All that hypothetical, a man has his precincts and I brains obliged to make memo. One of my biggest pet peeves is past lay claim to voice disapproval on referring to the Bible as the holy Bible.
Hand over is a personal phobic produce built within Freemasonry that I control in the main ignored. We are 'told' that it is open to men of all religious faiths, so want as they profess in a belief in God. I met these criteria, legendary as of I uniquely come up to the arrange stanch Designer of the World as of that span has a comfy connection with my genus belief.
Carefully, I be aware of in a form of Accusatory Attention as of I be aware of the World itself to be a creative and competent protest. The fact that I am, for my part, a creative and competent protest within World I find of personal significance.
At a genus level, I do not be aware of in the holy Bible. I be aware of it is the writings of usually savage and strenuous primitives who lacked the further or the knowledge we control today. In fact all of our modern understanding of life, the World, and everything comes from a view of inquest that was concealed and threatened with repugnant death and misery for aloof a thousand being.
Fault the protection of organizations come up to Freemasonry, no form of clarification would control ever occurred. If you read the history of the Noble Establishment, and its liaison and financial assistance by piercing Freemasons, you confer on find a comfy tie to be found. As well, Freemasonry has continued to be a benefactor of escape of religion, escape of assumed, correspondence, and the claim of every play a part to total a correct circumstances. These control been, and want prolong to be, our delve ideals.
All that hypothetical, I protect confused by the established references to the holy Bible within Freemason ritual. Old Shrine scripture is riddled done all of our rituals and, at least possible almost in America, the book itself takes a piercing behold as the friendless headstone of God.
I control had difficulties with this aloof time, and I unobtrusive do yet today.
In for all I control been profit to let it slither. I appearance that as of I happened to accept a Western Mystery school (as averse to learn drink finish dog in Yoga) I acknowledge in attendance basic be some compromises.
So, why am I script this post now? This sundown I saw the documentary "Jesus Military camp". Hand over was vacuum in it astounding to me; been in attendance, done that. I control seen evangelical Christianity done my whole life and I know what goes on in attendance.
I excessively appearance that any play a part who believes, with a completely meet, that life began on earth 6,000 being ago is an open and extrovert freaking idiot. How can you resolve to lay claim to come up to this?
Greatly, momentously, in attendance are a lot of unapprised lay claim to in the world today; yes even in 2007. Evenhanded as in attendance were unapprised lay claim to 5,000 being ago past speckled parts of the holy bible were written; by usually unapprised savages who wouldn't know DNA from a gnat on their ass; these were lay claim to who had no understanding of cosmology, physics, biochemistry, or any other procedural check. Their understanding of the facts about the model and textile of realism, which we control a short time ago been profit to find out by further of the clarification and centuries of procedural enlargement, was miserably insufficient.
How everyone in the see 2007 can significantly look-in this decrepit documents to be prominent to modern life is elapsed me. Don't get me harm. Hand over actually are some decent pieces of scripture, even within the Old Shrine, but past it comes to matters of law, or explaining life, the World, and everything, it is a forbiddingly fuming and break complete storehouse. It is excessively, quite repeatedly, hideously strenuous, austere, and depicts a genocidal, savage, self-important, conceited, untrustworthy, strenuous, ego maniacal, natural disaster as its pin-up. Idi Amin, Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, and Genghis Khan receive wouldn't hold a candle to the tome of savage, and strenuous genocide qualified to pin-up in the Old Shrine (from the talented act of slaughter, well, near each person on the globe in the presumed inundation, to the slaughter aloof every beforehand uneducated child in Exodus, to the perplexed and extrovert annihilation of every man, individual, child, and beast, in Joshua, or even the frivolous slaughter of 42 children who were ripped turn-off from turn-off by two bears; sparsely in the role of they had the daring to rib a smooth on top man that pin-up liked.)
So, in addition to my pet vex that the holy bible is constantly in use dressed in Freemason rituals (even at the same time as we are assumed to be open to men of *ALL* religious faiths) I control a significantly not inconsiderable be of importance. I can cut Freemasonry some relaxed from the fact that (A) we don't dialect religion, anyone's religion, in live and (B) no one cares what religion or trust you subscribe to and (C), and credibly the supreme vital, is that Freemasonry has in the main been a benefactor of Free-Thought and Justification ideals done its history. That is not to suggestion promoting compassion, brotherly love, assistance, truth, and the aver school produce. So, yeah, I can cut them a lot of relaxed. Evenhanded in the role of the holy Bible is on the altar is not to accept everyone cares whether I be aware of in it or not.
Reflectively, my real be of importance goes back to the Evangelical Christians who prolong to cut a swath of annihilation in our society and culture. In the documentary 'Jesus Military camp I heard ministers conversation children, to the intend of snuffle, about hell, damnation, abortion, sin, in opposition to demo, aver schools, free assumed, and other self-described 'dangers'. I watched them feeling an effigy of George Flowering shrub as if he were himself the returned Christ.
As I hypothetical, this isn't report to me but it waste disquieting but.
My personal pet vex, and the intend of this post, is the span The holy Bible.
Perceptibly, none of these lay claim to control ever actually read the damned thing. Hand over is undeveloped within the Old Shrine that can be described as holy.
Seeing that we get to the New Shrine we are on terminated heavy-duty theological induce. In for all Christ's note is positive and obedient. Evenhanded as it was past it was put forth by hundreds of religions back him and hundreds as of. If you state the usually accepted actual wisdom of Christ, which includes concepts come up to compassion, brotherly love, assistance, truth, release, hub, hey, you are terminated than shortened way to living a Freemason.
Nevertheless, past I watched the movie 'Jesus Military camp not a single one of these concepts was ever mentioned! We wise person about war, dislike, sin, hell, and the harms of liberals (i.e. those lay claim to who actually try to keep going by Christ's wisdom.) Hand over was vacuum about love, serenity, humility, hub, release, or extravagance. Money me if I'm harm, but I openly be aware of these are the true wisdom of a backer of Jesus Christ; that is as averse to feeling an effigy of George Flowering shrub and strategy of unhappiness, danger signal, spiritual extortion, and prearranged training.
It continues to stun me that evangelical Christians, who say Christ's name ever third word, control no brainstorm, presentation, or understanding of his teaching! Nor, do they practice them! To every evangelical Christian in the world, I basic courteously memory you, that Christ, himself, *WAS A LIBERAL*! If you don't appearance this as a unadulterated and simple fact, I can a short time ago say may God control pity on your attitude.
Heck, I can't even say, necessarily, that I am not for my part a Christian. I meaning may state the wisdom of Christ in his own words and as spoken in the Gnostic Gospels. Some day, if I ever became a Knight Templar (which requires you to be a Christian), I brawn be profit to do so with first-class conscience so want as I profess a belief in Jesus under the protection of Gnostic wisdom.
As I comfy I confer on extend you with two obedient references. The beforehand is all abusive, end, as well as an eye starter. Some, up till now, brawn find it mean spirited. The optional extra is no another than the beforehand, secure that it is vacant in distortion form and as a result brings out the open stupidity of the words in the Old Shrine drink with a stanch finger of clowning.
The best extract for why the holy Bible is no such thing is:
The Skeptics Annotated Bible. This is the perplexed bible, word for word (no changes) but is dyed and hyperlinked to intend out the absurdities within this strenuous document.
The optional extra is the lump Shrine. The image at the top of this post is from a personal corridor in Old Shrine scripture. It is a ingredient of scripture that every Freemason knows and, I am sad to alert, I control to commit to memory and deliver as part of my optional extra range conversation.
The come across to the perplexed cut can be found almost. Board of adjudicators 12:1
Last of all, back I comfy, I brains I would be inactive if I didn't gather out meaning a few examples of everywhere the holy Bible is no such thing.
I confer on begin with my first choice bomb study. The be with scripture comes completely from the holy Bible, word for word. I be aware of this to be a lovely example in the role of it is all spring up austere and distinctly improbable on the meet of it. You be the expose for yourself.
Kings 2: 2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was goodbye
up by the way, in attendance came forth undeveloped children out of the settlement, and mocked him,
and hypothetical unto him, Go up, thou smooth on top head; go up, thou smooth on top go in front.
2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the
name of the Lord. And in attendance came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare
forty and two children of them.
Kings 2: (6:28-29, 33)"So we boiled my son, and did eat him."Women killed,
boiled and ate their own children in the role of of a prevalent that God sent, or as the
Bible puts it: "Observe, this evil is of the Lord."Whatsoever the
Bible says about cannibalism
Exodus 12:29 And it came to dishonor, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the criminal that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of farm animals. 12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and in attendance was a stanch cry in Egypt; for in attendance was not a go on everywhere in attendance was not one dead
Exodus 21:15 And he that smiteth his fright, or his mother, shall be of course put to death. 21:17 And he that curseth his fright, or his mother, shall of course be put to death.
Exodus: 31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall of course be put to death.
Leviticus: 20:10 And the man that committeth faithlessness with distinctive man's wife, even he that committeth faithlessness with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall of course be put to death.
20:11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: all of them shall of course be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
If a man has sex with his father's wife, slay them all.
20:12 And if a man lie with his teenager in law, all of them shall of course be put to death: they control wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
Joshua: 6:21 And they entirely destroyed all that was in the settlement, all man and individual, grassy and old, and ox, and cattle, and ass, with the edge of the sword. 6:24 And they scorched the settlement with fire, and all that was therein: a short time ago the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of velvety, they put inside the coffers of the go on of the Lord.
Records 1: 21:14 So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and in attendance ax of Israel seventy thousand men
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I can go own, you can go to the Skeptics Annotated Bible and read for yourself. Carefully, I be aware of that the common play a part who calls themselves a Christian either never reads the bible or, terminated organic, a short time ago reads the New Shrine. Of course, it's the lay claim to who *DO* read the Old Shrine and list it 'the word of God that shock me. Hand over is so significantly tip-off in the Old Shrine about how to paddock, capture, satisfactory, organization, and even slay your 'slaves' that in attendance can be no be wary of why this 'Christian' nation had slavery for such a want time and fought such a strenuous war aloof it. To those in the South the supposed subsequently, and some credibly unobtrusive be aware of now, that their claim to be a slave proprietor was a offering length of track from God to his voted lay claim to. I maneuver not statement who the voted ones were....
