To: My critic
Me: This is a place of confession and I confess I really don’t understand how religion can fly in the face of science and what we are taught about evolution and how it works and I confess that I like to put that here, because my questions and perceptions have merit, until such time as you or anyone else, can validate your point of view, against science and common sense and my point of view.
Calling me names or referring to my age does not fly when you conceal yours and you have nothing positive to offer anyone who confesses here looking for answers to difficult questions.
As things stand, I think religion has a lot to answer to, quite apart from many of the Clergy, being charged and punished for offenses against children, Cardinal Pell, in Australia being the latest and he was number 2 to The Pope and was expected to replace The Pope when he “retired” and would have been your direct connection, to your God, presumably.
What Pell does not realize is that the Australian Crown will move the goalposts to a time when Pell can’t say where he was and his conviction will stand, because that’s what happens.
I don’t expect my confessions to make a lot of people happy, who read them, but then again, if your religion is so perfect, then it should not be possible for me, or anyone else, to be able to question the validity of it, or for that matter, how churches are filled with treasures, the clergy in general do very well off the services of the churches and I know of one Canon, who is a multi millionaire in property and assets, while the majority of working class people don’t have enough income to live a reasonable life, or gain assets of any kind, yet believe in what their ministers spout out, on behalf of their God.
I confess, I am old, as you rightly point out and as I have frequently said in the past.
I have never made any secret about my age, unlike you, or the color of my skin, or that I am a Jew, like Jesus was, by birth, but nothing else.
But you see, in life, to grow old, we experience a lot of life and its adventures that many of you in this modern life do not and in my case I have lived a very full and challenging life and I have gained a wealth of experience I want to share with anyone who has problems where I might be able to offer positive encouragement too, from my own wealth of experiences.
I confess, there are aspects of life today, in this modern civilization in which we live, that make no sense to me and the church is one of those and the point of view I put, just recently, about you, for the sake of example, becoming what Jesus was supposed to have become, 600 years after his death, in the bible written by the Greeks, which you all slavishly follow.
I confess, I don’t understand how you can’t see the obvious problems that blind belief has over fact and if that undermines the church and the people who practice faith of whatever religion, then perhaps they should ask their priests for clarification between what I confess to not understanding and which you apparently do.
By the same token, the Bible today, is nothing like the Bible as it was 1,419 years ago + 600 = 2,019, as it has been “modernized” to keep pace with technology and what the clergy who update it, want it to say.
It is a recorded fact that Jesus was a Jew. His mother was a Jew. His father was a Jew and he practiced the Jewish faith presumably while he lived. He was never any other religion that I am aware of.
My father was a Christian. My mother was a Jew. Because my mother was a Jew, I automatically was a Jew because I was born out of my mother’s womb.
After the war, my father was stationed in Celle, in Germany and we visited the Death camps where the Nazi’s exterminated the Jews and if Hitler had made it to England, my mother, my father and probably all of his family would have been exterminated for being married to a Jew, along with my mother’s family and I would never have been the thorn that I might be, here today, as a result.
After seeing the gas chambers and the wicked ways the Nazi’s exterminated the Jews and the Poles and the parents who the Hitler Youth dobbed in for anti Nazi thinking and money and promotions and medals they got for doing so, there was no way I was ever going to believe in a Christian Bible when we humans could be so frighteningly terrifying in exterminating any race that became a focal point, just like in Yugoslavia, not so long ago.
A new name for it now “Ethnic Cleaning”.
Here is the place for me to confess my feelings and why I think the way I do.
If I cause damage to the thinking of people who think over those that don’t, then don’t quote the Bible or Exodus or any other parts of that book at me and I won’t react accordingly.
Best Wishes, nevertheless………………..
