Poor people's religions

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Did anyone notice that those religions that have the most poor people are always the ones that talk about the Oneness of everything and how we are all one? No surprise the greedy poor want what's not theirs like socialists.

The higher religions, with Independent Baptism at the very peak, and their soulmate hard-right authoritarian fascism, or "moderate" as we call it, are much more discerning about who gets the good stuff. Clue: it's not many people. In fact, almost everyone is guaranteed a bad time in the afterlife and this one too. There's no Oneness, you get on your knees before God and no question about it.

It's so predictable that poor people would invent a fantasy without God or Angels or the divine right of Kings and call it the fundamental nature of reality. They could not be more wrong. Oneness 0 - 1 God.

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Did anyone notice that those religions that have the most poor people are always the ones that talk about the Oneness of everything and how we are all one? No surprise the greedy poor want what's not theirs like socialists.

So many denominations go for this, "United Church of Christ," "United Methodist Church," etc etc. Most often there was a "Southern" version with not money that united with the Northern European part on the denomination and drained it dry.

"United" Landover Baptist Church? No, you Southern Baptist Churches cannot have our money.

[MitzaLizalor]

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This extends beyond mere half-baked doctrines in places I have no intention of visiting. It extends across nations. How often have we heard bleating from new-age crystal suckers about India? As it happens I've visited once or twice (Delhi, Bombay) (they keep changing names though) and am utterly mystified. How could anyone think this wretched hole offered any sort of enlightenment? It's easily the most unenlightened place you'll ever see. A single example suffices: gigantic public latrines. Done. Not even Africa has that. And as for China, perhaps the less said the better about what happens on bridges, “Ew!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El4Oaz8mc7k

The united Hindu Rite combines Mary and Ganesh into a single madonna image as the mother of a (false) god. It's a combination of hindoo idolatry and catholicism as the 6 minute clip explains (sort of) but if you've seen the picture you'll get the general idea. Is this different from a union between Methodists and Zoroastrians? Catholic and Orthodox cults? No. Often one will say of the other how blasphemous idols in a "church" are, according to one cult, while ignoring the blasphemy of their own icons. Apparently one is a statue of a person while the other is a representation of an abstract concept. Or perhaps the icon itself is abstract – but they look like figurative to me. Perhaps the hindoo claims that "Ganesh" represents an abstract concept, too, one celebrated in Hinduism. Who knows? But that doesn't mean there aren't real elephants and attempts by such a dreadful place to glom on to wealthier belief systems (one with countless palaces, cardinals, mansions, gold everything with ultratacky gem encrustation, say) are understandable I guess.

What they really need to do though is jettison the lies and substitute Truth for the best Christmas present there is.

[Dennis Lukes]

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False religions that make an effort to bring in lots of poor people are going for quantity over quality, it's as simple as that. Catherlicks, Mooslims, they'll take anyone because what they need are numbers to maintain their power, rather than elite individuals of high spiritual caliber to further Christ's mission.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

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When white people brought Christianity to the slaves in Africa and transported them to a new life in America, stripping them of their identity, they grabbed onto Christianity like it was going out of style more than 2 centuries ago. The spirituals that the, ahem, "Negros" sang were deeply resonant of The 10 Commandments and the Regulations of Leviticus.