Poison in the Pews

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I have seen over history the struggle of caste systems ~ the horrors of slavery, impoverishment, the neglect of entire embodiments of human, quartered off and as Pat Robertson says given"genocide from God with love," the oppression of women and the abuse of children. History is stained with the bloodied parchment of the loving words of God.

*"Those who are niggardly and bid people to be niggardly and hide what Allah has given them out of His grace; and We have prepared for the unbelievers a disgraceful chastisement.(As for) those who disbelieve in Our communications, " (The Holy Quran 4:37)

*The hatred in The Holy Quran and The Holy Bible is abominable. They both say the they are written by the one and only God. God is the Word and they do what they do best, violently divide our human family.

*They attempt to create superiority with ties to invisibility. It would be fine if this were fantasy. But it is not ~ it is the war of the world.

*The Churches and Mosques are filled with absolutely wonderful human beings, Muslims, Christians and those of non denomination. I only wish they could throw their handbooks of isolation and the chosen ones, fear mongering, and violence away and look at the human heart of the human family.

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"To charge the commission of things upon the Almighty, which, in their own nature, and by every rule of moral justice, are crimes, as all assassination is, and more especially the assassination of infants, is matter of serious concern. The Bible tells us, that those assassinations were done by the express command of God. To believe, therefore, the Bible to be true, we must unbelieve all our belief in the moral justice of God; for wherein could crying or smiling infants offend? And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo every thing that is tender, sympathizing, and benevolent in the heart of man." ( Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason , 1794-1795 )

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I respect all religious beliefs and non-religious beliefs as long as they do not impose violence and oppression, as long as they treat children well and give women the utmost respect. This is my simple philosophy. * In between my own studies and the works of many great men and women I have slowly but surely drawn some frank conclusions. * These premises of terror and abhorrent crimes must not be given the privilege of freedom from taxation. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, certainly, but not freedom from taxation. Our generation must leave this legacy for our human family. It is only right that the United States should proceed as the role model. Jefferson/Paine Religious Terror Taxation Act is a crucial step in uniting our human family. *

Violent religions bed rocked into words on parchment inked from aeon's ago are the most insidious cancers on this planet today. For they say "love thy neighbor" and in the same breath" take a sword along just in case your neighbor ain't gettin the love thing."

*The Holy Bible demands this:

*I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. (The Holy Bible, Lev 26:16)

*The Holy Quran demands this:

We shall make them enter fire; so oft as their skins are thoroughly burned, We will change them for other skins, that they may taste the chastisement; surely Allah is Mighty, Wise. (The Holy Quran, 4.56:)

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Their will be challenges and the opposition arrogant, founded in the unalterable laws of their God. What is most important is the support of Americas' Founding Fathers and the goodness of right. Thomas Jefferson believed this would be done a long time ago.

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All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. (Thomas Jefferson, letter to Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826 (in the last letter he penned)

*Thomas Paine fought valiantly to end religious bigotry. Susan B. Anthony would be ecstatic, her fight for women suffrage was directly in opposition of Bible text. Abraham Lincoln fought the Bible on slavery as much as he fought the plantation owners.

**"Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor." (The Holy Bible Leviticus 25: 44 -46)

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"Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise." (The Holy Bible Deuteronomy 15:17)

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*"The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives." (Mohandas K Gandhi, Young India, July 7, 1950, quoted from Laird Wilcox, ed., "The Degeneration of Belief)

*These are two adversaries who dispute about their Lord; then (as to) those who disbelieve, for them are cut out garments of fire, boiling water shall be poured over their heads (The Holy Quran 22.19:)

* Why are we as a nation financially giving favor to this bigotry - this hatred - this war - this separation?

**"The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.It has been the most dishonorable belief against the character of the Divinity, the mostdestructive to morality and the peace and happiness of man, that ever was propagated since man began to exist." (Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794-1795.From Gorton Carruth and Eugene Ehrlich, eds., The Harper Book of American Quotations, New York: Harper & Row, 1988, p. 494.)

* * *Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. (The Holy Bible, 2Cor 5:11)

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*We are a nation founded on laws. Religious handbooks, in particular The Holy Bible and The Holy Quran violently demand that many of these laws be broken. We in America are promoting terror unequivocally by financially giving favor to the worship of these religious texts. In the Christian Holy Bible and in the Muslim Holy Quran it is demanded to kill the infidel, it is duty. It is demanded to kill lesbian and gays, it is duty. It is demanded that women be oppressed, it is duty.

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"I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties." (Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Danbury Baptists, 1802. ME 16:282)

*We must change this because we are able . We must change this for all the millions of those who would have agreed but were not given the privilege to try. This Great Nation founded by our fore Fathers have given to us ~ today ~ that privilege. For me it is a responsibility, it is my responsibility for all those who would have, but were unable. All those whose blood and ashes, whose screams of anguish are directly a consequence of opposing these texts of abomination.

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It is our duty to do the duty that the President of The United States doesn't give a damn to getting done. The deliverance of damnation from the devil of denial. It is our duty to remove the spit and trampled footprints of arrogance upon the graves of the great men who gave their lives to the flickering of a light that shadowed the liberation of a darkness so desperate I shudder at how we as a people can remain so apathetic to it's tentacles of postulate that within the human - fear and ignorance is the first law of repetition.

We must always speak truth to power and not necessarily politely. I'm not in the mood for a bullet to find my head as I intend to be as outspoken about the The Holy Quran as I am about The Holy Bible. What I am doing here, this blasphemy, according to Gods word, Allah and Jehovah, the Muslim God, the Christian God, is punishable by death. Unequivocally, absolutely, undeniably. With The Holy Quran it's rather simple, my head is simply severed from my body. With The Holy Bible it is a bit more painful. I will state without hesitation, these two religious handbooks, would make a glorious bon-fire and that would be a blessing for our human family. But for now that day has not come and for now all I can do is what I can do and that is rub these two sticks together. * If we profess to fight the War on Terror the least we can do is stop giving financial privilege to the War on Terror ~ right here in our own Mosques and Churches. We must begin bringing thousands of years of Extreme Fundamental Religion to its knees.

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes." (Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, 1813. ME 14:21)

Do I think it can be done?

How about today?

The abuses condoned, advocated, and demanded within religious handbooks, have been as one might say, of holy proportions.