Lost in Translation

Just how do you know? All the scriptures are up for interpretation. Did you know the KJV of the New Testament was completed (or officially re-written) by eight members of The Church of England in the year 1611 at that time, there were no original texts to translate. The oldest manuscripts were written down hundreds of years after the last apostle of Christ died. There are over eight thousand of these manuscripts, with none of them alike. The king James translators new used any of these anyway, instead, they used and manipulated previous translations to create a version their king and parliament would approve. Most versions of the bible in modern times are almost completely derived from the works of those members. Furthermore, for thousands of years religion especially Christianity and European Catholicism ruled the old world with an iron fist. The Spanish Inquisition is a prime example of this. You think a couple decades of tyranny is a long time? Try 300 years. Religion is always so quick to snuff out the first voice of reason at any opportunity it gets. Do that for a long time, control truth and information through genocide, that's how you get on top. That's how you force yourself into power.

Religious Greed. America's Acceptable Loss

They don't even have to pretend any more. Churches are businesses. They bring billions of dollars every year, no tax. Personally, I feel as if an all-powerful guy, who knows everything and has an indisputably perfect plan for the past, present and future doesn't really need money! People often say "Oh money is the root of all evil." Christians and their Bible will go as far as saying that all worldly possessions are worthless in comparison to their god and heaven (Matthew 6:19-21) So wouldn't this super smart god see far beyond the material object of money? The fact of the matter is, Churches require money to operate, they use funding allocated to pay for basic necessities and events. This is obviously a small percentage of the non-taxed net income, so churches use the remainder of the existing balance to do evil things like lobby against Gay Rights and financially aid other hate groups. The Terrorist organization known as the LDS Church has delivered a great example of this with the Utah Proposition 8. People should be free to do with their own hard earned money what they want without being pressured and scared into giving it to the churches to please a god. In short, there are no gods, only men and their businesses.