Updated: 03/15/05
CHAPTER 23
MAKE YOUR OWN RELIGION
I said earlier, no one could do worse, or be more immoral, than did the barbarian holy men in making up a religion. Certain criterions need to be set forth first. A good new religion should be ethical, educational, entertaining and inspiring. The morals should conform to modern psychology, health, science and common sense. A new religion should challenge us to be the best people of which we are capable. We should never forget to explore the mysteries of the seen and of the unseen world. We must also explore the truths held within the secrets of the Ancient Wise Men. We should recognize our humanity and that our humanity is good.
We
must expose and dispel the believer's concept of religious sin. We must free
people from the false guilt and fear that the religions force upon people in
order to control their lives and check books. We must induce common sense into
the thinking of the members and followers. We must instill the search for
well-being and happiness in people. We must help set people free from
superstitions and false beliefs so they may be the best people they are capable
of being.
Knowledge,
the development of talents, the teaching of healthy morals and the exercise of
common sense will produce personal well-being, open the door to happiness and
limit crime. Even punishment and correction for errors and willful wrongdoing
should conform to high ethical standards and have character development and peace
among the people as its ultimate goal. That is, it should be better than the
Christian religious attitude displayed today toward those who do not conform to
their teachings, laws and ethics. Punishment must include the opportunity for
restitution to those wronged and the rehabilitation of one’s thinking. Chronic
criminals must be isolated and if possible, retrained in some wholesome moral
and useful work. Repeat offenders must be isolated from society and given some
dignity and constructive work to pay for their keep.
Our
new religion should prepare its followers for getting the most out of this
life, for developing caring and helpful personalities, for fine-tuning one's
spiritual attitude toward the seen and unseen in the world. It should stress
keeping an open mind toward those things called spiritual. It should aid in
learning to think and in getting the most out this life and any future life (if
there is one). Help people to see that this life is worth living.
Our
new religion should be fun. There should be regular common dinners on the
grounds, fun and educational things to do, dances, classes where concepts can
be batted around, dating services, aid to the needy, good movies, production of
videos, print literature, trips, classes on practical things, art groups, group
meditation, internet web pages, counseling for marriage, family counseling,
drug abuse programs, finance counseling, career helps, scholarship helps for
young people, sports, collect and maintain a good library, self help classes,
maintain nurseries for your families, philosophy classes in many subjects, loan
service for members, evangelical enterprises (radio, TV, Internet, literature,
public meetings and forums) quite places where one could sit and think or
communion with himself and anything else that seems needed or appropriate. Your
church should keep your members involved in life, self-development and
happiness.
The
goals of our new religion should be worthy, yet still attainable by modern man.
There should be present and future rewards and pleasures involved in our
religion. In other words, people should want to be a part of our religion
because it is wholesome, wise, useful and teaches them how to be the best
person they are capable of being. It should help develop the talents and abilities
of members. People should want to be a part of our religion because it promises
them happiness and well being in the present and future, and because it insures
the same thing for their children and their children's children.
LET US MAKE OUR OWN RELIGION.
If
I were making a religion, I would select worthy goals, worthy principles and
worthy activities. I would Personify my goals and call them my Gods. My Father
God would be named “Freedom.” I would expect to be free and I would expect all
of those around me to experience the fresh air and blessings of Freedom. I
would also expect to pass on to my children and to their children's children,
the highest possible Freedom. I would worship Freedom and would teach the
benefits of Freedom to all of those who wish for it but find themselves
constantly frustrated. For my God, Freedom, I would strive to free myself and
others from those institutions, beliefs and teachings that enslave us and
destroy our right to live in peace, harmony and freedom.
A
person may be technically free in a harsh desert, but if he has no water and no
topsoil, his freedom is vastly curtailed. Therefore, my Heaven would be this
earth and I would fight to protect our earth from its enemies. That is, the big
destructive businesses, wars, misuse of the land and misuse of the resources of
the earth, including the misuse of man himself.
My
“Gospel” (my Good News) would be that we must convert people to the position of
being the best person they are capable of being. We must also make this earth
into the Heaven it is capable of being. The good news is this earth is able to
give to mankind all of the good things that we can imagine. We must do our part
to bring about this heaven on earth and make it into the best of all possible
worlds and make us into the best people.
I
would oppose big church, big government, big education, big business and big
economy, IF they sought to herd individuals into manageable groups for their
own economic or political purposes. I would do this, not because of the bigness,
but rather because in bigness the individual is so often lost and loses his
freedom. He becomes a mere number. Numbering for efficiency is one thing.
Numbering to institute control over the individual is a totally different
matter. The trend in bigness often slows down the progress of the whole to fit
the slow pace of the slowest ones in the group and it extends the Big Brother
concept, which we detest and power mongers adore.
Grouping
often tends to enslave the individual. I would expose and throw my mind and
activity against enslavement of any kind. Any institution that wanted to reduce
me to a servant and issue me a number, or wanted to enslave me in some manner,
that institution would be my evil and their policies of destruction and
enslavement would be one of the sins against which my religion would constantly
fight.
My
Son of God would be “Justice.” Without Justice, one cannot dwell happily in the
Heavenly land of Freedom and Liberty.
The
godly mother of Justice would be that beautiful, precious and most useful
principle that sets men free and produces the desire for Justice in the minds
of all men. The mother of Justice is “Wisdom.” Wisdom is the ability to engage
in logical, honest, knowledgeable thought. Wisdom is the ability to cut through
the propaganda and brain washing. Wisdom is the ability to arrive at
conclusions that are in accord with not only the facts, but which are also in
harmony with the present and future needs of mankind. Wisdom is the hunting for
and the use of knowledge and honesty in thinking. Wisdom is the ability to
separate the true from the false, the good from the evil, the facts from the
fictions.
MARRY WISDOM TO FREEDOM AND THE OFFSPRING IS
JUSTICE.
Justice
is the salvation of any people. Justice is the preserver of civilization.
Justice is the cement, which holds society together. Justice drives the enemies
and devils from the face of the earth. Justice teaches men to love Freedom.
Justice removes fear from the hearts and minds of men. Justice eliminates the
threats of the destruction of all mankind. Justice is the Light that
illuminates the errors of the past, the opportunities of the present and the
possibilities of the future. Without Justice, there is only fear and chaos. Men
and women who know that only Justice awaits them (and those around them) are
not subject to fall for false claims, false punishments, false taxes and false
promises. There is no principle more important to mankind and his civilizing
process than the principle of Justice.
JUSTICE SAVES!
Logical
Thinking and meditation would take the place of prayer in my religion. Nothing
can substitute for honest logical thinking, which leads us directly to the
mother of Justice who is Wisdom. Each person in my religion would be required
to learn the facts of life and science and think about them. He should spend
some time thinking about what a wonderful world we have and how he can improve
it. He must also think about his own personal problems and development that he
alone must face and solve. He would also be expected to do some logical
thinking about all of the propaganda and brain washing that always has and
always will be forced upon mankind. Those who progressed in the skill of
learning and the habit of thinking would be called upon to study into the mysteries
of life, and to teach their children and those around them to think logically
and honestly. Thinking might one day be as common placed an occurrence in our
society as the deception of prayer is today.
Now
every religion needs a real Devil. And have I got one for you? I have! The
Devil must be the Opposite of our God Freedom. Our Devil must be that which
opposes Justice, destroys Freedom and censors Wisdom. He must be that which
keeps men from having justice and freedom in their own lives. Our Devil must be
that which keeps mankind from honestly thinking and which inhibits mental
growth. Our Devil must be a personal Devil in the same manner that our God,
Freedom, is a personal God. This Devil of ours seeks to destroy Honest Doubt,
Clear Thinking and our quest for Justice, Wisdom and Freedom.
“BELIEF” IS OUR DEVIL!
This
Devil of yours and mine is the present day ruler of our civilization. This
Devil, Belief, has stolen our children. He has stolen our wealth and a great
portion of our productivity. He has stolen our manhood and our humanity. He has
great plans for the future enslavement of our children. He has given us
ignorance and prejudice, war and poverty and other untold evils. Our Devil
Belief is the bringer and teacher of moral darkness, intellectual darkness,
social darkness, medical darkness, political darkness and economic darkness.
And second to none of the above, this Devil of ours has spread his darkness
over our fun times, our need and desire for truth, as well as our beds of love
and affection.
We
must resist this Devil. We must point him out and point out his dark deeds
(which he calls good). The unsuspecting, the childlike minds who are swayed by
his false prophecies and lying promises must be warned. We must ridicule him.
We must contradict his statement that he is right and we are wrong. We must
mock him. We must expose him at every turn.
But
Beware! This Devil, Belief, is a "roaring lion," roaming the streets
and the airways, seeking whom he may devour, whom he may enslave, whom he may
deceive. He comes in various disguises with numerous promises. He will laugh
with you. He will cry with you. He will make love to you and he will steal your
humanity, your mind and your most prized possessions. He will leave you
confused, betrayed, disillusioned, frustrated, hostile and empty as a beach
shell. He will steal your future. Follow the Devil, Belief and you are human in
name only.
It
is time to drive the Devil back into the darkness of ignorance from which he
came, alone with his disciples, the Teachers of Belief. They must be stripped
of their protection, their tax exemptions, their ability to lie without
question in print and over the radio and television. Let them give the facts
and the truth anytime or anyplace, but they should be halted from telling their
lies and claiming these lies are the truth, which came straight from the mouth
of the Almighty by way of a revelation in their heads. We must stop the
kidnapping of our children.
WATCH OUT FOR THE DEVIL, BELIEF.
My
religion would be evangelical. It would seek to save people from the miseries
and destitution of mental and physical slavery. It would encourage people to do
many things for themselves. Industry, inventiveness and innovations would again
be in vogue.
My
priests would be the scientists, sociologists and medical doctors whose job
would be to develop devices and methods that would give everyone new and better
ways of having good health and all of the necessities and pleasures of life
without having to sell their freedom and independence to get them. They would
help strip the power from our insurance, chemical, industrial and
pharmacological empires. They would also be the teachers of wholesome morals
and factual knowledge.
The
private temple of our God Freedom would be our own body. It would be wise to
keep it healthy. Our scientists and medical doctors would advise us on
preventive care and good mental and physical health.
The
Great Temple would be nature, the great outdoors, the canyons, the deserts, the
rivers, the forest, the plains and above all, the mountains and seas. We would
clean the Great Temple so one could look up at night and see the stars. We
would carpet the floor with flowers, foliage, fruits and food. We would clean
the waters so a man or beast could drink from the waters of any stream without
fear of poisoning or disease.
My
religion would insist on removing fear from our economy by instituting an
honest monetary system based on firm money and work instead of on IOU's and
deficit spending. Every family should have a place to live. However, they
should also have to work and pay for it.
Taxes
are mostly chains used to enslave a population and enrich an elite rulership
(and their friends). My religion would abolish the vast majority of enforced
taxes and especially taxes on one's own home. Taxes could be paid for in part
with labor and contractors could not object.
My
religion would work for simplified transportation. If a man lives a few miles
from his work and wishes to ride a bicycle to work, he should not have to place
his life into the hands of unknown and hostile drivers. Why does a family of
two now own three or four motorized means of transportation? My religion would
insist on common sense transportation.
Public
transportation should be everywhere and be economical, safe and free of crime.
Justice, Wisdom and Freedom will foster Logical Clear Thinking. This attitude
can rid our cities and country sides from the grip of the criminal element. We
have crime because crime pays! Common Sense can remove the rewards that are
reaped by the criminal element. Not many are criminals because it is fun. They
do it for the profit of it. We will remove the profit. (This is explained in
Chapter 42 on Drugs and Crime.)
Ways
must be found to settle disputes without engaging in total wars. The rights of
humanity that have been usurped by governments, religions, businesses and
educational practices, must be returned to the individual. Most lawsuits could
be replaced by common sense meetings between the antagonists and moderated by
moral and just men and women.
The
wealthy and aristocracy are individuals and have their rights, but they do not
have the right to enjoy the cream of other men's labors, nor to hold a single
individual in suppression or servitude. Corporations should not be considered
as separate personal entities, but should be considered as property of the
owners and taxed as such under honest tax laws.
Justice
must be provided for in all areas of life for all men and women. The only
legitimate servants must be machines. Scientists must be allowed to delve into
all areas of the world and universe. Weapons and instruments of great
destruction, whether they are physical, mental, chemical or biological, must be
withheld from criminal or military use.
Art,
music and education would be encouraged and supported. As part of the uplifting
of mankind, beauty, harmony and true philosophy would be made to flourish.
Pleasures would prosper. Silly Religious Blue Laws, Prohibitions and Perversion
laws would be stricken from the law books.
The
Holy Book of my religion would be very small and subject to no
misinterpretation. Central in its texts would be the Golden Rule, "Do not
do to others that which you would not have them do to you." It would begin
and end with the statement of truth. "You can know the truth and the truth
will set you free." Inside of my Holy Book would be the admonition,
"What a man sows, that shall he also reap." Inside would also be many
suggestions of what and how to sow good moral seed so that the harvest will
also be good.
EVERY
RELIGION NEEDS SOME COMMANDMENTS. HERE ARE MINE.
You shall serve and defend your Gods,
Freedom, Justice and Wisdom.
You
shall treat others as you wish to be treated.
You
shall cherish your Mother, the earth.
You
shall leave everything better than you found it.
You
shall practice Justice, honesty and common sense.
You
shall love Freedom and extend it to all.
You
shall seek knowledge through studying and observation.
You
shall seek Wisdom through Honest Clear Thinking.
You
shall seek authenticity and never rely on, or believe in, authority.
You
shall seek personal well-being, love and happiness.
You
shall expose the falseness of that old Devil, Belief.
You
shall be known for your good works and gentle spirit.
You
shall seek to know the mysteries and secrets of the unseen.
I
would name my religion after the greatest benefactor and savior of all mankind,
Justice. The name of our new religion is, "JUSTISM." Would you like
to be a member of the only church worthy of mankind? Would you like to join the
Church of Justice?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A JUSTINIAN?
To
join the Church of Justice, you must realize and accept in your own personal
life, your thinking and your actions that "Justice Saves.” If you accept
and plan to live the fact that "Justice Saves,” you are now a member in
good standing of our new religion. You now belong to the Good, the Grand and the
Great. You belong to,
THE CHURCH OF JUSTICE
Instead
of ending our songs and meditations with "Amen," which by the way is
from Egypt and honors the God Amon, we will end our songs of praise and our
meditations with
JUSTICE SAVES!
And
let us not forget music that quiets the mind, challenges the emotions and lifts
our spirits. Some of you musician out there should write some good songs for
our new church. Some of you ministers may wish to write some sermons that dwell
on the truths found in the HONEST MAN'S PHILOSOPHY.
Get out there and practice your new religion and serve
your Gods,
FREEDOM, JUSTICE and WISDOM.
Get out there and expose that old Devil,
BELIEF.
And Always Remember,
JUSTICE SAVES!
