Wake up...Please!

I went to church last Sunday for the first time in over 2 and an half years. It was the case of a different church (group of believers) meeting in the same building as I was "serving" in those 2.5 years ago. I must confess I found it nice to see old and familiar faces, all appeared friendly; however not one of them really knew what to say to me. I mean, I have "turned away", "backslider", "fallen from grace", I was expecting at least one comment about my so called spiritual state. I sat there and just watched as I saw the same old Pentecostal stuff happening, people whom I knew before praying the same old prayers and the method of the whole meeting exactly the same.

I listened to the preacher, nice guy too, but for once I really listened and not surprisingly he just kept contradicting himself. First God was in the believer but then there must be MORE of God in the believer, so that means more striving and beating oneself up. That is the thing with Christianity...it is never satisfied. It tells you that you are the righteousness of God, but then you are constantly having to deal with sin. It is a pit that you never really climb out of and the powers in charge of the whole thing want to keep it that way.

The classic cult like buzz words were being used...

Yield
Obey
Serve
Surrender
Owned By Christ

I have absolutely nothing against these people. Some of them I have known for over 20years, I have nothing against the Christ...the real Christ that is, not that task master that religion has turned him into to control the lives of millions around the world. What I am against is the ideology which is clearly not helping anyone except for creating an imaginary world where the believers are safe inside and the non-believers are "out there and hell bound". That feeble excuse is the fuel that drives ordinary people to go out and evangelise these "lost souls" and bring them in to safety and freedom. Freedom? Now that is a subject. No matter how a Christian looks at it, they are faced with restrictions and suppression. They are told that the holy Spirit will cleanse them, but i have seen that after many years of knowing the people inside, they are still the same, miserable people i knew then. They just put on their "happy" face for the 90 minutes it takes to go through the motions on a Sunday morning. The end result is an inner madness as the things that are being suppressed are not explored and in such accepted or rejected. The freedom to do that is taken away, thus creating outward smiling/inward turmoil.

The believer is trapped by a book...the bible, who in reality is more than likely an astrological code book with very little historical data to back it up. No other study of other religions or philosophies are encouraged and everything that is contrary to this word of God is evil and corrupt. A great way to keep the masses is mind slavery.

I am so thankful to the "invisible hands" of the divine spirit (whoever he/she is) for bringing me out and putting me with people who have taught me to think for myself. It has not been easy for me, really it hasn't. I have had to get 20 years of ground in bible out of my head.

So...What is the problem here?

It is like an invasion of the mind.

A person...a non-believer goes about his/her everyday life, true it must be said that these people live in a prison of the mind already...TV, work, self preservation, stress, debt, personal issue, we have and are still all there. Then, at your weakest and most vulnerable moment the traveling salesman/woman turns up at the door of your mind and tells you that:

You are a sinner...Yes you are a piece of crap

You are incapable of working out your own destiny and way in life, you need "Jesus" (who happens to be the spokesperson of the leadership)to get you through life.

Jesus is the answer to all your problems...

If you don't except Jesus's offer of help you are going to suffer forever.

The reason because you are in such a mess is because you don't have this Jesus as your "protector".
So, in desperation you sign the agreement...verbal signature and then you are classed as "His property". They don't (maybe through their own ignorance) give you the small print:

You are a sinner...Yes you are a piece of crap
You will continue to feel that way after years and years of striving, trying ever religious formula given by a number of white suited, big smiling preachers. I blame the teaching of Paul for this.

You are incapable of working out your own destiny and way in life, you need "Jesus" (who happens to be the spokesperson of the leadership)to get you through life.
You will be dragged from pillar to post with a vast number of contradictory doctrines. You will be lead here, there and everywhere. Instead of making your own choices, you will be "persuaded" to follow a path designated by men and women who really do not have a clue what they are doing or what "inner voice" they are listening to.

Jesus is the answer to all your problems...
You will believe it and still will 20 or so years on when the problems are still there.

If you don't except Jesus's offer of help you are going to suffer forever.

The introduction of the fear factor and this fear factor will continue as the fear of backsliding and going to hell still remains after you accept the "agreement".

It is, in reality simply moving from one dream to another. Unless you wake up and realise that it is "YOU" that holds the key to finding the Divine. Not a preacher or teacher of some religious dogma. Knowing your true self is the key to freedom and finding God. How can you possibly see and know God if you can't even know and see your true self.

You may say to me..."I am me" but if you stop, just stop...Wake up and take a look at yourself and your life you will notice that you are made up of many persona's. Most of them you made to deal with some of the traumas in your past but they are there. Psychologists call them "masks".

Learn to think for yourself...don't rely on religion and media to shape you.
Start to read books, educate yourself, do things for the first time as often as you can.
Make a list of these personalities that live with you and slowly come to terms that they are not the real you.
Just say "No" to the life that you are being forced to lead. The system, whether it be religious or secular will brand you as a rebel...That is really not a bad thing!

The first thing you will notice when you do "Wake up" is...



That for a long time....





You have been taken for a ride.

Love,Peace and Respect to you all :)