Free of the biblical God

Blessed are the Atheists, Agnostics, Deists, Mystics, Humanists, Free Thinkers, Taoist, Buddhist and all others who do not have an archaic, primitive God in their mind/brains.

Blessed are they for they do not believe that a God is on their side.
Blessed are they for they do not participate in holy wars, Jihads or Crusades.
Blessed are they for they would never be martyrs for the “Glory of God”.
Blessed are they for they do not condemn others as heretics or infidels.
Blessed are they for they do not conduct inquisitions nor slaughter millions of women as “witches”.
Blessed are they who do not participate in sectarian violence, nor harass little Catholic school girls walking through their neighborhood.
Blessed are they who do not twist biblical words to condemn homosexuality as a sin, nor to condemn a woman’s right to choose.
Blessed are they who would never say that a terrorist act is God’s punishment against those who do not believe or think as they do.
Blessed are they who know that the only hell that exists is right here on earth created by man. And that it is in man’s hands alone to create a heaven here on earth through intelligence, empathy and love.
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The Christ myth and solstice

We are buried this time of year in mythology, legend and folklore. How many hundreds of times have we been told that Christmas celebrates the origin of Christianity? This of course is false. Christmas was around for eons before Jesus was ever born.

For thousands of years the Winter Solstice (Dec. 22-25) has been the most special time of the year and the most important date in human celebration. The sun has started its long journey home bringing Springtime. Celebrating this event in this month of Solstice I am part of the line of descent that has been uninterrupted almost from the birth of humankind. There has been no time when someone, somewhere, was not celebrating this date.

Long before the mythological birth date of Jesus in the solstice period, our bloodstream ran in the veins of sun gods and sun worshippers…Greeks and Romans…Barbarians in the Germanic forests…Northern worshippers of Thor…and Egyptians…Jews..Gauls…Persians and Indians. No wonder that human beings have celebrated the date of the Winter Solstice for thousands of years considering that our very survival depends upon the return of the sun. No wonder that the birth of the gods in almost all religious traditions were said to have taken place during the solstice period.
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The winter solstice

For thousands of years this period of the Winter Solstice has been the most important date in human celebrations, for the sun has started its long journey home bringing with it Spring and Summer.

Celebrating this event today, you and I are part of a line of descent that has been uninterrupted almost from the birth of humankind. There has been no time when someone, somewhere, was not celebrating this date. Long before the birth of Jesus our bloodstream ran in the veins of sun gods and sun worshippers: Greeks and Romans…Barbarians in Germanic forests…Northern worshippers of Thor…Egyptians…Jews…Gauls…Persians and Indians. Considering that our very survival depends upon the return of the sun it is no wonder that human celebrations have been so monumental.

No wonder that Julius, the fourth century Pope, when asked to fix a date for the birth of Jesus, said: “we will say it took place in Bethlehem on December 25.” That was the date of the Winter Solstice according to the Julian calendar. Other virgin born gods celebrated during this Solstice period were Marduk, Osiris, Horus, Isis, Mithra, Saturn, Sol and Apollo. And so for thousands of years we have celebrated this date with singing and dancing, with solemn ceremony and flowers, palms, mistletoe and holly, plays and majestic processionals moving through high cathedrals. Christmas, the Solstice, is in our bloodstream. It is in our genes.
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