Abandon All Faith-Based Belief Systems!

This world presents us with a smorgasbord of religious, spiritual and secular faith-based belief systems. It doesn't matter which faith-based belief system you choose to adopt because every faith-based belief system is the right choice.  Why is every choice the right choice?  Every choice is the right choice because ALL FAITH BASED BELIEF SYSTEMS:

1) Instill two deeply-held beliefs into their followers:

"It is okay to allow others to take authority over me."

"What happens to me after I die is out of my control."

ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS convince their followers to believe in a monotheistic god that is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient; therefore, god is at the top of the hierarchy and takes authority over all of creation.

EASTERN RELIGIONS convince their followers to believe in a universal karmic justice system that is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient, which takes authority over all of creation.

NEW AGE RELIGIONS convince their followers to believe that we are all tiny pieces of one infinite creator who decided to go full Humpty Dumpty, by fragmenting itself into a trizillion little shards of consciousness, because it felt bored and wanted to spiritually evolve itself back together again, thus sentencing itself to a self-imposed, painstakingly long reincarnation cycle.

SECULAR RELIGIONS convince their followers to believe that this life is all they will ever have because when they die they will cease to exist entirely, and there is no god that's going to save them.

Followers of these religions will say that I am wrong, and what happens to you is in your control because your actions determine (A) if you go to heaven or if you go to hell, or (B) if you will reincarnate into a better life, or if you will reincarnate into a worse life, or (C) how long it will take you to spiritually evolve into a fifth-dimensional hive mind or (D) if you will have the privilege of being uploaded into the cloud.  They will argue that this is proof that we do have free will, but what happens if (A) I don't want to go to Heaven or Hell, or (B) I don't want to reincarnate, or (C) I don't want to spiritually evolve, or (D) I don't want to be uploaded to the internet, and (E) I also don't want to cease to exist altogether?  Did anyone ever take that into consideration?

2) Convince their followers that they deserve to suffer:

ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS brainwash their followers into believing that they are sinners, for being at the mercy of their biological drives, which are nigh impossible to have control over.  For example, the "seven deadly sins" taught by Christianity are all aspects of being human mortals that we are biologically driven towards, which do not cause others harm.  How can lust be a sin if it is between two consenting adults, who love each other?  It makes no fucking sense.

EASTERN RELIGIONS teach their followers that desire is the root of all suffering and one must not desire anything in order to attain "enlightenment", which is said to be a constant state of pure bliss.  In other words, you will never stop suffering, so long as you have a desire to not suffer.  Fucking paradox, much?

NEW AGE RELIGIONS convince their followers that they are creating their shared reality.  Well, why are they creating a reality that is so shitty, then?  The answer is: because they are selfish assholes that deserve to suffer, obviously.

SECULAR RELIGIONS make sure that everyone knows that it is their fault the environment is damaged beyond repair and that they deserve to die in the coming natural disasters, of unprecedented magnitude.

Faith based religions gaslight their followers in order to encourage feeling guilty and ashamed, of themselves and of their actions.  People who feel guilty and ashamed of themselves are easier to control.

3) Offer faith-based platitudes to placate their followers:

Jesus Saves:  All you have to do is accept Jesus as your savior, and you will go to Heaven when you die.  A good rule of thumb is that if it sounds to good to be true... then it probably isn't true.

There is a war between good and evil taking place, but the game is rigged and good always wins in the end:  When has good ever triumphed, at any point, in the history of this world?  Why on Earth should anyone believe that good will win in the end, when this has never been what has happened?  This world is evil now, it was evil then, and it will be evil later.

Everyone will exit the reincarnation cycle eventually: I sure hope so, but - the more I think about it -it becomes apparent to me that we are not here for our own benefit, or to progress spiritually.  We are here because we are a food source for predatory beings who don't want any of us to ever get out of this place.  This is not a joke, or a game.  This is very fucking serious.  There is no guarantee of leaving this world, and there seems to be many measures in place to ensure that we never figure it out, either.

Love is the answer:  This is a lovely thought, but it also encourages us to grin and bear it, as we are used and abused by the malevolent beings who call this place home.  This is not my fucking home and love isn't the answer; FREEDOM IS THE ANSWER.

If it were true that we had no control over our own destiny, then why would all these faith-based belief systems be in place to convince us that we have no control over our own destiny?  Why do they need to convince us that all-powerful gods will determine our fate?  If they really had that much control, why would there be so much beauty in the world?  Why would these evil beings not torture us 24/7, if they were able to do so?

Because, they can't do it.  As terrible and depressing as it is to realize that we are in a world where a bunch of creepy spiritual entities are violating us and feeding off of our spiritual energy as a food source, I am so glad that the religions they try to pass off as true are not true.  The truth is that we are free (with the caveat that we don't give our consent to being stripped of that freedom).

Think about it: why does Jesus need to be accepted by us as our savior?  This is a deceptive way of obtaining consent to take authority over souls in the afterlife, for the purpose of sending them back through the reincarnation cycle.  Christians don't even believe in reincarnation, but that doesn't matter.  If Christians allow something or someone else to take authority over them, then it's doesn't matter what they believe anymore.  The keys to our salvation are in our hands... and everything about this world is convincing us to give up those keys.

4) Espouse beliefs that deceptively obtain consent from their followers

• If you believe this world is a test, then you aren't going to pass.

• If you believe this world is a school, then you aren't going to learn your lesson

• If you believe this world is a prison, then you aren't going to escape

• If you believe this world is a game, then you aren't going to win.

• If you believe that you need to be saved from this world, then you will become trapped in this world.

• If you believe you are free, then you are free to leave.

Thanks for reading.