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What purpose do religious
institutions serve?
Our world has diverse ethnic, cultural, geographic, and economic
divisions which challenge man's abilities to uphold equality, human
rights, dignity and justice. Man uses religion to respond to justice and
equality for himself and others. But religion itself is the
breeding ground for much of the injustice and conflicts, tyrannical
leaders exploit deep seated hatred and prejudices to pit cultures
and people against each other for their own self interest.
Many people live according to a religion called science and
intelligence who believe that mankind evolved from monkeys and
therefore has no purpose on earth outside of his continued existence
on the planet. Man's institutions serve the instant
gratification of man's immediate needs here's the breakdown.
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Religions of the World
(millions) |
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Religion |
Adherents |
Sponsors |
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Christianity |
2,200 |
USA, Brazil, Mexico |
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Islam |
1,300 |
Indonesia |
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Hinduism |
900 |
India |
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Secular-Nonreligious-Agnostic-Atheist |
850 |
E. Germany |
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Buddhism |
360 |
China |
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Chinese Traditional
Religion |
225 |
China |
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Primal-indigenous (ie
Native American) |
150 |
USA |
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African Traditional &
Diasporic |
95 |
Africa |
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Sikhism |
23 |
India |
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Juche |
19 |
North Korea |
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Spiritism |
14 |
Brazil |
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Judaism |
14 |
USA & Israel |
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Baha'i |
6 |
India |
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Jainism |
4 |
India |
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Shinto |
4 |
Japan |
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Cao Dai |
3 |
Vietnam |
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Tenrikyo |
2.4 |
Japan |
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Neo-Paganism |
1 |
USA |
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Unitarian-Universalism |
.8 |
USA |
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Rastafarianism |
.7 |
Jamaica |
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Scientology |
.6 |
USA |
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Zoroastrianism |
.15 |
India |
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Total |
5,272.65 |
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Religion offeres mankind a way to define
himself, his G-d, his surroundings, and everything else.
Religion supplies the answers, it also only asks itself its own
questions so it can supply its own answers. All religion is man's own reflection of himself.
Religion is the "Nature of Things" because man sees his own nature
by how he is lead by his spirit. In Canada there is a
television program called the Nature of Things that is headed up by
an evolutionist who mirrors his personal ideas of his own destiny
upon the rest of the population, and this individual has a large
following of his own ideas and they refer to their body of opinions
somewhat as "intelligence." Everything in the Nature of Things
is "scientific" however it is simply another outlet of propaganda
that supports the religion of evolution and man as the measure of
all things.
All religion markets
itself as having all or most of the
answers, according to it's own questions. But once we ask questions that are not generally asked
within each religion, that religion rejects us. Asking
questions outside the religious consciousness of that religion
produces a "black hole" or a "dead spot" where the thoughts of that
religion are not permitted to go.
Religion controls all thoughts about G-d, Justice,
Equality, the environment and all spiritual and human needs according to it's
leadership and intellectual property. Religion has no
"spiritual capabilities" of it's own, it borrows "spiritual"
connection from one of two sources. Mashiyach or
anti-Mashiyach. The pride of man will never allow him concede
to being misinformed or deceived, pride itself is anti-Mashiyach.
The pride of man is the basis of all religion.
So why then are people
so adamant to be part of a religion, instead being adamant to belonging to YHWH and each other?
Why is religion
more important than the common good, equality and justice?
Why is religion given
credit for the common good if it is often the barrier to bringing
equality and the common good?
Why do people need to be part of a religion to have a relationship with G-d
or to respect their own environment?
Why do most feel they must
join a religion to get to know about YHWH and learn to do His will?
How did man learn about
YHWH before religion existed?
Where did religion come
from?
What did people do before religion existed?
How did man learn about
YHWH before religion existed?
How does YHWH teach
mankind about Himself?
Here are some words by one person who chose to do battle against religion:
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1
Corinthians 1:10-13 "Now
I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Master
Y'shua Mashiyach, that you all speak the same thing, and
there be no divisions among you; but that you be
perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the
same judgment. For it is clear, my brethren, that there
are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every
one of you says, I am of this religion or of that; and I
am of this sect, or that; I a Jew; and I a
Believer; and I a Christian; and I a Messianic. Is
Mashiyach divided? |
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1
Corinthians 3:1-4 "
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto
spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in
Mashiyach. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat:
for you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are
you able. For you are yet carnal: for there is among you
envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal,
and walk as men? For while one says, I am of this
and another of that; are you not carnal? |
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Ephesians 4:1-8 "I
therefore, a prisoner of the Master, charge you that you
walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called,
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering,
forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to
keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There
is ONE BODY, and ONE SPIRIT, even as ye are called in
ONE HOPE of your calling; ONE KING, ONE FAITH, ONE
BAPTISM, ONE ELOHIM and FATHER of all, who is above all,
and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of
us is given grace according to the measure of the gift
of Mashiyach. Wherefore he says, When he ascended up on
high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto
men." |
Paul is
credited for launching Christianity, the worlds largest religion, but it is obvious that Paul neither started Christianity nor would
he endorse it today. Paul would not even recognize Christianity as it is known today, and yet most
Christians use Paul and his writings to validate their religion.
Christianity has evolved over the last 2,000 years
to become unrecognizable by First Century standards, according to an
Encyclopedia of World Relgions there are 33,800 Christian
denominations on earth today.
The Faith of Y'shua was originally referred to as the Way, Y'shua being the Way, the Truth and the Life. The Way of
Y'shua had no idols, no figurines of men, no images of angels
propped up in churches, in fact there were no
churches in Paul's day the first church wasn't even built until 190
AD, and it was built by a money lusting heretic named Marcion,
the One True Faith had no regard for religion, there was no pagan celebrations as Christmas or Easter, no Lent, no denominations, no political,
economic, ethnic or cultural divisions, these were added by
man's ideas about G-d, according to religion.
When HaMashiyach returns, Christianity, Hinduism,
Islam, or Judaism, and all religions will cease, He will
not accomplish some great syncretism and pat them all on the back,
because they are all in fierce opposition to Universal Justice and
Equality. There will be no
more oppression on earth between religious factions.
Religion is at war with haMashiyach, religion is the Nature of
Things, Man's Nature of Things. Those with the best of
intentions and ambitions will either learn what the Prophet
Jeremiah referred to as the "Ancient Path"
or they will perish by having made religion an idol which they put
before the value of their own life and destiny, preferring pride and
prejudice over humility and acceptance of their own freedom.
The Ancient Path is:
ONE YHWH
ONE TORAH
ONE KINGDOM
ONE MASHIYACH
ONE PEOPLE
The greatest stumbling block to the
Kingdom of Mashiyach are the institutions and religious leaders who fail to see the Kingdom of Mashiyach
as Universal to all souls according to One Spiritual and perfect charter. Those who elevate their
intelligence and theology or halakhic authority
by their traditions are all
enjoying the authority given them through religious hierarchy, they will
not relent, but use authority to "lord it over" others.
Unfortunately the religious systems of men inadvertently speak against the
Kingdom of Mashiyach, their leaders make war against YHWH and His Mashiyach to the
bitter end because they would rather commit suicide driven by pride than seek
humility driven my service to YHWH and His Mashiyach.
"Therefore YHWH will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he
is the tail. For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they
that are led of them are destroyed. Therefore YHWH shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one
is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
is stretched out still. For wickedness burns as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up
like the lifting up of smoke. Through the wrath of YHWH of Hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother. And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this
His anger is not turned away, but His hand
is stretched out still." Isaiah 9:16-21
"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind.
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the
ditch."
Matthew
15:14
"Because my people have forgotten me, they have
burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways
from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up; To make
their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes there shall
be astonished, and wag his head. I will scatter them as with an east wind
before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of
their calamity."
Jeremiah 18:15-17
Religion is full of good intentions, but
the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Religion is Babylon, the people of YHWH will come out of Babylon
and separate themselves from man's hierarchies.
Let Elohim be true and every man a liar.
Religion is the enemy that will continue to stand in defiance
to YHWH until such time as it will come down to a very physical war
between YHWH
Elohim and His enemies. The Word of YHWH says,
"come out of Her my people
and don't partake in her sins"
Revelations 18:4
YHWH be with you,
Shalom U'Vrachot,
Baruch Ben Daniel

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