Spiritual Terrorism

Christian Bible -2

Question with boldness

““Fix Reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason than of blindfolded fear. ... DO NOT BE FRIGHTENED FROM THIS INQUIRY BY ANY FEAR OF ITS CONSEQUENCES. IF IT END IN A BELIEF THAT THERE IS NO GOD, YOU WILL FIND INCITEMENTS TO VIRTUE IN THE COMFORT AND PLEASANTNESS YOU FEEL IN ITS EXERCISE AND IN THE LOVE OF OTHERS WHICH IT WILL PROCURE FOR YOU”. Thomas Jefferson

Belief Breeds Intolerance.

A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant, and he is unable to be tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for the adherent of another religion but usually it does not stop there. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. However, hatred leads to persecution when the might of the majority is behind it. n the case of a Christian clergyman the tragi-comical is found in this: that the Christian demands love from the faithful, even love for the enemy. This demand, because it is indeed superhuman, he is unable to fulfill. Thus intolerance and hatred ring through the oily words of the clergyman. The love, which on the Christian side is the basis for the conciliatory attempt towards Judaism is the same as the love of a child for cake. That means that it contains the hope that the object of love will be eaten up. … Einstein is moved here by the long history of the persecution of Jews by Christians. - ed. You can find much more on this difficult topic at this surprisingly objective Catholic website.

Giordano Bruno - philosopher of the Renaissance

Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake in Rome in 1600, accused of heresy by the Inquisition. His life took him from Italy to Northern Europe and England, and finally to Venice, where he was arrested. His six dialogues in Italian, which today are considered a turning point towards the philosophy and science of the modern world, were written during his visit to Elizabethan London, as a gentleman attendant to the French Ambassador, Michel de Castelnau. He died refusing to recant views which he defined as philosophical rather than theological, and for which he claimed liberty of expression.The papers in this volume derive from a conference held in London to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Bruno's death. A number focus specifically on his experience in England, while others look at the Italian context of his thought and his impact upon others. Together they constitute a major new survey of the range of Bruno's philosophical activity, as well as evaluating his use of earlier cultural traditions and his influence on both contemporary and more modern themes and trends.

Galileo

It took almost 400 years, but on 31 October 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, and issued a declaration acknowledging the errors committed by the Catholic Church tribunal that judged the scientific positions of Galileo Galilei, as the result of a study conducted by the Pontifical Council for Culture.[128][129] In March 2008 the Vatican proposed to complete its rehabilitation of Galileo by erecting a statue of him inside the Vatican walls.[130] In December of the same year, during events to mark the 400th anniversary of Galileo's earliest telescopic observations, Pope Benedict XVI praised his contributions to astronomy.[131] Impact on modern science According to Stephen Hawking, Galileo probably bears more of the responsibility for the birth of modern science than anybody else,[132] and Albert Einstein called him the father of modern science.[133]

Christian Bible - 22

Luke 13:23-30 13:23 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. 13:25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: 13:26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. 13:28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. 13:29 And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. 13:30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.

Saint Baruch

Spinoza's metaphysics of God is neatly summed up in a phrase that occurs in the Latin (but not the Dutch) edition of the Ethics: "God, or Nature", Deus, sive Natura: "That eternal and infinite being we call God, or Nature, acts from the same necessity from which he exists" (Part IV, Preface). It is an ambiguous phrase, since Spinoza could be read as trying either to divinize nature or to naturalize God. But for the careful reader there is no mistaking Spinoza's intention. The friends who, after his death, published his writings must have left out the "or Nature" clause from the more widely accessible Dutch version out of fear of the reaction that this identification would, predictably, arouse among a vernacular audience. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/ http://www.yoism.org/?q=node/273

For Spinoza, being a Jew is a problem to be solved

Spinoza was intent on disproving any sense of a special relationship or chosen people. Why? For Spinoza, being a Jew is a problem to be solved. The continued identification of this people and their stubborn insistence on their difference has only brought woe on them, and the best way to solve this unbearable suffering that the Jews have been subjected to is to cure them of their beliefs in a difference. When he was a boy, there were stories of people who had gone back to Portugal and who were burned in the auto-da-fé—an ongoing calamity, the worst calamity of the Jewish people until the Holocaust. These stories clearly made an impression. Spinoza’s rationalism is a kind of answer to this tragedy, to the tragedy of all racist hatred—and the Inquisition wasn’t just religious hatred but racial. It’s saying that, to the extent that we’re rational, none of the differences between us matter. To the extent that we’re rational we actually share the same identity. Part of our salvation—our secular salvation, as he sees it—is to deconstruct one’s own identity. I believe that somehow he had indicated this even at an early stage of his philosophy, that being Jewish is not the essence of one’s identity for those who are Jews; it’s not ethically essential. That’s a viewpoint I don’t think that Judaism could tolerate—not in his time, not in ours.

Theodor Herzl - from assimilation to Zionism

jews recite every day three times

Many religious Jews pray three times daily, and recite faithfully that all the "goyim" pray to a delusion. שֶׁהֵם מִשְׁתַּחֲוִים לְהֶבֶל וָרִיק, וּמִתְפַּלְּלִים אֶל אֵל לֹא יוֹשִׁיעַ “For they bow to vanity and emptiness and pray to a god which helps not”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleinu The biggest Jewish thinkers of recent history, Spinoza the excommunicated, a.k.a. Einstein's "Rabbi", Marx, Herzl, Freud, Einstein and Ben Gurion all rejected the sacred, dangerous superstitions of their ancestors.

Einstein and religion - physics and theology By Max Jammer

Here is what “SPIRITUALITY” can mean for a "deeply religious nonbeliever" such as Einstein or Dawkins. - - - - Dawkins, for example, told Al-Jazeera, about his emotional connection -- minus God -- to creation. - - - - ..."Spirituality can mean something that I'm very sympathetic to, which is, a sort of sense of wonder at the beauty of the universe, the complexity of life, the magnitude of space, the magnitude of geological time. All those things create a sort of frisson in the breast, which you could call spirituality." - - - - "But," Dawkins quickly added, "I would be very concerned that it shouldn't be confused with supernaturalism." - - - http://www.templeton-cambridge.org/fellows/showarticle.php?article=629 http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-09-13-column13_ST_N.htm - RE•LI•GION [ri líjjən] (plural re•li•gions) noun 4) obsession: an object, practice, cause, or activity that somebody is completely devoted to or obsessed by • The danger is that you start to make fitness a religion.

shalt be thrust down to hell...

10:10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, (10:10-15) "It shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city." Entire cities will be violently destroyed and the inhabitants "thrust down to hell" for not "receiving" Jesus and his disciples. 10:11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. 10:12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city. 10:13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 10:14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you. 10:15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.

Einstein - I am persuaded that such behavior WOULD NOT ONLY BE UNWORTHY BUT ALSO FATAL

See my blog: Einstein the Atheist _ http://einsteintheatheist.blogspot.com/ _ Einstein - To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives of religion WOULD NOT ONLY BE UNWORTHY BUT ALSO FATAL, WITH INCALCULABLE HARM TO HUMAN PROGRESS.

The Einstein of the Islamic World

From the above article: The last speaker of the discussion session, Professor Simon Robinson of Leeds Metropolitan University, said the final words after assessing the conference itself and the worldwide activities of the Gülen movement, which the conference focused on. In his address he said, "Fethullah Gülen is the Einstein of the Islamic world." I'm sure Mr. Robinson likened Gülen to Einstein in order to express the highest compliment he could ever make about Gülen and the movement he initiated. However, having attended the conference I believe with all sincerity that time will accept and appreciate that Gülen and his movement have, in the service of humanity, realized things that far exceed what Einstein achieved.

The Irresistible Power of Religion WRITTEN BY FETHULLAH GÜLEN

Fethullah Gülen Atheist-Terrorist Comparison

Spiritual Terrorism: The slogan “Understanding and Respect” is misleading, since Islam denies dignity to free-thinkers. Secular men and women who cherish the enlightened views of such holy heretics as Spinoza, Jefferson, Darwin, Edison and Einstein, (http://holyheretics.com/) are treated with evil, pious contempt, with vilification and character assassination. They are branded with a heavenly sanctified, stigmatizing, horrifying label of “Atheists=Terrorists”. As nonbelievers, NINETY FIVE PERCENT OF OUR FINEST BIOLOGISTS (http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html) and countless other intelligent, honorable, peace loving individuals who are not addicted to sacred, organized dogma, are disastrously demonized. Thank God for Atatürk, the holy heretic who embarked upon a program of political, economic, and cultural reforms, seeking to transform the former Ottoman Empire into a modern and SECULAR nation-state.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free

Here is a “commandment” from our Post-Christian Founding Father, the one on the mountain, Mount Rushmore. “Fix Reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason than of blindfolded fear. ... DO NOT BE FRIGHTENED FROM THIS INQUIRY BY ANY FEAR OF ITS CONSEQUENCES. IF IT END IN A BELIEF THAT THERE IS NO GOD, YOU WILL FIND INCITEMENTS TO VIRTUE IN THE COMFORT AND PLEASANTNESS YOU FEEL IN ITS EXERCISE AND IN THE LOVE OF OTHERS WHICH IT WILL PROCURE FOR YOU”. Thomas Jefferson http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/jefferson_carr.html

Religion has a surprisingly high correlation with poverty, according to a Gallup survey conducted i

Religion has a surprisingly high correlation with poverty, according to a Gallup survey conducted in more than 100 countries. The more poverty a nation has, the higher the “religiosity” in that nation. In general, richer countries are less religious than poorer ones. The biggest exception? The United States, which has the highest religiosity relative to its wealth on the planet. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/09/religions-correlation-with-poverty/ In the United States, the poorest region is the most religious. http://biblebelts.blogspot.com/

Blair stated that Einstein believed in the Supreme Being

Tony Blair, a celebrated new convert to Catholicism and a slick career politician, who together with born-again Bush misled their countries and launched a disastrous war against a secular Arab regime under a false pretext, here disseminated harmful, offensive disinformation about the religious convictions of the Man of the Century. Since this was the end of the debate, there could be no rebuttal. Blair stated that Einstein believed in a Supreme Being. However, Einstein himself wrote: "“IT WAS, OF COURSE, A LIE WHAT YOU READ ABOUT MY RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS, A LIE WHICH IS BEING SYSTEMATICALLY REPEATED... IF SOMETHING IS IN ME WHICH CAN BE CALLED RELIGIOUS THEN IT IS THE UNBOUNDED ADMIRATION FOR THE STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD SO FAR AS OUR SCIENCE CAN REVEAL IT.” http://stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotes_einstein.html _ _ By “religion” Einstein clearly meant “obsession”. Einstein demonstrated that it is a myth that one lacks faith, conviction or religion unless he is infected with sacred superstitions. Einstein said: “I AM A DEEPLY RELIGIOUS NONBELIEVER.… THIS IS A SOMEWHAT NEW KIND OF RELIGION.” http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotes_einstein.html _ _ _ RE•LI•GION [ri líjjən](plural re•li•gions) noun 4) obsession: an object, practice, cause, or activity that somebody is completely devoted to or obsessed by • The danger is that you start to make fitness a religion. _view my blasphemous blog Einstein the Atheist at:_ http://einsteintheatheist.blogspot.com/

religion is more of a destructive than benign force in the world

Blair incited a sarcastic response from Hitchens when he argued the Northern Ireland peace process is an example of how people of different faiths can bridge their differences. "It's very touching for Tony to say that he recently went to a meeting to bridge the religious divide in Northern Ireland, where does the religious divide come from?" Hitchens asked. "Four-hundred years and more in my own country of birth of people killing each other's children depending on what kind of Christian they were." Although a lot of conflicts have religious roots, it's futile to try to drive religion out, Blair said.

The Intelligence Squared Debate, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs The Catholics

Click image for video: Is the Catholic Church a force for good in the world? Within minutes of Hitchens’ opening, the full realisation of the evils of the Church became apparent to all but the most obstinate of believers. The institutionalised rape and torture of children; the teaching that condoms can cause AIDS; the historical atrocities; the endorsement of dictators; the justification of slavery; the subjugation of women; the suppression of enlightenment thinking; the torture and murder of heretic scientists and the bullying and hatred of homosexuals, were but a few of the issues covered. Hitchens suggested that the Archbishop should not have come here to debate, but to beg for forgiveness on behalf of his wicked organisation. The voting, according to The Telegraph’s Andrew M Brown – who described the Archbishop as “particularly hopeless” – gives a good idea of how it went. Writes Brown: Before the debate, for the motion: 678. Against: 1102. Don’t know: 346. This is how it changed after the debate: For: 268. Against: 1,876. Don’t know: 34. In other words, after hearing the speakers, the number of people in the audience who opposed the motion increased by 774. My friend Simon said it was the most decisive swing against a motion that he could remember. http://freethinker.co.uk/2009/10/20/catholic-church-humiliated-by-fry-and-hitchens-in-an-historic-london-debate/