PROGRAMMED MIND CONTROL

   Religion is a spiritual drug injected in small doses, beginning when children are as young as toddlers, or even as early as birth.
   In truth, however, our minds are void of knowledge at birth, but the first knowledge that children of religious people receive is the knowledge of their parents' religion, for parents want their children to be like them, and that their children will teach future generations to do the same, which produces generational religion, or an epidemic within families that can extend for centuries.
   Parents of religion, therefore, teach their children their religion even before their children know how to read, or before they learn simple arithmetic, such as how to add two plus two, or even before they can feed themselves.
   Religion, however, is not contagious because religion is not in the blood, nor is it mixed with human DNA.  But people of religion, however, can be taught to believe that their religion is in their blood, that they were born this way, and they cannot control or change what they were born to be---while not knowing that religion is a learned behavior.
   We know that all religions of the earth are manmade from the imaginations of men, who appear to people as priests of gods and goddesses.  But because these men appear to be holy men, people believe in them and do as they say.  And because young children have no other knowledge, they accept religion because they are ignorant of spiritual matters and because there is no other choice available.  They accept it because they have been told what to do; that their religion is good for them; and because this is their way to reach gods and goddesses, whom they cannot see with their eyes, but of whom they are allowed to build images, such as mud dolls or granite sculptors, and worship the images, including images captured on photographs or portraits.
   Parents of religion, meanwhile, isolate and insulate their children from the knowledge of other religions because they do not want their kids to learn false beliefs---while not knowing that their own religion is a false believe, a creation from the imaginations of men.  Neither do they want their children to associate with kids of other religions because they could get contaminated  just by rubbing shoulders or from playing with children of infidels. 
  Parents of religion, moreover, believe that their religion is the only religion that matters.  They also believe that their god or gods favor them, that they are special, or that they represent the people that will go to heaven---while believing that people of other religions are simply unlucky.  Because they believe they were born religious, they see no need to share their belief with others, for others were not born as they were born.
  Thus, we should be able to see and understand that religion is Programmed Mind Control, simply because the minds of religious people have been programmed from their youth, or even since they were babies; for each religion on the earth has its own programmed order of worship:  and the program (or the order of worship) never changes.  The people participate in the program, which means they have their role or part in the program, just as actors have their roles in plays.  When the play is over, they return to their daily lives to live according to the prescription that is written in their minds, while believing in the gods and goddesses from the imaginations of men.
   As a result of this programmed mind control operating in the minds of people for thousands of years, perhaps as much as 90% of people on the earth today do not believe in the living God of Heaven, the Creator of the universe and the Creator of life.  They do not want to hear that God is living, that Christ died for their sins, nor to believe that the Bible is the word of God.  Because of their program, however, their minds are at war with God, at war with Christ, and at war with the Bible. 
       "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.  How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent?"  (Romans 10: 13-15)
   To know Christ, therefore, people of religion must be able to let go of their religion.  They must be willing to abandon the program of their minds and trust in Christ with their minds and with their hearts.