How Organized Religion Covertly Hijacks Your Mind and Your Thoughts

May 30, 2010

What thoughts are in your mind? Who put them there? The answers may surprise even you.

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Church Hurt – Religion Or Relationship?

May 30, 2010

Church – a holistic place-a place of restoration and wholeness– where those who are hemorrhaging; who have had an “issue of blood” for many years-unbearable pain and suffering–going from doctor-to-doctor and psychiatry-to-psychiatry; who have exhausted all resources-penniless–broke–in despair–searching for just one touch– seeking to be made whole again! But what happens when the very place that you turn to when you are hurting…hurts you? What happens when those who have been commissioned and ordained to “put Humpty-Dumpty back together again” are the ones who caused Humpty to “have a great fall”? I am sure if I conducted a survey and sent it out to 1000 church goers, I would find that at least half of them have experienced “Church Hurt”.

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Religion and Handicapping the Esteem of Our Children

May 29, 2010

It would be a leap to suggest that the church or religions at large are willfully conspiring to diminish or inhibit the healthy growth of children. I will attempt to make the distinctions necessary to illustrate the net effect of what the teachings have produced over the centuries.

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Radical Religious Leaders – World Religion and Leadership

May 29, 2010

If we look at someone like Adolf Hitler, he was a radical leader that gave the people what they really wanted. He gave them hope of a new world where they would be at the top of the food chain, he would create a superior race of people and call them Arians.

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Amish Culture – An Overview of Community, Religion & Technology

May 29, 2010

If you visit the areas of Holmes County, Ohio, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and LaGrange, Indiana you will find the largest settlements of Amish people in the United States. The Amish present a picture of strict culture and an attitude that is not conducive to compromise especially with the more modern and worldly culture that surrounds them.

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Does Religion Cause War? Part Three

May 28, 2010

Does religion cause war? Nope. In the first two articles in this series we established that it does not. Neither does non-religion. In short, a belief system does not start a war and is not itself responsible for war or any other inhuman act. Human intention starts a war and a belief system can be hijacked and usually has to be altered or reinterpreted to justify the crime. But whose intention?

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