Pope blames atheists for world's sufferings

Here is a small list of the wars fought in the name of religion.

I am with Slam Dance on this one folks. Organized religious beliefs are the cause of most of the suffering in the world, not today's atheists.

The mere world view that mankind is inherently evil and in need of salvation manifests and validates such a reality. All scripture is inspire by thoughts about God, but any man who claims to speak for God is a liar, except perhaps Jesus. I believe he was the powerful human being he was because he had realized his oneness with the creator. Oneness with the creator was Jesus's core message and his most important idea. In his last moments before being handed over to the romans to be tried and crucified in the Garden of Gethsemane, he prayed "I pray not for my self, but for those whom you have entrusted to me, that they may be one as you and I are one." (This oneness of being with the creator undoubtedly led to the idea of the trinity, but Jesus himself never spoke about a triune god head.)

(Perhaps the other scripture that where Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit as a helper somehow personified the Holy Spirit in the minds of those early Bishops and church scholars. Jesus himself told us that the Holy Spirit is "like the wind, we do not know from where it comes or where it goes." If the Holy Spirit is a person, then he must be a very confused one not knowing whether he is coming or going.)

If you have studied the history of the church you would already know that the church has from practically it's inception been infiltrated by those who had their own agendas, not those of Jesus. Jesus himself warned of such a thing happening, and believe you me they (the nebulous "they") did not waste any time in seizing the opportunity to take control. They, those guilty of having the audacity to decide that they speak for god and have the "true" interpretations of God's intentions and the "true" meaning of Jesus's words, have co-opted his words to create the beast that is Christianity today, almost 2.1 billion people. Catholic and Protestant are two sides of the same coin just like Republicans and Democrats are. They are two sides locked in a dichotomy.

Thanks to Emperor Constantine who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, he fulfilled the prophecy of John the beloved when he married politics and religion; forming the Holy Roman Empire. Papal authority was derived from Imperial Decree. (John predicted that the kings of the earth would commit fornication with the priests.)

It was at the council of Nicea and because of Alexander's Homo-Eroticism and love of the Christ and his own obsession with his emperor/god status that Jesus was elevated from being a mere mortal to being a "god like" being when it came to core beliefs of the Catholic Church. He was christened Michael, which means "one who is like god." And the bishops claimed that he was part of a triune God; father, son and holy ghost - three persons in one god. Hello everybody, but this is polytheism!! But hey the Romans were already used to that. Oh and what more, they changed Jesus birthday from September to December so they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia - hey instead of calling it that why don't we call it Christmas and then we can turn Christmas into the greatest merchandising scam in history. (Sorry but i felt the need to be a little sarcastic here.)

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All of the beliefs from other so called Christian churches that believed in reincarnation, the miracles of Jesus, and what are considered Gnostic traditions and apocryphal scripture (gospels from Mary Magdalene, Timothy, Judas and others) by the Catholic church were labeled heretics, their writings were seized and burned and their ideas had to go underground to avoid persecution by the official state religion. All of the Roman pagan holidays and celebrations were continued to be observed only they were given nice Christian names to make the transition and assimilation of the people much smoother.

The early church leaders under Papal Authority established by Roman Emperor made sure that their new version of Christianity was properly codified and disseminated. For god's sake the church forbade any lay person from reading the bible at all, it was in Latin, and any original texts were either locked away in vaults in the Vatican catacombs, or burned and destroyed, and even locked away in private collections. When people talk about the King James or the NIV versions they are talking about translations done on bible copies that were already 1200 years old. Don't delude yourself for one second thinking that they had copies of the originals. For all we know with all the megalomania going around in the Holy Roman Empire, a lot of things written could and probably did get changed.

There can only be one supreme being; the creator. He/She doesn't have multiple personalities. Jesus was very clear about these things in all of his sayings and prayers. He did not even want people to pray to him either. When he gave people an example of how to pray he said "Our Father who art in Heaven."

With all that said, whatever the Pope has to say is meaningless to me. He is an antiquated relic. He is a hypocrite, too, condemning homosexuality when he himself is a closet queen - wearing red Prada shoes.