Chop Block: Religion

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A disciple's successful walk through this world requires skill. Skill in separating the physical from the spiritual. One skill we all are advised to develop is distinguishing the difference between godliness and religion. Why? So we can avoid religion! An understanding of scripture accurately leads to godliness. Religion is man made forms of worship. Religion comes by way of private opinion. As philosophy is doctrines of thinking.

2 Peter 1:19-21 Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT)

And We Have God’s Prophetic Word More Firm

19 And we have the prophetic word as more-firm, to which you are doing well to be paying-attention as to a lamp shining in a dismal place, until which time the day dawns and the morning-star rises in your hearts,

20 knowing this first— that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation

21 For no prophecy was ever carried by the will of a human, but people being carried by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

Religion Sucks! But don't take my word for it. Check this out!

- From Famous People's Religious Quotes

• Religion is the opiate of the people. - Karl Marx

• If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be, a Christian.  - Mark Twain

• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. - Albert Einsten

• Where knowledge ends, religion begins. - Benjamin Disraeli

• The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universe, wants the saccharine adoration of His creations, that He can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history. - Robert Heinlein

• Religion is what keeps the  poor from murdering the rich. - Napoleon Bonaparte

• Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. - Victor Hugo

• Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. - Robert G. Ingersoll

• Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth - Henry Mencken

• Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. - Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. - Napoleon Bonaparte

• God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts. - unknown

• Good people can do good and bad people can do evil. But for good people to do evil -- that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Henry David Thoreau

• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal

Origins Of The Names Of The Days And Months

Did you know that the names of our months and week days have their roots in paganism? If numbering the days was good enough for God, why did we change them? Why, if we wanted to name them, were they named in honor of pagan deities? Perhaps because "All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him." (Isaiah 53:6)

While the names of our months and weekdays do have their roots in paganism and some argue that using the names is pagan and should not be done, it is not a sin to use these names.  ...read more - From TheRefinersFire.org

7 Horrifying Historical Origins Of Famous Corporate Logos

This post originally published on my blog TheHollerinStump.com on… well… I don’t know. It was a static page added a few years after the site launched. Maybe 2014, 2015. The blog is built on Blogger and hosted by Google. They have locked me out of my account there until I update my payment details. Therefore it won’t be getting registered and will cease to be available in the late spring of 2023. I am reposting as many of these posts here as I see relevant before then.

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