...but to reinforce the message. If one believes that they are being nourished in a church, then they're only further deluding themselves. Because what they're experiencing is not nourishment, but the warm fuzzy glow of their brains being washed.

The best con artists will tell you that in order for the con to work, the dupe must be a believer and the better the storyteller, the better the chances of them taking the dupe for all they've got. And the con is even better if the dupe becomes a "self-reinforcing" dupe. Under such circumstances, all internal self-talk is muffled. And most con artists don't have the ability to nurture their dupes and bring them slowly along the way religions can and do, because they know that they risk detection or that the con will show it's rough edges and fall apart.

Not so with religionists. Their clay feet are constantly exposed and religionists learn to automatically adjust their blinders so as not to upset the preconceived fantasy play underway. And so the religionist dupe only hears the words that they've been taught and in most cases they have repeated these word since childhood. ("Jesus-Loves-Me-This-I-Know-For-The-Bible-Tells-Me-So.") It has evolved into such a thorough brainwashing technique, that it is enough to render its victims incapable of forming "conflicting independent thoughts" and it also tends to substantiate a perspective they've been manipulated into believing, that the beliefs and introspection coming from other's (the minister, etc.), about life and reality in-general, must always be better than anything they could come up with.

These religionists, once having abdicated their roles and responsibilities for their own decisions through educating themselves, study and inner contemplation, the con is complete. And it's always been this way, in any instance where someone must force themselves to believe in something that their reason is telling them is false. Because if the church's ideas aren't reinforced regularly and consistently, then doubt creeps in and what is worse, the flow of funds to the preachers would soon dry up. And the preachers know this.

Now if what I'm saying here weren't so, then all of the religions would tell their adherents that once you've accepted their particular flavor-of-savior, then there would be no further need for you to return to any "church." What's the point once you've been "saved?" If you're saved then shouldn't a person get out of the way so that some other poor schmuck destined for hell, be into the church so that they can receive the benefit of your unused space? Can't you "praise" god at home? In fact, aren't you supposed to conceal your worship practices by doing them in your closet so that you're not mistaken for being arrogant and a showoff? Showing everyone what a big believer that your are and how blessed by god you are with your big public displays of religiosity is supposed to be a no-no in Christianity. Right? So church attendance is in actuality against the church's teachings. Or at least what they're supposed to teach. But who has time to learn what their religion asks of them? Pffft! In fact, as I recall, Jesus didn't create his church from bricks and mortar but he made his church out of the rock called Peter. A human being.

And so one would think that just that once would be enough. These soul-savings and conversions (one would think), would be both so emotionally and psychologically charged and overwhelming given the magnitude of what we're told they represent in one's life, you'd expect that weekly exposures to this would render a person almost catatonic. (Maybe so. Maybe it does.) I mean, if someone goes around expressing a belief in something which cannot be empirically tested nor even shone to exist, one would think that such a revelation must have had the greatest spiritual impact that any person would ever experience in their puny little lives. And yet it seems that these "saved people" require weekly if not more frequent reinforcements of these religious ideals because, what...... if the person didn't get reinforced in these beliefs, they'd lose them?

I suppose this is so. In the same way that if you don't see your family for more than a week, you'd obviously forget who they were and what they mean to you. Or just like when you stopped going to classes once you graduated, you remember how you began to forget how to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Not to mention how to cogitate a verb. And you must know that if you didn't receive weekly reinforcements of the idea that the world is round, that it will soon begin to go flat. Wait. It's not like that at all in the REAL world. Only in the fantasy ones.

You remember how you, or maybe it wasn't you but it was your kid, who constantly harangued you to read that same fantasy story again and again. Or to watch that fantasy movie just one more time. Please. Please. Please. Please. Children need those fantasies reinforced for them because they contain a message they're trying to learn. And repetition is the only way. The message is usually a simple one having to do with good overcoming evil. That's the reason for church. Its a fantasy story-telling building for adults. Its a place where fairy tales about devils and witches, sin and shame, hate and envy, persecution and murder, pillaging and raping all are setup against a single idea -- the idea of the goodness of the entity who in creating the universe, also created all those terrible things -- but somehow still remains: "the good father."

As the novel "1984" by George Orwell has shown us, concepts that one's intuition and senses tells them are false must be constantly reinforced by a more authoritative one. So Big Brother was compelled to constantly broadcast these authoritative messages through televisions and radio recordings (WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH, etc.). Without them the people couldn't control their behavior because we humans are very easily misguided and deluded.

Think not? Then what is advertising? Isn't advertising a 20 or 30 second fantasy where you become the one with the long flowing locks of golden hair that will never grow gray? Isn't advertising the a 20 or 30 second fantasy that places you in that huge mansion with the swimming pool and the servants and the beautiful wife/husband? Isn't advertising just another 20 or 30 second fantasy showing us a fantasy life that we don't live now, but we could... real soon. If we just buy this, purchase that, or get a credit card for the other? Won't it all come to us in the sweet by and by? Advertising is a 20 or 30 second fantasy that tells us that it's gonna be just heavenly, and we'll just love it. (By the way, what is heaven anyway? Don't know? Then ask your preacher. And if he can't tell you what he's selling, then ask yourself, why am I buying this shit???)

The reason that church's "don't nourish" and "can't nourish" is because they aren't there to fulfill your needs although that is what it purports to do. But its primary purpose is the same one that a farmer has when he provides feed, water and grazing land for his cows -- so that he may later feed off of them. He wants her milk for himself to drink and to make his curds and cheese. And when the time comes.... and it will come.... to eat her flesh. And all the while that this is happening, the cow's calf fattens itself and awaits the same fate as its mother in another field. Just as the religionist's children await their turn in Sunday School learning how to to stand there while their milk goes elsewhere, and while someone sized them up for a hamburger bun. And thus, the system becomes self-perpetuating and self-correcting. Being feed and fattened-up on a diet of religious dogma, which is the same emotional sustenance that countless generations before them, has partaken of. And so this process has gone on for aeons.

- The religionists -- resistance isn't futile, but it ain't easy either......


"Hate ye, one another as thou hates ones self." - The REAL Jesus