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Because humans base their secular life on their religious beliefs and those beliefs have spawned some very dysfunctional behaviors -- behaviors that are destroying the Earth's capacity to sustain human life as we know it  -- behaviors that are  creating a great deal of unnecessary misery, suffering, and death -- behaviors that could even cost you your life and threaten the future well-being of your children and grandchildren.   

Because   Life is not what we've been led to believe it is by those who claim to know! '     (See the sections below on this page.)

Because  you have been  making critical,  irreversible, life-altering decisions based on inaccurate and/or incomplete information.   

Have You Ever Been Wrong?   If you must make a choice about something, it's wise to choose the option that is correctable if you later find out you were wrong.   In this case: 1) what you have to lose by taking no action is enormous;  2)  the probability of the projections being accurate is very high; and  3) the consequences of taking no action are both astronomically devastating and irreversible.   This leads us to the one and only sane choice  --  and that choice is to listen to the wakeup call and immediately begin making and demanding changes.  

Two additional factors to consider are  1)  when you examines history, you'll notice that humans have an incredibly pain-producing habit of being wrong about just about everything, and  2)  denial and resistance to change appear to be ingrained human character traits.    Readers are directed to the page titled:   Have You Ever Been Wrong? '

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Our beliefs become the context ' within which we each live our daily lives.   It is, therefore, appropriate for each of us to analyze our conduct and the underlying beliefs which dictate our conduct.    

Viewers are invited to read three page which shed further light on this topic:
      (Ref. 1:  The Context in which Christianity had its origins '    
      (Ref. 2:  Religion Versus Spirituality) '    
      (Ref. 3:  The Three Basic Religious Theories/Assumptions) '

The goal is  protect everyone’s religious rights.   The goal is not to exclude "God" from government or from any other of our social structures.   That is literally impossible because humans cannot separate their divine nature from the social structures they create.  

 The  goal is to make sure everyone has the right to  relate to "The Source of All"  in any fashion he/she chooses,  including the right to deny that such a source even exists.   And the best way to do that appeared to be, and still appears to be:

To acknowledge the universal spiritual nature of humankind, and, at the same time, keep the activities of church and state as distinct and separate as possible.    

 To see how masterfully our Founding Fathers handled this issue, viewers are directed to the page titled:  Church and State  --  How  Do  They Relate? '    

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Religion is a shelter in the storm of life.   It  provides what passes for acceptable answers when facing death.    We can also feel that our beliefs about life, about death, about God are right.   We must be right because all the people who believe our religion can't be wrong.  

The religious communities also provide entertainment and a source finding companionship, sexual partners, love, and a mate/life partner.   

Organized religion is a context for group evolution where there's safety in numbers, where there's a sense of security, where there's increased power, where the journey is easier.   The individual need not think for him or herself.  Being  mindless is okay and acceptable.   Individual responsibility is replaced by group responsibility.  

Like every other aspect of life, there are advantages and disadvantages to organized religion.  The less than wholesome aspects of organized religion include:  being able to abdicate responsibility --  being able to distract one's self from reality --  being able to live in victim consciousness  where creation by accident and default is an acceptable alternative to conscious and intentional creation.   As a member of an organized religion one can be mindless and still be safe and okay; one can be the child and let God become the daddy who takes care of him/her.  

On the positive side of this negative side, one can participate in organized  religion and step beyond these negative aspects.   One simply needs to participate consciously.   This gives all the advantages of a religious community without the disadvantages.   There are, however,  two major drawback to this:   first, living consciously is harder than just going along; and second,  it's relatively easy to fall back onto the unconscious path.

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   The main problem with the Christian religious structures  (and with other religions, as well)  is that they are extremely inflexible.   Regardless of the urgency,  in defiance of the evidence,  and in opposition to common sense, any attempt to do anything new is almost always met with stiff resistance.   

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   The second most important problem is that the ultra-conservative  Christian leaders do not honor the Christian Bible.     They do not honor the teachings of Jesus.   If they did, they'd be teaching you a very different way to relate to  the world.    Instead of honoring the people and honoring their own Bible, the ultra-conservative Christian leaders are attempting to take over the government and create a Christian theocracy in America.   We have four pages focused to this aspect of the problem.    

Creating a Christian Theocracy in America '   

Religion Versus Spirituality '  

The Foundations of Religion '  

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   The third most important problem is that the stone-minded, religious fundamentalist leaders presently (2006) dominate collective social behavior and strongly influence political behavior in the United States.   Unfortunately, their theology is a thinly disguised invitation to commit mass suicide.   They consider that to take actions that would stop the wars and/or halt  the environmental destruction to be an interference with God's plan to end the world and lift all good Christians (and only good Christians) off the planet and into heaven to be  with Jesus.   Their justification for taking no action is based on a religiously inspired story called .'     

From the non-Christian perspective, "The Rapture" can be seen as  a mutual-suicide pact based on an unprovable, religiously inspired  fairytale.   Do you recall Jim Jones and the religiously inspired mass suicide he led in Jamestown, Guyana in 1987?   Well, peddling the rapture is a poison a million times more deadly than the cyanide- laced punch that he and his followers drank.   

   The Rapture '        

   Three Variations of "The Truth" °

   Some Psychological Factors to Consider°  --  Including:

Believing false stories --   Mass consciousness -- Mindlessness, --  How liars get caught in their own lies --The natural, human tendency to stretch the truth.   

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