FINALLY: Proof That God Did Indeed Create the Universe!!!

As far as the bible is concerned, all that exists in this
universe are two distinct tangible concepts: the "heavens",
and the "Earth". So i decided to spend some time theorizing
how God could have created such a simplistic thing, and i
think i've found the practical solution by hobbling together
a beach-ball, a baseball, some LED lights, and a glass rod.

Here is how it works:

(Don't try this at home kids!)

You see, the "heavens" are a giant beach-ball, and the earth
is a baseball held in the center of this beach-ball by a
crystal clear glass rod (the rod is firmly connected to our
north pole on one end, and extends a "hands-width" out of
the top of the larger beach-ball on the other). It is via
the act of turning this "rod" that God can cause the Earth
to spin, thereby simulating day and night.

Now, even though this glass rod cannot be seen, it's
existence *CAN* be proven simply by observing the "Chandler
Wobble" inherent in earths spin, and extrapolating that --
even a God's hand cannot apply torque to an unfixed rod
without inducing some aberrations in the rod's rotational
axes.

As far as the terrestrial makeup of the earth is concerned,
the trees and grass we see are just diverse forms of mold
growing on the surface of a very old, and dirty baseball.
The mountains and valleys merely the consequence of sewing
seams. And the oceans, lakes, and rivers are nothing more
than residual saliva from when God's favorite English bull-
dog, infamously named Satan, slobbered profusely on the
baseball whilst they played catch one afternoon near the
pearly gates.

Finally, to create the illusion of the "starry heavens", God
randomly stuck a bunch of LED bulbs into the skin of the
larger beach-ball (allowing them to "peek through" so that
the humans living on the baseball could see them)  For the
sun and the moon, he stuck one super-bright orange LED, and
one large white LED on opposing sides of the beach-ball.

Sadly, the universe as we know it will come to an end when
God tires of spinning the rod, and in a sudden, toddler-esque,
boredom-induced-rage, throws the beach-ball across his
bedroom and goes outside to play.

Political Polarization and the Failure of Modern Society

Is anyone else tired of this Democrat -vs- Republican crap?
Can anyone else no longer ignore that these supposedly
"diametrically opposed" contenders are really two sides of
the same insidiously radioactive coin, and that they are
systematically licking each others boots to a showroom shine
behind the scenes?

Is anyone else unable to see that these perpetual
"ideological wars" are nothing more than malevolently
engineered "social malware", propagated by the modern day
Caesars, who toss out polarizing issues like crusty loaves
of bread to the intellectually staved masses, which results
in perpetual infantile whining from the emotional robotic
peasants:

  WAH! You're wrong!

  WAH! No, *YOU'RE* Wrong!

  WAH! (I just want to wah so i can WAH!!!)

Am i crazy to opine for a society that focuses it's energy
towards achieving intellectual goals instead of wasting it
on churning up the same old emotional drivel time and time
again? A society that seems to now be caught in an
existential shampoo-rinse-repeat loop, flipping ass-over-tit
down the side of a steaming pile of mountainous emotional
excrement, that is extruded from the potty mouths of
innumerable whining hordes!

Am i justified in my contempt?

Society has come a long way since our native tribal
societies, but have we really improved all that much? Sure,
we've enumerated the basic fundamentals of freedom, but we
cannot escape the poison pill of our own collective
emotional baggage. Are we now witnessing the pinnacle of
free society? Is this "dystopia of dysfunction" all we can
hope for? And this "myriad of malaise" the unavoidable
result from that realization?

Is realityTV, gossip columns, drama porn, and fetishistic
fascinations with the size of KK's buttocks really something
we should be proud of? Is there any hope that man will
utilize his faculty of reason to guide his hand through all
the drool and muck, to find, and finally flip, the off-
switch on this "orb-of-confusion", that has him trapped in a
perpetual "Patrick mode"?

Or are my laments merely wishful fantasies masquerading as a
masochistic academic exercise?

YOU TELL ME...

Warning: Religion can scar you for life!

BREAKING FREE OF A RELIGIOUS PSYCHOSIS:

For years i had been perched precariously on the fence between theism and atheism. Attempting desperately to conflate the emotions i was "required" to feel towards God, with the logical processes of my brain telling me that the whole thing was just a ruse. And even though I already knew from a very young age what side of the fence i was gravitating towards, the emotional bonds of religion are so strong, that i could not find the inner strength to break them... well, at least not until recently!

The final nail in my "religious coffin" has been witnessing the rise of religious extremism around the world (beginning with 9/11 and now the event in Paris), in which i see the *TRUE* manifestation of religion's hidden agenda, which is: division, intolerance, and subjugation.

So after fighting vehemently against my own logic, and attempting to convince myself (foolishly) that the brainwashed emotional illusions i had been taught were somehow "real", I realize now that i cannot fight the truth any longer, and have come to the conclusion that religious ideologies are the most destructive force that has ever existed in the history of mankind. And now that I've freed myself of this psychosis, let my story be a testament so that others don't have to suffer through the psychological *HELL* that i have!

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS INNOCENCE:

As all "loving" parents tend to do, mine indoctrinated me into Christianity the day i was born. And even though attendance was not optional in my family (the only acceptable excuse for missing mass was life threatening illness or injury), my earliest memories of the church are good memories. To me, church was an activity with the extended family: we would listen to a gentle old man's lecturing; then eat a big meal; then meet and play with other kids, and maybe go for ice cream afterwards. Standard "wholesome" family behaviors.

Of course, these communal behaviors play two insidious roles: (1) They project "innocence" to outsiders and/or potential new members (2) They mold the members into a homogeneous block. A block in which instinctual mimicking and the emotional need to belong will later be used as *WEAPONS* to subdue the innate inquisitiveness of the human mind when inconsistencies arise in their ideology -- oh yeah, peer pressure. It's an effective tool baby! 

A "GENTILE" INTRODUCTION TO HATE:

Children were not allowed to attend adult mass (which was the first few hours of every Sunday service), so the children would be hustled off to something innocently referred to as "Sunday School", where we could learn about the "benevolent exploits" of man named Jesus. And i remember that we would always sing a little song titled: "Jesus loves the little children"  (how could i forget! This infectious little "jingle from hell" has been burned into my psyche!). And it was in the lyrics of this very song, that my first conflict with religion manifested itself. 

Jesus Loves the little children...

All the children of the world...

Red and yellow, black and white...

They are precious in his sight...

Jesus loves the little children of the world.

As i was singing the third line of the song, i looked around the room and noticed something peculiar: that only one race of children were in my class. I found this to be strange. Then later, when i attended mass, i noticed that everyone in the whole church was the same race! How could this be? I asked myself: where are the churches with the red and yellow and black and white kids singing glories to Jesus? After questioning teachers and parents, the best answer i could get out of them was : "Well, they have their churches and we have our churches". I then understood for the first time in my life the concepts of "racism", "segregation" and "hypocrisy" -- even if i did not yet know how to spell them!

THE REVELATION OF SELFISH DIVISIONS:

The next epiphany occurred somewhere in my early teen years when I had started to notice that Christianity was divided into numerous denominations. When i asked parents or teachers what goes on inside these mysterious "other churches" they would always warn: "Oh, they are crazy because they do X, Y, Z. But we don't believe in that because we do A, B, C".

Of course in my mind i realized the hypocrisy of such logic: Surely if we thought of them as crazy, then they must also have considered us as crazy. So these mutually exclusive conclusions were based purely on emotion and not logic. 

  Note: That little internal voice is telling me that something is wrong here!

In a similar manner, the existence of religions outside of Christianity contradicted the teachings of our church. From our perspective, *WE* worshiped the one-and-only-true-god, and only those who worshiped our god would be allowed entry into paradise; all others would suffer the flames of Hell!

After noticing that the members of other religious organizations were not much different than myself, i could not reconcile how a supposedly "benevolent God" could send folks to an eternal fire pit based solely on the superficiality of an organizational symbol? And furthermore, how could i be absolutely sure that i was a member of the "one-true-god's" religion? Surely the Jews and Muslims and Hindus and blah-blah-blah were just as sure as we were. But what if *I* was wrong? What if *I* was being mislead?

THE SICK TRUTH FINALLY REVEALED:

Religions prey on illiterates and emotional weaklings, and they seduce them with these false emotional ideologies. Because only a monster would deny an "ideology of love" right?(<--sarcasm). But the love is just a facade. A facade to disguise the layers of hate seething below the surface. They *NEED* to have someone to hate, someone to point their dirty little finger at and say: 

"See, THEY are wrong, but WE are right. WE are Gods chosen people, therefor WE are special. Therefore, WE are justified by destroying THEM" 

But they never allow you to make rational decisions based on observable facts, no, instead they brow beat you into submission and force you to accept their false teaching simply based on emotional faith. They will lash you with your own guilt and sorrow until you're unable to fight back, These are the tools utilized by the tyrannical, and should be evidence of the inherent evil that is called by the name "religion".

I believe emotions have always been "necessary evil" for man's survival. Especially in the primitive stages of evolution where reason and logic had not yet maintained a firm footing. In these early stages, lifeforms have no choice but to rely on the basic "modality of emotion" in order to navigate their world. But if these emotions are not properly managed, and their dangers not completely understood, they can be the "bane" of advanced lifeforms such as ourselves. 

Religion, under the "clout of love", hones man's emotions into finely tuned weapons of mass destruction. Weapons that will be used, under the guidance of tyrannical teachings, to destroy external opposition and maintain absolute compliance within the herd group.

If you as an adult wish to deny your own reason, and become the subject of a tyrannical organization that intends to create an emotionally dependent and intellectually inept slave of you, then by all means you are free to do so. But as my experience has shown, children should not be exposed to religion. In fact, it is my firm belief that indoctrination of children into *ANY* religion is a form of abuse. Abuse that should result in the parents loosing custody of the children -- as they've clearly demonstrated they are beings ruled by emotion with no capacity for rational judgement!

A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGAINST THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS HORDES:

My equal condemnation of all religious ideologies will no doubt elicit rebukes from the self righteous who believe that by not engaging in the "extremes of religion", that they are "somehow" above the crimes of the extremists. And whilst i congratulate you for not acting out violently towards those who don't share your "emotional faiths", i am here to tell you that you are *NOT* innocent by any means. Even though you do not support or resort to explicit acts of violence against your fellow man, you are in fact committing implicit acts against *ALL* mankind -- since your teachings are a direct repression of man's "faculty of reason".

CONCLUSION:

Even though i have long since conquered the corrupting influences of the religious brain washing i suffered as a young child, i will have to bear the psychological scars of this indoctrination for the remainder of my life. The only positive outcome from this experience has been that I've gained a deep insight into the dark heart of man, and with that insight, i can warn others about the dangers of these "organizations of love". 

We must constantly fight against, and ultimately defeat, the weakness that are inherent in our cognitive processes, because if we do not build strong mental defenses against liars, cheats and con-men, the malevolents of the world will use these weakness against us.