Wednesday, October 29, 2014

BEDAZZLED

   Because religion is a creation of man, it is built and designed to bedazzle the imaginations of proud people, where people can believe they are just a little bit better than other people because of their association with an institution:  believing that the institution has made them pure and even sinless, leading them also to believe that people all over the world need their institution, and that others on the outside are no more than dirty sinners, or even infidels. 
   Because of pride, there is nothing greater upon the earth than man's institution of religion.  In it, people are cloned to its ideologies, philosophies, dogmas, doctrines, laws, rites, and rituals, leading them to become walking-talking textbooks of their religion.
   Blinded by pride, the people do not see the bars on the windows, for all they can see is their own faces in the mirror, and they like what their eyes behold of themselves.  Trapped in a world of fantasy and make-believe, they see themselves as one with their religion, for their religion is their one and everything, and they, like their religion, stand tall and proud.
   In it, they kneel on bended knees to worship and bow their heads in submission to their religion's methodology.  They are rewarded for good behavior, and they are also rewarded for their total obedience to the god of their salvation.
   In time, they become as little gods, walking to and fro upon the earth, for they are clones of the god of their salvation.  Because of their self-image, there are none greater among men than themselves.  Desiring the praise of others, their good deeds are for their own self-glory.  They have no interest in the lives of others; neither do they have an interest in the success of others.  In all of their goings and in all of their doings, their ultimate quest is the eyes of others; for in their own minds there are no greater people among people than themselves while others are no more than steps for their feet, or subjects for their knowledge.  They are un-teachable and un-coachable, for who can teach or coach the minds of gods?
   Satan's poison is a lethal injection, and millions of people never come out of the institution of religion.  Bitten and smitten, there is not a recovery program available that can fix their pain.  There is not a recovery program available that can rehabilitate their spiritual state, nor cleanse their minds, nor erase their slate. The only cure available is Christ the Lord, whom them have rejected because of unbelief.  Because of unbelief, they have no pain in their own minds.  In their own minds, there is nothing wrong with them.  There is nothing that needs fixing.  All of their ways are perfect, and, after all, gods do not need the salvation of Christ, for their god is greater than God.
      In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.  (Isaiah 6: 1)
   To people in the institution of religion, however, they see themselves sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and their trains fill their own temples:  while teaching their children to be clones of themselves as well as clones to the god of their salvation.
   Bedazzled.  Bewitched.  Beguiled.

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