Civilisation Hijacked
Rescuing Jesus from Christianity and the human spirit From Bondage
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Humanity’s biggest mistake was to attribute that first event of creation to a God and assuming that this God has an on going concern for the day to day activities of all individual humans, plus the infinite number of other life forms. This was excusable considering our pre-historic ignorance. What is not excusable but understandable, given what we have learned of human nature, is the exploitation of that ignorance, by the few for their own purposes. However none of this relates to the primary cause event; which we are led to believe by our three mainstream religious leaders, is the creation of everything by the God of Abraham and that this God has the emotional psyche‘ of humanity; with the love, hate, greed, ambition, revenge and all the other human feelings and failings. In other words (man has made god in his own image). The Jews, Christians and Moslems have come to believe and accept that an unknown invisible force, exclusively partial only to the true believers, operates in a similar fashion to the mind of man about 5,000yrs ago, namely, God. In view of our accumulated scientific knowledge of nature, life and the universe today, this concept borders on insanity. We will explore minutely that which is the proclaimed origin of this present Judaic, Christian and Islamic religious belief? Man: Let’s first deal with Christianity: It began in the form of a reformation and revolutionary movement led by a Jew named Jesus, against the hierarchy of the established Judaic religion. The main reason behind the movement was that, the unacceptable and exclusive nature of this belief system, did not and could never bring about the type of world that would benefit the whole of humankind. Jesus recognized this and tried to reform the obvious hypocrisy and greed practiced by the system’s so-called believers. For that, he was executed by the Roman political machine, at the behest of the Jewish religious manipulators. He posed a threat to both and was eliminated in the cruel manner used by the Romans of that period. Records were compiled from the various books, of the Torah, the Talmud and Christian Gospels under the direction of the Roman Emperor Constantine some 300 years after Jesus died. These are the books that comprise today’s Christian Bible and were originally written by men who were concerned for the welfare and moral standards of their fellow man. The Ten Commandments are an example of their concern and wisdom. Also the teachings of compassion, love and forgiveness taught by Jesus as portrayed in the books of the New Testament. Here I must emphasize the teachings of Jesus and not all the parts that were added by over zealous followers, anxious to impress gullible and superstitious people to create the impression that Jesus was God. Who led us up this false path in the first place? Intentionally or unknowingly the small group of leaders of the tribes of the ancient Hebrews collaborated to harness a weapon to end all weapons; the collective human spirit. This was done by the use of Abraham and his encounter with God and fostered through their self generated anecdotal history, stories, rituals and practices effectively binding them together as one. The character of Abraham was given all the strength and frailties attached to any normal individual of the times and to whom everyone could relate. The promises that God made to Abraham also applied to them would be the birthright of their future generations. The recognition of the strength of their collective spirit, their unity of purpose, very quickly became obvious in their victories over their neighboring tribes The story of Abraham, the father of Judaism, was referred to briefly in chapter five. The following serves to further explain the nature of the origin of this mythical story. The elaborate life history is woven into the plot in order to give Abraham some semblance of credibility. The allegation is that the God of his imagination spoke to him and entered into a verbal contract with him. (Gen.12: 2-3).which eventually led to him and his progeny being given all the land between Egypt and the Euphrates River. The only condition required of Abraham to seal this covenant with God, was to perform a particular pagan sacrificial rite (Gen.15: 7-20.). When any individual or group makes a claim as important as this is it not appropriate to consider that there may be a chance it could be false? Then again it may be the truth. The normal procedure is to look at the background, the known history of the person or people in order to assess their character so that we have a reasonable idea if it is the truth. As the story goes, Abraham was born in Ur a city of the Chaldeans in Babylonia and his father was a maker and vendor of the various idols that were worshiped in those times. So it was not strange for him to invent a God. The story line is that his family left Ur and settled in Haran. Abraham and Lot left Haran and finally came to Canaan where he claims that he again spoke with this particular God. They were a nomadic people and as there was a famine in Canaan, they wandered down towards Egypt. In those days, it was not safe for a small group to travel. They were approaching Egypt, and because his wife Sarah was so beautiful, he became fearful that Egyptians would kill him and take her. He told her to say that she was his sister. Her beauty was brought to the notice of pharaoh who took her. (Gen.12: 14-16.) And Abraham got very rich from the arrangement. Pharaoh eventually found out and kicked them out of Egypt together with Abraham’s ill-gotten gains After returning to Canaan his nephew Lot was captured in a war between kings in the area. Abraham took 318 trained men from his household and went to his rescue, defeating his captors and capturing a great deal of goods and people. Then Melchizedek the King of Salem, who was the high priest of his Most High God, blessed Abraham. For which, Abraham gave him a tenth of the loot. GEN.14:18.
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Worship of this ancient mythical god has produced distorted political and social systems. This is the foundation of today’s values and worldview among general populations of the so-called civilized world. Tradition (slow cultural conditioning) and the use of modern social engineering manufactured the world we have today. A world controlled by a few small powerful groups in the area of religion, politics and commerce. In the hands of unscrupulous people, fear and greed have been sown and cultivated individually and nationally, for wealth and power of their particular limited group rather than for the common good. This book amply illustrates the political, social, commercial and theological mess that we have inherited as a consequence. The exclusivity of the three main stream religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam has brought the world to the brink of disaster. The only solution to this is through a particular style of Education already in use worldwide. Early intervention is vital. This book does not destroy faith, it encourages and focuses it as a rational, experiential recognition of the individual and collective human spirit. The collective consciousness must be harnessed for the Herculean task of saving humanity from the fate of self inflicted annihilation.
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My parents and family background is Middle Eastern (Sephardic) Jewish. They are from a small village in Mesopotamia, between Baghdad and Basra on the Tigress River. The village is known as Al-Azair and is the Tomb of Ezra, (Judge and Scribe in the Torah and Old Testament). It is a holy site for Christian, Muslim and Jews, accommodating pilgrims of the three faiths. My family, were for generations, the caretakers and administrators of the Tomb, until 1948 when the Jews were banished from Iraq, and now dispersed in Israel, America and Australia. I am a grandson of the last Jewish caretaker of the Tomb. Born in Shanghai, I came to Australia as a babe-in-arms in 1925. My parents were stateless, as when they left Mesopotamia, the state of Iraq did not exist. I was always fascinated by the religious knowledge of my father who could recite, in Aramaic, the five books of the Torah. He learnt them from the first to last word (year after year) until the age of thirteen. After about five years living in Australia isolated from his extended family, he became disenchanted with Judaism, and became an atheist. My real education started when I left school and started my working life at the age of fourteen. Two years and forty jobs later, having never been sacked, always seeking improvement, I finally found my niche` in marine engineering. This involved a five year apprenticeship with three nights per week at college and working on the mechanical repair of ships in Sydney Harbor - from the Queen Mary1, to battleships, navel torpedo boats and cargo ships. In between studying for exams, and reading, I joined a surf life saving club, engaging in week-end beach patrol each summer. In winter I played Rugby League Football in district competition and between seasons, went on camping and hunting trips with mates, in the natural bushland around Sydney. In 1945 after the war, I worked my way around Australia in a variety of activities and professions. I learnt from all people from hoboes, to academics and ended up as Engineer on a Government Fisheries survey ship. I spent the next two Unforgettable years on the “MV Fairwind” working the coastline of Papua –New Guinea and adjacent Islands of the South Pacific; dealing with various local inhabitants, diving and spear fishing with them on the coral reefs. At twenty-five, I returned home, married, built my own house, started a family and an engineering construction business in partnership with a friend. As business demand grew and equipment was scarce, I designed and built eight mobile cranes over the next fifteen years, pioneering the development of hydraulics in construction machinery. After five years, we decided to structure the business around each having three months annual vacations. With a caravan, my wife and two children, we had many adventure packed trips. Among the most notable were, buying a mine and digging for opals in Lightning Ridge, buying a fifty foot prawn boat and trawling banana prawns in the Gulf of Carpentaria and marooning ourselves for a month on an uninhabited island on the Great Barrier Reef,. In between, I enjoyed other activities such as surfing, spear-fishing, sailing, hang-gliding and in retirement lawn bowls. After selling the engineering business thirtyfive years on, I entered into a partnership with a young man in the motorcycle spare parts business. I bought used parts and motorbikes in Japan and he sold them in Sydney. After three successful years, I received an offer from a cousin in Los Angeles to manage his Hong Kong production of fashion garments for distribution in the US. The offer was too good to refuse and I sold my share in the bike business and moved with my wife to Hong Kong. Travelling to many Cities in China, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines was an exiting lifestyle. However, after three years, we missed family life and returned home. I have two daughters, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I have emerged, blessed with good health and a well nourished intellect in the area of philosophy, theology and humanity. Having travelled extensively, read widely and searched deeply into nature and the human spirit, this book encapsulates the cause, effect and the cure for the ravages of war and economic, social, and religious conflicts. The exclusivity and extremist elements of the three main stream religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam have largely contributed to our present chaotic condition. If these problems are allowed to persist, then the life we have inherited, may be no more than a terminal disease. On my Journey, the spiritual and secular experiences in my life have been uplifting and awe-inspiring. I invite you to enter this realm and help change the world.