Belief

Thought / Hope / Faith / Trust / Belief

Behavioral Perspectives

Gary DeVaney

BELIEF

Belief Is An IQ Blackout.

Belief Let's Others Do Your Thinking.

Faith Denies Reality So That Belief Can Rule.

Faith Is Nonsense Designed To Motivate The Stupid.

Thinkers Have The Right To Adopt No Religious Belief.

Most Invent A Belief To Will Something Into Reality.

To Question Faith Is Good. To Discard Faith Is Better.

To Believe Is: To Be Often In Error - But Never In Doubt.

Treating Schizophrenia May Help Cure Blind Faith And Belief.

If There Was Proof Of God - There Would Be Only One Religion.

Belief: You Can Take Me To School But You Can Not Make Me Think.

Belief Does Not Trump Science. Faith Does Not Trump Facts.

All Belief Is Absolutely True - Unless It Isn't.

A High Percentage Of Stupid Is Stubborn.

Thoughts Are Voices - Beliefs Are Echos.

Belief Is The Abandonment Of Free-Will.

Atheism Is For Thinkers - Not Believers.

A Believer's Opinion Has No Thought.

Intelligence Is Categorical

FACTS VERSES TRUTH: I personally do not care for a believer's "truth". This is because a believer's truth usually has their own ego-driven agenda attached to it. As a thinker, I prefer learning the unbiased facts. Everyone is entitled to know facts that affect them. Facts don't care who agrees or disagrees with them. Only selfish, manipulative, authoritative egos care for facts to be censored or to be altered into their "truth". They want to manipulate reality to be seen on their terms. Facts have no agenda and prove to be real by investigation in time. Facts are mostly ignored by self-imposed ignorance when a high percent of stupid is stubborn. Gary DeVaney

Thought Is The Ultimate Human Masterpiece　

The Manipulative Nonsense Of

"I Have Faith"

"I Believe"

Absurd faith and asinine beliefs are the drugs that fuel the insanity of religion.

Gary DeVaney: Being a hypnotherapist for about 30 years has taught me some critical perspectives about the diverse use of the words - "I believe".

Diverse? Yes. Once, back in the 1980s, I wrote almost 400 dictionary-defined words that could replace and change the meaning of "I believe".

The word "believe" is not a word that you can depend on when interpreting what the believing speaker or writer means. If you challenge the believer's belief, the believer can easily use "wiggle-room" to dispel your challenge. "I believe" - ultimately admits - "I don't know". If one absolutely knows something, one would say "I know". If a believer's belief is proven to be false or wrong; the believer can immediately claim: I said that I believed it. I did not say that I knew it. I am allowed to believe anything I want because the Bible taught that I must believe.

Thought is the ultimate masterpiece for the Human Animal.

Having blind faith is the fastest way to go wrong with confidence. Belief just seals the error.

Ego: Ego is any manifestation of behavior that exposes: I am the value. I am the authority. I am entitled.

To express a "belief" is an ego manifestation.

To "have faith" is to have "motivated ignorance". To claim to have faith is to prefer ignorance. For a believer to promote faith, they want you to remain ignorant. Ask the faithful, do you prefer to have faith and to believe or would you prefer to know? If they insist on you having faith, ignorance is preferred. Settling on faith promotes covering up facts and knowledge. If they prefer faith and belief, they are lost to learning. That validates the condition that "a high percentage of stupid is stubborn".

David Eller: If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

Nietzsche: Faith means not wanting to know what is true.

For believers in "The Supernatural" - "I believe" attempts to will wished for things into reality.

"I believe" means I am trying to will what I want into reality.

Of course when this ego manifistation is challanged - denial is automatic.

"I BELIEVE"

IS OFTEN USED

TO “WILL” SOMETHING INTO REALITY

Gary DeVaney

Problem (behaviorally defined): I do not want something that is. I want something that is not. Without a do want or a do not want there is no problem. Want is the key to all problems.

I submit that often when someone says: “I BELIEVE”, he or she is saying: I want to “WILL” something that I want into reality.

Perspective: People have learned to use the words “I BELIEVE” in their attempts to “WILL” what they want into reality.

This is one dramatic example of how the 2 words “I believe” can be used to “will” and manipulate what someone wants into reality.

A DeVaney Parable: A man is found guilty of murder and is sentenced to death by firing squad.

The day before his execution, the court official asks the condemned man if he has a last request.

(Privately, the condemned man wants to live and plans to use a belief to will what he wants into reality.)

He says: Yes. I believe that my firing squad should consist of practicing, devoted, God-Fearing Christians. No Atheists!

The court official said: Your request is granted.

The court system searched for and found 7 men for the firing squad. They all claimed to be devoted, practicing, God-Fearing Christians.

(Personally imagine and pretend that you are a Christian believer, who admitted to the requested qualifications, and that you were chosen to be 1 of the 7 on the firing squad. Privately, the condemned man wanted to live. So, he planned to publicly state his belief at the right time to paralyze the trigger-fingers of the 7 men who were to shoot him to death. He wanted his stated belief to change his reality.)

On the day of the execution, the condemned man was tied to a post.

The court official offered the condemned man a blindfold. He refused the blindfold.

The court official then asked the condemned man if he had any last words.

The condemned man said: Yes. I am a Christian. I am a sinner. Right now, I believe that he who is without sin should shoot me dead.

Upon hearing this, it could be left up to your personal, Christian, God-Fearing conscience what would happen next. What would you do?

Free-will: Does your “free-will” mean that you “will” (pretend) what you claim is God into reality?

Blind Faith & Belief

Gary DeVaney

Is pushing blind faith and belief on the gullible pushing agendas of evil, fraud and theft?

Aren't ego-centered, emotional, faithful, believers robbed of their mental capacity - their rationale, their logic and reason?

Statically, don't practicing blind-faith-believers become low percentage gamblers - whose determined beliefs become gambles?

Don't the idealistic, the gullible, the faithful, the mentally-challenged and the stubborn usually lose in life?

Businessmen built billion-dollar, world-class casinos that are financed by stupid, stubborn losers. They had faith and believed that they were entitled to win. Advertised and exploited winners draw in the idealistic “ego-driven” (I am special / I am entitled) suckers who are programmed and destined to throw money away.

Faith and belief are psychological tools to prepare the gullible for con-jobs.

Confidence: Knowing what you are doing and why you are doing it.

The rationally confident invests - while the faithfully ignorant gambles.

In school, one is not tested and graded on one's blind faith or belief. One is tested and graded on what one proved to know.

Point out the contradictions in the Bible to a believer and you will see / hear these excuses:

1. “You’re quoting that out of context!”

After making this claim, why do believers never attempt to come up with the proper context?

2. “That word meant something different than it does now!”

Believers never explain what that word meant back then.

3. “That’s not a contradiction. You don’t have The Holy Spirit! If you did, you would understand (accept) that passage.”

Why can’t believers explain it if they claim to have the Holy Spirit.

4. “That’s just figurative, not literal.”

It is always figurative when a literal interpretation would lead to a contradiction or an absurdity.

5. “It meant something different in the original Greek / Hebrew / Aramaic.”

Believers can't explain what the original text meant or the words in the text rarely match their explaination.

Richard Dawkins: There is no well-demonstrated reason to believe in God.

Unexplained, thoughts and confused feelings of high emotional intensity are the most accurate perspectives and best describes "spiritual". However, "spiritual" best describes "fantasy". Hope and idealism often contribute to the mysterious "spiritual" equation.

Mark Twain: Faith is believing in something we know is not true.

Hope: If it were not for hope 90% of therapists and 100% of Clergy would be out of business.

Prayer usually is designed to benefit ones-self. If not, it is designed to change the world to better suit you and yours - even if it is at the expense of others.

When you pray to God, aren't you rubbing in God's face the fact that you find God's plan for you flawed?

Religious believers want nonsense to substitute for fact with impunity.

Spiritual: Another poor man's delusional escape from reality.

Mental illness: Mental illness may be most easily diagnosed in those who fearfully live spiritually by hope, faith and belief.

Faith, Religion, Supernatural Belief: A belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny. "Fantasy".

Warning! Religion may be harmful to your IQ and your mental health.

Faith Is Feeling That God Is Doing Right By You Even When God Is Not.

Paradox: When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence - your beliefs get stronger.

Perspective: This may explain why: A high percentage of stupid is stubborn.

An example of political stubbornness: In 2006, Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler at The University of Michigan and Georgia State University created fake newspaper articles about polarizing political issues. The articles were written in a way which would confirm a widespread misconception about certain ideas in American politics. As soon as a person read a fake article, researchers then handed over a true article which corrected the first. For instance, one article suggested the United States found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The next said the U.S. never found them, which was the truth. Those opposed to the war or who had strong liberal leanings tended to disagree with the original article and accept the second. Those who supported the war and leaned more toward the conservative camp tended to agree with the first article and strongly disagree with the second. These reactions shouldn’t surprise you. What should give you pause though is how conservatives felt about the correction. After reading that there were no WMDs, they reported being even more certain than before there actually were WMDs and their original beliefs were correct.

How many religions do you belong to?

Is your God the head of your religion?

Is your God the One God of Abraham?

The One God of Abraham is the head of the Judeo-Christian-Islamist religions.

How many religions do you belong to?

Gary DeVaney's Perspective:

The thinking skepic clearly questions specifics.

The question IS the highest form of thought.

The mindset believer can not question his or her beliefs.

Why not?

Because, if a mindset believer DOES question his or her beliefs, he or she proves NOT to believe. Thus, the unquestioning mindset believer remains ignorant.

However, knowledge is NOT the power. Applied knowledge IS the power.

Applied knowledge dispells fear.

Example: If you knew the cure for cancer, you would not fear cancer.

Skeptics question more. Thus, skeptics learn and know more.

Those who know more live with less fear and they are mentally and emotionally happier throughout their lives.

Ignorance is not only based on what you do not know but also on what you will not know.

Stuart Chase: For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.

Faith: Argument from ignorance / appeal to ignorance / misled feeling / no evidence / authoritative nonsense.

Obey me because I claim to believe something you do not.

An assumed something, undetectable in time and non-existent in time, is the same.

Faith and belief pretends / insists that things exist in reality.

Nonsensical faith and irrational beliefs serve as "obedience tests" for the authoritative manipulator.

"My ego claims to believe something. Don't you support my ego's stated belief - which proves you support me?"

Authoritative faith assumes no required / accountable burden of proof.

Religious Belief

The denial of religious "truth" and belief can become emotional when a mindset believer is caught buying into a proven fallacy or an outdated lie. Ergo, religious, mindset believers get very angry in religious debate. Mindset, authoritative believers want to be obeyed. Believers do not want to be questioned nor challenged. Many new parents become religious because they believe that religion will help them be obeyed by their children.

It is painful, embarrassing and frustrating when a mindset believer is proven wrong. Ergo, for most believers, angry, mindset denial is automatic when their animal ego and left-brain belief “cannot be wrong”, even when the mindset religious belief is proven wrong.

A mindset believer can not question his or her belief. Fortunately, no right-brain is authoritative and mindset and its intelligent questioning is capable to intellectually figure out, emotionally accept and correct their mental, ego-attached, left-brain error.

The believer’s "territorial" ego assumes authority over his or her mindset belief. If you don't buy into, agree with and support the assumed authority’s ego-attached belief, those believers often take it personal. Believers get angry. Believers feel abused that you did not support and obey them by not agreeing to, accepting and supporting their stated "sacred" belief. If they state their belief in public and are questioned or challenged, many become emotionally hostile. Many - otherwise “healthy” relationships - die due to this often religiously programmed, mindset, territorial belief-mechanism.

Thinking Atheists are now “coming out” by questioning and challenging delusional, dogmatic, mindset, religious belief. To challenge mindset belief, the question IS the highest form of thought.

I, an Atheist, view that there is almost one God for each Human ego on planet Earth. As Atheists, our egos have gotten rid of the imaginary authority called God realizing that our ego is more honest and healthier without claiming God.

Programmed religious egos cannot be wrong because they insist that their God is responsible for their claims, not themselves.

Most practicing, religious believers live a lie. They, in turn, expect and often demand of others to also live their lies. When those egos get into a position of power, they threaten-by-consequence their ideology which becomes: I am special and chosen. Be like me or else.

A Christian Prayer: Oh God, just make my life terrific at the expense of others; make me so self-centered that I am not aware of life around me; and let my next life be OH SO MUCH BETTER than this life. A-men.

Exodus 33:11 God spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.

John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time…

Bible Contradiction.

Faith denies reality so that belief can rule.

Let’s examine it:

I live in "Sin City" Las Vegas. We have many billion dollar hotel-casinos. Those casinos were built by losers who had faith. They passionately believed. If they hadn’t been motivated by their faith and belief, they would not have gambled and lost and these casinos would not be standing.

Yes, faith and belief is traditional. So is losing, pain and misery. The loser’s passionate faith denied statistical reality. Their selfish belief ruled. They lost. The few publicized winners serve as the casino’s cost of advertising for more of the faith-based gullible to lose their money. The believer often experiences depression, a sense of loss, but their dyslexic value system calls their experience "fun". The typical loser at gambling claims that they are “a little ahead” or "breaking even". Sound familiar?

Concerning salvation: Believing in a guilt-motivated, self-serving, faith-based salvation makes you lose much of the full life you have or that you could have had. The "masochistic" believer tries to "sadistically" force, by consequence, bogus salvation on others - so to steal their full lives. Misery loves company.

"Blind Faith" is mostly connected to nonsense. If something is real and sensible, faith is not necessary nor required.

Beware: "Blind Faith" is always offered by one who wants control.

The believer operates like: “If I have to sacrifice - everybody has to sacrifice”. It amounts to a low-life agenda. Doesn't it? But, believers will fight for their traditional salvation agenda and condemn non-believers who don’t buy into and gamble on their insane and destructive belief. Thus, the angry rub between believers and non-believers.

Adolf Hitler: It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Do you have any strong feelings or condemnations to this sense of reality?

Judeo-Christian-Islamic Believers

For what purpose do practicing Judeo-Christian-Islamic believers push their nonsense onto rational, independent thinkers who do not believe nor obey their nonsense?

Don’t practicing Judeo-Christian-Islamic believer’s demand:

"Be like me or else"?

"Believe like me and serve me on my terms"?

"I want you to live by my values in your life with me being the center of those values”?

"Submit your life, feelings and agendas to my authority so I will be fulfilled"?

Do these life-stealing motivations make a practicing believer feel alive? Don’t practicing believers aggressively preach condemnation and disapproval to whom they judge are disobedient? Don’t they authoritatively resent, complain about and threaten Atheists / non-believers who dare stand up to them and their God?

Don’t practicing Judeo-Christian-Islamic believers authoritatively insist that your behavior requires their approval?

Concerning a Bible critic's questioning / taking logical, rational and reasonable issues with the documented C&V Bible, do mindset believers tend to seek the truth / facts in reality, or do they just try to dismiss / get rid of, the issue / the issue taker?

Faith denies reality so that mindset belief can rule.

GWD: I personally never say or write the words "I believe" in the 1st person. Every time someone uses "I believe", they commit their brain to a paralysis. Once their brain and emotions are comitted, they can no longer "think" on nor question that specific topic. An ego's belief assumes and often insists it is never wrong. Ergo, the exchange turns into an argument for control rather an objective debate on the specific topic. At the conclusion of a proper debate, someone wins the debate and someone loses the debate. An arguer stubbornly claims authority / control over the exchange and often comes across like an authoritarian declaring a false victory.

When you say “I believe” - is that your attempt to will things into reality? Do you say “I believe” in hopes that your will and hopes BECOME reality? Do you say “I believe” around others in hopes that those others will MAKE your belief a reality? Do you express your beliefs to manipulate others to fulfill your hopes? Is that what your expressed beliefs are?

Believers can NOT question their own beliefs. Do you know why? Because, if you DO question your own belief, you prove NOT to believe it.

That's the main reason that I, Gary DeVaney, claim to believe nothing. I will NOT paralyze my mind's ability to question anything and everything. I refuse to be another mindless, non-thinking, fearful prisoner stuck behind the bars of belief.

"I believe" means I pretend, I gamble, I really don't know.

If you want me to share your beliefs - why would you expect me to buy into your gambles and I don't knows?

Christopher Hitchens: What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

"Schizophrenia" is a complex mental disorder that makes it difficult to: Tell the difference between real and unreal experiences; Think logically; Have normal emotional responses, Behave normally in social situations.

Fantasy? Spiritual?

Being "faith-based" and "spiritual" instead of being knowledgeable is contrary to "God's Word":

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to Me. Seeing you have forgotten the law of you God, I will also forget your children.

Being a serious, critical thinker is inconsistent with being a categorical believer.

Science tries to figure out the world we live in - while religion tries to figure out the mind of its fictitious - yet authoritative God.

Religious Dogma: You must trust, have faith, believe in and obey your God with all your heart for your eternal soul to be saved from Eternal Torment. (What a threat!)

Christian "Free-Will" amounts to: You are free to do what you are told - or suffer Eternal-Torment.

Salvation is based on delusional, paranoid fear. The believer does not share salvation - only their insane fear.

Truth Verses Fact: Believers are entitled to project their beliefs which are usually their, mostly adopted, "opinions". Believers are not entitled to their own thought-up "facts". A believer's personal "truth" usually amounts to just an "opinion" which includes an ego-emotion attactment. Their believing ego's "truth" authoritatively demands and expects to be accepted by others. An proven "fact", in reality, has no ego-emotion that cares who accepts or rejects it. In time, a "fact", in reality, just is what it is. An ego has to intellectually understand and emotionally accept a "fact" in time and move on.

Believers often claim that an Atheist does not understand the Bible because an Atheist does not have "The Holy Spirit". Could it be that "The Holy Spirit" blinds believers as to the controversial Bible C&Vs that are documented? Are they too frightened to read those controversial Bible C&Vs. Maybe they are too evil, themselves, to realize how evil and insane the Bible God is - to have done all that murdering. Believers never take a Bible C&V murder charge and attempt to defend God. They just demonize and condemn anyone who exposes these murderous C&Vs. They just worship the Biblical God as if God murdered no one. That is evil. In a US criminal court, it could be considered an accessory to murder. The Biblical God does not exist - but the belief in God certainly does.

Your hope, faith and belief is simply your attempt to will something you want into reality. Others do not have to accomodate your fantasy.

Miracles & Magic

The claims of “miracle” have been tricked - just like good magic will trick you. If you know how to do the magic trick and you are honest, you will not consider the magic trick to be a miracle. Do you think that some thinking minds who discover and learn all of the God's Evil Deeds, C&Vs, could become Atheists? If not, why not?

Hypnosis & The Holy Spirit

Remember when Judy discovered the Wizard bellowing with a loud, intimidating voice behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz? She was so disappointed and angry, she screamed at him: "You're A Bad Wizard, A Bad Wizard!

When I studied and discovered the Bible’s description of the Biblical God's insanity, it broke the fear-based hypnosis and I logically became an Atheist. Maybe the “hypnosis” believers refer to was what they claim to be “The Holy Spirit”.

If you have The Holy Spirit, you believe in, support, promote and finance the Biblical God. When you do NOT have The Holy Spirit - you don’t.

In your judgment, do you consider this perspective to be logical and reasonable?

Gary DeVaney: Religion: When insanity is the norm.

Intelligent Design: I view that the best debate against "Intelligent Design" is: Scientific study has concluded that over 99% of all species that ever existed on Earth are now extinct.

I recently had an inquiring 2 hour, one-on-one lunch, with a 73-year-old Rabbi. We got along fine. I asked the Rabbi: "Does God exist?" He looked me in the eye and said: "I don't know. But, I do know that the belief in God exists."

Everyone I met on a 7-day cruise was an Atheist - either to Christianity or to Islam.

Faith, trust and belief are the cornerstones of the god / obedience game.

Faith, trust and belief are the tools / weapons often waged by others against your free-will.

The tyrant's fear: “If you don’t trust / believe me” - it means that “you won’t willfully obey me”.

Anyone, who incorporates the words faith / trust / belief, feels entitled to your obedience.

Faith isn't evidence, it's an excuse to believe absurdities in the absence of evidence.

The Existence Of The Biblical God? Why is it necessary to disprove what has never been proven?

Benjamin Franklin: The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

To promote having "faith" is to promote having intellectual disability.

When beliefs are mind-set - facts don't count.

Bertrand Russell: So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospel in praise of intelligence.

Bible C&V Promotion Of Faith & Belief

Mark 11:22 Have faith in God.

Acts 26:18 Sanctified by faith...

Romans 1:17 The just shall live by faith.

Romans 3:28 A man is justified by faith.

Romans 10:8 The word of faith which we preach...

Romans 10:17 Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Romans 14:23 Whatever is not of faith is sin.

Now, that is a hard-sell.

1 Corinthians 16:13 Stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.

2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Would you tell your child to walk across a busy street with this “wisdom”?

Galatians 2:20 Live by the faith.

Ephesians 2:8-10 By grace, you have been saved through faith, not your own doing. It is the gift of God, not a result of works…

So, if you do not have faith, which must be given to you by God, why would God punish you for what God did not give you?

Ephesians 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith…

1 Timothy 3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith...

Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

If it were not for “hope” - 90% of therapists and 100% of clergy would be out of business.

Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand...

Nonsense! Emotionally accept - maybe. Intellectually understand - doubtful.

Hebrews 11:6 Without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe.

Outright blackmail! If you do NOT have faith and believe, God WILL send you into Eternal-Torment.

1 John 5:4 Whatever is born of God overcomes the world. Our faith is the victory that has overcome the world.

Eusebius: How far it may be proper to use falsehood as a medium for the benefit of those who require to be deceived.

This encourages deception to be proper for those who require to be deceived. No wonder there is so much US Government and media deception. Believers require things - that they do not want to know - to believe in.

Judeo-Christian faith is taking God at His word. If the Bible is God's word and it includes all "The God Murders" C&Vs, you are to take each and every one of them as being God's word. If you do, that certainly is bound to make you "God-Fearing".

David Hume: A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Does the believer NOT realize that he or she is pushing, expecting and threatening non-believing intelligent thinkers to ultimately believe, support, promote and finance the believers mind-set, faith-based nonsense?

And, when thinkers stand up and challenge the believer's nonsense, the believer calls the Atheist a bully?

Is the believer NOT expecting others to change who they are so to suit the believer and his or her Biblical God (real or not)?

In reality, it is the believer who is the offensive bully who demands that non-believers accept their “beliefs” - mostly by threat of eternal consequence.

Questions To The Self-Proclaimed Believer

How committed are you to your belief in the supernatural?

Do you have any evidence of the existence of the supernatural?

Do you object to someone being skeptical of your belief in the supernatural?

How would you have your stated belief in the supernatural affect another human being?

Do you constantly throw out your beliefs to test your attraction, power and influence over others?

Are your announced beliefs to the masses serving you as your announced rules?

The believer says: “I believe that Jesus Christ was born of a "Virgin-Birth" and "Rose From The Dead”. Can you prove your belief? When you say the words: "I Believe" - aren’t you really saying: “I bet” / “I pretend” or “I want”?

One believer claimed to see supernatural auras and colors. They disappeared after he had cataract surgery.

Abortion: Didn't the Biblical God abort all of Earth's pregnant mother's babies with a flood? So, what is the Biblical God's stand on abortion? How many did the Biblical God abort with the flood?

Belief: Often In Error - Never In Doubt

More Biblical Abortion / Murder - God Style

Numbers 3:15-16 God cammanded: Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families. Every male from a month (1 month) old and upward shalt you number them. Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.

God doesn’t count you or any child as a life until a Human Being is 1 month old. According to this, abortion is acceptable.

Lev 27:6 God said: Males are 1 month to 5-years-old are worth 5 sheckles of silver. Females are worth 3 sheckles of silver.

This Bible C&V gives you God’s value of males and females. If you object, take it up with the Biblical God.

Hosea 13:16 Hosea 13:16 Samaria shall become desolate for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces and their women with child shall be ripped open.

Psalm 137:9 God inspired: Happy is he that dashes your little ones against the stones.

Behold! God style abortion and murder before and after birth.

Richard Dawkins: The process of non-thinking is called faith.

Faithful, mind-set believers prove to be often in error but never in doubt. When the believer is proven wrong, they insist that they said they believed and that they did not say that they knew. That is being caught lying and insisting on immunity.

With faithful belief, there is no penalty for their being wrong.

What could possibly promote being wrong more than faith?

People, who want to control you, promote faith because they want power and authority over you. They want you to commit to their beliefs, values and agendas. If you support their beliefs, they feel that you support them. They want you to serve them on their terms.

Dr. Darrel Ray (The God Virus) submitted: Chris, a PHD candidate, has a new website. Take a look at his youtube site at this link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Evid3nc3#p/c/A0C3C1D163BE880A

"Faith" & "Belief" are tools of hypnosis.

"Have Faith" means "Be Hypnotized".

Concerning the words - "I Believe" - every single belief that you claim to have is a separate state of hypnosis.

When a believer promotes faith, he or she seems proud to promote ignorance and to accept nonsense without proof. To promote faith is the epitome of assuming authority over nothing. To trust someone is to give them authority over you. "Trust me" means "shut up and do what is expected". They claim that their invisible god expects conformity and obedience from you when it is only the authoritative believer who expects conformity and obedience from you. "The God Game" is the authority / obedience game.

If you can't defend your believe with intelligent thoughts and words you don't have much of a belief. Do you?

Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

If it were not for "HOPE" 90% of therapists and 100% of clergy would be out of business. GWD

Are You Hypnotized?

To be instructed, by an assumed authority, to "believe" deepens the hypnosis.

"Trust me" means "shut up and do what you are told or what is expected".

The purpose to promote "faith" is to command obedience to manipulation.

The Apostle Paul is the Biblical father of faith, belief, fantasy and delusion. Paul is responsible for normally rational people to have their feet planted firmly in mid-air.

Believe be-lie-ve: Lie is the center of believe. For many, "I believe" means "I lie".

“I Believe” ultimately means “I don’t know”. If one absolutely knows, one would say “I know”. When a belief is proven to be a lie, the believers cops-out with: “I said I believed it. I did not say that I knew it. Therefore, I did not lie.

“I believe” means “I commit" / "I obey”. This is why religious people and other authoritarians push you to believe.

Voltaire: Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

A dead body has no life / soul. No scientific evidence proves that a life / soul continues after death.

With regard to an after-life soul - Humanism claims that there is no such thing.

Bill Mahr: Believers are not fans of knowledge.

Seneca the Younger: Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Roman Emperor Nero ordered Seneca the Younger to commit suicide in 65 AD?

An assumed authority wants you to believe in and commit to his or her beliefs, agendas and values. You are targeted to become their slave - to serve them on their terms.

For most thinkers, the frontal cortex of their human brain has evolved sufficiently to produce, for them, some evidence of rational thought. Primitive religion is committed to compete with and disable the thinker’s human frontal cortex by demanding that they practice insane, primitive belief in supernatural nonsense.

Faith cannot defeat science when it comes to reality.

Reality is an insult to a believer.

They want you to have faith in - and to be faithful to - their beliefs, values and agendas.

They often want and demand your love, respect and willful obedience.

You must sacrifice your values in favor of theirs – otherwise they will threaten punishment from themselves or from their egos’ fictitious, supernatural God.

Prejudice / Bias: When an Ego feels entitled while believing that another Ego does not deserve an equal chance to be a free and non-dependent Human Being.

Your "faith" is your willful ignorance. Faith is your agenda to not know - to not be responsible for knowledge.

Believers are low-percentage gamblers. Their faithful gambles are based on ignorance. When hope, faith and belief crashes and burns for the believer - it is written off as God's will. The believer just looks for a new nonsensical deal to gamble on. Some are delusional enough to hold on to failed beliefs.

When you question one's belief or faith - you can't expect an answer of substance.

Richard Dawkins: Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Often, religious behavior is so insane - we can't tell the difference. Why do well-educated, intelligent Human Animals rely on irrational faith and belief concerning vast categories of blatant nonsense in religion.

Dr. Darrel Ray wrote the book "The God Virus". It explains how faith and belief paralyzes and eliminates the critical mind. The mind, once infected, cannot critically question authoritative categories of life. A virus, like a form of love, sets in and behavior defending a declared belief or faith becomes paramount.

I personally view that "The God Virus" accurately defines "The Holy Spirit". I can and I will debate any controversial Bible C&V. I perceive that Christians, who claim to have "The Holy Spirit" can not and will not debate selected, controversial Bible C&Vs. For example:

Luke 19:27 Jesus Christ said: And as for those, mine enemies, who would not have Me be King over them, bring them before Me and slay them.

Question, be honest now: Could you / would you debate (equal time) this selected Bible C&V for 10 minutes with an on-topic debator who took issue with Luke 10:27? How about Revelation 2:23 whereby Jesus said that He (The Son Of Man) would kill her children?

You see, Jesus Christ would have to go through me to kill somebody's children. Would Jesus have to go through you to kill somebody's children?

Carl Sagan: For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is rather than persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. I don't believe. I've always preferred to know.

Believers find fault with non-believers to compensate for the failure of their own beliefs.

For some believers, delusional hope is idealistic despair. Of course - denial is automatic.

The Human Animal somehow finds it necessary to believe numerous "ideas" which include - time-travel, multiple-dimension’s, , space-aliens, UFO's, immortality/ eternal-life, any of hundreds of gods, Holy Spirit, big-foot, Santa-Claus, Easter-Bunny, Tooth-Fairy, ghosts - and other absurd, supernatural nonsense. For the believer, evidence is not given nor required to believe in, promote, support and even finance these bogus ideas. Behold: Religion.

The Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions are hostile as they compete to control planet Earth.

Behaviorally, believing is obeying.

“I believe” - means - “I obey”.

“Do you believe” - means - “do you obey?”

Thinking Atheists do not obey the dogmatic, traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs / rules of the mind-set believer.

Behold, the timeless rub between religious believers and thinking Atheists.

Lie

To lie is to intentionally deceive.

To truly lie, the liar must know the truth.

White lies: Lies you tell to make others feel better.

Rationalize: To lie to make yourself feel better.

Beliefs: Lies to determine how gullible / controllable / stupid others are.

Believers believe faith to be a useful hypocrisy.

However - a positive note - All inventions were once a lie. For thousands of years, Human Animals claimed that they could fly. Since Orvile and Wilber Wright started flying in 1902, many humans have flown.

The Thinker Dares to Question - The Mind-Set Believer Cannot Question His Or Her Belief

Religion manufactures and sells mental / emotional disease that addicts the gullible to become mind-set believers.

Religions promote and demand hypnotic, behavioral tools. An Ego, God and religion requires your obedience. "I believe" often means "I obey, support or promote" something specific. When one promotes his or her beliefs, they may be assuming, insisting or demanding that you share their beliefs. They are testing how much authority they have over you. They are testing your obedience to their beliefs - and to them. They often assume that their beliefs should affect you as their commands or demands would. They are testing your desire to please them. They are testing how usable you are. Should these perspectives disturb you, it is because your belief agenda is exposed.

To teach faith and belief is to murder the thinking mind.

Repentance: To repent is to practice humility - to discipline oneself - to keep oneself in line with the desires of an assumed authority.

A pastor keeps the pasture full of "God's Word" for the "sheep" to mentally and emotionally graze on.

Churches and ministers promote group-faith. Group-faith creates an atmosphere for people who want, expect and feel entitled to approval from everyone they meet. They don't want to - and will not - answer your critical questions of substance as they feel entitled to your conformity, obedience and approval. If you insist they answer your critical questions, they will threaten you, condemn you, then cut and run.

"Christian Believers Impose Their Cloned Wills On All Non-Believers"

BELIEVE

Mark Twain: The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

We all have egos that we use to competitively control other egos who happen into our atmospheres. Some tend to super-charge their egos by applying and incorporating their fictitious, “supernatural” God. Insane, authoritative egos evolve to feel that it is their birth-right and entitlement to categorically change the world into their image through the sacrifice of competing egos that are accessible to them. Some attempt to use their fictional, supernatural God on the gullible to accomplish their ego’s opportunistic and imperialistic goals.

People claim to have a "spiritual experience" or that something special was spiritual. The "spiritual experience" could probably be best identified to a remembered thought or feeling. Thoughts are rarely remembered unless a feeling of some emotional intensity is attached to it.

Other than an unknown-based, difficult to explain, emotionally charged feeling, what is "spiritual" to you? Can you - with any logical, reasonable and rational clarity - define what "spiritual" means to you? Would your "spiritual experience" amount to a confusing thought with an indescribable feeling attached to it? How realistic or rational is your "spiritual experience"? Remember - you too can walk through walls - in your imagination only. A thought is the most miraculous event mankind can experience. Could your living, lit-up genes have communicated the thought to your consciousness along with a feeling to deliver it.

Mark Twain: Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

God, King and Country: The agenda of the US government is to mass hypnotize its subjects. It's agenda is to program you, its subject, to become a believer so that you will practice sacred loyalty to God and country.

Praying is obeying.

Believing is practicing obeying.

The more faith you have, the more you believe and the less you know.

To "have faith" is to obediently shut-up and to do as you are told.

To say "I believe" is to always admit "I don't know". I am pretending. I am gambling. Why would any intelligent human being buy into another's I don't knows, pretends and gambles?

The paradox of belief: Belief eliminates thought. A person who states a belief - cannot question that belief. Because - should he or she question that belief - he or she proves not to believe it.

Each belief is a separate state of hypnosis. One, who has many beliefs, is bogged down with many states of hypnosis. If one cannot question his or her beliefs, he or she is incapable of thinking.

A question is the highest form of thought.

Do God-fearing believers resent that non-believers go through life without dread, panic and fear of God?

I personally do not hold with ancient beliefs, prejudice and hostility.

Religious dogma that promotes mass belief / paranoia:

Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Do you think that the US Government’s NSA surveillance and a billion cameras planted around the world, with direct feed, was influenced by this Bible C&V?

How Believers Try To Rule

It’s the worshippers, believers and followers - not the leaders and phony gods - who insist that their “sacred” assumed-authority / god rules over me and you. A believer’s leaders and rulers would not exist if followers, authority-worshippers and self-centered, power-crazy believers did not create them and decide on them in their own minds.

War results when two or more egos want peace - on their terms. So weaker believer, you get rid of your sacred authority and let my stronger, sacred authority / god rule you. My authority / god is entitled and yours is not.

No, you say? What? I am not getting peace on my terms? So, this means war!

Now first, let’s see who has the best blood-curdling, horrific threats to convince the other that their authority / god is best - or the meanest and bad-assed. If you do not obey, my authority / god will turn evil on you. My authority / god will save you if you submit. However, He will torture you forever if you do not yield, submit, believe in, worship, support, promote and finance Him. He gives you freedom of choice. Choose wisely or die and be tortured forever - because my authority / god loves you. He will always love you - as long as you serve Him on His terms, which, as a believer and follower - also happen to be my terms.

Then, to stop the stalemate debate, the more determined / insane believer strikes first while hoisting the flag / book of his assumed-authority / god.

The Ego's Use Of Belief

GWD: Somebody whose talent is great - the talent is for his or her own approval - not another's. What you do has to suit you. If what you do does not suit you, what you do will probably not suit anyone. If you don't bring something to the table, it won't suit anybody.

Animal Ego is a behavior manifestation of: "I am the value" - "I am the authority" - "I am entitled".

"I believe" is a manipulative term that often means: "I hope to will something I want into my reality." "I feel entitled to will my desires into reality". "I want you to believe what I believe and assist me in willing what I desire into reality."

Richard Dawkins: The time has come for people of reason to say enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, is divisive and is dangerous.

Irrational faith can be measured as a gullible-meter.

The only thing I resent more than an irrational belief is an unimportant belief.

That goes for any belief in God or any other un-provable "spiritual" claim labeled "BELIEF". If a belief is not evident, and it qualifies as nonsense because it cannot be proven, rational people should question and challenge them and their belief. Only if the claim / belief is proven should it then be KNOWN to be factual in time and not believed.

If someone holds their BELIEF to be special and superior knowledge, that is only their "sacred" authoritative EGO speaking. And, denial is automatic - of course. What cannot be denied is they cannot keep their unimportant, nonsensical beliefs to themselves. It is their attempt to make their unimportant nonsense and themselves important to any who are exposed to their self-serving mindset. It is an exact example of egocentric and somewhat insane behavior.

Sorry, but occasionally the 30-year behavioral therapist in me comes out.

Psalm 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not and make their loins continually to shake.

Is this another fear-based threat designed to prevent believers from seeing the controversial C&Vs of the Bible.

If you want me to support, adopt or commit to your beliefs - you really want obedience, submission, sacrifice, compliance and support. You really want me to obey you - and probably to even sacrifice for you. Why do Christians feel entitled to the obedience and sacrifice of others? Is it because they believe that Jesus sacrificed Himself for them - and that - you and I should also? Of course - denial is automatic.

To blindly accept another's beliefs is to accept responsibilities and authoritative rules that you are not responsible for and have no authority over.

To be free, one must give up responsibility for things that you are not responsible for.

If a clergy tells you that God wants you to have faith, ask the clergy to ask God if He can be more specific. If he then comes up with nothing, ask him if he can be more vague. If the clergy feels challenged by you, he will probably authoritatively dismiss you.

If you are a religious believer, "The God Murders" website will question and challenge what your are programmed to believe and what you feel you are entitled to believe. If you are an Atheist, the website will easily validate - by Bible C&V - your being a non-believer.

The hypnotic power and the delusion of belief is strong - as a belief is a state of hypnosis.

"I believe" can often mean: "I pretend".

Believer disclaimer: I don't "pretend" when I say "I believe".

Believer, Your God-Secret Is Out!

Your personal, fictitious, imagined, ego-attached god FEELS no interest in anyone else but you - or any more than your sacred ego FEELS interest in anyone else.

Your categorical interest in any other Human Being will be in direct proportion to what you FEEL you could possibly want from them - their time, money, sex, talent, attention, support, commitment, affection, communication, labor & service - their love.

To want is a motivated feeling.

Denial may be automatic.

Can you prove this personal god-secret to be wrong?

What is "truth"?

First, a “fact” is something real and provable in time. A fact is real for everybody and a fact does not care who believes it or not. A fact, in reality, has no agenda.

A religious “truth”, for a practicing religious believer, is a manipulative lie that they are emotionally attached and obedient to. The tyrannical, authoritative believer insists / demands that others also be emotionally attached, committed and obedient. A truth always has a personal agenda attached to it as it is designed to manipulate others - to change them to suit the practicing, manipulative ego that is announcing the “truth”.

As a religionist (Christian or Islamist), you want others to be like you - or else. Don’t you? You want others to live by your values in their lives - probably with you being the center of those values - don’t you? To insist that others believe, obey or follow your truth, you are displaying an authoritative ego manifestation. Atheists are not religionist (Christians or Islamist) and do not share the practicing religionist’s dogmatic values, rules and demands - in spite of the practicing Christian’s - or Islamist’s - bogus threats.

Think - it isn't illegal - yet.

Truth Vs Fact

Two witnesses, in a court of law, swore to tell the truth - so help them God.

One witness swore that he saw a statue that looked like a penis.

The other witness swore that he saw a stature of Jesus Christ.

The undeniable fact was that it was a statue with a penis on one side and Jesus Christ on the other.

Fact is always superior to truth.

G: Do you pretend to believe in Santa Claus?

B: That is a joke.

G: So, you admit that sometimes when you say that you believe - you joke?

A belief is often an attempt to "will" something into reality. Belief often serves wishful fantasy and hopeful invention.

A belief is often "positive thinking" (self-centered, idealistic delusion).

Peter Singer: Christianity did not create compassion. Buddhism, addressed compassion 500 years before Christ, and Buddhists are Atheists because they don't believe in God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phgb67NAaHA&feature=related

Peter Singer points out that concerning the argumentative Christian claim that Christians give to the poor and Atheists do not - Dale Carnegie, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, all Atheists, are documented to have each given more to the poor and impoverished than any known, named Christian.

Sex-Role Delusion?

Believers use beliefs to manipulate their desires and their values on others. They want those others to give them free cooperation and support.

There was, a long time ago, something I thought that I liked about the Biblical God. But, after reading, studying and learning about the Biblical God, and the deeds that the Bible documented about its God, I can’t remember what it was that I liked.

Intelligence is categorical. We are all capable of learning certain things - and other things - we are not.

Faith: Believing there is an invisible man in the sky who will damn you to Eternal Torment if you don’t worship Him simply because a few thousand year old book told you so.

Belief is self-imposed blindness and rejection to reality.

The religious teach abstinence and that sex is a dirty, vile and disgusting act that you are to save sex only for the one you love.

Abstinence: Saving it for the worms.

John 15:14 Jesus said: You are my friend if you do whatever I command you.

So to be Jesus' friend is conditional.

You impose your beliefs on others as if they were rules and laws. You don’t want others to argue, question or challenge your beliefs, rules and laws. You, like God, expect others to support, promote and obey them.

An authoritarian believer said: "I believe" in the afterlife.

Gary: Why is the afterlife important to you?

B: It had better be important to you as you are going to suffer "Eternal Torment".

G: Are you lying when you claim to believe that?

B: No! I am manipulating you to save your soul.

G: So, "I believe" means "I manipulate". Your intent to share your belief with others is your intent to manipulate the will of others? Damn! Why has it taken me so long to figure that out? You use the words "I believe" to manipulate and impose your will on others.

B: Well, of course. Everybody who knows the truth does it. I want obedience because the Bible ordered me to subdue and dominate the Earth.

This is Bible indoctrination and tyrant training.

The greater the belief and trust you have in the insane Biblical God, the greater is your betrayal to other human beings. God has ordered Bible C&V: Go kill every man, woman and child. God will send you into Eternal Torment. How much programmed fear motivates your belief in God?

Question: Who is the greatest persecutor of believers in God?

Answer: Religions.

Christians persecute Muslims. Catholics persecute Protestants.

Most Atheists just want to be left alone by all promoters of religion.

More than once, I have visited a Muslim Mosk. Almost every Muslim I have met has been an exceptionally good human being.

In discussion once, a teacher of the Koran stated: "Religion is evil. God is good." He did admit that he did not believe that the Biblical God really had His "chosen people" kill every man, woman and child in 60 cities. He chose to believe only certain C&Vs of the Bible.

He claimed that Jesus Christ was a prophet and that Jesus did not die on the cross.

In a - one on one meeting - I asked a Jewish Rabbi: Rabbi, does God exist? He looked me in the eye, smiled and said: "I don't know." He did emphasize how important belief in God was.

When a believers says "I believe" who much of the belief is based on knowledge and how much is hope?

Can a believer define the difference between belief and knowing? If the believer does, then "I believe" always means "I don't know". Why do believers share their "I don't knows"? Why would you buy into their "I don't knows"?

Review: Each belief is a separate state of hypnosis. To question the belief is to break the hypnosis.

To believe is to obey authority.

For many - to practice believing is to practice obeying.

What's a mind-set believer? You can always tell a mind-set believer - but not much. Their beliefs have no room for anything outside of their mind-set programming. They are completely hypnotized - and denial is automatic. Concerning the mind-set practice of "Christian Conversion" - the behavioral image of (stupid and stubborn) brain-eating zombies comes to mind.

Praying Is Obeying

Faith

Biblical Blackmail & Extortion

The Seed Of Slave Mentality

Romans 1:17: The just shall live by faith.

Romans 10:17 Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Romans 14:23: Whatever is not from faith is sin.

Mark 11:22 Jesus said to them: Have faith in God.

Mark 16:16 Jesus said: He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He gives reward to those who diligently seek Him.

Matthew 6:30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more cloth you, O you of little faith.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

John 3:18 He that believes on Him is not condemned; but he that believes not is condemned already.

John 3:36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

Acts 16:30-31 What must I do to be saved? They said: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved...

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Teach A man to fish and he will feed himself. Teach him to pray for his fish and he will starve.

If you practice obeying a fictitious authority - an assumed authority can more easily step in and control you.

Don’t believe me or any other man. Question everything for yourself.

Enforceable criminal and civil laws - you don’t have to believe. You know that you must obey them - or suffer their consequences.

You somewhat control your thoughts. Your beliefs usually control you. You can question your thoughts. You cannot question your beliefs because if you do, you prove not to believe.

Your beliefs control your behavior - not mine. Your belief that you have power over others has no influence or control over me.

Do you tend to use your beliefs as manipulative tools?

To promote your beliefs is to promote gambling because when you say “I believe” - in reality - you are declaring to the world “I don’t know”. Why would you expect others to buy into your “I don’t knows”? If you tell me that you believe, you are not telling me that you know. You are telling me: "I don't know".

Because the question is the highest form of thought, you have the power to change a belief into a thought by simply questioning it.

A belief, like a theory, is another definite, guaranteed maybe.

God consists of faith and belief - nothing more.

Albert Einstein: I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

Believers tend to serve tradition and the past. Thinkers struggle to seek enlightenment and facts so to better evolve into thoughts yet to be experienced. Believers seek dogma - not enlightenment - and it may take many progressive, human life-cycles to break out of the prison of redundant belief. Thinking and knowing is more beneficial than believing and gambling. To not promote supernatural nonsense as fact may be a fair start.

People say “I believe” because they are trying to change the world to become more what they want. Believers are delusional when they try to will reality into their expectation. And, believers expect you and me to help them in their agenda. People share their beliefs to invent the world they wish to live in. Beliefs are challenges - and like fictitious people, egos or gods - they are competitive.

Islam Competing To Change The World?

In my "The God Murders" debate with believers, the website's words say what they mean and mean what they say. Often believer's debate in a manor that reminds me of the French philosopher, Voltaire, who wrote: "There are some who only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."

Many religious believers claim and fight for individual freedom - yet - they practice and promote mental / emotional slavery to their Biblical God. They also tend to discipline and restrict the freedom of others. Many believers will go to war for their imperialistic beliefs.

In war, it is the perfect believer who makes perfect canon-fodder.

Secular Humanism is a secular ideology which espouses reason, ethics and justice while rejecting supernatural and religious dogma as a basis of morality and decision making.

Many non-religious people are more likely to be Humanists because their moral beliefs are rooted more in the world around them, the world of their fellow man. Religious people base their morality not on the world around them but on laws that were written thousands of years ago, that may or may not be the teachings of a mystical being, which can be interpreted in many ways.

Hope / Faith / Belief

To Believe In God - All You Need Is Faith?

Does God & Faith Have Any Reality & Substance?

The Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions train you to hope, to believe and to have faith in what it is programmed hope, faith and belief.

One conflict with hope is - if a Christian currently hopes, he or she is not currently happy with what God has dealt them. Ergo, to hope is to complain against God.

Both the Judeo-Christian God and the Islamic Allah demand death for not being obeyed - even concerning their insane, illegal commandments. Some of their documented insane, illegal commandments are: To kill an unruly son, to kill the infidel, to kill non-virgin girls, to kill gay men. Anyone who does not view these commandments to be insane and illegal - is themselves insane and prone to do insane, murderous things.

Aleister Crowley: One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

Believers indicate that obedience is more important than knowledge or questioning.

The religious love that praying to God is the practice of obeying.

If you pray for something you personally want - nothing fails like prayer.

Two hands that work gets more work done than 7 billion pairs of hands clasped in prayer.

Religious training is subordinate soldier, slave, obedience training.

Subordinate Slave / Soldier

Believers are often in error but never in doubt. If you prove them to be in error, they will claim that they said that they believed - not that they knew. Their beliefs also gets them out of a lot of blatant lies.

Hope is a meaningless feeling - usually with dramatic, emotional (do want) intensity - because its fruits always lie in the future. By definition, hope is rarely realized in the now. To act on mere hope, belief, and having faith is to gamble.

Las Vegas gambling is motivated by hope, belief, and having faith. The agenda is - you are to win often and to lose it all once.

"My belief is" often means "my agenda is." That is why believers want you to share their beliefs. Their beliefs / agendas give them a sense of self. It often builds their often false self-image.

If it weren't for hope, belief and faith, 90% of therapists and 100% of clergy would be out of business. For the chronic hopeful, hope is the fearful, cowardly, do nothing, substitute for confident, responsible and prepared action. Your hope is like being the rear dog pulling a dog sled. No matter how fast you go you never get closer to the one in front - and the view is always the same.

How much faith is nonsense / delusion?

The words "faith & "belief" are used to trigger hypnosis.

Christopher Hitchens: What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

The manipulator's agenda and tools: The hope, belief, have faith agenda is to persuade you to work harder in the hope that things will change and profit you. Mostly, whoever motivates what you should hope for is usually who also profits if you succeed.

You have to ask yourself, are you encouraged to have hope simply to make you obey and do nothing or to achieve something that benefits the one who encouraged you?

Most chronic hopes for the better don't change for you because your mindset beliefs are designed to prevent change.

I am not religious. Because I know what the Bible documents about its God, I am an Atheist. Fictional or not, I do not want to help the Biblical God. As a Humanist, I want to assist Humanity in helping itself.

Friedrick Nietzsche: There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The words hope, belief, and have faith are used by the manipulative cons and the devious: "Take the crap I am giving you now in the hope that things will get better (but as long as I control you, I won't want them to get better.")

In other words as long as you believe - you are expected to - "Shut up and do as required."

When you buy into hope, belief and having faith, you usually do shut up and do as required - don't you?

Is that NOT the way that you want someone that you tell to have hope, to belief, and to have faith to obey you?

What trains you to hope, believe and to have faith more than fear-based, consequential, eternal-torment religion?

Eternal-Torment?

For someone to tell you these things, they are trying to make your decision to do nothing for you and for you to agree to let some agenda or someone have its way with you.

Your "controllers" want you to accept what is going on now in the hope that good times will come. They really just want to con you to agree to let them have their way. Once you agree to hope, believe and having faith, they have made your decision for you.

The words hope, belief, and having faith will attempt to lead the gullible to a false promise. It doesn't fulfill, but, by the time you realize it, it's too late.

Hope, belief, and having faith are tools to keep you in the sacrifice mode.

Programmed hope is designed to keep you from rebelling. 　

You can't have hope now / today, only tomorrow. Hope is always for later or for tomorrows.

When hope fails later / tomorrow, we can only hope for it's the fulfillment sometime later.

Do not be conned. Question and demand fairness, accountability, justice and freedom now and tomorrow!

That's how hope works - or - more realistically doesn't work.

"Abstinance" is to sex education like "just hold it" is to potty training.

When you are unhappy, change is a motivating word.

When promised change, always ask from what to what will change take place. HOPE for what? Faith in what? Change what? Believe what? Insist on an answer now!

If the hope promoter does not tell you their view of change now, they have none. They want to influence and control you.

It is crucial for an assumed authority to not specify and detail what is meant by his hope, belief, and having faith.

The thinker approaches the Bible with questions of substance. Thinkers dare question scripture.

The believer approaches the Bible with no questions of substance.

Jesus' Miracles

John 14:11 Jesus said: Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.

Ergo, The Believer Claims:

Jesus was born of a virgin birth.

Jesus changed water into wine.

Jesus cast out demons.

Jesus calmed a stormy sea.

Jesus walked on water.

Jesus caught 153 fish.

Jesus fed thousands with 2 fishes.

Jesus healed the sick, diseased, paralyzed, crippled, blind, deaf and mute.

Jesus raised the dead.

Jesus transformed into His transfigured body.

Jesus restored a severed ear.

Jesus resurrected after His death.

Jesus passed through walls.

Jesus appeared to disciples after His resurrection.

Jesus ascended into Heaven.

Upon Jesus's death, the graves opened and the dead walked the Earth.

The Critic: I don't believe that.

The Believer: Really! What part?

The con-man will tell you that he is for you - but don't you dare ask him details as to how he is for you. You will expose his manipulative agenda.

Another "Holy Trinity": Faith / Belief / Delusion - all three are one.

Con-Men?

In therapy, crying often takes place. Crying is often a signal that anger is being vented, sadness is being purged and fear is being faced. A therapist's tool is to consider that the client is in a fishbowl with his or her problem. If, emotionally, the therapist were to enter into the fishbowl with the client, the therapist would be useless and ineffective. The therapist's practice is to address the client's issues, ask the sensitive questions, and take them where others cannot and will not. A surgeon must emotionally distance himself from the body he is performing surgery on. Unless, hypnosis is used, unlike a surgeon, the therapist must endure the pain the client is experiencing during his or her session. Over time, like a conditioned surgeon who loses patients, painful therapy takes a toll on therapists.

In the early 1980s, two Los Angeles police detectives came to my office and asked me if I had a therapy session with a certain woman. I said I had one session with her a few months earlier. In referring to my notes, I recalled that the client's session issues had no "red flags". There was no discussion concerning her primary relationship nor her life-style. On occasion, if I sense a "red flag", I will tape the session. There was nothing exposed in this session that indicated a “red flag”. The session was not taped.

This session was not taped. They reported that she and her lesbian roommate apparently made and carried out their double "suicide pact". The detectives had found my business-card in her purse.

Democrats and Republicans compete for power and profit over people. Christianity and Islam are just fear-based and blackmailing political parties that compete for power and profit over people.

How Religion's Demand for Obedience Keeps Us in the Dark Ages – by Adam Lee.

http://www.alternet.org/story/154604/how_religion's_demand_for_obedience_keeps_us_in_the_dark_ages

Absurdity Of Prayer:

http://nobeliefs.com/creativePrayer.htm

Offensive Christian Beliefs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC91GYEumyA&feature=relmfu