Christianity Is the Largest Religion in the World

Just over 100 years ago, Europe was considered the center of the Christian world. With the bastions of the Anglican Church in Britain, the Vatican in Italy, and the original home of Calvinism, Baptism, and other major sects on the continent, Europe was clearly the most Christian place on earth. However, things have changed.

Today, the Western Hemisphere is home to more than a third of the world's Christians. The largest populations reside in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. Christians make up about a third of the world's population, which is about the same percentage that they were a century ago. A new Pew poll finds that the locations of this third have changed. In addition to being prevelent in the Americas, China has taken its place as being one of the top ten Christian countries with a population approaching 70 million. Sub Saharan Africa has also seen a huge growth in Christian numbers. Since 1910, the region has grown from 9 million of the faithful to about 516 million. Three of the top ten Christian countries in the world are in this area.

The report also says that 50% of Christians are Catholic, 37% are protestant, and 12% are Orthodox. The remaining percentage belong to other sects such as Mormonism. The Pew Forum investigated 232 countries and territories to discover their findings. The poll does not, however, measure the level or intensity of the faith, it merely counts those who identify as the faithful. We can expect that the number also ignores those who refuse to openly identify as Christians due to persecution and other tragedies.

In contrast to the 2.2 billion Christians around the world, there are also 1.6 billion people who identify as Muslim. This means that about a third of the world is Christian and a quarter is Muslim, which are incredibly staggering numbers considering the estimated world population of 6.9 billion people.

It is interesting to note that the overall percentages of religious people have remained fairly constant but the location and demographics have changed. In another hundred years, it appears that Africa and Asia will house more and more religious people as their populations grow while those in the West fall.

Religion continues, just as it has for centuries, to be a major part of people's lives. Despite persecution, two world wars, and other hardships, people continue to honor their traditions.

Where Does Religion Come From?

When I mentioned to my teenage son I was thinking of writing about the worlds religions, he looked at me with fond amusement and said ” Sure Mum but do you think anyone’s going to want to read that?”

The truth is that many of our children are well past wanting or needing to analyse such things. They have an instinctive understanding of universal truths and an irritating awareness about the self serving and protectionist aspects of religion.

Why are the worlds religions so different in their detail yet similar in the core ideas they express? Almost every religion encourages us to love our neighbours as ourselves then proceeds to pick apart this idea with dogma and detail.

Those of us born in the 1960’s or earlier generally experienced some kind of religious framework in our lives with all the good and bad things that went along with that. The problem now is that the world and we have changed. It has become harder and harder to stay in our own religious box and see others as inherently different or less enlightened than us.

Now we ask; what’s in those other boxes out there? What am I missing out on? We all want the same thing. Where are the real differences?

Christianity and Islam have been in bloody conflict for centuries. Both have their historical roots in Judaism with which both are still in conflict. The big augment is basically about who is the true messenger of God. The Christians say Jesus. The Muslims say Muhammad. No wonder our children lose patience with this naivety. Many of us still see God as some kind of bigger and better version of ourselves with little understanding of the enormous complexity of a coherent multiverse in which every level has a creative and evolving role to play, including ourselves.

Only now is science, physics, evolution, historical archeology (which now includes solid extra terrestrial evidence) and our religions’ collective wisdom, starting to put the pieces of the story dimly together for those prepared to open their minds, step out of their boxes and search hard. More and more people around the world fall into this category. The emerging picture blows everything we’ve imagined out of the water!

Let’s be honest with ourselves. Religion is something man has created in his attempt to understand the universe and there is no shame in that process. But, it is time to accept our own part in the creation of those stories and move forward into a new level of understanding.

We need to move beyond the parameters of separate disciplines and start using everything we know to grow and learn. The compartmentalizing of our existing knowledge (a product of each groups desire to be special) does us a huge dis-service.

There are wonderful truths to be found in the ancient texts, including the bible but also a great deal of self serving nonsense. The days of unthinking acceptance of religious ideas based on parents or cultural beliefs are disappearing and with it those organizations not capable of moving into a world where people understand we all affect one another with our individual and collective choices.

There is an interconnectedness to life that Mother earth is starting to show us very clearly.

We need to learn the lessons she is displaying.

Kristen Claire Jones

Traditional Religion in Africa

Before the advent of white men, Africans had a religion. This religion was known as African traditional religion. This religion was adhered to strongly. What made it different from other forms of religion was that the adherents worshiped different gods. This worship was tied to the cultures and people. When the westerners conquered Africa and instituted their own form of religion which is Christianity; a greater percentage of the African population embraced the religion. Prior to this era, the traditional religion in Africa was characterized by Idol worshiping. This practice has lingered up till date. A handful of Africans still worship Idols and deities.

This discourse will x-ray the features of idol worshiping in Africa. Idols are symbols or effigies that represent a supreme being. The worshipers have enormous faith in the might of the Idols. To demonstrate how much they believe in these Idols, most of them give their petitions to the Idols followed with pledges to be redeemed when their prayers are answered. They must fulfill these pledges whenever they feel that their prayers have been answered, for it is believed that defaulting has grievous consequences. They refer to these statues and masks as their gods.

An Idol worshiper devotes time in his worship. There are always specific dates mapped out for the worship. This worship is always celebrated as a feast. Idols are normally offered animal blood, kola nuts, Palm wine, food etc. History has it that some worshipers offered human sacrifice to the Idols in the olden days, but nobody knows how true this is.

In Africa, people believe that these Idols are powerful and dangerous, though Christians categorize them as dead gods but it is clear that most of them do have some powers. It is always a delight to watch where the rituals are being performed. It reminds one of what the primitive man of the Stone Age looked liked. A shrine which is a collection of many Idols is always a great tourist attraction. It possesses some elements of fear, because of the frightening masks, statues, metals, stones etc. that are used to decorate them.E These Idols are also associated with creepy masquerades. Some of these masquerades are the symbols of the gods. They appear whenever it is the season for the worshiping of the Idol. It is only men that wear these masquerades, though their identity are always hidden. Women are not allowed to come close where the masquerade ritual is taking place. Most of them are rated very high that it is believed that any woman who sees them at the shrine will die instantly. Because of this, the venue is always barricaded to prevent any intruder from trespassing.

Some of these worshipers are classified as herbalists. These people are believed to have special powers to perform extraordinary things, such communing with the spirits, healing various ailments or diseases, sooth saying, making native bullet proof etc. This may sound unbelievable but anyone who seeks to verify should feel free to visit any part of Sub Saharan Africa to see things for oneself. I recommend Enugu-ezike, a town in Enugu state, south East Nigeria. The town has a strong history in respect to African traditional religion. Apart from the herbalists, each shrine has a Chief Priest. He is in charge of daily running of the shrine. He offers sacrifice to the shrine and serves as the link between the gods and the worshipers. Major shrines also have messengers and servants that run errands for the Chief Priest.

Africa has a rich cultural heritage. This Idol worshiping is one of the few cultural practices that are very much in existence, though its survival is being threatened by Christianity as many devotees are being converted to Christian religion on daily basis.

Religion – the Great Curse of Mankind

Religion is a curse forced on mankind by control-freak criminals.

Man has no real use for religion. It is not a tool for peace but a tool used by the worst kind of mind criminals to subdue, exploit and control masses of people. Through the ages religion has brought about separation- -not communion and love; war- -not peace; forced servility- -not liberty. Religion caused alienation, separation and persecution of classes and races of people.

Religion separates members of the same family, neighbors, people from the same town, people of different towns, regions and nations.

Religion has caused the most brutal kind of persecutions, murder of individuals and masses of people, torture, cruel ostracization, individual and mass hatred, and generally extreme unhappiness. You name anything bad; religion has been found guilty of it.

Religions, like all other sorts of ideology, are related in scheme and execution.

God hates religion and religious expressions. These buy god nothing; and it buys religious people nothing. Religious expressions are expressions of ignorant cowardly people. It expresses itself through cowardice and fear. God wants honesty and courage- -not feigned obedience and true revelation of one’s inner self. God wants to restore communion, but this restoration of communion must come from soul and not from god.

Other kinds of religion, but never recognized as such, are adoration of government, adoration and subjection to constitutions, institutions and the corporate structure, racial and specie identification, and last but not least, the love of money. All these categories show criminal inclination through mass-controlled and invoked malevolent expressions.

Religion is really non-communication between people and god. The god of the universe does not recognize anyone in love but as mere slaves. He is the one who captured us. He may be responsible for our physical forms and operation but he did not create our souls. He just uses our souls.

Even the god of all true spirit cannot recognize us because we are out of communion with him through the belief in a lie about him. As long as souls/humans continue to believe that they can have communion with the true god while holding a lie about him in their hearts this god does not even know you.

The entire universe, every creature and all relationships in the universe are based on lies believed. The universe is fiction and it constitutes a spiritual, virtual mental dream. This is so because all we know, believe and accept as truth is based on deceitful spiritual and physical sorts of propaganda. In truth lies cannot exist and liars cannot be rewarded. In the physical realm the only thing that brings reward are clever schemes of lies perpetrated on others.

There is no truth in the physical realm. If the physical realm cannot contain truth it must be fiction. In fiction any type of lower forms of fictions are permitted and truth must be shut out. If truth would not be cleverly shut out the fictional universe would disappear.

As long as you do not agree or understand this fact you remain a non-entity to god. This is not due to any ideas or actions of god but due to beliefs held in soul and in our human hearts that are untrue.

We may claim that our hearts are pure but your spiritual and physical indoctrinations make you willing slaves to the enemies of the true god and yourself. The true God only recognizes free spirits and free thoughts. Thoughts induced or modified by religion, government, ideologies and in spirit make you your own worst enemy.

Your purpose on earth is to recognize that you fear the true god because you come before him with unclean hands and minds. Once you know you are spiritually unclean you can repent in spirit. Repentance and baptism in the sense of human understanding (according to John the Baptist’s standard) is a spiritually useless action. Not the human creature but the soul must repent.

All the true God wants is for you to recognize the liar in spirit (the generally recognized Great Spirit or god of the universe is that spiritual liar) and the lie he told your soul that you believed; and to, then, repent of these and make amends. Standing before the true god in that fashion can have no other outcome but to be enfolded in his love and perpetual truth because then you are a true son of the true god.

This does not take one iota of religiousness or togetherness. It takes purely, individual courage, spiritual humility and repentance. Once all these things have been accomplished you cannot find any greater friends than in this true god and this false god; because behind the scenes they work together (like man and wife) to create new sons of god.

One of the criteria to be a son of god is that you recognize lies and desist from believing lies. Religion is utterly devoid in accomplishing this because it feeds you lies and makes you comfortable in holding these false believe systems in your heart.

To be seen by the true god you must stand alone (you cannot rely on anyone) and you cannot be influenced by anyone. Interference form any physical quarter in trying to find your self back in spirit will only cause you to be deceived more.

Once you understand your spiritual crime (not a physical sin or crime) you know that you have only one master, teacher, friend and loving god and he will embrace you always. He is in true spirit and does not exist, know or control the universe.

The ultimate god is real because no one can make that god a liar. What he says is truth. If you differ with him on anything you are kicked out of reality by your own wrong belief. You have made yourself unreal because you made the true god a liar in your heart.

Your false god can be any religiously recognized god, an ideology, a certain kind of government (like democracy or communism), racial superiority, anything you hold in your heart to be more important and valuable than the love in truth of the true god. He is false because you can make him to be anything you believe. You can only know the true god. How can you know him? By recognizing him from before you believed him to be a liar.

So, you are either utterly alone in courage or utter together with the other cowardly outcasts from reality by expressing a sense of physical self-worth and importance to the physical universe.

You can see that all graduates of higher learning are barred from repenting and from the spirit of truth. These people have tied themselves (status-wise and financially) too much to physical believe systems. They falsely believe that their learning gives them rewards in hell while they continue to remain enemies of the god of true reality. They like fiction better than truth because they are too strongly tied to their own physical nature and the physical environment.

Religion and Social Engineering – Part of an Introduction

Thomas Carlyle is just one of the interesting characters who had much to do with Calvinism and the Knox family he married into. Friedrich Nietzsche never really completed a book and yet before he went crazy his Wagnerian or Illuminized ‘radical aristocratic’ handlers used him well. Even so-called political religions like Marxism must be considered before we can understand the reasons for the likes of Francis Fukayama saying ‘absolute religions’ are important to his social engineering compatriots who I think are anything but patriots to the cause of any populace. Frederick T. Gates was a Baptist theologian in the Rothschild employ before they got more aggressive with the ‘invasions of science’ or the Palmer Raids and other controls including the Fed. We must go into the ‘torch-bearer of Christ’ (Hitler) a little more in this examination as well.

Those who believe their leaders are actually in touch with and inspired by some almighty god have wrought all manner of horrors upon those they are told are less or not ‘chosen’. But we all must stop being ‘chosen’ or having our loved ones ‘chosen’ to be their Scarlet Women or sword and cannon fodder. A friend of mine puts it this way. ‘My own maternal ancestors spent the better part of a cold and dreary thousand years playing a little game called: ‘Storm the Castle,’ in which they dressed up in unwieldy metal suits and pounded each other senseless with a variety of sharp and not so sharp objects. (Of course with nutrition not being quite up to par with today’s standards and with daily rations of wine being something in the neighborhood of five liters, we are left with the sobering fact that most of us who trace our ancestry to Europe are in fact descended from short, drunken psychopaths who whiled away their time bludgeoning each other with hammers, maces and cudgels, hacking each other to pieces with swords, and scalding each other to death with boiling oil.)’

We must ask them to justify their laws and their acts and insist on leadership that is truthful and righteous. That is not to say there is such a thing as black and white absolute truth or some way man can actually limit the awesome reality of the creative potential of life energy on earth and in universe.

I can hardly accept that John Calvin is anything more than a power-broker when I see or read him saying we should not question authority. Should we merely accept his interpretation of Jesus or any other dogma his ilk has designed to empower themselves over all life and therefore God too. Calvin said, “When it is a question of our justification, we have to put away all thinking about the Law and our works, to embrace the mercy of God alone, and to turn our eyes away from ourselves and upon Jesus Christ alone.”

Jan Hus was a church reformer who was burned at the stake, is a humanist whose message is garbled by the times he lived in too. I do wonder about his Bohemian origins and humanistic liberal attitudes fostered by Prague denizens or alchemists who became the Bavarian Illuminati. I see him as a bridge between the Cathars and Jesuits who are founded by the Alumbrados which means Illuminati in another language. He appears eminently better than his reformers who followed; when we consider Martin Luther of a century later.

Jaroslav Pelikan is the Sterling Professor of History and William Clyde De Vere {Important Royal of the Dragon Court family name.} Lecturer at this University which the Rockefeller/Rothschilds have so many attachments to. Yale is a central issue in research into the halls of power beyond the existence of Skull & Bones or the CIA people there. They also control the Olduvai Gorge research on the origins of man as well as so much in the administration of the laws and training of lawyers that I have dealt with in other books.

There is a little town or city in Switzerland called Sion which is rumored to have a connection to the Priory of Sion that I may look into in greater detail someday. Switzerland is the center of Rothschild and Battenberg Royal history for the last thousand years or since the time Rome supposedly fell and Christianity became what it is today. The red cross of the Red Cross is part of this along with the Templar red crosses which looked over the voyages or invasions of Columbus and Vasco da Gama. Here is Pelikan speaking about these red cross symbols.

“In an age in which the healing of the nations from the ravages of hunger, disease, and war has become the dominant moral imperative, Jesus the Healer has come to assume a central place. It was an emblem of the central place of Jesus {Perhaps for a lot longer than he knows.} when, under the terms of the Geneva Convention of 1864 for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick of Armies in the Field, the international organization created to carry out that moral imperative took the name ‘Red Cross Society’, its symbol, based on a reversal of the colors of the Swiss flag, is a red cross on a white background. Yet the connection between evangelization in the name of Jesus and the mission of help and healing has also been an issue for debate, especially in the twentieth century.

This debate, too, comes as a commentary on the literal meaning of a word in the Gospels: ‘Whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.’ {Biblio: Mark 9.41} It has almost seemed that in every epoch there were some who were primarily interested in naming the name of Christ, clarifying its doctrinal and theological meaning, and defending that meaning against its enemies–but who named the name without giving the cup of water. Yet it has seemed possible for others to give the cup of water, to provide the healing, and to improve the social lot of the disadvantaged {Yes, and they are the ones who created the disadvantageous divisions and castes in society to begin with.}–but to do so without explicitly naming the name of Christ. Does that saying of Jesus mean that each of these ways of responding to his summons is only a partial obedience to this dual command? In the answer to this question, much of the debate over the primary responsibility of Christ’s disciples in the modern world has concentrated on the disjunction between the two components of the imperative.” (1)

Yes, there is jargon and code or esoteric meaning in this which even he does not know in the fullest depth I think. It is not unlike the talk about manifesting the god force which became a political agenda around the time of the Hyksos or Semites in Egypt. Some say Alexander was the first to claim divinity while living and I imagine he did it more than those before him. All these people were propagandists selling people on their greater importance rather than helping people see the divinity in all things which many earlier people had included in their knowledge that gods were mere representations of the forces of nature. Tuthmosis III may have been the same character who re-organized the Mystery Schools which Gardner writes is the foundation of his Great White Brotherhood.

I am pretty sure from my extensive research that Amun was a one god concept of a supreme connected or collective of the forces of nature going back to before the Sphinx which was both gendered and honored Amun and Amun-Ra the Heliopolitan or Harmonic of Light which I dealt with in great detail in Neolithic Libraries. I also think the House of Mallia or Milesians included this Tuthmosis character and the other Tuthmosides as well. Here is a top scholar from Egyptology writing about this Tuthmosis character and his so-called manifesting god in the first recorded instance.

“The first reference to the divine will being manifested is probably that made by King Tuthmosis III, who relates how, when he was still a boy, the god Amun, in the course of a procession of his statue round the temple, noticed him and halted. Tuthmosis prostrated himself on the ground before the god, who thereupon led him to a part of the temple called ‘Station of the King’, thereby publicly recognizing him as king. In this case the god revealed his will unasked, but from now onwards cases multiply in which the revelation of a god’s will was sought for by men.” (2)

These elites and their Divine Kings are a plague upon life on earth and it is not getting better. The sophistication of the intrigues are not always obvious like it is in Korea today where we have ‘Moonies with Missiles’ or in Iran where the Ayatollahs run roughshod over soulful enablement. The same thing works in most media controlled environments or the world paradigm in toto. Just because the traditional religions have lost some demographics in terms of having insane or cultish followers does not mean the Mormons, Noahdist extremists and Moslem Jihadists or Scientologists are any different. I like the thought expressed by James Watson in his foreword to Discovering the Brain. He said, ‘The brain boggles the mind.’. It is also true that a lot of the ‘boggling’ has been done by those saying they seek God. We can be so much more – if we would DO as Jesus and other desposyni did. There are despots in these groups of the Merovingian or family of Jesus however.

We should be trying to end intolerance and the deification of one group while demonizing any others or branding some as heretical points of view. Ultimately all religions and beliefs are struggling with the same thing but those that stop seeking to participate in the creation and thus limit ‘What is’ are engaged in playing god. They often have made themselves the sole spokesmen for their imaginary god or the Lord as in the case of the Catholic hegemonists. But before we get into the current hegemony too much we will have to understand the root of the problem. The Reformation did not just happen and in some ways it is an academic or superficial construct. Here is Černỷ again as he addresses one of the origin myths thought to be most ancient. Note Heliopolitanism (Druidic sun-worship that Thomas Paine tells us is the basis of Masonry.) seems to be even more ancient.

“At about the same time as it found a means of reconciliation with the conception of the king as the god Horus, the solar religion of Heliopolis succeeded in reaching a compromise with a new cult, in fact a new religion which was irresistibly spreading from the center of the Delta towards the south, the religion of Osiris. Osiris came from Djedu, the capital of the IXth nome of Lower Egypt; ‘Lord of Djedu’ is his old title and the town was called Per-Usire (the Greek form of this being Busiris). ‘House of Osiris’. Nevertheless, Djedu was probably not his original home, since the proper god of Djedu was Andjeti, who is represented in human form as a ruler with his insignia, a long crooked sceptre in one hand and a whip in the other, with two feathers on his head. Andjeti was, however, very early absorbed by Osiris and his name became a mere epithet of that god.

A circumstance that favoured the absorption was that Osiris too was entirely human in form. He also is shown with the Upper Egyptian white crown to which two feathers are attached on both sides and which is set on a pair of ram’s horns. But there is an important difference between Andjeti and Osiris: while the former represents a living ruler, Osiris is always shown as a dead person, standing, wrapped in a long white royal cloak, the two arms holding the sceptre. His name Usire, of which Osiris is the Greek form, seems to mean ‘Seat of the Eye’; it has the appearance of a human name and it is probable that Osiris was originally a human king {How long ago?} who became deified after his death. A myth was woven around his person which is less concerned with his former life and rule as a king of Egypt than with his death and subsequent resurrection after which he became a ruler in the realm of the dead. No systematic expression of this myth is known from Egyptian sources, our chief authority in this respect being Plutarch in his ‘On Isis and Osiris’; frequent allusions, however, occur in Egyptian texts of all periods which show that Plutarch’s account agrees essentially with the Egyptian belief.” (3)

In May 2004 there is a report of an archaeological find in Mayan tunnels (they loved the spiritual cenotes and still do) saying it was a millennium earlier than the Mayan ascendancy and yet it was just 200 BC. Aside from the fact that I have proven these people were there at least 3000 years earlier the ‘find’ is a mask of a sun god. The sun god or Heliopolitan Druidism is just one of the esoteric clues to follow in tracing the ‘travelers’ or Red-Headed League of Megalith Builders all over the world.

When Viktor E. Frankl faced death in a concentration camp he learned a great deal about meaning and life. Most people live in fear and this debilitating fear of death is not healthy. He developed a whole school of psychology called Logotherapy from facing the choice of dying. But there is much more to learn from the Many Worlds Interpretation of Physics and from ancient shamanic ‘travels’ to the places the soul goes at death and potentially before death. His experiences there must have included altered states that can be brought about through fasting and trauma. His work in that area is not particularly enlightening even though his Logos or Meaning is akin to the LOGOS which is the ‘beginning’ (as in ‘the Word’) and harmonically attuned to the akashic record which might be in our genes or the Cosmic Soup or both. Here is a little paragraph from the Preface to Frankl’s The Will to Meaning which carried his early book Man’s Search for Meaning a little further.

“What I term the existential vacuum constitutes a challenge to psychiatry today. Ever more patients complain of a feeling of emptiness and meaninglessness, which seems to me to derive from two facts. Unlike an animal, man is not told by instincts what he must do. And unlike man in former times, he is no longer told by traditions what he should do. Often he does not even know what he basically wishes to do. Instead, either he wishes to do what other people do (conformism), or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).” (4)

Why have those who arranged these horrors tried to blame the Jews (and in an indirect manner, all ‘sinners’) for the death of Jesus? He did not claim to be a co-equal member of the Holy Trinity. It wasn’t the Jews who ‘killed our Saviour’. John Ralston Saul says this about the whole matter

“HOLY TRINITY-CHRISTIAN

A pre-alchemist alchemist concept developed by early Christian administrators to soften the hard-edged simplicity of straight monotheism.

The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost {That the beatniks called ‘Laddio, Daddio and Spook’.} made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism {And raised un-natural ‘virginity’ or possible non-sense such as immaculate conceptions, which fathers must have loved and priests certainly benefit from, to heights of increasing obscenity!}. Twelve Disciples as semi-deities then made it sextusdecitheism. Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain, old-fashioned polytheism. By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion ever to have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism. This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with {And this is the MOST important observation of a technique known in psychology as ‘projection of a pluperfect paranoid’ or the ‘BIG LIE’ of alphabet soup agencies and ‘black ops’; the less organized criminals like the Mafia call it a ‘frame-up’.} by accusing other religions of the Christian fault. The Church – Catholic and later Protestant – turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view {Also they began at least 700 years of war, A CRUSADE! against the remnants of the Kelts in Ireland.) – Judaism and Islam – and persecuted them as heathen or pagan. ..These pagans must therefore be converted, conquered {ego ‘Manifest Destiny’} and/or killed for their own good in order that they may benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages.

HOLY TRINITY – POST CHRISTIAN

So far Nietzsche has been wrong about GOD. We have not managed to become Him in His place. Instead we have replaced God with a yet more abstract divinity based upon pure rational power… Organization or structure replaced the Father, TECHNOLOGY displaced the Son and the Holy Ghost gave way to information. The new priesthood was made up of technocrats. As the etymology of the word ‘technocrat’ indicates, from the beginning they were to be specialists in power… And they would stand guard over information.” (5)

The fears and apathy of average people are as much to blame for this history of managed and ‘guarded information’ that records the acts of bad people. ‘We are all our brother’s keepers’ is not just an idle platitude. The Druidic concept called IESA or ‘The Brotherhood of Man’ apprehended the Cosmic Thought Field of Faraday and Tesla or the ‘Cosmic Soup’ of Deepak Chopra. NASA scientists have just announced that Life is Everywhere including microbes in outer space. They talk about cell membrane formation that makes we wonder if these are conscious connected ‘info packets'(Tesla) or ‘templates’ (Teilhard de Chardin) from which energy can create in a manner more akin to ancient creationist theories of the supposed pagans.

Religion in the Year 2200 – The Gods Are Still Smiling

Are the gods finished? Is religion headed for the dustbin of history? If you believe the oracles of atheism, the answer is yes on both counts.

Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett are leading crusaders against religion. Their titles are riding best-selling lists: Harris’s “The End of Faith” and “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Dennett’s “Breaking the Spell”, Dawkins’s “The God Delusion” and Hitchens’s “God Is Not Great”. If nothing else, they will get rich selling books.

These oracles call for the end to religion. They propose an unfettered worship of science. Ironically they are not scientific about forecasting the future of religion. After all, aren’t scientists supposed to be objective?

It doesn’t have to be this way. There are enough tools and data available to make forecasts. Indeed, best estimates show for the next 200 years may surprise some. They show that over 80% of the world’s population will continue to be connected with religions. These estimates go out for the next 200 years. Are the oracles guilty of wishful thinking?

What data are available? Consider this. Governments have collected data on religious populations and practices since the 12th century. Over 120 countries gather this data in census surveys. Religious organizations put vast efforts into assembling data on about 10,000 distinct religions.

Dr. Todd M. Johnson, director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, and David B. Barrett, of Regent University are the authors of the World Christian Encyclopedia. Published in 2001, it is the largest database on religious affiliation in the world.

While the data are far from precise, they do provide an admirable starting point. It is possible to identify trends and make forecasts. Yet, notes Todd Johnson, experts rarely use this information.

What does the encyclopedia show? Well, great shifts took place between 1900 and 2000. Christianity became the first universal religion geographically. It has remained the biggest at 32 percent. It lost market share during the reign of communism. Second-ranking Islam expanded. Buddhism and Hinduism declined slightly. Chinese and other folk faiths dropped, as did Judaism. The nonreligious group, including atheists, was negligible in 1900. It claimed nearly a fifth of the world’s people at one point in the 20th century at the peak of communism. However, it had declined since European Communism’s fall.

The data also provide a solid base on which to make forecasts. Johnson and Barrett have done just that, publishing the results in the November, 2004 issue of the journal, “Futures”.

They suggest that the key to the future of religion is demographics. The main agent of change is births minus deaths. Children are almost always counted to have the religion of their parents. This is the law in Norway and many other countries.

Johnson and Barrett set out four scenarios for the next 200 years. The scenarios were: pure demographics, demographics plus conversions, a Muslim renaissance and a nonreligious resurgence. Under all scenarios, they found that religion is surprisingly resilient.

According to the first three scenarios, the nonreligious will represent about 10 percent of the world’s population. And atheists only 2 percent. Even an unlikely resurgence of the nonreligious would still see 66 percent of the world’s population connected with some religion. Christians will likely continue to be the world’s largest religion. They will still claim about 32 percent of total population, despite a strong challenge by Islam.

So, it may be a win-win situation. The oracles of atheism are enjoying solid book sales. However, gods are still smiling. Their religions will be around for another 200 years.

Religion's Influence on Jewelry

From the beginning of time and mankind, jewelry has been an expression of wealth and social standing. Jewelry has also been influenced by the cultures and religions in the various regions of the world. The influence of certain beliefs as it relates to jewelry is evident in most cultures though out the passage of time. From the beginning to present time religion and jewelry are a common expression of our beliefs.

A perfect example of these influences is Ancient Egypt. Gold was used in fashioning statues of Egyptian gods and goddesses adorning these symbols with gemstones. Some of these symbols such as the scarab, the lotus and other symbols were fashioned in bracelets, necklaces and rings that were worn by royalty, upper class and of course their priests and priestess. When Christianity was infused into the Egyptian culture Christian jewelry was made in less expensive materials. The Islamic influence in Egyptian jewelry even forbid men to wear gold. This began the beginning of silver to be a predominate metal in the creating and making of religious jewelry. This phenomenon holds true for other ancient cultures such as the Greek, Asian, African, all the lands of the world.

The Christian influence in jewelry is still evident today. The symbol of the cross made in rings, bracelets, necklaces and even earrings are worn to identify ones faith as a Christian. Rosary beads are a form of jewelry used in prayers which also bears the cross, a reminder of Jesus Christ's sacrifices made for mankind and God's love. These rosary beads, also known as prayer beads are adorned with all types of gemstones and baubles.

Religion has had major influences on jewelry in every society around the world not only in the creation of the jewelry but also in the wearing of these pieces. In some cultures certain jewelry can only be worn for particular ceremonies or certain times of the year. This type of religious jewelry reflect those moments of time of great strife or religious upheavals that effected the course of that particular culture's growth and behavior.

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Born Shinto, Married Christian, Buried Buddhists: Religions of Japan

While Western liberal secularism has come to be ridiculed as yet another form of a repressive organized religion, it seems that the Japanese have figured out a way to truly live as they wish. Where else would you find someone who is born within one religion, marries under entirely different customs, and dies as a member of a third religion? Although Shinto is Japan’s indigenous religion (or, more precisely, spirituality), with most births registered with Shinto shrines, the population follows Buddhist and Christian practices as well. Japan is a role model for tolerance in our increasingly polarized world.

Shinto in Japan

Shinto, literally meaning “Way of Gods,” is Japan’s indigenous religion. You will come across several denominations of Shinto in Japan. The most widespread is Shrine Shinto followed by Folk Shinto and Sect Shinto. The imperial family of Japan follows its own brand of Shinto known as the Imperial Household Shinto. Much of the Shinto religion in Japan has been influenced by Buddhist practices. Ko-Shinto, or “Old Shinto” aims to follow the original Shinto prior to the introduction of Buddhism.

Buddhism in Japan

In Japan, you will find mainly three forms of Buddhism: Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism and Vajrayana Buddhism. Mahayana Buddhism is most common. Nara Buddhism is practiced in some parts of the country, though not as much as Mahayana. With the arrival of Buddhism in the sixth century, both Shinto and Buddhism were practiced in tandem. However, in 1886, the two were separated as part of the Meiji Restoration. In this separation, Shinto got the status of the official religion. Today, when they pass away, the Japanese choose to be cremated according to Buddhist rituals. In general, they use Shinto for events relating to life, while Buddhism is for events pertaining to death and the afterlife.

Christianity in Japan

Christianity was introduced in Japan by the Portuguese in the 16th century. Toyotomi Hideyoshi of the Momoyama period imposed a ban on Christian missionaries, but the ban was withdrawn during the Meiji Restoration in 1873 and missionaries again started spreading their message. Western Japan has been most heavily influenced by Christianity, though Christian weddings are emerging as a prominent alternate to traditional Shinto wedding ceremonies throughout Japan. Wedding chapels are even being designed as churches. The Japanese also celebrate other Christian holidays and traditions such as Christmas and Valentine’s Day. Interestingly, the men are the ones who receive chocolate from the women on Valentine’s Day in Japan, only to give back on a separate celebration of love known as White Day.

The Man of Sin Is Revealed, The Son of Perdition

The prophecy states that the man of sin will be revealed in the last days. No surprise then that it has now happened. So what and where is this prophecy and who is the one it calls out. The answers took many years of research while visions that followed my reincarnation and link to the Spirit of the Universe, the real God, led me to them. As the facts came to light so did the extent of the difficulty in exposing them.

A series of visions and requests began many years of work in the Spirit to find the answers. The first request (commission) was to tear down the wall of churches. The next was to take God off the cross and this was followed by words standing up in front of my eyes which read CONSTANTINE IS 666 in large capital letters.

When the first commission was received a vision showed my face on a screen. The year was 1984 and it was a long time before the Internet became a common resource. In fact, I was completely ignorant of it. Now, however, my face is on computer screens, mobile phones, tablets, and every other screen when people tune into my web sites or read my articles.

So what did Constantine do and why is he the one with the number 666. It took me many years to completely resolves every question in relation to him and the fallout of his reign as a Roman Emperor. Once it was clear from all aspects it was time to publish the results.

That couldn't happen unless sufficient background could also be explained. What came to light was the ancient language that holds the origin of religious beliefs, how they were formed into the Islamic religion of Babylon, and the role of others in refining what men considered appropriate forms of worship.

To support those findings my next commission was to test it through academic studies and disciplines that included archeology, anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy. All are part of the human brain processes and development. What is laid down in ancient cities buried in the earth for thousands of years and in the words people speak today is past behavior.

Caught in places where they could not be changed and cannot now be protested against is irrefutable evidence that proves conclusively that Constantine is the man of sin and this prophecy has been fulfilled. We are at the end of our time on earth.

"… For that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed 'the son of perdition." 11 Thessalonians 2: 3

The Ugly Deceit and Horror of Religion

People go to church believing that they are serving God when in reality they’re victims of 666. My reincarnation and link to the Spirit of the Universe happened for a reason. Between lives a vision showed me that at age of 45 years my work would commence to overturn religious lies. At that time the power of the Spirit came upon me with such force I could not move a muscle and it commissioned me to “tear down the wall of churches.”

In several visions following this that wall was shown to me as a monstrous barrier to the truth. It is composed of lies, fear, hate, and human stupidity. It is impenetrable and it blocks the Spirit and changes the nature of God into a man who was supposedly ‘killed’ by the Romans. The story is incredulous and those without any spirituality easily fall for it.

They are the ones who promote images and dead things as reality. Since that order was given many miracles have happened to people as the Spirit led me to them with healing. The power exudes forth like water dripping from my hands and diseases, broken bones, addictions, and other conditions can be healed in seconds.

The religious gods cannot do that and when the pope declared that a nun had achieved the status of saint it was almost laughable if not tragic. How many swallow the lies and are then filled with deadly components to create cancers and other diseases from which there is no cure. The Church, however, always has an excuse as the poor fools kiss their idols and pray again for a miracle from a dead person whom they are brainwashed into accepting as a god.

Millions have memory or at least an inkling of reincarnation, which was outlawed by the Church during the 5th Century because it conflicted with the lies. Job 5:19-22 states that we reincarnate seven times. We are at the end of the day and the prophecies for this time are coming about.

The first of these is the creation of the Mountain of God (Micah 4:1) that has all people flowing to it and through which these words go out to the world. God has a great controversy with all nations and organisations (Jeremiah 25:31,33) and is doing it through the Internet, the greatest miracle of all time.

The last days will see conflicts that are so powerful the world as we know it will end. The wicked are already being given to the sword (as stated in that prophesy) and the earth is burning. During the 1980’s vision after vision was given to me of what is about to happen and the horror of it was too much to bear. It is written in prophesy (Jeremiah 29:17,18) and while the religious preach of a forgiving and merciful God they have not read these words.

When the wall falls completely and the lies are exposed the true ugliness and horror of religion will be shown. It is all the work of 666 who is the second beast of Revelation 11:4,5. The two candle sticks standing before the earth are Mary, the sun, and Constantine who established the Roman Catholic Church in the year 325 based on the Islamic religion of Babylon.

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