If you were at this
cocktail party with a room full of people and you were at the very end of the
room, away from the entrance and you said to the person next to you: “we have
to keep an eye on the door because Mary is about to arrive; she was born 30
years ago on a day like today”
This person then tells the other
one standing next to her: “I hear that Mary is due any time now, we have to
watch out for her and today she was due to give birth”
Yet again the story is repeated
to one closer to the entrance: “Mary is about to drop her baby, it is due any
time now and we have to be ready to drive her to the hospital”
One more person receives the
message and passes it on: “Mary is having birthing pains and we have to drive
her to the hospital because she has no husband to drive her there so we must
help her out”
The last one to receive the
message then says to the person standing in the doorway: “Mary’s water just
broke and she is having a bastard baby…the son of a bitch of the father won’t
have anything to do with her so we have to drive her to the County Hospital”
Then Mary appears at the door,
slim, radiant without the baby. The person who greets her says: “I thought you
were having a baby?”
Mary: “But I am not even
pregnant!”
It is not too far- fetched for
something like that to happen in a room full of people; now add to the formula
cultural and racial differences, geographic locations and distances, centuries
and special interests.
We all know that history is written by the victors and it is cleaned up,
sanitized if you will for consumption. After the passage of time a particular
tale gets embedded in the culture and the general population…in the case of the
Scriptures it was a population of illiterates and superstitious folks.
It is plausible that the guys on
the top of the food chain wanted to safeguard their positions and when they
realized that the best way to keep the general population obedient and
subservient was to feed them religion…the more the better, the more outlandish
and exaggerated the fairy tale, the easier it was for the masses to embrace it.
Also, we should realize something very obvious about the
Scriptures. When you speak in verse it is easier to remember a refrain, one
that rhymes and has an established order and style unlike that of extemporaneous story
telling. So that it wasn’t only great-grandpa adding the thought that Mary was
pregnant but he also interjected that Mary was a virgin and she was visited by
the Holy Spirit and impregnated with the son of God…you see, great-great grandpa had
a very creative imagination.
Some religions are
created just that way…we can even witness the process if we pay close
attention. There are several religions that were born in the next to the last
century and they were so obviously fabricated and filled with exaggerations,
lies and assumptions that society had classified them as fringe cults…the
Mormons and the Jehovah’s Witnesses are but a couple of good examples.
We can use another analogy for
example; it was a huge leap forward in the field of geology when someone
theorized that the forces that created the Earth as we find it today (erosion,
sedimentation, volcanic activity, continental drift, glacial activity, etc.)
are still at work and we can study them today. Prior to that, geology was
encumbered by creationism and geologists assumed the world was created a long
time ago and they were only studying something that happened by willful intent
in the distant past, but not happening now.
But the evidence of all these science fields kept piling up in favor of
evolution and to discredit Creationism. It was no longer accepted to say that
the world was 6,000 years old when you had conflicting evidence that it was
much older than that…albeit we have some folks that still believe this
Creationism crap to this day.
Religious creation occurs when one person either through madness,
corruption, or ambition, makes up a story, and other people believe it. Those
other people repeat it, but in the repeating also clean it up and embellish it
a little to make it a better story. Different crazy/corrupt/ambitious people
over time will take those stories handed down and try to take them off in
different directions (Joseph Smith for example). Other legends get folded in
and merged (like immortalizing Bigfoot) and become a part of the larger myth.
You are also aware that our present religions
incorporate many aspects of other ancient beliefs or sets of beliefs…like you
see some of the Egyptians’ in the concept of monotheism and we could go on and
on.
In a world without controls, these stories spread
and grow unabated. The process of religious creation is going on all the time,
and this is an example of how all modern religions came to be. Just because
they happened a long time ago doesn't make them any more legitimate. The
Scriptures, just because you call them “sacred” does not make them the word of
the Creator.
Our constitution grants sovereignty not to a deity or
a ‘holy book,’ but to ‘We, the People.’ There is no reference to God, the
bible, the Ten Commandments or Jesus in the U.S. Constitution, just as there
are no references to ‘consent of the governed,’ ‘civil liberties’ or
‘democracy’ in the bible. Those who have truly studied the bible realize that
it is a moral quagmire, a behavioral grab bag, which has been used to justify
automatic rule, tyranny, slavery, the degradation of women and gays, child
abuse, war, atrocity and mayhem.
PHOTO SOURCES: http://www.bible-people.info/Joseph2.htm
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