately, Christianity succumbed to a malignant temptation that turned the conquerors into the conquered.

Having overcome pagan superstitions of the past, Christianity began to absorb certain traditions which the apostles found detestable. In Rome, most of it began by the worship of images, ...and adaptation of pagan feast days, which diluted Christianity.

Satan had devised a ploy to destroy the Christian faith. The first step was to do it from within by corruption. Prophetically Paul had written, 'After my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, ...speaking perverse things' (Acts 20:29,30)." (from "The Islamic Faith Compared with the Christian Faith")

Temples devoted to the Worship of Dionysus became Churches of the Blessed Mary. The Temples of Bacchus became Churches of St. Peter. Pagan rituals became part of the Church and the two become intertwined. Instead of relying on the power of Christ these new "Churches" settled for "having a form of godliness but denying its power" (2 Timothy 3:5) and the Bible says "Have nothing to do with them".

When Constantine’s son Theodious (379-395 AD) made all other religions besides Christianity illegal, forcing Christianity upon people. This only brought Paganism into the Church and corroded it from within.

The corruption of the Church began by absorbing Pagan principals into Christianity:
"The people of the Empire had long been accustomed to worshipping the many gods of Rome as well as those imported from conquered lands. In times of trial or to obtain a particular blessing, they would seek the patronage of a particular deity who specialized in their area of need. When the pagan religions were outlawed, the people lost their supernatural benefactors.

Before Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, tens of thousands of adherents to [Christianity] had been martyred, most in unspeakably horrible ways. Christians honored these 'dead in Christ' and venerated then through the long-standing cult of the dead. Many of these 'saints' were associated with miraculous healings and other supernatural wonders. It was but a simple matter to incorporate them into vacancies in the pantheon of outlawed pagan gods. These 'saints' assumed the roles of patrons for the various endeavors and concerns of the masses. And thus began the paganization of Christianity. No longer were God the Father and Christ the Son the principle focus of worship, now Mary and, to a lesser degree, the various 'saints,' began to increasingly occupy the spiritual energies of those now calling themselves 'Christians.' " ("How Mary Came to Be a Goddess")

Christians... especially fundamental Bible believing Christians do not wish to absorb more Paganism into the teachings of Christ. We don't wish to assimilate other religions into ours. We're not the boogeymen the Human Secularist extremists try to make people of faith out to be. We do not want Christianity by force. That is a misconception that is frequently perpetrated. There's no need to have fake Christians or false teachers come into Christianity. I'm sure we have enough already.

Why are Most Christians Conservative?

Jesus believed in stopping violence and the rich giving to the poor, so why do Christians normally align themselves with conservatives? There are three main reasons that Christians are conservative. One is that those who want to force and coerse the wealthy into giving to the poor (the left) in their specific way, also promote the "Culture of Death", try to erode Christian values and spew hate language about Christianity. Secondly, those who persecute Christians have aligned themselves with big Government against the freedom to worship of the individual. Third, eliminating business consolidates more power in fewer hands, which enemies of Christ can use to persecute people of faith. These three are only theory, but the left has a history of oppression and outright violence against people of strong religious beliefs.

I believe it's the full comprehensive value system ("moral values") that comes with the Secular Humanization (secularization) of the left, that I mentioned in my post "The Rise of the Godless Religion", which forced the Christians to align with the Right Wing. The liberal mainstream chose the Secular Humanist value system over the Christian value system. By default the Christians aligned with the right, because the left abandoned them (yes abortion -taking of innocent life- is a part of this value system, but it's much more comprehensive than a single issue - although that's a big one).

One major policy issue that causes Christians to be more right wing prone is the alliance between leftists, Communism and atheism. The Secularist left's fondness for the Christian-slaughtering former USSR and Communist China does not help warm relations between the left and the Christian Community. Not to mention that the US left unleashed the power of the US military on it's own people to assault a religious minority (in Waco) - (not that the assaulted sect was good, but the United States secularist left unleashed the military on a religious group).

When organizations gain power, some members of that organization may choose to misuse power that has been granted to them. It's true for Governments, Politicians, Corporations, Charity Foundations, Humanitarian Groups... Whatever. That's part of the reason I'm pro-Capitalist (aside from Communist's and the Euro-lefts socialist anti-Christian policies). I prefer to have the power split between private industry and government, as opposed to the power completely consolidated in government bureaucracy. Shutting down private business consolidates more power in fewer places (increasing the power of Government) increasing the potential for misuse (besides I'd rather have the greedy-power hungry people in the world trying to make me fat by selling me fries, then by misusing Government power to oppress/persecute people).

Any powerful organization will drive the power-hungry people towards it. This is also a concern about Atheistic-Communism. This is where the state (USSR/Communist China) plays god, all other religions besides Atheism (Secular Humanism), are removed and people have no private industry. The Government has absolute power. And as Lord Acton and my Social Studies teacher always said "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". Atheistic-Communism removes all other possible sources of influence beside the Government... this only encourages corruption and oppression. The evidence of the atrocities of atheism is apparent. In my previous post "Atheism Is It Bad for America?" I stated, "Atheism is an extremely war-mongering bloodthirsty religion. Marxist-Atheism says that killing is inevitable when the workers rise up (legitimizing murder as a necessary part of evolution). Stalinist-Atheism is extremely murder-happy; anyone who disagrees with the State on any policy (doctrine) must be killed. Chinese Atheism slaughters Christians and Members of Falun Gong regularly. The religious persecution of Atheists against all other religions around the world, is wrong". There was an atrocity in the US of Human Secularists in the Government (Atheist-light) against religious minorities that concerns me... Waco. Even here in the United States Atheist allies (Human Secularist Extremists) were able to hunt down and annihilate a religious minority.

The reason I find the Human Secularist Extremists concerning is that as a small group they have been able to suppress/discriminate against Christianity. If they do take over the culture to be the majority religion... they could be even more oppressive with more people behind them. So it seems that this small but increasing group of extremists have been encroaching on Christian's first amendment rights and the more power they get... Admittedly concerns me. The Bolsheviks were extremely violent, but many people thought if they were just given the power they wanted, if they were appeased, then they wouldn't need to be violent. Well, I'm sure you know that once those Secular Humanist extremists took power, soon after began the Reign of Terror (and as it's name implies... it wasn't very nice).

I believe that our Government is a Republic, and not a direct democracy for a reason. There are some things that a government must do for the good of the people, in spite of a desire of the people to do things to hurt themselves. I suppose on some topics I am for our government reflecting our societies values and some topics I am against it. There are some communities that have become dependent on Government welfare, so much so that it is a dis-incentive for them to get a job in private industry to provide for themselves. This phenomenon has hurt some communities, but people living there will continue to vote for getting these funds at their communities own personal detriment. There is some element where personal responsibility comes in however and the Government doesn't need to make every decision for us. I don't think the government should legislate what people eat or how often people should eat certain foods, but some Americans diets are killing themselves. On the other hand, there are some values that the Government has the responsibility to be a good parent of the people and tell them no to policies which are not in their long term benefit (like the abolition of slavery in the pro-slave South).

I suppose I wouldn't be so concerned about the Secular Humanists if the Government was an arbitrator between the Secular Humanism and Christianity. Or if the battle for the moral values of government was an even playing field. But our government has been consistently favoring the Human Secularist extremist agenda. I'm concerned about those extremists agenda BECAUSE our Government is partial to them. It seems the people voted in the last election to try to fix this disparity between the will of the people and a zealous religious group's (Secular Humanist extremists) favored position. I guess I'm not as annoyed at the Government for it's favoritism, because coming from a Blue-State, I guess I just expect it. I do what I can to vote for the protection of Religious Freedom (it looks like it worked this time, in this election, but we'll see).

Don't get me wrong. I don't believe we should have mandatory prayer in School, but I'm against suppressing the Freedom of Religion to pray in School. I agree that forcing students to "pray" to "God" is discriminatory against Atheists, not to mention potentially confusing to Agnostics :) I don't believe that "prayer or silent meditation" is establishing a religion of the State... that's ridiculous. I don't believe that "prayer or silent meditation" in School is discriminatory against Atheists. Meditation is not pro-anything (not even religion); it's just pondering. I don't believe that offering an optional class about multiple religions (which were Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish) is establishing a State religion (which is what was argued in McCollum v. Board of Ed) I don't believe that a Bible Study holding a meeting in a Public building is an establishment of state religion (New York State tried to say it was in Good News Club vs. Milford). I don't believe that religious clubs should be discriminated against and singled out, because it violates our Freedom to express (also freedom of speech) Religious views. If there's a diving club class at a public school, that doesn't establish divers as a THE water affiliated activity and discriminate against water polo enthusiasts, even if the majority of the people in town do dive. If there are salsa lessons at a court-house after hours it doesn't mean the State is anti-waltz. The State allowing a group to meet there, shows at least some tolerance to the dance of salsa, it does not establish it as the "Dance of the State". Yet this is the type of argument the Secular Humanist extremists use to treat other religions with a discriminatory manner.